Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Centeocihuatl" | Aztec | Goddess of maize Aztec |
Goddess name "Huixtocihuatl (lady of Huixtorin)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Goddess of salt-makers. One of the group clåśśed as the TLALOC complex, generally involved with Rain, Agriculture and fertility.... |
Goddess name "Chuang Mu" | China | Goddess of the bedroom China |
Goddess name "Austrine" | Lithuania / Baltic | Goddess of the dawn. Lithuania / Baltic |
Goddess name "Medeine" | Lithuania | Goddess of the Forests Lithuania |
Goddess name "Zvoruna" | Lithuania | Goddess of the hunt and of animals Lithuania |
Goddess name "Huixtocihuatl" | Aztec | Goddess of the ocean and salt. Aztec |
Goddess name "Mejdejn" | Lithuanian | Goddess of trees and Forests. Lithuanian |
Goddess name "T'ao Hua Hiiinnui (peach blossom girl)" | Chinese | Goddess. The spirit of the peach blossom and the deity of the second spring month.... |
Goddess name "Aclla" | Inca / Quechua | Goddesses of war and virgins comparable to the Roman Vestal Virgins. Inca / Quechua |
God name "Chang Hs'iien" | Chinese | Guardian god of children. According to tradition he was the mortal king of Szechuan killed by the founder of the Sung dynasty. His wife was captured and forced to become a concubine in the imperial palace. She was discovered by the emperor kneeling before a picture of her deceased husband which she identified as a local deity, the immortal Chang who gives children. This triggered the cult which began locally in Szechuan circa AD 100. Chang Hs'ien is depicted holding a bow made of mulberry wood and either aiming an arrow at the star Tien Kou, the socalled celestial dog which threatens the earth, or aiming the empty bow at a rat (see ERH LANG).... |
God name "Meiden" | Lithuania | He is the god of Forest & animals, figures doesn't it |
Goddess name "Jurate and Kastytis" | Lithuanian | Heroes of a Lithuanian legend. The queen of the amber palace Jurate may be considered a manifestation of the goddess of Sea. |
Goddess name "Tawhaki" | Polynesian / Maori | Heroic god. A descendant of the creator god Rehua and grandson of Whatitiri, the goddess of thunder, Tawhaki is the third child of Hema and Urutonga. He is the younger sibling of the goddess Pupu-mai-nono and the god Karihi. In some Polynesian traditions Tawhaki is thought of as a mortal ancestor whose consort was the goddess Tangotango on whom he fathered a daughter, Arahuta. Tawhaki's father was killed during tribal warfare with a mythical clan known as the Ponaturi and he himself was the subject of jealous rivalry concerning the goddess Hine-Piripiri. During this time attempts were made to kill him. He fathered children by Hine-Piripiri, including Wahieroa, who is generally perceived as being embodied in comets.... |
God name "Jesus aka Iesous" | Christian | Joshua, Yehoshua, Yeshua. Another Son of God, the second person in the Trinity of Jehovah, and the source of Christian belief. |
Goddess name "Centeotl" | Aztec | Maize god. Another name for Centeocihuatl, goddess of the maize. Aztec |
Goddess name "Centeocihuati" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Maize goddess. Represented at various sites including Tula [Hidalgo]. According to the codices Borgia, Cospi and Fejervery-Mayer she is also one of four temple deities. Also Centeotl.... |
Goddess name "Chicomecohuati" | Aztec / post Mesoamerican | Maize goddess. [Mexico]. Her festival was held in September when a young girl was sacrificed having taken on the role of the deity for a period of time during the celebrations. She was decapitated on a heap of maize fruits and her blood was collected in a large bowl before being poured over a wooden figurine of the goddess. Finally the victim's skin was flayed off and worn by a dancing priest.See also XILONEN.... |