| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Herse" | Greek | 1. The wife of Danaus and mother of Hippodice and Adiante. 2. A daughter of Cecrops and sister of Agraulos, Pandrosos, and Erysichthon. She was the beloved of Hermes, and the mother of Cephalus. Greek |
| 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 "Hine-Ahu-One" | Maori | Chthonic goddess Polynesia / Maori |
| Goddess name "Hine-Ahu-One (maiden formed of the earth)" | Polynesian / including Maori | Chthonic goddess. Engendered by the god TANE when he needed a consort because, with the exception of the primordial earth mother PAPATUANUKU, all the existing gods of creation were male. Tane created her out of the red earth and breathed life into her. She became the mother of HINE-ATA-UIRA.... |
| Goddess name "Hine-Nui-Te-Po (great woman of the night)" | Polynesian / including Maori | Chthonic underworld goddess. Originally she was HINE-ATAUIRA, the daughter of TANE and HINE-AHUONE, but she descended to rule over the underworld. She is depicted in human form but with eyes of jade, hair of seaweed and teeth like those of a predatory fish.... |
| God name "Ih P'en" | Mayan | Chthonioc fertility god, concerned with the growth of plants as well as family, property and other wealth Mayan |
| Goddess name "Ih P'eu" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic fertility god. The deity concerned with the growth of plants, and consort of the bean goddess IX KANAN. He is also god of family life, property and other wealth. The couple are invoked as a single personality with the sacrificeof turkeys and chickens at sowing time. Ih Fen may be represented sowing maize seed.... |
| 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.... |
| King name "Ilus" | Greek | 1. A son of Dardåñuś by Bateia, the daughter of Teucer. Ilus died without issue, and left his kingdom to his brother, Erichthonius. 2. A son of Tros, and grandson of Erichthonius. His mother was Calirrhoe, and being a great-grandson of Dardåñuś, he is called Dardanides.Greek |
| God name "Imiut" | Egypt | Minor chthonic protective god Egypt |
| Deities name "Imiut" | Egypt | Minor chthonic god. One of the attendant deities of the necropolis, he is linked with ANUBIS, and in pre-dynastic times was represented by a skin hung on a pole.... |
| God name "Isdes" | Egypt | Chthonic god of death Egypt |
| Deities name "Isdes" | Egypt | Chthonic god of death. Known from the Middle kingdom onward he is one of the minor deities concerned with the judgment of the dead. He became syncretized with ANUBIS.... |
| God name "Itzam Cab" | Mayan | Chthonic earth god as well as a god of fire Mayan |
| God name "Itzam Cab" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic earth god. The earth aspect of the creator god ITZAM NA. He is also a god of fire, and hearthstones are called head of Itzam Cab. Sticks of firewood are his thighs, flames his tongue and the pot resting on the fire his liver. In his vegetation aspect he is depicted with leaves of maize sprouting from his head.... |
| Goddess name "Kebechet" | Egypt | Chthonic snake goddess Egypt |
| Goddess name "Kebechet" | Egypt | Chthonic snake goddess. The daughter of ANUBIS who was involved in the cult of the dead as the deity responsible for libations. She is depicted as a serpent.... |
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