Guide to the Gods 1.0
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Clementia
Roman goddess of mercy and clemency.
Clio
(Cleio, Klio)
Greek Muse of historical and heroic poetry. Daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Mother of Hyacinth by Pierus, king of Macedonia. Often depicted with a trumpet and the clepsydra (water clock). She could also be depicted with a writing implement, as she was credited with introducing the Phoenician alphabet into Greece. Other attributes included a wreath of laurel and a parchment scroll.
Cliodhna
Irish goddess of beauty. Later a fairy queen in the area of Carraig Cliodhna in County Cork.
Clitunno
Roman river god.
Cloacina
Roman goddess of sewers.
Clota
Celtic goddess of the river Clyde.
Clotho
(Klotho)
"The spinner". One of the three Greek Fates (Moirae) along with Atropos and Lachesis. Daughter of Zeus and Themis. She presided over birth and drew the thread of life from her distaff.
Coatlicue
Aztec goddess of earth and fire, and mother of the gods. She was also a serpent goddess, depicted wearing a skirt of snakes. She was the mother of the stars of the southern sky and of the goddess Coyolxauhqui. Later she was magically impregnated by a ball of feathers. Her outraged children decapitated her, but the god Huitzilopochtli emerged fully armed from his mother's womb and slew many of his brothers and sisters. She represented the type of the devouring mother in whom were combined both the womb and the grave.
Coca-Mama
Peruvian goddess of the coca plant.
Cochimetl (Cocochimetl)
Aztec god of merchants and commerce.
Cocidius
Hunting deity of Celtic North Britain. Equated with the Roman Silvanus.
Cocijo
Zapotec (Mexico) rain god.
Coeus
Greek Titan.
Col
Nuer (Sudan) rain god.
Colel Cab
Mayan earth goddess.
Colo-Colo
Araucanian (Chile) malevolent deity.
Colop U Uichkin
Mayan sky god.
Con
(Coniraya)
Peruvian creator god.
Concordia
Roman goddess of harmony and peace.
Condatis
River god of Celtic Britain.
Confucius
Chinese philosopher who came to be worshipped as a deity not long after his death in 174 BC.
Consentes Dii
The twelve chief Roman deities: Jupiter, Apollo, Neptune, Mars, Mercury, Vulcan, Juno, Diana, Minerva, Venus, Ceres and Vesta.
Consus
Roman god of good counsel. His feast days were August 21 and December 15. He had a temple in the Circus Maximus.
Contrebis
Local god in the area of Lancaster in Celto-Roman Britain.
Copacati
Inca lake goddess whose worship was centered on Tiahuanaco near Lake Titicaca.
Copia
"Abundance". The Roman goddess of wealth and plenty. She was the handmaiden of Fortuna and carried the cornucopia.
Coqui-Xee
Mixtec creator-god.
Corb
Irish (Celtic) god; one of the Fomors.
Coronis
Greek nymph, mother of Asclepius by Apollo.
Corus
Roman god representing the north or north-west wind.
Cotys
(Cotytto)
Thracian goddess whose worship was marked by orgiastic rites. She was later accepted into Greece, notably at Corinth and Athens. She was represented either as a huntress goddess similar to Artemis or a mother goddess along the lines of Cybele.
Couretes
Greek: sons of the Dactyls, concealed birth of Zeus from Cronus.
Coventina
Goddess of water and springs in Celtic Britain. Known locally in the area of Carrawburgh (Roman Brocolitia) along Hadrian's Wall.
Coyolxauhqui
"Golden Bells". Aztec moon goddess. Coyolxaihqui decapitated her mother Coatlicue when the latter became pregnant in what her children deemed unseemly circumstances. However, her half brother Huitzilopochtli sprang fully armed from the wonb of Coatlicue and slew Coyolxauhqui along with many of her kin. According to one tradition, Huitzilopochtli cut off Coyolxauhqui's head and threw it into the heavens where it became the moon.
Coyote
A prominent trickster figure among many North American peoples, who also figured as a creator or demiurge in many North American creation myths.
Cozaana and Huichaana
Mixtec creator gods.
Cratos
(Cratus)
See Kratos.
Creiddylad
(Cordelia)
Celtic (Welsh) goddess, daughter of Llyr. She later appeared in Shakespeare's King Lear as the king's daughter Cordelia.
Crius
Greek Titan.
Cronos
See Kronos.
Crow
Tlingit creator-bird.
Culsu
Etruscan demoness who guards the entrance to the underworld.
Cum Hau
Mayan god of death.
Cunda
(Candra, Cunti)
Female deity in Buddhism, an emanation of the Buddha Vajrasattva. A goddess of literature, she is often portrayed with a book in her hand.
Cunina
Roman goddess of infants.
Cupara
Creator god of Jivaro people of the Andes.
Cupid
Roman god of love, identified with the Greek Eros. Son of Venus and Mars, or Venus and Mercury, or Diana and Mercury. Also Amor.
Curche
Prussian god of fertility and agricultural abundance.
Curupira
Guardian spirit of Brazilian spirits.
Cybele
See Kybele.
Cyhiraeth
Celtic goddess of streams. Later entered folklore as a spectre haunting woodland streams. Her shriek was said to foretell death.
Cyrene
(Kyrene)
A Thessalian nymph carried off by Apollo to the north African region which was named Cyrenaica after her.
Czarnobog
See Chernobog.
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