Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Temazcalteci" | Aztec | Temaxcaltechi, goddess of bathing and sweatbaths. Aztec |
Goddess name "Teteoinnan-Toci" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Goddess of midwives. Known locally in the Valley of Mexico and invoked by women in childbirth. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex.... |
Goddess name "Tethys" | Greek | A Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceåñuś. She was mother of the chief rivers of the universe, such as the Nile, the Alpheus, the Maeander, and about three thousand daughters called the Oceanids. Greek |
Goddess name "Tezcacoac Ayopechtli (mirror serpent tortoise bench)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Birth goddess. An aspect of XOCHIQUETZAL. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex.... |
Goddess name "Thakur Deo" | Etruscan | Goddess of childbirth Etruscan |
Goddess name "Thalna" | Etruscan | Goddess of childbirth. Depicted as a youthful woman, often åśśociated with the sky god TIN.... |
Goddess name "Thatmanitu" | Western Semitic | Local goddess of healing. Recognized chiefly at Sidon, but also included in the Ugaritic pantheon.... |
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 "Thoeris" | Egypt | Goddess and protectress of women in childbirth. Egypt |
Goddess name "Tien Hou" | China | Goddess of the ocean. China |
Goddess name "Tien Mu" | China | Goddess of lightning. China |
God name "Tien Tsun/ Tian-zhu" | China / Taoist | The generic title of gods given to each of the three holy images in a Taoist temple |
Deities name "Tiki" | Polynesian / including Maori | Creator god. One of the children of RANGINUI and PAPATUANUKU who created mankind. In some Polynesian traditions he is represented as the first man, akin to Adam. The word is also incorporated in tikiwananga or god stick, which describes the wooden or stone images of deities that are usually minimally worked and stand about 19.5 inches tall. Only thirty or so examples of these are known, most having been destroyed by Christian missions. The celebrated large Maori totems are depictions of ancestors who appear as human / bird or reptile hybrids. Also Ki'i (Hawaiian).... |
Goddess name "Tin Hau" | China | Goddess of the waters. China |
Deities name "Titan" | Greek | A race of gods. The secondary group of deities in the pre-Hellenic pantheon, headed by the sky god OURANOS and the earth mother GAIA. They have six pairs of children: OKEANOS and TETHYS, KRONOS and RHEA, HYPERION and THEA, Koeos and Phoebe, IAPETOS and Klymene, Kreos and Eurybe. According to legend the children usurped their father but were eventually beaten by ZEUS, heading the major group of the pantheon, who hurled them into the abyss of Tartaros.... |
God name "Tiwaz" | Germanic | The chief sky god and the god of war. Germanic |