| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Centeocihuati" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Maize goddess. Represented at various sites including Tula [Hidalgo]. According to the codices Borgia, Cospi and Fejervery-Mayer she is also one of four temple deities. Also Centeotl.... |
| Goddess name "Centeocihuatl" | Aztec | Goddess of maize Aztec |
| Goddess name "Centeotl" | Aztec | Maize god. Another name for Centeocihuatl, goddess of the maize. Aztec |
| God name "Ch'eng Huang" | China | God of the land, ditches, moats and the people. China |
| God name "Chang Hs'iien" | Chinese | Guardian god of children. According to tradition he was the mortal king of Szechuan killed by the founder of the Sung dynasty. His wife was captured and forced to become a concubine in the imperial palace. She was discovered by the emperor kneeling before a picture of her deceased husband which she identified as a local deity, the immortal Chang who gives children. This triggered the cult which began locally in Szechuan circa AD 100. Chang Hs'ien is depicted holding a bow made of mulberry wood and either aiming an arrow at the star Tien Kou, the socalled celestial dog which threatens the earth, or aiming the empty bow at a rat (see ERH LANG).... |
| Goddess name "Chicomecohuati" | Aztec / post Mesoamerican | Maize goddess. [Mexico]. Her festival was held in September when a young girl was sacrificed having taken on the role of the deity for a period of time during the celebrations. She was decapitated on a heap of maize fruits and her blood was collected in a large bowl before being poured over a wooden figurine of the goddess. Finally the victim's skin was flayed off and worn by a dancing priest.See also XILONEN.... |
| God name "Chin hua Niang niang" | China | God of drums and violins China |
| Goddess name "Chuang Mu" | China | Goddess of the bedroom China |
| Goddess name "Cihuacoatl" | Aztec | She is a goddess whose roaring signaled war |
| Goddess name "Cihuacoatl aka Cihuacoatl" | Aztec | Chihucoatl, Ciucoatl, "snake woman" was one of a number of motherhood and fertility goddesses and was especially åśśociated with midwives, and with the sweatbaths where midwives practiced. Aztec |
| Goddess name "Cihuacoatl-Quilaztli" | Aztec | Creator goddess who helped Quetzalcoatl create the current race of humanity by grinding up bones from the previous ages, and mixing it with his blood. Aztec |
| Goddess name "Cihuacoatl-Quilaztli" | Aztec / Mesomerican / Mexico | Creator goddess. Using a magical vessel, she grinds bone fragments obtained from previous generations of mankind in earlier world ages into a powder. The gods then commit self-sacrifice, allowing their blood to drip into the vessel. From the resulting mix, the human race of the fifth Sun is formed.... |
| Spirit name "Cihuateto" | Aztec | These are women that die in childbirth, gain eternal life & become spirits that accompany the Sun |
| Supreme god name "Dievas aka Dievs" | Latvia | The supreme god in the pre-Christian religion of Lithuanians, where Dievas was understood to be the supreme being of the world. Latvia |
| Deity name "Diviriks" | Lithuania | deity of the Rainbow. Lithuania |
| Goddess name "Dugnai" | Lithuania | Goddess of baking and kneading and liquor Lithuania |
| God name "Ek Chua" | Mayan | God of merchants and cacao growers. Black faced with a huge nose.Mayan |
| God name "Ek Chuah" | Mayan | God of war and commerce Mayan |
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