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Rupert Furneaux also linked "White gods" to the ancient city of Tiahuanaco. [7]Colonel A. Braghine in his 1940 book The Shadow of Atlantis claimed that the Carib people have reports and legends of a white bearded man whom they called Tamu or Zune who had come from the East, taught the people agriculture and later disappeared in an "easterly direction". [8]
The following list of art deities is arranged by continent with names of mythological figures and deities associated with the arts. Art deities are a form of religious iconography incorporated into artistic compositions by many religions as a dedication to their respective gods and goddesses. The various artworks are used throughout history as ...
Heibai Wuchang in the Shao opera "The White Ape Saves His Mother" (白猿救母). One day, the White Guard was on patrol when he saw a woman and two children crying in front of a grave. He asked what happened. The woman was the daughter of a wealthy merchant, who owned four shops. She was born with smallpox, which affected her physical ...
Consequently, he considers Helmold's Chernobog to be a pseudo-deity, [32] which has been misidentified by modern scholars as a deity due to Helmold's calque of black god and white god into Latin as niger deus and bonus deus which suggests that Slavic bog used in these terms = Latin deus, [30] and personal names *Čŕ̥nobogъ "devil" and ...
Coeus, Titan of the inquisitive mind, his name meaning "query" or "questioning". He is the grandfather of Apollo. Metis, the Titan associated most closely with wisdom and the mother of Athena, whose name in Ancient Greek described a combination of wisdom and cunning. [12] [13]
Similar accounts by Spanish chroniclers (e.g. Juan de Betanzos) describe Viracocha as a "white god", often with a beard. [25] The whiteness of Viracocha is however not mentioned in the native authentic legends of the Incas and most modern scholars therefore had considered the "white god" story to be a post-conquest Spanish invention. [26]
Bear god / goddess; A132.9. Cattle god / goddess; A161.2. King of the Gods; A177.1. Gods as Dupe or Tricksters; A192. Death or departure of the gods; A193. Gods of Dying-and-rising; A200—A299. Gods of the Upper World A210. Gods of the Sky; A220. Gods of the Sun; A240. Gods of the Moon; A250. Gods of the Stars; A260. Gods of Light; A270. Gods ...
Īxpoztequeh, god who lived in one of nine layers of the underworld. Iixpuzteque was Nexoxochi's husband. Tzontēmōc, god who lived in one of nine layers of the underworld. Tzontemoc was Chalmeccacihuatl's husband. Xolotl, god of death who is associated with Venus and the Evening Star. He is the twin god and a double of Quetzalcoatl.