| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Camunda" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | (1) Goddess. A distinct form of DURGA. The name is said to be a contraction of the names of the demonic beings Camda and Munda killed by her. She is also recognized among the SAPTAMATARA and ASTAMATARA mothers as well as sometimes being regarded as a NAVASAKTI. She stands variously on a lion, an owl and a corpse. Attributes: a large and varied åśśortment of objects are held. Three-eyed. Also YAMI.(2) Goddess. Buddhist. She stands upon a corpse. Color: red. Attributes: cup and knife.... |
| Goddess name "Candika (fierce)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess of desire. May be included among the SAPTAMATARAS or ASTAMATARAS (mothers).... |
"Celaeno" | Greek | A Pleiad, daughter of Atlas and Pleione, and by Poseidon the mother of Lycus and Eurypylus, or, according to others, of Lycus and Chimaereus by Prometheus. Greek |
"Cercyon" | Greek | A son of Poseidon by a daughter of Amphictyon, and accordingly a half-brother of Triptolemus. Others call him a son of Hephaestus. He came from Arcadia, and dwelt at Eleusis in Attica. Greek |
"Chalciope" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Rhexenor, or according to others of Chalcodon, was the second wife of Aegeus. |
"Chloris" | Greek | A daughter of the Theban Amphion and Niobe. According to an Argive tradition, her original name was Meliboea, and she and her brother Amyclas were the only children of Niobe that were not killed by Apollo and Artemis. But the terror of Chloris at the death of her brothers and sisters was so great, that she turned perfectly white, and was therefore called Chloris. Greek |
"Clymene" | Greek | A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and the wife of Japetus, by whom she became the mother of Atlas, Prometheus, and others. Greek |
| King name "Clytius" | Greek | 1. A son of Laomedon and father of Caletor and Procleia, was one of the Trojan elders. 2. A son of the Oechalian king Eurytus, was one of the Argonauts, and was killed during the expedition by Heracles, or according to others by Aeetes. Greek |
| God name "Consus" | Roman | Some call him the god of secret deliberations, and others the hidden or mysterious god, that is, a god of the lower regions. Roman |
| Goddess name "Coyolxauhqui (golden bells)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Astral goddess. A deification and incarnation (avatara) of the moon. According to tradition she is the half-sister of the Sun god HUITZILOPOCHTLI. The god sprang, fully armed, from his decapitated mother, COATLICUE, and engaged all his enemies who, by inference, are the 400 astral gods, his half-brothers. He slew his sister and hurled her from the top of a mountain. Alternative tradition suggests his sister was an ally whom he was unable to save, so he decapitated her and threw her head into the sky, where she became the moon. She was represented in the Great Temple at Tenochtitlan, where she was depicted in front of successive Huitzilopochtli pyramids. She is also a hearth deity within the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Credne aka Creidhne" | Ireland | A son of Brigid and Tuireann and the artificer of the Tuatha De Danann, working in bronze, bråśś and gold. He and his brothers Goibniu and Luchtaine were known as the Tri Dee Dana, the three gods of art, who forged the weapons which the Tuatha De used to battle the Fomorians. Ireland |
"Daeira" | Greek | the knowing, a divinity connected with the Eleusinian mysteries. A daughter of Oceåñuś, and became by Hermes the mother of Eleusis but others called her a sister of Styx. Greek |
| God name "Daityas" | India | A race of giants who fought against the gods because they were jealous of their Deva half-brothers. India |
"Deidameia" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Bellerophontes and wife of Evander, by whom she became the mother of Sarpedon. Homer calls her Laodameia. 2. A daughter of Lycomedes in the island of Scyrus. When Achilles was concealed there in maiden's attire, Deidameia became by him the mother of Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus, and, according to others, of Oneirus also. (Apollodorus iii) 3. The wife of Peirithous, who is commonly called Hippodameia. Greek |
"Deiphobus" | Greek | 1. A son of Priam and Hecabe, was next to Hector the bravest among the Trojans. When Paris, yet unrecognized, came to his brothers, and conquered them all in the contest for his favourite bull, Deiphobus drew his sword against him, and Paris fled to the altar of Zeus Herceius. |
"Demeter" | Greek | One of the great divinities of the Greeks. The name Demeter is supposed by some to be the same as mother earth, while others consider Deo, which is synonymous with Demeter and as derived from the Cretan word barley, so that Demeter would be the mother or giver of barley or of food generally. Greek |
| Goddess name "Dhupa (incense)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Mother goddess. One of the ASTAMATARA mothers. Color: yellow. Attribute: a censer.... |
"Dione" | Greek | A female Titan, a daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and, according to others, of Uråñuś and Ge, or of Aether and Ge. She was beloved by Zeus, by whom she became the mother of Aphrodite. Greek |
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