Guide to the Gods 1.0
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Chac
Mayan rain god, the equivalent of the Aztec Tlaloc. Later Chac appears as Chac-Xib-Chac, one of the four gods associated with the four cardinal directions. In the Dresden Codex (c. AD 1200-1350), there are five Chacs, four asigned to each of the four cardinal directions, and one occupying the center position.
Chac Uayab Xoc
Mayan fish god, both the devourer of drowned fishermen and the provider of the fishermen's catches.
Chaitanya
Hindu mendicant god. Originally a Hindu ascetic and social reformer of the early 16th century AD, he was later deified and is regarded as an avatara of Vishnu.
Chakra
(Cakra)
"Wheel". An ancient Indian deity known from the Indus Valley civilization of the 2nd millenium BC. Came to be regarded more or less as an abstract concept representing the passage of time, but sometimes embodied as a god.
Chakravartin
"He who turns the wheel". A world ruler in Indian Buddhism. The wheel (chakra) symbolizes the Buddhist teaching. A Chakravartin can only be born when there is no living Buddha in this world.
Chakresvari
Jain (India) goddess of learning. One of the sixteen vidyadevi led by Sarasvati as well as a sasanadevata (messenger goddess).
Chalchiuhtlatonal
Aztec god of water.
Chalchiuhtlicue
Aztec goddess of water and fertility, consort of the rain god Tlaloc. Also a vegetation god associated with maize. She was depicted bearing a rattle on a stick and dressed in clothing decorated with water lilies.
Chalchiutotolin
Aztec god of pestilence.
Chalmecacihuilt
Aztec underworld goddess.
Chalmecatl
Aztec underworld god.
Chama
(Cama)
Hindu god of young love. His consort is Rati.
Chamer
Mayan god of death in eastern Guatemala. His consort is Xtabai.
Chamunda
(Camunda)
Hindu goddess: a form of Durga. The name Chamunda is apparently derived from the names of the two demons Chanda and Munda, whom she is said to have killed.
Chanda
(Canda)
Hindu demoness: a form of Durga and one of the nine navadurgas. Chanda was killed by Chamunda.
Chandali
(Candali)
Buddhist-Lamaist (Tibet) goddess of terrible aspect.
Chandanayika
Hindu goddess: a form of Durga and one of the nine navadurgas.
Chandarosana
Buddhist (Mahayana) god.
Chandarupa
(Candarupa)
Hindu goddess: a form of the goddess Durga and one of the nine navadurgas.
Chandavati
(Candavati)
Hindu goddess: a form of the goddess Durga and one of the nine navadurgas.
Chandesvara
(Candesvara)
Hindu god: a benevolent aspect of Shiva, whom he serves.
Chandesvari
(Candesvari)
Minor Indian Buddhist goddess.
Chandi
Form of Hindu Sakti.
Chandika
(Candika)
Hindu goddess of desire.
Chandogra
(Candogra)
Hindu goddess: a form of the goddess Durga and one of the nine navadurgas.
Chandra
"Moon". Probably the name of a pre-Vedic moon god. As Soma, Chandra entered Vedic myth as one of the eight Vasus, attendants of Indra.
Chandrasekhara
(Candrasekhara)
Hindu god: a form of Shiva.
Chang Fei
Chinese god of war who rules over the dark half of the year (autumn and winter).
Chang Hs'ien
Chinese protective god of children. Reputedly the deification of a mortal king of Szechuan killed by the founder of the Sung Dynasty.
Changing Woman
Navaho moon-deity, mother of the sun.
Chang Kuo-lao
Chinese Taoist deity.
Ch'ang O
(Ch'ang-o)
Chinese moon goddess, wife of I.
Chang Tao Ling
Chinese Taoist god of the afterlife. Also the chief god of exorcism.
Chankilikkaruppan
A local god of the Hindu-Dravidian Tamils of southern India.
Chantico
Aztec goddess of hearth fires, the home and fertility.
Chaob
Mayan (Lacandon) wind gods. There are four, associated with the four cardinal directions.
Chaos
Greek personification of the primordial void. In Hesiod, Chaos was first in the order of existence, followed by Earth and Eros (Desire). Chaos then generated Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night). Chaos either generated, or was identical with, Tartarus, the Greek Underworld. It was much later that the Roman writer Ovid gave the concept of Chaos its modern meaning of an unordered and formless primordial mass from which the Cosmos was formed.
Charcika
(Carcika)
Indian Buddhist (Mahayana) goddess.
Charis
(Aglaia, Aegle)
Minor Greek Goddess. Consort of Hephaistos. As Aglaia, she was also one of the Gratiae (Graces), although the identification is uncertain.
Charites
(Roman Gratiae)
Greek name for the Graces. Their numbers varied, although a basic trinity is commonly recognized: Aglaia (splendour), Euphrosine (cheerfulness or festivity), and Thaleia (rejoicing or blossom). The Romans knew them under the collective name of the Gratiae (qv). They were the attendants of Aphrodite or Venus, and personified grace and beauty.
Charon
In Greek mythology, the ferryman who transports the dead across the rivers Styx and Acheron to the underworld. A coin (obolus) was traditionally placed in the mouth of the deceased to pay Charon's fare. Son of Erebus and Nyx. He was depicted as an old and dishevelled man. Not strictly speaking a god, he can best be described as a demon of death. He later became the demon of death Charun in Etruscan religion and the angel of death Charos or Charontas in modern Greek folklore who rides a black death searching for the newly dead.
Charontes
Etruscan demons of death. The name is derived from the Greek Charon.
Charun
Etruscan demon of the underworld, similar to the Greek Charon.
Chasca
Inca personification of planet Venus, servant of the sun.
Chasca Coyllur
Inca god of flowers and protector of maidens.
Chattrosnisa
Indian Buddhist god, one of the eight usnisa deities.
Chaturmaharajas
(Caturmaharajas)
In Buddhism, the four great kings of the four quarters of the world. Vaisravana guards the North, Virupaksa the West, Virdhaka the South, and Dhrtarashtra the East.
Chaturmurti
(Caturmurti)
Hindu god: a form of Vishnu.
Chaya
"Shadow". Hindu goddess: a reflection of the goddess Sanjna. She was the consort of Surya and the mother of Sani.
Cheiron
(Chiron)
Originally a Thessalian god of healing, he survived in Greek mythology as a wise centaur. Son of Kronos and Philyra. He was the teacher of many heroes including Achilles, and also taught Asklepios the art of healing. Herakles accidentally wounded him with a poison arrow and, although immortal, he renounced his immortality in favour of Prometheus. He became the constellation Sagittarius.
Chemosh
Moabite war god. Equivalent to the Babylonian Shamash.
Cheng-huang
(Ch'eng Huang)
Chinese earth gods connected with specific localities; guardian deities of cities, walls and ditches.
Chen Jen
Chinese Taoist spiritual beings.
Chenkalaniyammal
(Cenkalaniyammal)
Goddess of the paddyfields among the Tamils (Hindi-Dravidian) in southern India.
Chensit
Egyptian goddess of the twentieth nome of Lower Egypt.
Chenti-cheti
(Greek Chentechtai)
Originally an Egyptian crocodile god, he later took on the form of a falcon.
Chenti-irti
(Machenti-irti)
Egyptian falcon-god of law and order, identified with Horus.
Chepre
(Chepri)
Egyptian primeval scarab-god connected with the rising sun. He was identified first with Atum, later with Re.
Chernobog
(Czarnobog, Czerneboch, Cernobog)
Slavic "Black God", opposite to Bylebog.
Cherruve
Spirits of shooting stars of Araucanian people of South America.
Cherti
Egyptian ram-god and ferryman od the dead. His cult was centered on Letopolis.
Chia
Moon goddess of the Muisca (Chibcha) people of Colombia. In the Musca creation legend, she is said to have caused the deluge that flooded the world.
Chibchachum
South American local god made to hold up the earth.
Chibirias
Mayan earth goddess and mother of the Bacabs, the gods of the four cardinal directions.
Chiccan
Mayan (Chorti, eastern Guatemala) rain gods. They are four in number, associated with the four cardinal directions. They are believed to generate the rain clouds from the deep lakes in which they reside.
Chicomecohuatl
(Chicomecoatl)
Aztec maize goddess of the Middle Culture period. Her festival was in September, when a young girl representing the goddess was sacrificed. She was decapitated, her blood collected and poured on a figurine of the goddess, and finally her corpse was flayed and the skin worn by a priest.
Chicomexochtli
Aztec god of painters.
Chiconahui
Aztec hearth goddess and guardian of the household.
Chiconahuiehecatl
Minor Aztec creator god.
Chih-Nii
Chinese goddess of spinners.
Chih Nu
Chinese star goddess.
Chih Sung-Tzu
Chinese lord of the rain.
Chih-Yu
Chinese divine inventor of war and weapons. He was depicted as ox- headed.
Chikara
Sky god of the Korekore people of northern Zimbabwe. His son is Nosenga.
Child of the Water
Navaho/Apache hero-god.
Chimata-No-Kami
Japanese god of crossroads.
Chiminagagua
Creator god of the Chibcha people of Colombia.
Chingichnich
Creator deity of California peoples.
Chinnamastaka
(Chinnamasta)
Hindu goddess of terrifying aspect. She is portrayed holding her head in one hand. She is a form of the goddess Durga, and one of the ten mahavidyas.
Ch'in-Shu-Pao
Chinese guardian god.
Chiron
See Cheiron.
Chiquinau
Niquiran (Nicaagua) god of the air.
Chi Sung Tzu
Chinese rain god.
Chitra (Citra)
Hindu goddess of misfortune. She was the daughter of Daksha and the consort of Chandra (Soma).
Chittavishta
(Cittavista)
Indian Buddhist goddess, one of the twelve vashitas.
Chiuke
(Chuku)
Ibo (Nigeria) sky god and creator god. Regarded as the source of all that is god.
Chiuta
Supreme sky god of the Tumbuka in Malawi. He is responsible for the life-giving rains.
Chloris
(Meliboea)
Greek goddess of flowers. Her Roman equivalent was the goddess Flora.
Chnubis
Roman syncretic god with Greek and Egyptian associations, portrayed as a snake with a lion's head.
Chnum
(Chnumu)
Egyptian ram god and protector of the source of the Nile. Depicted in human form with a ram's head. He was said to fashion children out of clay and then place them in the mother's womb.
Chonchonyi
Repulsive Araucanian (Chile) god of nightmares and demon who preyed on invalids.
Chons
Egyptian moon god, son of Amun and Mut. He is usually depicted as a young man in the posture of a mummy.
Chontamenti
(Chonti-amentiu)
Egyptian god of the dead and of the land of the west, represented as a crouching dog or jackal.
Chors
God of the eastern Slavs, probably a sun god. He was depicted with a dog's head and horns.
Chronos
See Kronos.
Chroshtag
Gnostic divinity sent by the Mother of Life to rescue her son 'The Spirit' or 'Primal Man'.
Chuchaviva
Chibcha rainbow god.
Chu Jung
Chinese god of fire.
Chu Lung
Chinese day/night deity.
Chung K'uei
Chinese Taoist god of the afterlife. Also a god of exorcism.
Chung-li Ch'uan
Chinese Taoist Immortal.
Chuvalete
Morning Star of Cora of Central America.
Chwezi
Hero gods of the Nyoro of North Uganda.
Cihuacoatl
Aztec chthonic creator goddess. Known as "Serpent Woman". She fashioned the first humans of this era out of the ground bones of the people of the previous era mixed with the blood of the old gods who committed self-sacrifice so that the new age could begin. She was the mother of Mixcoatl.
Cinteotl
(Centeotl)
Aztec maize god. Son of Tlazolteotl, husband of Xochiquetzal. Appears to have been a maize goddess at an earlier time.
Cinxia
Roman goddess of marriage.
Cipactli
Aztec primordial sea-monster.
Cit-Bolon-Tum
Maya medicine-god.
Citipati
Buddhist graveyard demons.
Citlalatonac
Aztec creator god, consort of Citlalicue. Together they created the stars.
Citlalicue
Aztec creator goddess, who, with her consort Citlalatonac, created the stars.
Ciuacoatl
Aztec earth goddess.
Ciuateoteo
Aztec underworld spirits.
Cizin
Maya Yucatec) god of death. Said to burn the souls of the dead in the Yucatec otherworld, Metnal.
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