| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Hermensul or Ermensul" | Christian | A Saxon deity, worshipped in Westphalia. Charlemagne broke the idol, and converted its temple into a Christian church. Probably it was a war-god. |
| God name "Hiisi" | Pre - Christian Karelian / Finland | Tree god. Said to reside in pine Forests. After Christianization he was degraded to a troll.... |
| God name "Hiisi Karelin" | Finland | A pre-Christian tree god that of course was demoted to mean devil, but in the eight minor sense |
| God name "Hittavainen" | Pre - Christian Karelian / Finnish | Hunting god. Guardian deity of hare-hunters.... |
| God name "Hogfather" | Europian | The Discworld's version of Father Christmas or Santa Claus. He wears a red, fur-lined cloak, and rides a sleigh pulled by four wild boars, Gouger, Rooter, Tusker and Snouter. In earlier times he gave households pork products, and naughty children a bag of bloody bones. Earlier than that, he was a Winter god of the death-and-renewal kind. The modern version is a jolly toymaker, with vestiges of the earlier myths (such as his Castle of Bones, a vast palace of ice which has nothing notably bony about it, except for the suggestion of a protruding femur or scapula here and there) still clinging to him. |
| God name "Hunab Ku" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The greatest deity in the pantheon, no image is created of Hunab Ku since he is considered to be without form. His son is the iguana god, ITZAM NA, and he may have become the Mayan counterpart of the Christian god.... |
"Iblis" | Islamic | The Islamic version of the Jewish / Christian devil |
| Angel name "Ikal Ahau" | Maya | A chthonic death god, that strangely enough, is considered to inhabit Christian church towers in Mexico |
| God name "Ikal Ahau" | Mayan / Tzotzil, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic god of death. Perceived as a diminutive figure who lives in a cave by day but wanders at night attacking people and eating raw human flesh. He is also considered to inhabit Christian church towers in Mexico and is probably personified by vampire bats.... |
| God name "Immarinen" | Pre - Christian Finnish | sky god. A weather god who places the stars in the sky. Also a guardian deity of travelers and a smith-god who educated man in the use of iron and forging.... |
| Goddess name "Inlti (sun)" | Inca / pre - Columbian South America / Peru, etc | Sun god. His consort is the moon goddess MAMA-KILYA. Inti was depicted as a trinity in the sanctuaries in Cuzco, possibly in deference to the Christian Trinity. The Temple of the Sun is reported to have housed images, in gold, of all the sky gods in the Inca pantheon on more or less equal terms, since the Sun is regarded as one of many great celestial powers. Inti may also have been depicted as a face on a gold disc. The socalled fields of the Sun supported the Inca priesthood. The three Sun deities are Apo-Inti (lord Sun), Cori-Inti (son Sun) and Inti-Wawqi (sun brother). The Sun god(s) is perceived as the progenitor of the Inca rulers at Cuzco through two childrena son Manco Capac and his sister / consort Mama Ocllo Huaco. The Quechua Indians of the central Andes call the same deity Inti Huayna Capac and perceive him as part of a trinity with the Christian god and Christ.... |
| God name "Inmar" | Votyak / Finno - Ugric | sky god(dess). The name became incorporated into Christian tradition and interpreted as the mother of God.... |
| Goddess name "Inmar Votyak" | Finnish / Ugric | A sky goddess that was taken over by the Christians and called of the Mother of God |
| Angel name "Irmiongot" | Germanic | This possibly Irmin, found in The Hildebrandslied, strangely the poem shows Christian influence |
| God name "Isten" | Pre - Christian Hungarian | Creator god. According to tradition, his sacred animal, the eagle, guided the Hungarian people to their homeland. Other attributes include arrow, horse phallus and tree.... |
| God name "Jagaubis" | Pre - Christian Lithuanian | Fire god. Largely eclipsed by GABIJA.... |
| Angel name "Jazeriel" | Christians | angels of the Mansions of the moon. |
"Jehennam" | India | The Gehenna or Inferno of the Arabs. It consists of seven stages, one below the other. The first is allotted to atheists; the second to Manicheans; the third to the Brahmins of India; the fourth to the Jews; the fifth to Christians; the sixth to the Magians or Ghebers of Persia; and the seventh to hypocrites. The Koran |
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