Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Terra/ Terra Mater" | Roman | A goddess of the earth |
Goddess name "Thalna" | Etruscan | Goddess of childbirth. Depicted as a youthful woman, often åśśociated with the sky god TIN.... |
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 "Tin Hau" | China | Goddess of the waters. China |
Goddess name "Tiresias" | Greek | Blind as Tiresias. Tiresias the Theban by accident saw Athena bathing, and the goddess struck him with blindness by splashing water in his face. She afterwards repented doing so, and, as she could not restore his sight, conferred on him the power of soothsaying, and gave him a staff with which he could walk as safely as if he had his sight. He found death at last by drinking from the well of Tilphosa. Greek |
Goddess name "Tlanzolteotl" | Ixcuiname / Aztec | at the chthonic / earth goddess, a maternal goddess linked with sex, & in the Aztec way, personifying filth |
Goddess name "Tlazolteotl (Ixcuiname)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic or earth goddess. Known locally from the gulf coast region of Huaxteca. A maternal goddess linked with sexual sin and personifying filth. One of the group of fertility deities clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex.... |
Goddess name "Tlitcaplitana" | Bella Coola | Goddess of healing åśśociated with singing and chanting. Bella Coola |
Goddess name "Tootega" | Inuit | Tootega is a wisened old goddess, who lives in a stone hut and has the ability to walk on water. Inuit |
Goddess name "Toyo-Uke-Bime" | Shinto / Japan | Goddess of foodstuffs. An ambiguous deity often identified with Inari, she is said in the Kojiki to be a daughter of WakuMusubi-No-Kami and a great granddaughter of IZANAGI and IZANAMI. Her main sanctuary is the Geku in Ise, whither she was allegedly removed from Tamba after the emperor had received a dream-message from the Sun goddess AMATERASU in AD 478.... |
Goddess name "Tozi" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Goddess of healing. Also the deity of sweet water remedial baths.... |
Goddess name "Trita" | Iranian | Goddess of the heavenly waters. Iranian |
Supreme god name "Tsohanoai (day bearer)" | Navaho / USA | Sun god. Not regarded as a supreme god, Tsohanoai moves across the sky, invisible, behind the disc of the Sun, sa, which is his shield. His consort is the fertility goddess ESTSANATLEHI and he is the father of the war god NAYENEZGANI. He is also attributed with the creation of all the big game animals. He is thought to walk on a Rainbow and ride a blue steed. He is never depicted in art nor impersonated.... |
Goddess name "Tureshmat" | Japan | Creator goddess who created Hokkaido Island. Japan |
Goddess name "Tyche" | Greco - Roman | Goddess of fortune. She appears as a nereid in the Hymn to Demeter (Homer). According to Hesiod's Theogony she is the daughter of OKEANOS. Elsewhere she is identified as the daughter of ZEUS and HERA. She is depicted carrying a rudder or, alternatively, cornucopiae. Also mentioned as Agathe Tyche, the consort of Agathos Daemon. She became widely identified with the Asian mother goddess KYBELE but was replaced, in Roman times, by the goddess FORTUNA and åśśociated symbolically with a wheel device. She retained popularity for a long time. There is a record that the Emperor Julian sacrificed to Tyche at Antioch in AD 361-2 and her temple was still intact during the reign of Theodosius (379-95).... |
Goddess name "Tzu Sun Niangniang" | Chinese | Mother goddess. One of the nine dark ladies of the pantheon who are regarded as having a protective role. She was the mortal wife of a minor official and, having borne him five sons and two daughters, committed suicide in order to ensure her future chastity. She is invoked at weddings to provide children, especially sons, and special cakes are eaten by the bride and groom. One of her more famous sanctuaries, on the island of Taiwan, is the Yin Yang Stone.... |
Goddess name "Uadjet" | Egypt | Wadjit, Wedjet, originally a local city goddess she eventually became the patron goddess of the whole of Lower Egypt åśśociated with the land. |
Goddess name "Ucuetis" | Celtic | A Celtic god who, along with his consort Bergusia, was venerated at Alesia in Burgundy. The Divine couple are named on inscriptions of the Romano-Celtic period, and an image of a Divine couple has been found on the same site, the male figure bearing a hammer, the female appearing as a goddess of prosperity. |