| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Ch'ang Tsai" | China | God of the spleen. China |
| God name "Ch'eng Huang" | China | God of the land, ditches, moats and the people. China |
| God name "Ch'ing Lung" | China | God of the lungs. China |
| God name "Ch'ung Ling yu" | China | God of the nose. China |
| God name "Chac" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Rain god(s). Not part of the hierarchy of Mayan gods, but worshiped with great devotion at local level. Originally there was a god, Chaac, who was of huge size and who taught mankind Agriculture. He was regarded as the god of thunder, lightning, Rain and bread, and of milpas (smallholdings) and their produce. Also God B.... |
| Demon name "Chac Uayab Xoc" | Maya | A fish god known as the great demon shark |
| God name "Chac Uayab Xoc" | Mayan | A fish god and the patron deity of fishermen. He blessed their catches, yet also ate them if they drowned. Mayan |
| Demon name "Chac Uayab Xoc" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Fish god. Known as the great demon shark, he feeds on the bodies of drowned fishermen, but also provides catches.... |
| God name "Chaitanya" | Hindu / Puranic | Mendicant god. A deified mortal who became one of the many incarnations of the god VIS NU. Born at Nadiya in AD 1484, he died at Puri in 1527. Chaitanya was a sickly child who, according to legend, was left to his fate, hanging in a tree to die, but was revived by the gods and thus became deified. He was married twice before adopting a strict ascetic existence at the age of twenty-four, from which time he traveled extensively, eventually settling in the holy city of Benares. He is remembered as a great social reformer. His main sanctuary at Nadiya includes a small statue of KRSNA to whom he devoted himself.... |
| Deities name "Chalchiuhtlatonal (jade glowing)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of water. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the Tlaloc complex, generally concerned with Rain, Agriculture and fertility.... |
| Deities name "Chalchiutotolin (jade turkey)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of penitence. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |
| Goddess name "Chalmecacihuilt (chalman lady)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld goddess. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
| Deities name "Chalmecatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Chamer" | Mayan / Chorti, Mesoamerican / eastern Guatemala | God of death. Appears as a skeleton dressed in white. His consort is Xtabai. Attributes include a scythe with a bone blade, probably copied from the traditions of Christian immigrants.... |
| Goddess name "Chamunda" | Hindu | An emanation from the forehead of the goddess Durga to encounter the demons Chanda and Munda. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Chanda aka Chandi" | Hindu | The goddess Durga in the form she åśśumed for the destruction of the Asura called Mahisha. Hindu |
| God name "Chandra" | Vedic | God of the moon Vedic |
| God name "Chang Er" | China | Was the wife of the archer Hou Yi, who received the herb of immortality from the gods after shooting down nine of the ten Suns that were stifling the world with their heat. China |