Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Glipzo" | Discworld | The Howondalandish tribe of this Goddess believed that their ancestors resided in the moon. After a signal from their ancestors they were urged to kill anyone who didn't believe in Glipzo. Three years later the tribe was destroyed by a rock falling out of the sky, as a result of a star exploding a billion years before. Discworld |
God name "Gou Mang & Ru Shu" | China | These are the messengers of the sky god |
God name "Gou Mang and Ru Shu" | China | Messengers of the sky god China |
God name "Great Father" | Celtic | The Horned God, The Lord. Lord of the Winter, harvest, land of the dead, the sky, animals, mountains, lust, powers of destruction, regeneration. Represents the male principle of creation. Celtic |
God name "Gukumatz" | Mayan / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Guatemalan highlands | sky god. The son of the creator gods E QUAHOLOM and E ALOM, and equating to the feathered serpent god of Aztec religion, QUETZALCOATL.... |
God name "Ha'o" | Ethiopia | The supreme being and sky god whose eye is the Sun. Ethiopia |
God name "Habuiri" | West Indies | A creator and sky god who make plants grow. West Indies |
God name "Hadad" | Syria | A god of storms, thunder and lightning, he also worked part-time as a sky and Sun god and a protecter of the harvest. Syria |
Goddess name "Haka" | Polynesia | The goddess who, along with her husband Tetoo, created the sky and the earth. Polynesia |
God name "Hala" | Guinea | The sky god of the Kisi. Guinea |
God name "Halakwulup" | Tierra del Fuego | A sky god whose eyes are the Sun and the moon. Tierra del Fuego |
Spirit name "Hamendiju" | India | The Great sky spirit who watches over the people to see that no harm came to them. |
Deities name "Hanui-o-Rangi (fatber of winds)" | Polynesian | God of winds and weather. He is the son of the sky god RANGINUI, who fathered him on one of his early consorts, Pokoharua, the sister of TANGAROA, the sea god. All the subsequent descendants of Hanui-o-Rangi are believed to rule over various aspects of the weather. Hanui thus fathered Tawhiri, the god of the northwest wind, whose son was Tiu. They control the fierce storms from the east. The children of Tiu include Hine-I-Tapapauta and Hine-Tu-Whenua, the deities overseeing the more gentle westerly winds. Hine-Tu-Whenua is the mother of Hakona-Tipu and Pua-I-Taha, controlling the southern and southwesterly gales.... |
God name "Harakhti" | Egypt | A form of the god HORUS. The aspect of the god who rises at dawn in the eastern sky. According to Pyramid Texts, the king is born on the eastern horizon as Harakhti, which contradicts the more commonly held belief that the king is the son of RE, the Sun god.... |
God name "Haronga" | Maori | A sky god and the father of Ra the Sun and Marama the moon. Maori |
God name "Hastehogan" | Navaho / USA | Chief house god. Also a god of farming identified with the west and the sky at Sunset. Regarded as a benevolent deity who aids mankind and cures disease. Believed to live in a cave system near San Juan. He also has a malevolent aspect in which he can cast evil spells. His priest wears a blue mask, at the bottom of which is a horizontal yellow band representing evening light, with eight vertical black strokes representing Rain. It is decorated with eagle and owl feathers.... |
God name "Hastseyalti" | Navaho | Talking God, God of the dawn and the eastern sky. Navaho |
God name "Hastseyalti (talking elder)" | Navaho / USA | Chief of gods. Not regarded as a creator deity, but god of the dawn and the eastern sky. Also guardian of animals in the hunt and, possibly, of corn. Regarded as a benevolent deity who aids mankind and cures disease. He also has a malevolent aspect in which he can cast evil spells. His priest invokes him in a ceremonial dance wearing a white mask with a symbol consisting of a corn stalk with two ears. At the bottom is a horizontal yellow band representing evening light, with eight vertical black strokes representing Rain. Also Yebitsai.... |