| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Deities name "Chiccan" | Mayan / Chorti, Mesoamerican / eastern Guatemala | Rain gods. Giant reptilian deities whose blood is cold and who evolved from snakes. They form a quartet, each living at the bottom of a deep lake situated in the four cardinal directions. They are believed to churn the waters which rise as clouds. The AH PATNAR UINICOB gods then beat the Rain from the clouds with stone axes.... |
| God name "Choimha" | Arab | beautiful water, she was a woman created by the gods specifically to marry B'alam Agab. |
| Goddess name "Cipactli" | Aztec / Mexico | A primordial goddess of water |
| God name "Cizin (stench)" | Mayan / Yucatec / other tribes, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of death. The most important death god in the Mayan cultural area. Said to live in Metnal, the Yucatec place of death, and to burn the souls of the dead. He first burns the mouth and åñuś and, when the soul complains, douses it with water. When the soul complains of this treatment, he burns it again until there is nothing left. It then goes to the god Sicunyum who spits on his hands and cleanses it, after which it is free to go where it chooses. Attributes of Cizin include a fleshless nose and lower jaw, or the entire head may be depicted as a skull. Spine and ribs are often showing. He wears a collar with death eyes between lines of hair and a long bone hangs from one earlobe. His body is painted with black and particularly yellow spots (the Mayan color of death).... |
| Goddess name "Cleone" | Greek | Goddess of water. One of the daughters of Asopus, from whom the town of Cleonae in Peloponnesus was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
| Goddess name "Coatrischie" | Cuba / Taino | Goddess of water, winds, and storms. Cuba / Taino |
| God name "Condatis" | Roman / British | God of confluence whose sacred places were wherever two rivers or bodies of water met. Roman / British |
| Goddess name "Damballah" | Haiti | Goddess of sweet waters. Haiti |
| Goddess name "Danaids" | Greek | The goddesses of fountains & water |
| God name "Dharmadhatuvagisvara" | Buddhist | God of the law. A variety of MANJUSRI and therefore an emanation of AMITABHA. Color: reddish-white. Attributes: arrow, bell, Book, bow, hook, image of Amitabha on crown, staff, sword and water jar. Depicted with four heads and setting the law wheel in motion.... |
| Goddess name "Dharmavasita (control of law)" | Buddhist | Minor goddess. One of a group of twelve VASITAS personifying the disciplines of spiritual regeneration. Color: white. Attributes: water jar on a red lotus.... |
| Goddess name "Dhatar (creator)" | Hindu / Puranic | Sun god. An original Vedic list of six descendants of the goddess ADITI or Adityas, all of whom take the role of Sun gods was, in later times, enlarged to twelve, including Dhatar. Color: golden. Attributes: two lotuses, lotus rosary and waterjar. Also Dhatr.... |
| Deities name "Dhruva (immovable)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Astral god. The son of Uttanapada, a star in the constellation of Ursa Minor which was the pole star in the last millennium BC. An avatara of V IS NU. Also one of a group of Vasu deities answering to the god INDRA. In different context, the description of a kind of fixed icon. Attributes: prayer wheel, rosary, spear and water jar.... |
| Goddess name "Diang" | Shilluk / Sudan | cow goddess. Living along the west bank of the Nile, the Shilluk perceive Diang as the consort of the first human, Omara, sent by the creator god. Her son is Okwa, who married the crocodile goddess NYAKAYA. Thus the three main elements of Shilluk life are contained in their religious beginningsmen (sky), cows (earth) and crocodiles (water).... |
| God name "Dilmun" | Sumeria | God of fresh water Sumeria |
| Goddess name "Divona" | Celtic / Gallic | Fertility goddess. Associated with water and known only from inscriptions.... |
| Goddess name "Divonia" | Celtic / Gaelic | Goddess of fertility åśśociated with water. Celtic / Gaelic |
| Goddess name "Dryope" | Greek | A goddess of water |
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