Guide to the Gods 1.0
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Qadesh
See Qetesh.
Qamaits
Great goddess of Bella Coola.
Qandisa
Female demon of Morocco.
Qat
See Quat.
Qaynan
Pre-Islamic god of south Arabia.
Qebhsnuf
(Qebehsenuf)
Egyptian son of Horus, Canopic guardian of the viscera after mummification. He was represented as a mummified man with the head of a falcon.
Qetesh
Originally a Syrian goddess, Qetesh came to be worshipped in Egypt as a goddess of love. She was considered to be one of the forms of Hathor.
Qiqirn
Eskimo spirit in shape of huge dog.
Qormusta
(Chormusta)
High god of Mongols.
Quades
Western Semitic fertility goddess.
Quamta
The supreme deity of the Xhosa, a Bantu-speaking people of the Transkei in South Africa. He was worshipped at mounds of stone to which one stone is added by each worshipper.
Quat
(Qat)
Creator god and trickster god of the Banks Islanders of Melanesia.
Quetzalcoatl
"Feathered Serpent", or "Plumed Serpent". Aztec wind god, originally a Toltec culture hero. He was also a creator god and a heroic figure in Aztec legend. According to one tradition he descended to the Aztec underworld, Mictlan, gathered the bones of the human beings of previous epochs and, on returning to the surface, fashioned the humans of the new age by sprinkling his own blood on the bones. His main cult centre was at Teotihuacan. The emperor Moctezuma mistook the Spanish conquistador Cortez for Quetzalcoatl because of a coincidence between the appearance of Cortez and a prophecy regarding the return of Quetzalcoatl.
Quilla
(Mama-Kilya)
Inca moon-goddess.
Quirinus
Roman god of war, similar to Mars, but later identified with the deified Romulus. He formed part of a triad with the other war gods Jupiter and Mars. His consort was Hora. He seems to have originated as a Sabine god whose centre of worship was the Sabine settlement on the Quirinal, later one of the seven hills of Rome. His festival, the Quirinalia, was observed on February 17. He was depicted as bearded and wearing clothing that was partly military and partly clerical. The myrtle was his sacred plant.
Quiritis
Sabine protective deity of motherhood.
Quzah
Ancient Arabian god of storms and thunder.
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