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An Earth god or Earth goddess is a deification of the Earth associated with a figure with chthonic or terrestrial attributes. There are many different Earth goddesses and gods in many different cultures mythology. However, Earth is usually portrayed as a goddess. Earth goddesses are often associated with the chthonic deities of the underworld. [1]
Jengu, Sawabantu and Duala water spirits. Nyambe, Bantu Supreme deity and god of the sun. Nzambi, Bakongo Sky Father and god of the sun. Nzambici, Bakongo Sky Mother and goddess of the moon and earth. Simbi, Bakongo nature spirits of the water and forest.
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The name of Erichthonius includes chthon which is not the underground kingdom of the dead, but the Homeric earth. [17] [18] [19] In ancient times the earth was considered a plane or a flat disk with a wide extent. [13] The earth-goddess can be identified with the nymph "Plataia" (broad one) in Plataea of Boeotia as the spouse of Zeus. [20]
Gods. Aker – A god of Earth and the horizon [ 3] Amun – A creator god, patron deity of the city of Thebes, and the preeminent deity in Egypt during the New Kingdom [ 4] Anhur – A god of war and hunting [ 5][ 6][ 7] Aten – Sun disk deity who became the focus of the monolatrous or monotheistic Atenist belief system in the reign of ...
Terra (mythology) Terra reclining with the Seasons, accompanied by Aion - Uranus within a zodiac wheel ( mosaic from Sentinum, AD 200–250, Glyptothek ). In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Tellus Mater or Terra Mater[ a] ("Mother Earth") is the personification of the Earth. Although Tellus and Terra are hardly distinguishable during the ...
Oceanus (Ὠκεανός), god of the Earth-encircling river Oceanus (the ocean), the fountain of all the Earth's freshwater; Potamoi (Ποταμοί), Gods of rivers and streams of the earth Some notable river gods include: Achelous, the god of the Achelous River, the largest river in Greece, who gave his daughter in marriage to Alcmaeon
In the Heliopolitan Ennead (a group of nine gods created in the beginning by the one god Atum or Ra), Geb is the husband of Nut, the sky or visible daytime and nightly firmament, the son of the earlier primordial elements Tefnut ( moisture) and Shu ("emptiness"), and the father to the four lesser gods of the system – Osiris, Seth, Isis and ...