| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| King name "Gwynn Ap Nudd" | Welsh | king of the fairies and the underworld. Welsh |
| 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.... |
| Deities name "Hachacyum (our very lord)" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The creator of the world åśśisted by three other deities, his consort and two brothers, one of whom is Sucunyum, his counterpart (or alter ego) in the underworld. Also Nohochacyum (our great lord).... |
| Goddess name "Hakea" | Polynesian, Hawaii | Goddess of the underworld. Her role was generally shared with the chthonic goddess Miru.... |
"Han" | India | The black of darkness who was banished to the underworld then became the nighttime. Plains Indians |
"Hapi" | Egypt | One of the Four sons of Horus depicted in funerary literature as protecting the throne of Osiris in the underworld. Hapi is depicted as a baboon-headed mummified human on funerary furniture and especially the canopic jars that held the organs of the deceased. Hapi's jar held the lungs. Hapi was also the protector of the North. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Hel" | Scandinavia | Goddess of death and the underworld. The Christian concept of "Hell" came from this goddess, however, her realm of the dead for those who were wicked was cold and dark, not fiery. Scandinavia |
| Goddess name "Hel" | Germanic / Nordic / Icelandic | Chthonic underworld goddess. The daughter of LOKI and the giantess Angrboda, and the sibling of both the Midgard worm who will cause the sea to flood the world with the lashings of his tail, and of Fenrir, the phantom wolf who will swallow the Sun, at Ragnarok. She is queen of the otherworld, also known as Hell, and she takes command of all who die, except for heroes slain in battle, who ascend to Valhalla. In some mythologies she is depicted as half black and half white. She was adopted into British mythology.... |
| Spirit name "Hemoana" | Tongans | In the beginning there was just the sea, and the spirit world. Tangaloa took the sky and Maui the underworld. Hemoana in the form of a sea snake, and Lupe, whose form was a dove, then divided the remainder between them, Hemoana taking the sea and Lupe taking the land. Tongans |
| Goddess name "Heret-Kau" | Egypt | underworld goddess of the old kingdom Egypt |
| Goddess name "Heret-Kau" | Egypt / Lower | underworld goddess. Very little is known of Heret-Kau. She was recognized chiefly in the Old kingdom (27th to 22nd centuries BC), apparently concerned with guardianship of the deceased in the afterlife and sometimes appearing as a figurine in attendance on ISIS in building foundations.... |
| God name "Herne" | Anglo-Saxon | underworld god and leader phantom hunt British / Anglo-Saxon |
| Deities name "Herne" | Celtic / British / or Anglo - Saxon | Chthonic underworld god. Known locally from windsor Great Park, Berkshire, England, he equates with the Welsh deities GWYNN AP NUDD and ARAWN and is, according to legend, the leader of the phantom hunt. Depicted with stag-like antlers.... |
| God name "Heros" | Thrace | underworld god who is also a horseman Thrace |
| God name "Heros" | Thracian | Chthonic underworld god. Depicted as a horseman. His image regularly appears on funerary stelae.... |
| Goddess name "Hetepes-Sekhus" | Egypt | underworld goddess Egypt |
| Goddess name "Hetepes-Sekhus" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld goddess. A minor deity accompanied by a retinue of crocodiles. As one of the manifestations of the vengeful eye of RE, she destroys the souls of the adversaries of the underworld ruler OSIRIS. Depicted as a cobra or anthropomorphically with a cobra's head.... |
| Goddess name "Hina" | Hawaii | A moon goddess and the mother of Maui, whom she once asked to slow down the Sun so days would last longer. A dual goddess, portrayed with two heads symbolizing day and night. She was a guardian of the underworld and patron of artisans and craftsmen. Hawaii |
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