| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Demon name "Imps" | Discworld | Imps are tiny demons that perform minor tasks rapidly. A number of Discworld labour-saving devices exist which function by trapping small imps. The most notable is the iconograph, but others include watches, food processors, razors and personal organisers. The imps in these devices seem not to mind their jobs, although they get sarcastic if overworked or asked to do things outside their purview. Discworld |
| God name "Inapirikuri" | Venezuela | The primordial god who drew mankind from the ground and gave them their moral precepts. Venezuela |
"Incubus" | Roman | A nightmare, anything that weighs heavily on the mind. At one time supposed to consort with women an their sleep. Roman |
| God name "Intal (gods their father)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of fire. Associated with paternalism and one of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Intonsus" | Greek | I. e. unshorn, a surname of Apollo and Bacchus, alluding to the eternal youth of these gods, as the Greek youths allowed their hair to grow until they attained the age of manhood, though in the case of Apollo it may also allude to his being the god of the Sun, whence the long floating hair would indicate the rays of the Sun. Greek |
| Goddess name "Irene aka Eirene" | Greek | Goddess of peace and of spring. Greek |
| Monster name "Isiququmadevu" | Zulu | A swallowing monster who killed Untombinde and who then went on to the chief's kraal, swallowed up all the inhabitants, with their dogs and their cattle, as well as all the people in the surrounding country. Zulu |
| 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.... |
| King name "Ixion" | Greek | A son of Phlegyas or, according to others, a son of Antion by Perimela, of Pasion, or of Ares. According to the common tradition, his mother was Dia, a daughter of Deioneus. He was king of the Lapithae or Phlegyes, and the father of Peirithous. He was bound to a revolving wheel of fire in the Infernal regions, for his impious presumption in trying to imitate the thunder of heaven. Greek |
| God name "Ixpuztec aka Mictlantecuhtl" | Aztec | broken face, underworld god on their way to whom the dead people's skin would be ripped off by a wind of knives and would eventually live as skeletons. Aztec |
| Goddess name "Ixtab" | Mayan | Goddess of suicide and wife of Chamer. Ixtab, depicted as a corpse with a rope around her neck, would accompany the suicides to their eternal rest Mayan |
| Hero name "Jason" | Greek | I.e. the healer or atoner, a name which the hero was said to have received from Cheiron, his instructor, having before been called Diomedes. The chief exploits of this hero are related in the article Argonautae, and we therefore confine ourselves now to his personal history. Greek |
| King name "Jinn" | Arabian | A sort of fairies in Arabian mythology, the offspring of fire. They propagate their species like human beings, and are governed by a race of kings named Suleyman, one of whom built the pyramids. Their chief abode is the mountain Kaf, and they appear to men under the forms of serpents, dogs, cats, monsters, or even human beings, and become invisible at pleasure. The evil jinn are hideously ugly, but the good are exquisitely beautiful. According to fable, they were created from fire two thousand years before Adam was made of earth. The singular of jinn is jinnee. |
"Kabeiroi" | Greek | Cabeiri, mystic divinities who occur in various parts of the ancient world. |
| Deities name "Kabeiroi" | Greek | Blacksmith gods. According to tradition the sons or grandsons of the blacksmith god HEPHAISTOS. The cult was centered particularly on Lemnos, where there was an Etruscan tradition until circa 500 BC, and at Thebes. The Kabeiroi are thought to derive from pre-Greek Asian fertility deities in Anatolia [Turkey].... |
| Deities name "Kalki(n) (with white horse)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | horse god. Possibly the tenth avatara of VIS'NU. He rewards the good and punishes evil. The counterpart of the Buddhist deity MAITREYA. horses became åśśociated with Divine kingship in ancient India because of their speed of movement. Solar deities were perceived to ride horses across the sky and horse sacrifice became highly significant. Kalki is depicted either anthropomorphically or with the head of a horse and has four arms. He is attended by a white horse. Attributes: arrow, conch, prayer wheel, shield and sword. Also Vis'nuyasas.... |
| Goddess name "Kam,enae/ Camenae" | Italy | Goddesses unbowed of springs & wells with a shrine in Rome where of the of vestal virgins got their water |
| Goddess name "Kamenae" | Italy | Goddesses unbowed of springs and wells with a shrine in Rome where of the of vestal virgins got their water Italy |
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