Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Gramadevata" | India | Generic term for a local tutelary deity. Such deities are identified as not being served by Brahman priests. Most are goddesses e.g. CAMUNDA, DURGA and KALI. Generally they are invoked in small villages where they guard boundaries and fields and are represented by a painted stone, but they are also to be found in larger towns and cities.... |
"Guamaonocon" | Antilles | The supreme being. Antilles |
Deity name "Guhyasamaja" | Buddhist | Treatise on the Sum Total of Mysteries. Protective deity. Buddhist |
God name "Gur-Gyi Mgon-Po" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | God of tents. A form of MAHAKALA usually attended by a man. Color: blue. Attributes: club, cup and knife.... |
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.... |
"Haliartus" | Greek | A son of Thersander, and grandson of Sisyphus, founded the town of Haliartus in Boeotia. He is further said to have been adopted with Coronus by Athamas |
Nymph name "Hamadryad" | Greek | A wood-nymph. Each tree has its own wood-nymph, who dies when the tree dies. Greek |
Spirit name "Hamadryades" | Greek / Roman | Tree spirits whose existence is restricted to the tree that the guard when it dies they die |
Spirit name "Hamadryades" | Greco - Roman | Animistic tree spirits. Vaguely defined female beings whose existence is restricted to the individual trees of which they are guardians.... |
Nymph name "Hamadryads" | Roman / Greek | nymphs of trees supposed to live in Forest-trees, and die when the tree dies. The nymphs of fruit-trees were called Melides or Hamamelids. Roman / Greek |
Nymph name "Hamadryas" | Greek | A daughter of Oreios who was the mother of eight Hamadryad nymphs by her brother Oxylus |
Goddess name "Hamavehae" | Roman | Trinity of mother goddesses Roman / Rhineland |
Goddess name "Hamavehae" | Roman / Celtic / Rhineland | Mother goddesses. A trio of matres known from inscriptions.... |
Goddess name "Hanuman (with large jaws)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Monkey god. Hanuman attends RAMA, one of the incarnations of VISINU, and personifies the ideal and faithful servant. He is the son of PAVANA, the god of winds, and is noted for his speed and agility in which context he is often worshiped by young men and athletes. He leads a mythical Forest army of monkeys, and is depicted as a monkey with a long tail. He takes a major role in the Ramayana epic searching for, and rescuing, the goddess SITA who has been captured by the demon Ravana. He may appear trampling on the goddess of Lanka [Sri Lanka]. Worshiped particularly in southern India but more generally in villages. Color: red. Attributes: bow, club, mane, rock and staff. May appear five-headed.... |
God name "Hara-Yama-Tsu-Mi" | Japan / Shinto | God of mountains concerned with the wooded mountain slopes. Japan / Shinto |
God name "Hara-Yama-Tsu-Mi" | Shinto / Japan | mountain god. Particularly the deity of wooded mountain slopes.... |
God name "Haronga" | Maori | A sky god and the father of Ra the Sun and Marama the moon. Maori |
Goddess name "Haumea" | Hawaii | A goddess of fertility and childbirth. With Kane Milohai, she is the mother of Pele, Ka-moho-ali'i, Namaka, Pere, Kapo and Hi'iaka. She was a powerful sorceress and gave birth to many creatures; some after turning herself into a young woman to marry her children and grandchildren. She was finally killed by Kaulu. Hawaii |