| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Giszida" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / BabylonianAkkadian | God. See Nin-giszida. See also NINGISZIDA.... |
| Demon name "Gnomes" | Pan-European | demonic beings who inhabit woods, mountains and water. Pan-European |
| God name "God of the Gaps" | Creationism | The god who made everything that cannot yet be explained scientifically. Shrinks in power with each new scientific advance. Creationism |
"Golgus" | Greek | A son of Adonis and Aphrodite, from whom the town of Golgi, in Cyprus, was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
| King name "Gorgophone" | Greek | A daughter of Perseus and Andromeda. Her name means "Gorgon Slayer", a tribute to her father who killed Medusa, the mortal Gorgon. Gorgophone is a central figure in the history of Sparta, having been married to two kings, Oebalus of Sparta (actually Lakonia, Sparta's region) and Perieres of Messenia, the region to the west of Lakonia which Sparta, in the late 8th or early 7th century B.C. enslaved. Greek |
| Goddess name "Guabonito" | Haiti | The sea goddess who teaches people about Medicines & health |
| Demon name "Gui Xian/ Gui" | China | These demonic beings are descended from people that had either drowned & / or committed suicide & could not be reincarnated |
| Goddess name "Gula (great one)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess of healing. Consort of NINURTA. Her animal is the dog. She may be synonymous with NIN'INSINA. Also mentioned in Hellenistic Babylonian times. A Gula temple is described at Uruk. Also NINTINUGGA.... |
"Gulveig [Gold-thirst]" | Norse | A personification of gold. Though pierced and thrice burnt, she yet lives. Norse |
"Gunnloed" | German | Teutonic earth Mother who looks after wisdom, creativity, fertility, health and protection. |
| Goddess name "Gunura" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | deity of uncertain status. Described variously as the husband of the goddess NIN'INSINA and the father of Damu (DUMUZI), but also as the sister of Damu.... |
| Demon name "Guta" | Hungary | demonic being who who beats his victims to death. Hungary |
"Gwyn fab Nudd" | Celtic | A Celtic soothsayer. Brittonic Arthurian legend |
| God name "Gwynn Ap Nudd" | Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic underworld god. Known locally from South Wales. The leader of the phantom hunt which chases a white stag. He equates with HERNE in England and ARAWN in more northern parts of Wales.... |
| God name "Gynaecothoenas" | Greek | the god feasted by Women, a surname of Ares at Tegea. In a war of the Tegeatans against the Lacedaemonian king Charillus, the women of Tegea made an attack upon the enemy from an ambuscade. This decided the victory. The women therefore celebrated the victory alone, and excluded the men from the sacrificial feast. Greek |
| God name "HERYSAF (he who is upon his lake)" | Egypt | Primeval deity åśśociated both with Osiris and Re. Herysaf is a ram god said to have emerged from the primeval ocean, possibly recreated in the form of a sacred lake at Hnes, the capital of Lower Egypt for a time at the beginning of the third millennium (during the First Intermediate Period). The god is depicted with a human torso and the head of a ram wearing the atef crown of Lower Egypt. Herysaf began as a local deity but took on national importance as the soul (ba) of RE, and of OSIRIS. Herysaf's sanctuary was enlarged by Rameses II and the god is said to have protected the life of the last Egyptian pharaoh when the Persian and later Macedonian dominations began. He eventually became syncretized with HERAKLES in Greco-Roman culture and Hnes became known as Herakleopolis ... |
"Haemon" | Greek | 1. A son of Pelasgus and father of Thessalus. The ancient name of Thessaly, viz. Haemonia, or Aemonia, was believed to have been derived from him. |
| God name "Hah" | Egypt | This is the god that was the bearer of heaven, a personification of infinity & eternity |
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