| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Eleos" | Greek | Goddess of peace and mercy Greek |
| Goddess name "Eos" | Greek | In Latin Aurora, the goddess of the morning red, who brings up the light of day from the east. She was a daughter of Hyperion and Theia or Euryphåśśa, and a sister of Helios and Selene. Greek |
| Goddess name "Eos" | Hellenized Indo - European | sky goddess. The spirit of the dawn. She is the daughter of HYPERION and THEA, and the sister of HELIOS (sun) and SELENE (moon). The consort of AEOLOS, the storm god son of POSEIDON, she bore six children who represent the various winds. Hesiod accounts her as the consort of Astraeos. In separate tradition she is the mother of Memnon who was slain at Troy, and her tears are the morning dew. See also AURORA.... |
| Goddess name "Eostre" | Celtic | A Goddess of animal reproduction. Easter is derived from her name. Celtic |
| Goddess name "Eostre" | Anglo - Saxon | Fertility goddess of spring. The derivation of Easter. Probably a number of the obscure folk customs surrounding Easter and still practiced in England trace back to her worship.... |
| God name "Euros" | Greco - Roman | God of the east winds. One of the sons of EOS. Particularly known from Sparta and later Romanized as Eurus.... |
| God name "Ganaskidi (humpback)" | Navaho / USA | God of harvests, plenty and of mists. He is said to live at Depehahatil, a canyon with many ruined cliff dwellings north of San Juan. According to tradition he is the apotheosis of a bighorn sheep. His priest wears a blue mask with no hair fringe but with a spruce crown and collar. He has a black bag on his back, filled out with a twig frame, that appears as a deformity, and he carries a staff.... |
| Goddess name "Harmonia" | Greco - Roman | Goddess of joining. Daughter of ARES (MARS) and APHRODITE (VENUS) or Cytherea. The consort of Cadmus and mother of Ino, SEMELE, Agave, Autonoe and Polydorus. She is the apotheosis of harmony in life which is also displayed in musical euphony. Also Hermione.... |
| God name "Hebe" | Greek | The personification of youth, is described as a daughter of Zeus and Hera ( Apollodorus i), and is, according to the Iliad IV, the minister of the gods, who fills their cups with nectar; she åśśists Hera in putting the horses to her chariot and she bathes and dresses her brother Ares. She was married to Heracles after his apotheosis. Greek |
| Goddess name "Hemera" | Greek | The light of the terrestrial regions as Aether is the light of the heavenly regions. The Protogenos and the female personification of day. Both were the offspring of Erebus and Nyx. Hemera was closely identified with Hera, the wife of Zeus, and Eos the goddess of the morning red, who brings up the light of day from the east. Greek |
"Hesperus" | Greek | The evening-star, is called by Hesiod a son of Astraeus and Eos, and was regarded, even by the ancients, as the same as the morning star, whence both Homer and Hesiod call him the bringer of light. Diodorus calls him a son of Atlas, who was fond of astronomy, and once, after having ascended Mount Atlas to observe the stars, he disappeared. Greek |
| God name "Himavan/ Himivat" | Hindu | A mountain god, the apotheosis of the Himalayan mountains |
| Deity name "Houushin-O-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Astral deity. The apotheosis of the little bear, Ursa Minor.... |
| Spirit name "Huaca" | Inca / pre - Columbian South America / Peru, etc | spirit being. The apotheosis of a natural object such as a rock or a place of local importance such as a spring. It is uncertain whether the principle is one of animism (when a deity takes on different natural shapes at will) or anImatism (when an object is a supernatural being in its own right).... |
| 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 "Hunapu" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. According to the sacred text Popol Vub, the son of HUN HUNAPU and the twin brother of Ix Balan Ku. Tradition has it that, like his father, he was decapitated in a historic struggle with the underworld gods and subsequently became the Sun god, while his sibling is the apotheosis of the moon.... |
"Hyperion" | Greek | A Titan, a son of Uråñuś and Ge, and married to his sister Theia, or Euryphaessa, by whom he became the father of Helios, Selene, and Eos. Greek |
"Ilazki" | Basque | Apotheosis of the moon in a feminine form Basque |
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