Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Bo Hsian" | China / Taoist | God. China / Taoist |
God name "Bo Hsian" | Taoist / Chinese | God. The Taoist counterpart of the Buddhist deity SAMANTABHADRA. Usually depicted upon a white elephant. He is considered to be a god of wisdom.... |
God name "Bochica" | Chibcha | Supreme Sun god and a god of law Chibcha |
Goddess name "Bod" | Indian | The divinity invoked by Indian women who desire fecundity. Children born after an invocation to Bod must be redeemed, or else serve in the temple of the goddess. Indian |
Goddess name "Boldogåśśzony" | Hungary | Virgin goddess who protected mothers and children. Hungary |
Goddess name "Boldogåśśzony" | Pre - Christian Hungarian | Tutelary goddess. The guardian deity of women and children, she became syncretized with the Virgin Mary after Christianization.... |
Goddess name "Brigantia" | Celtic | Goddess of the seasons, doctors smiths, poets, and women in childbirth Pan-Celtic |
Goddess name "Brigantia/ Bridget/ Brigit" | Pan-Celtic | The goddess of the seasons, doctors smiths, poets, & women in childbirth |
God name "C(co)chimetl" | Aztec | A minor God of merchants that & commerce |
Goddess name "CHALCHIUHTLICUE (her skirt is of jade)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | water goddess. Featuring strongly in creation mythology, Chalchiuhtlicue presided over the fourth of the world ages which terminated in a great deluge. She is the tutelary deity of the fourth of the thirteen heavens identified at the time of the Spanish conquest, Ilhuicatl Citlalicue (the heaven of the star-skirted goddess). She takes the role of a vegetation goddess responsible for the flowering and fruiting of the green world, particularly maize; she also takes responsibility for such natural phenomena as whirlpools. Attributes include a rattle on a baton, and her dress is adorned with waterlilies.... |
Goddess name "COATLICUE (the serpent-skirted goddess)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Mother goddess. The creator goddess of the earth and mankind and the female aspect of OMETEOTL. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex. She has 400 sons, the stars of the southern sky, and is the mother of the goddess COYOLXAUHQUI. Later, as a widow, she was impregnated by a ball of feathers as she was sweeping the serpent mountain of Coatepec near Tula. Her other children decapitated her as punishment for her dishonor, but she gave birth to the Sun god HUITZILOPOCHTLI who subsequently slew Coyolxauhqui and her brothers, thus banishing night for day. According to tradition Coatlicue feeds off human corpses. She is also recognized as the patron deity of florists.... |
Goddess name "Caireen" | Ireland | Protective mother goddess and patron of children. Ireland |
God name "Caishen" | China | God of wealth. China |
Goddess name "Candelifera" | Roman | She Roman is a mother goddess responsible for bringing in the child into the light |
Goddess name "Candelifera" | Roman | Goddess of childbirth and midwives who guides the child through the birth canal. Roman |
Goddess name "Candelifera" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. Responsible for bringing the newborn child into the light. Usually åśśociated with LUCINA and CARMENTES.... |
God name "Cao Guo-jiu" | Taoist / Chinese | Immortal being. One of the eight immortals of Taoist mythology, he was once a mortal being who achieved immortality through his lifestyle. The tutelary god of actors. Attributes include musical rattles or castanets.See also BA XIAN.... |
Goddess name "Carmenta" | Roman | A goddess of childbirth & midwives, prophecy & springs |