Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Thero" | Sparta | 1. The nurse of Ares, from whom he was believed to have received the surname of Thereitas, though Pausanias thinks that this name arose from the fierceness of the god. A sanctuary of Ares Thereitas stood on the road from Sparta to Therapne, with a statue which the Dioscuri were said to have brought from Colchis. |
Goddess name "Thesan" | Etruscan | Goddess of the dawn. Also invoked at childbirth, since she brings new life into the world each day with her light.... |
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 "Thmei" | Egypt | The goddess of truth. Egypt |
Goddess name "Thoeris" | Egypt | Goddess and protectress of women in childbirth. Egypt |
Spirit name "Thor" | Norse | The god of thunder, keeper of the hammer, the ever-fighting slayer of trolls and destroyer of evil spirits, the friend of mankind, the defender of the earth, the heavens and the gods; for without Thor and his hammer the earth would become the helpless prey of the giants. He was the consecrator, the hammer being the cross or holy sign of the ancient heathen. Thor was the son of Odin and Fjorgyn (mother earth); he was blunt, hot-tempered, without fraud or guile, of few words but of ready stroke - such was Thor, the favorite deity of our forefathers. The finest legends of the Younger Edda and the best lays of the Elder Edda refer to Thor. His hall is Bilskirner. He slays Thjåśśe, Thrym, Hrungner, and other giants. In Ragnarok he slays the Midgard-serpent, but falls after retreating nine paces, poisoned by the serpent's breath. Norse |
God name "Thoth" | Egypt | A god of astronomy, science, death, education, wisdom, geometry, law, magic, mathematics, Medicine, the moon & surveying |
God name "Thoth" | Egypt | Tchehuti or Tehuti. Author of the Book of the Dead was believed by the Egyptians to have been the heart and mind of the Creator, who was in very early times in Egypt called by the natives "Pautti," and by foreigners "Ra." Thoth was also the "tongue" of the Creator, and he at all times voiced the will of the great god, and spoke the words which commanded every being and thing in heaven and in earth to come into existence. His words were almighty and once uttered never remained without effect. |
Goddess name "Thouris" | Egyptian | Egyptian fertility goddess. |
God name "Thraetaona" | Avestian | The Avestan fire god. |
God name "Thunor" | Germanic | God of fertility, lightning and thunder germanic |
God name "Thurremlin" | Australia | God of påśśage, from adolescence to manhood Australia |
God name "Thurremlin/ Daramulun S. Waels" | Aus | A god of påśśage, from adolescence to manhood |
Supreme god name "Ti'hmar" | Kolyma Tungus / Siberia | Supreme god. The name by which the Christian god was still addressed after local culture was influenced by Russian Orthodoxy.... |
Spirit name "Ti'hmar Kolyma" | Tungus / Siberia | The supreme spirit, it became the name for the Christian god |
God name "Tia" | Haida | God of death by violence. Haida Nation territories |
God name "Tia/ Ta'xet" | Haida / BC Canada | the god of death, by violence |
Goddess name "Tiamat" | Babylonian | The primordial mother goddess in Babylonian and Sumerian mythology, and a central figure in the Enuma Elish creation epic. |