| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Apo (lord)" | Inca / pre Columbian South America / Peru, etc | mountain god. The apotheosis of an Andean mountain, all mountains being sacred to the South American Indians.... |
| Deities name "Bolon Ti Ku" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic underworld gods. A collective term for a group of nine deities not otherwise clearly defined. They are probably still invoked by modern Mexican Indians.... |
| God name "Bugid Y Aiba" | Puerto Rico / Haiti | God of war. Clåśśed as one of the ZEMIS. The local Indians have believed that the deity can give them strength. When they smoke in a ritual ceremony in honor of the god, their arms increase in size. He will also restore failed eyesight.... |
| God name "Haili'laj" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | Plague god. Particularly åśśociated with smallpox. Believed to be so terrible that he is not even propitiated with food. He sails in a canoe of pestilence with huge sails like those of the white man's ships which brought plague to the Indians.... |
| God name "Heammawihio" | India | A sky and creator god who taught his people to make arrow points, knives, bows and arrows, how to hunt, and to make fire. Plains Indians |
| God name "Imyapa" | Inca / pre - Columbian South America / Peru, etc | weather god. Also perceived as a thunder god, he became syncretized with Santiago, the patron saint of Spain. The Indians called Spanish firearms Ilyapa. Also Inti-Ilyapa; Coqi-Ilya; Illapa; Katoylla.... |
| Goddess name "Inlti (sun)" | Inca / pre - Columbian South America / Peru, etc | Sun god. His consort is the moon goddess MAMA-KILYA. Inti was depicted as a trinity in the sanctuaries in Cuzco, possibly in deference to the Christian Trinity. The Temple of the Sun is reported to have housed images, in gold, of all the sky gods in the Inca pantheon on more or less equal terms, since the Sun is regarded as one of many great celestial powers. Inti may also have been depicted as a face on a gold disc. The socalled fields of the Sun supported the Inca priesthood. The three Sun deities are Apo-Inti (lord Sun), Cori-Inti (son Sun) and Inti-Wawqi (sun brother). The Sun god(s) is perceived as the progenitor of the Inca rulers at Cuzco through two childrena son Manco Capac and his sister / consort Mama Ocllo Huaco. The Quechua Indians of the central Andes call the same deity Inti Huayna Capac and perceive him as part of a trinity with the Christian god and Christ.... |
| Goddess name "Ix Chel" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | moon goddess. Also the goddess of childbirth and Medicine and of Rain bows. A consort of the Sun god. She has a major shrine as Cozumel and small figurines of the goddess have been conventionally placed beneath the beds of women in labor. Such women are considered to be in great danger at times of lunar eclipse when the unborn child may develop deformities. Ix Chel is a guardian against disease and the Quiche Indians regard her as a goddess of fertility and sexual inter course. A goddess of weaving, believed to be the first being on earth to weave cloth, she was employed in this craft when she first attracted the attention of the Sun god. She carries her loom sticks across the sky to protect her from jaguars. Under Chris tian influence she has been largely syncretized with the Virgin Mary.See also IX CHEBEL YAX.... |
| God name "Makowasendo" | Mexico | The sky god is the husband of Nangkwijo, the earth. The Tewa, Pueblo Indians, New Mexico and Arizona |
| Goddess name "Mama Qoca (mother sea)" | Inca / pre - Columbian South America / Peru, etc | Goddess of the ocean. Originally a pre-Inca goddess of coastal regions who retained her influence under Inca rule. Invoked by all Indians who gain their livelihood from the sea. Today probably syncretized largely with the Christian Virgin Mary. Also Mama Cocha.... |
| Goddess name "Mama-Kilya (mother moon)" | Inca / pre - Columbian South America / Peru, etc | moon goddess. The consort of the Sun god INTI, she is important in the calculation of time and regulating the Inca festival calendar. The Indians consider that an eclipse of the moon is a time of great danger, caused by a mountain lion or snake eating the moon, and perform a ritual making as much noise as possible to frighten the predator off.... |
| God name "Oshats" | Mexico | A sky god and the Sun. The Sia, Pueblo Indians. New Mexico |
| Deities name "Oxiahun Ti Ku" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | sky gods. The collective name for a group of thirteen celestial deities who are probably still invoked by Mesoamerican Indians today.... |
| God name "Pakrokitat" | California | Creator god who made people with a face at the front and back of their heads. After a hissy fit, he decended to the middle of the earth. The Serrano Indians, California |
| God name "Poxiom" | Mayan / Tzeltal Indian, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of disease. Apparently perceived as a star in the sky or a ball of fire. He may also be depicted as a fertility god shelling maize or as a fisherman, doctor, musician or hunter. An image of the god was discovered in the Christian church in Oxchuc, and the Indians were forced to revoke and spit on the icon before it was publicly burnt.... |
| God name "Shiwanni" | Mexico | The god who created the heavens, and with Shiwanoka, his wife, created the Zuni Indians. New Mexico |
| God name "Tawa" | Pueblo Indians | God of the Sun Pueblo |
| God name "Xanthus" | Indian | A large shell like those ascribed to the Tritons. The volutes generally run from right to left; and if the Indians find a shell with the volutes running in the contrary direction, they persist that one of their gods has got into the shell for concealment. |
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