Thor. Scandinavian god of thunder and war.

Thoth. Egyptian god of learning. Kept records of dead. Also messenger god = Hermes. Hermetic Texts.

Thugs. Indian religious sect suppressed by British. Killed travellers to offer to goddess Kali.

Titans. 12 giant children of Uranus and Gaea. Overthrown by Zeus, other gods.

Tiw. One-handed Germanic god of war.

Torah. 5-2C BC God’s revealed teaching to Jews. Pentateuch (First 5 chapters of Old Testament). Oral Torah=Hebrew bible.

Trinity. Christian doctrine that God has single essence in 3 divine persons: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

Triton. Greek merman demigod.

Tyche. Greek goddess of chance. =Fortuna.

Unitarianism. 1546. Christian doctrine of Socinus denying Trinity. God is one indivisible force. Biddle.

Val-de-Grace. Paris. 1645-1667. Built by Anne of Austria to thank God for birth of Louis XIV after 23 childless years of marriage. Mansart.

Venus. Roman goddess of love and beauty. =Aphrodite.

Vestal Virgins. Chaste Roman guardians of Temple to Vesta, goddess of the hearth.

Vienna Circle. 1920s Intellectual meetings. Formulated Logical Positivism. Schlick. Gödel.

Vishnu. Hindu god. Preserver of world and moral order.

Vries, Hugo de. 1848-1935. Dutch botanist. Heredity and mutation. Mutation Theory 1910.

Vulcan. Roman god of destruction, fire, weapons. = Hephaestos.

Wendover, Roger of. English historian. Flores Historiarum 1235 recorded Godiva’s ride.

William II. (Wilhelm). 1859-1941. German Emperor 1888-1918. Dismissed Bismarck. Sought world leadership. Precipitated WWI. Abdicated. -“I rule by God’s grace”.

Yahweh. Name of God, revealed to Moses as YHWH...Jehovah.

Zeus. Greek king of gods. = Jupiter.