They bathed early, and those with means sacrificed a suckling pig, a traditional offering to an earth deity.

The earth deity had power over the ghostly world, and it is believed that she was the deity behind the oracle.

Below this, facing upwards, is a depiction of the earth deity Tlaltecuhtli, next to which are military equipment representing warfare.

The focus of these rituals was often crosses, or rather, 'cross shrines', and prayers were directed at rain and earth deities.

The Tu Di festival is held on the second day of the new year in honor of the Earth deity.

The local religion is one of ancestor-worship, worship of Ala the "earth deity", and seasonal agricultural festivals.

The mother-creator is a female earth deity, It Bunoo (also Itbu-moo).

Significantly, this name, when referred to in a certain tone or written with capital letters, designates the earth deity of Fremen hearth superstitions.

Coatlicue thus has creative aspects, which may balance the skulls, hearts, hands, and claws that connect her to the earth deity Tlaltecuhtli.

It is not clear why the Chinese, having their own Earth deity can easily accept the Dato into their religious pantheon.

Dato Haji Keramat is a very powerful local earth deity that help many people who sincerely pray for him.

(A shrine either to the Jade Emperor at eye level the door or the earth deity, below the door.)

The earth deity Ala is appeased through Ogbom ceremony, which makes children plentiful and increases the harvest.

These pairs are seen as the dual aspects of the male Earth deity, one ruling the waxing year, the other ruling the waning year.

The pregnancy of Coatlicue, the maternal Earth deity, made her other children embarrassed, including her oldest daughter Coyolxauhqui.

In mythology, the earth deity Geb, original ruler of Egypt, invested Horus with the rule over Lower Egypt.

Traditional Dagaaba communities are based on the "Yir" subclan or household group, a series of which are clustered into the "Tengan", an earth deity shrine area.

Chukwu then ordered him to cut off his first son's and daughter's heads and plant them, creating a 'blood bond' between the Igbo and the earth deity, Ana.

Sun Wukong hears from an Earth Deity that the dragon was placed there by Guanyin so he goes to find the bodhisattva and learns of the dragon's origin.

His name combines the distinctive knotted headdress of God N with that aged earth deity's turtle shell and k'an ("yellow/precious") marking; altogether it is probably read as itzamk'anahk.

In Mexico the modern day Pames, the Otomi, Tepehua, Totonac and Nahua peoples are reported to worship earth deities named after Moctezuma.

Jason, Perseus, Theseus, and above all Heracles, are all "liminal" figures, poised on the threshold between the old world of shamans, chthonic earth deities, and the new Bronze Age Greek ways.

(iii) Among the Huaxtec Mayas, the Mams or Mamlabs are earth deities; there are three or four of them, the most important one (Muxi') being the violent originator of the rainy season.

Unlike several other figures in the complex of Aztec female earth deities connected with agricultural and sexual fecundity, Xochiquetzal is always depicted as an alluring and youthful woman, richly attired and symbolically associated with vegetation and in particular flowers.

Xbalanque is also the name given to the male protagonist in earlier variants of the Kekchi myth of Sun and Moon, where he is hunting for deer (a metaphor for making captives), and capturing the daughter of the Earth Deity.