Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Dhruva (immovable)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Astral god. The son of Uttanapada, a star in the constellation of Ursa Minor which was the pole star in the last millennium BC. An avatara of V IS NU. Also one of a group of Vasu deities answering to the god INDRA. In different context, the description of a kind of fixed icon. Attributes: prayer wheel, rosary, spear and water jar.... |
Goddess name "Djila'qons" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | Sea goddess. An old woman who lives at the head of a major inlet in Haida territory and controls all the creatures of the sea.... |
God name "Ekadasaruda" | Hindu | Collective name for the group of gods (11) they are forms of the god Rudra Hindu |
God name "Ekadasarudra" | Hindu | Collective name for a group of gods. The eleven forms of the god RUDRA, each typically represented with sixteen arms. Common attributes include ax, moon disc and tiger skin.... |
God name "Enbilulu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | River god. In creation mythology he is placed in charge of the sacred rivers Tigris and Euphrates by the god ENKI. He is also god of canals, irrigation and farming. In Babylonian times he becomes the son of EA and is syncretized with ADAD.... |
"Ephialtes" | Greek | One of the Aloeidae. When Iphimedeia and her daughter, Pancratis, celebrated the orgies of Dionysus on Mount Drius, they were carried off by Thracian pirates to Naxos or Strongyle; but both were delivered by the Aloadae Otus and Ephialtes. Greek |
Spirit name "Fada" | France | A fee or kobold of the south of France, sometimes called "Hada." These house-spirits, of which, strictly speaking, there are but three, bring good luck in their right hand and ill luck in their left. |
Angel name "Germael" | Greek | The angel sent by God to create Adam from dust. moon lore |
God name "Glooscap" | Canada | The god of righteousness who made the plains, food plants, animals and humans. Canada |
Goddess name "Habondia/ Abondia/ Abunciada/ Habonde" | Britain | A goddess of abundance & prosperity |
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 "Hadad" | Western Semitic / Syrian / Phoenician | weather god. Derived from the Akkadian deity ADAD. In texts found at the site of the ancient Canaanite capital of Ugarit [Ras Samra] , the name of Hadad apparently becomes a substitute for that of BAAL. His voice is described as roaring from the clouds and his weapon is the thunderbolt. His mother is the goddess ASERAH. During Hellenic times he was predominantly worshiped at Ptolemais and Hierapolis. His Syrian consort is ATARGATIS, who overshadowed him in local popularity at Hierapolis. Statues of the two deities were carried in procession to the sea twice yearly. According to the Jewish writer Josephus, Hadad also enjoyed a major cult following at Damascus in the eighth and ninth centuries BC. By the third century BC the Hadad-Atargatis cult had extended to Egypt, when he becomes identified as the god SUTEKH. In the Greek tradition his consort becomes HERA.See also ADAD.... |
God name "Hadad/ El" | Canaan / Semite | The god of lightning, thunder & storms |
Goddess name "Hadakai" | India | Goddess of health and Rabies India |
God name "Haili'laj" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | Plague god. Particularly åśśociated with smallpox. Believed to be so terrible that he is not even propitiated with food. He sails in a canoe of pestilence with huge sails like those of the white man's ships which brought plague to the Indians.... |
God name "Hani(s)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor god. The attendant of ADAD and linked with SULLAT.... |
God name "Hanis" | Sumerian | A small-time god who, along with Sullat will escort Adad when he brings the flood. Sumerian |
"Hara (destroyer)" | Hindu / Puranic | Epithet of SI IVA. Also one of the EKADASARUDRAS (eleven rudras).... |