Dictionary Of God And Godedesses

Tzultacah 325fields and is capable of running very fast. He alsosits in his kaiak in the fog and catches seal in hugetraps.TuranGoddess of love. Etruscan. The tutelary deity ofVulci, she is depicted bearing wings and withattributes including a swan, a dove and a blossom.TurmsChthonic underworld god. Etruscan. Modeled onthe Greek messenger god HERMES, with caduceus(winged rod), winged shoes and cloak, he leadsthe souls of the dead toward the underworld.TutuGod. Mesopotamian (Babylonian-Akkadian). Thetutelary god of Borsippa, near Babylon, duringthe reign of Hammurabi in the old Babylonianperiod, but later superseded by NABU.Tvastar (carpenter)Creator god. Hindu (Vedic). The “divine builder”who fashions living creatures on earth. TheHindu equivalent of the Roman god VULCANUS.An ADITYA or sun god and the father of SARANYU.Attributes: homajakalika (an uncertain fire device),ladle and two lotuses. Also Tastar; Tvashtri;VISVAKARMAN.TycheGoddess of fortune. Greco-Roman. She appearsas a nereid in the Hymn to Demeter (Homer).According to Hesiod’s Theogony she is the daughterof OKEANOS. Elsewhere she is identified asthe daughter of ZEUS and HERA. She is depictedcarrying a rudder or, alternatively, cornucopiae.Also mentioned as Agathe Tyche, the consort ofAgathos Daemon. She became widely identifiedwith the Asian mother goddess KYBELE but wasreplaced, in Roman times, by the goddess FOR-TUNA and associated symbolically with a wheeldevice. She retained popularity for a long time.There is a record that the Emperor Julian sacrificedto Tyche at Antioch in AD 361-2 and hertemple was still intact during the reign of Theodosius(379-95).TyrSee TIWAZ.Tzontemoc (head-descending)Minor underworld god. Aztec (classicalMesoamerican) [Mexico]. One of the groupclassed as the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.Tzu Sun NiangniangMother goddess. Chinese. One of the “nine darkladies” of the pantheon who are regarded ashaving a protective role. She was the mortal wifeof a minor official and, having borne himfive sons and two daughters, committed suicidein order to ensure her future chastity. She isinvoked at weddings to provide children,especially sons, and special cakes are eaten bythe bride and groom. One of her more famoussanctuaries, on the island of Taiwan, is the YinYang Stone.Tzultacah (mountain valley)Chthonic and thunder gods. Mayan (classicalMesoamerican) [Mexico]. A group of deities whocombine the features of earth and rain gods.Although there are considered to be an indefinite