Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Brigantia/ Bridget/ Brigit" | Pan-Celtic | The goddess of the seasons, doctors smiths, poets, & women in childbirth |
Goddess name "Buddhi (perception)" | Hindu / Puranic | (1) Minor goddess. Sometimes identified as consort of the MAHA-GANAPATI form of the elephant god GANESA, depicted seated on his knee.(2) Minor goddess. Jain.... |
Goddess name "Calounger" | Brazil | death goddess and / or Goddess of the sea Brazil |
God name "Cautha" | Etruscan | Sun god. Attributes include a Sun disc crown and fire in each hand. He is depicted rising from the sea.... |
Goddess name "Cethlion" | Ireland | Goddess of the sea and the Formorians. Was called "crooked teeth. Ireland |
God name "Chang Fei" | Chinese | God of war. The counterpart of the god KUAN TI and often linked iconographically with him and the god LIU PEI, Chang Fei rules over the dark half of the year—autumn and Winter. Like the seasons he represents he is characterized by drunkenness and wildness. According to tradition he was wounded by his subordinates while in a drunken stupor. He is depicted with a black face, a bushy beard and wild staring eyes giving him a ferocious appearance.... |
Goddess name "Christalline" | Haiti | evil goddess of the sea Haiti |
Goddess name "Cinei" | Chukchi / Siberia | A sea goddess |
Goddess name "Cinei-new" | Siberia / Chukchee | A sea goddess and wife of Peruten, god of the sea. Siberia / Chukchee |
Goddess name "Cliodna" | Ireland / Scotland | Sea and Otherworld Goddess who usually took the form of a sea bird and therefore symbolized the Celtic afterlife. Ireland / Scotland |
God name "Colop U Uichkin" | Mayan | sky god who, with a night avatara of the same name, is the bringer of disease Mayan |
God name "Colop U Uichkin (tears out the eye of the sun)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | sky god. Said to live in the midst of the sky, but with a night avatara of the same name who lives in the underworld land of the dead, Metnal, and who is the bringer of disease.... |
God name "Corydus" | Greek | A surname of Apollo, under which the god had a temple eighty stadia from Corone, on the sea-coast. Greek |
Goddess name "Coti" | Africa | Goddess of the oceans, of sea-life and of deep mysteries. Africa |
Goddess name "Creiddylad / Creudylad/ Cordelia" | Wales | A goddess of summer flowers & the sea |
God name "Daikokr" | Shinto / Japan | God of luck. One of seven gods of fortune in Shintoism and often linked with the god EBISU. Originally a god of kitchens, he became a deity concerned with happiness. He is depicted as a fat, well-to-do figure seated on two rice bales and carrying a sack on his back. He also holds a hammer in his right hand. In depictions there is often a mouse nibbling at one of the rice bales. Small gold icons of the god may be carried as talismans of wealth. According to tradition, when Daikoku's hammer is shaken, money falls out in great profusion. In western Japan he is also syncretized with the god of rice paddies, TA-NO-KAMI, and thus becomes the god of Agriculture and farmers. He may have developed from the Buddhist god MAHAKALA.... |
Goddess name "Dala Kadavara" | Singhalese | Elephant goddess who brings diseases and misfortune. Singhalese |
Goddess name "Deng" | Nuer / Dinka / Sudan | sky god. Considered to be a foreign deity in the Nuer pantheon and a bringer of disease. His daughter is the moon goddess. In Dinka religion he is a storm and fertility god bringing lightning and Rain.... |