| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Canopus" | Egyptian | The Egyptian god of water. The Chaldeans worshipped fire, and sent all the other gods a challenge, which was accepted by a priest of Canopus. The Chaldeans lighted a vast fire round the god Canopus, when the Egyptian deity spouted out torrents of water and quenched the fire, thereby obtaining the triumph of water over fire. |
| Goddess name "Carike" | Bali | Goddess makes the waters flow. Bali |
| Nymph name "Cåśśotis" | Greek | A Parnåśśian nymph, from whom was derived the name of the well Cåśśotis at Delphi, the water of which gave the priestess the power of prophecy. Greek |
"Castaly" | Greek | A fountain of Parnåśśus sacred to the Muses. Its waters had the power of inspiring with the gift of poetry those who drank of them. Greek |
| Deity name "Cay" | Mayan | A water deity. Mayan |
| Spirit name "Chahuru" | Pawnee | spirit of water Pawnee |
| 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.... |
| Goddess name "Chalchiuhtlcue" | Aztec | A goddess Rain & storms, violence, vitality, lakes, whirlpools, rivers, water , love, beauty & youth Don't make this one mad whatever you do. |
"Changeling" | Greek | A child, usually stupid and ugly, supposed to have been left by fairies in exchange for one taken. Sometimes, it is an old fairy or the båśtåřd children of water-nixies and human beings whom they have dragged under the sea. Hartland, Science of Fairy Tales |
| Hero name "Chederles" | Moslem | A hero who saved a virgin being attacked by a huge dragon. Because he drank the water of Immortality he is still living to render aid in war to any who invoke him. Moslem |
| 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 |
| Nymph name "Clytie" | Greek | A water-nymph, in love with Apollo. Meeting with no return, she was changed into a Sunflower, which, traditionally, still turns to the Sun, following him through his daily course. 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 |
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