| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Pachacamac (earth creator)" | South American Indian / Lima region of Peru | Creator god. Near the town of Pachacamac is the site of a huge pyramidal sanctuary dedicated to the god. In origin he is pre-Inca but the Inca rulers who took over the region allowed his worship to continue; eventually he became syncretized with the god VAIRACOCHA.... |
| Deities name "Pahteeatl (medicine lord)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility god. One of the group of deities known as the Ometochtli complex and concerned with the brewing of the alcoholic drink pulque from the maguey plant.... |
| Deities name "Painal (hasty)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of war. One of the group of deities known as the HUITZILPOCHTLI complex to whom sacrifice of captured prisoners was regularly offered.... |
| God name "Pariacaca" | Pre - Inca central Andean / South America | weather god. The deity responsible for Rain and thunder, personified by the falcon.... |
| God name "Pitao Cozobi" | Zapotec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Maize god. Worshiped by the Monte Alban culture of Zapotec-speaking peoples in the Valley of Oaxaca. Sculptures were often adorned with casts of maize ears.... |
| God name "Pore" | Guyanan Indian / South America | Creator god. Engendered the earth and all living things. Also Pura.... |
| God name "Poxiom" | Mayan / Tzeltal Indian, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of disease. Apparently perceived as a star in the sky or a ball of fire. He may also be depicted as a fertility god shelling maize or as a fisherman, doctor, musician or hunter. An image of the god was discovered in the Christian church in Oxchuc, and the Indians were forced to revoke and spit on the icon before it was publicly burnt.... |
| God name "Quiahuitl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the third of the five world ages each of which lasted for 2,028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fiftytwo terrestrial years. Assigned to the element fire and presided over by the Rain god TLALOC. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by a great fiery Rain. The human population perished and in doing so were transformed into dogs, turkeys and butterflies. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also Quiauhtonatiuh; Tletonatiuh.... |
| God name "Sga'na Haida" | PNW / Pacific Northwest Coast of North America | God of the sea |
| God name "Tajin" | Totonac / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Generic title for a group of Rain gods. Worshiped by a modern tribe and believed to reside in the ruins of El Tajin, a clåśśic Veracruz site whence they control the thunder clouds.See also TLALOC.... |
| Goddess name "Takotsi Nakawe (our grandmother growth)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic vegetation goddess. The earth and all plant life belong to her and she is regarded as the mother of the gods, particularly of the fire god TATEVALI. She is very old and is invoked to give the boon of longevity. Her sacred tree is a form of fig, the salate.... |
| God name "Tamats Palike Tamoyeke (our eldest brother walking everywhere)," | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of wind and air. The messenger of the gods, he also put the world into its present form and shape.... |
| Goddess name "Tate Hautse Kupuri (mother north water)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Rain and water goddess. Similar to TATE KYEWIMOKA, but also responsible for mists and fogs.... |
| Goddess name "Tate Kyewimoka (mother west water)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Rain and water goddess. Appears in lightning and is said to resemble a red snake. She lives in a deep gorge with caves, in Santa Catarina, and brings the Rain from the west. Her animals include deer and ravens and she is also the goddess of the corn.... |
| Goddess name "Tate Naaliwahi (mother east water)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Rain and water goddess. Appears in lightning and brings Rain from the east. She lives in a deep gorge with caves, in Santa Catarina.... |
| Goddess name "Tate Oteganaka (mother corn)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | corn goddess. The mother of the Sun god TAYAU.... |
| Goddess name "Tate Rapawiyema (mother south water)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Rain and water goddess. Similar to TATE KYEWIMOKA, but also the patron goddess of Laguna de Magdalena, where she is believed to take the form of a water lizard.... |
| Goddess name "Tate Velika Vimali" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Sun goddess. Perceived as a young girl or as a royal eagle who holds the world in her talons and guards it. In human form the night sky with its stars are her dress.... |
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