Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Herophilus aka Herophile" | Greek | A daughter of Poseidon and Aphrodite and a sister of the Oceanide Rhode. The younger of the Erythraean Sibylla she prophesied that Helen would be the ruin of both Asia and Europe. Greek |
Goddess name "Hi'aika" | Hawaiian | Goddess. The daughter of HAUMEA and younger sister of PELE, the volcano goddess, Hi'aika is the mistress of the dance and especially of the hula. Separate traditions identify her with LAKA, the god of the hula and the son of KANE, the god of light; and with a goddess, Na Wahine, the daughter of the primordial creator principle KEAWE. The hula was designed to give a formalized structure to the enactment of myths and among the favorite topics is the romance between Pele and the hero Lohiau. According to mythology Hi'aika was entrusted with a mission to find Lohiau on Pele's behalf and to bring him back to her, a mission that subsequently enflamed the jealousy of Pele over her sister's developing relationship with Lohiau, and brought about his death in Pele's fiery lava.... |
Goddess name "Hi'iaka" | Hawaii | The patron goddess of Hawaiii and the hula dancers, and lived in a sacred grove where she spent her days dancing with the Forest spirits. |
"Hike aka Heka" | Egypt | The deification of magic, his name being the egyptian word for magic. Egypt |
Demon name "Hiranyakasipu" | India | demon who held the earth prisoner, under flood waters. India |
God name "Hu The Mighty" | Wales | Aka Hu Gadarn, Hugh Guairy. Father God of the Welsh who came to Wales and became part of the Welsh deluge myths. |
Spirit name "Huanacauri" | Inca / pre - Columbian South America / Peru, etc | Guardian spirit. The apotheosis of a special spindle-shaped stone sited near Cuzco which protected the Inca royal family and also featured strongly in the maturation rites of male Inca adolescents. Also Wanakawri.... |
God name "Huitzilopochtli aka Mexitli" | Aztec | The "blue hummingbird", god of war and the Sun as well as the patron god of the Aztec nation. |
Deity name "Hunab Ku aka Hun Itzamna" | Mayan | . The Supreme Being and the greatest deity in the pantheon. Mayan |
God name "Huracan/ Hurucan/ Hurakan/ Hurukan" | Quiche | A creator god that fashioned the first humans |
God name "Hurakan" | Nicaragua | God of storms, thunder and hurricanes. Nicaragua |
"Ibofanga" | Creek | Aka Hisagita-Imisi, Hisagitaimisi. The Master of breath, created the world and all other things. The Creek, Georgia |
Nymph name "Idothea aka Eidothea" | Greek | The nymph, a daughter of the aged Proteus, who instructed Menelaus, in the island of Pharos at the mouth of the river Aegyptus, in what manner he might secure her father and compel him to say in what way he should return home. Greek |
God name "Ihi aka Ehi" | Egypt | God of the sistrum. Egypt |
God name "Iju aka Ba-Chi" | Nigeria | The sky god who sends the fertilizing Rain. Nigeria |
Goddess name "Ilankaka" | Nkundo | Goddess of the Sun Nkundo |
Goddess name "Ilankaka" | Zaire | A goddess of war |
Goddess name "Ilankaka" | Zaire | Goddess of war Zaire |