Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Si-wang-mu" | China | Lived eternally in the Jade mountains, was Mother queen of the West and a deputy of heaven who could see the world from her mountain peak and punish evil doers. China |
Goddess name "Skadi" | Nordic / Icelandic | Goddess. One of the AESIR goddesses. The daughter of the giant Thiåśśi and consort of the god NJORD. By tradition she lives apart from her husband, he preferring the coast and she the mountains. She is described as ski lady, a huntress who travels on skis and hunts game with a bow. She is constantly at odds with the god LOKI and on one occasion, when he had been captured and held down with stones, she tried to poison him by suspending a poisonous snake over his face. Loki's consort SIGYN saved him by collecting the venom in a bowl.... |
God name "Suku" | Ovimbundu / central Angola, West Africa | Creator god. He created the sky, the rivers and mountains, and the people on earth.... |
God name "Suku Ovimbundu" | Cent Africa | The creator god sky at, the rivers, people, & mountains |
God name "Ta-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Agricultural deity. A generic name for several gods of crops and harvests. May also be identified as a mountain KAMI.... |
God name "Taka-Okami-No-Kami" | Japan | God of the Rains in the mountains Japan / Shinto |
God name "Taka-Okami-No-Kami (great producer of rain in the mountains)" | Shinto / Japan | Rain god. Specifically the god of Rain generated in mountains. A god of fierce Rain, also known as the god of the dividing of the waters.See also KURA-OAKMI-NO-KAMI.... |
God name "Teliko" | Bambara / Mali, West Africa | God of hot winds. According to tradition the water god FARO challenged him in a primordial struggle and smashed him against a mountain.... |
"The Giants' Dance" | Britain | Stonehenge, which Geoffrey of Monmouth says was removed from Killaraus, a mountain in Ireland, by the magical skill of Merlin. Britain |
God name "Tian-zhu" | Arab | A mountain god of somewhere you've never heard of. |
God name "Tlaloc" | Aztec | A god of Agriculture, lightning, Rain, weather, clouds, water, springs & mountains |
God name "Toa'lalit" | Bella Coola | God of hunters, oversees hunting mountain goats. Bella Coola, Canada |
God name "Toa'lalit" | Bella Coola / Canada | This god of hunters oversees hunting mountain goats |
God name "Toa'lalit" | Bella Coola Indian / British Columbia, Canada | God of hunters. Oversees the hunting of mountain goats. He is invisible, but great hunters may catch a glimpse of his hat, moccasins or mountain staff moving about. His animals are the lynx and raven.... |
"Tork" | Armenia | Guardian of the mountains and their inhabitants Armenia |
God name "Tork" | Armenia | This god is the guardian of the mountains & their inhabitants |
God name "Tork" | Pre - Christian Armenian | mountain god. Of terrifying appearance, he is the guardian deity of mountains and their inhabitants.... |
Deities name "Tzultacah (mountain valley)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic and thunder gods. A group of deities who combine the features of earth and Rain gods. Although there are considered to be an indefinite number of Tzultacahs, only thirteen are invoked in prayers. They live in, and may personify, springs and rivers, but each is the owner of a specific mountain. They are attended by snakes which are dispatched to punish mankind for wrongdoing. Non-poisonous varieties are sent to discipline against minor offenses, rattlesnakes for more serious depravity.... |