| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Deities name "Tangaroa" | Polynesian / including Maori | Sea and creator god. The deity responsible for the oceans (moana) and the fish (ika) within them. In Hawaiian belief he was the primordial being who took the form of a bird and laid an egg on the surface of the primeval waters which, when it broke, formed the earth and sky. He then engendered the god of light, ATEA (cf. TANE). According to Tahitian legend, he fashioned the world inside a gigantic mussel shell. In a separate tradition Tangaroa went fishing and hauled the Tongan group of islands from the depths of the ocean on a hook and line. He is the progenitor of mankind (as distinct from TUMATAUENGA who has authority over mankind). His son Pili married SINA, the tropic bird and they produced five children from whom the rest of the Polynesian race was born. In Maori culture Tangaroa, like all deities, is represented only by inconspicuous, slightly worked stones or pieces of wood and not by the large totems which are depictions of ancestors.... |
"Taurocephalus" | Greek | A surname of Dionysus in the Orphic mysteries. It also occurs as a surname of rivers and the ocean, who were symbolically represented as bulls, to indicate their fertilising effect upon countries. Greek |
| Goddess name "Tethys" | Greek | A Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceåñuś. She was mother of the chief rivers of the universe, such as the Nile, the Alpheus, the Maeander, and about three thousand daughters called the Oceanids. Greek |
"Thaumas" | Greek | A son of Pontus and Ge, and by the Oceanide Electra, the father of Iris and the Harpies. Greek |
| Goddess name "Thetis" | Greek | Goddess of rivers and oceans. One of the daughters of NEREUS, Thetis takes responsibility, with OKEANOS, for the oceans and rivers. She is among the lesser known deities; according to mythology she is a mermaid, but she is particularly significant as the mother of Achilles by an unnamed mortal. According to legend she attempted to render him immortal by immersing him in the waters of the Styx. She failed because the heel by which she held him had remained dry. His education she entrusted to the centaur Chiron. She was surrounded by attendant sea creatures known as Nereids and after Achilles's death she returned to the ocean depths.... |
| Goddess name "Tien Hou" | China | Goddess of the ocean. China |
| God name "Tienoltsodi" | Navaho | He is the god of oceans & fresh water to, he controls all waters that fall on the earth but none of those in the heavens |
| God name "Tienoltsodi" | Navaho / USA | God of oceans and fresh water. He controls the waters which have fallen on earth, as distinct from those in the heavens, which are ruled by the Rain god TONENILI.... |
| God name "Tinirau" | Polynesia | God of the ocean Polynesia |
| God name "Titans" | Greek | The sons and daughters of Uråñuś and Gaia and a race of godlike giants who were considered to be the personifications of the forces of nature. These Titans are Oceåñuś, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Japetus, Cronus, Theia, Rheia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys, to whom Apollodorus adds Dione. (Theogony 133) Greek |
| Spirit name "Toko'yoto" | Koryak | Guardian spirit who is one of the owners of the world,specifically the Pacific Ocean Koryak |
| Spirit name "Toko'yoto" | Koryak / Siberia | A guardian spirit who is one of the owners of the world, the Pacific Ocean to be specific |
| Spirit name "Toko'yoto (crab)" | Koryak / southeastern Siberia | Guardian spirit. In Koryak tradition, one of the owners of the world, the master and creator of the Pacific Ocean. His name is that of a large sea crab. In some legends he is the father of MITI, the mother of the Koryak people.... |
| God name "Tonacatecuhtli" | Aztec | the being at the center, was a fertility god. He organized the world into land and ocean at the creation of the world. Aztec |
| Goddess name "Uke Mochi" | Japan | Goddess of food, she prepared a feast by facing the ocean and spitting out a fish, then she faced the Forest and bountiful game spewed out of her mouth, finally turning to a rice paddy she coughed up a bowl of rice. Japan |
| Cyclop name "Uråñuś" | Greek | Also known as Ouranos, the Latin Caelus, a son of Gaea (Theogony of Hesiod 126), but is also called the husband of Gaea, and by her the father of Oceåñuś, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Lapetus, Theia, Rheia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, Cronos, of the Cyclopes, Brontes, Steropes, Arges, and of the Hecatoncheires Cottus, Briareus and Gyes. (Theogony 133) Greek |
| Demon name "Varaha" | Hindu | The third avatar of Vishnu, in the form of a boar, who appeared in order to defeat Hiranyaksha, a demon who had taken the earth and carried it to the bottom of the cosmic ocean. Hindu |
"Vatapattrasayin (reclining on a fig leaf)" | Hindu / Puranic | Aspect of VISNU. The image is found in clåśśical bronze sculptures and represents either Vis'nu in a violent form, or KRSNA, reposed on a fig leaf that floats upon the primeval ocean of a new cosmos after the previous world order has been destroyed.... |
Table of Gods
Your guide to the World gods, spirits,
demons and legendary monsters
1996 - 2024 Copyright © Godfinder.org
