Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Iku-Ikasuchi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of thunder. The most significant of the eight thunder deities which emerged from the corpse of IZANAMI after she was burned to death.... |
God name "Ilabrat" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor god. The attendant and minister of state of the chief sky god ANU.... |
Goddess name "Ilat" | Arabian | Allat. "The Goddess", a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess who was one of the three chief goddesses of Mecca who the pre-Islamic Meccans referred to as "The Daughters of God". |
Goddess name "Ilithyia" | Greek | A goddess of childbirth Eileithyia, Eilethyia, Eleuto |
Goddess name "Ilithyia Eileithyia" | Greek | Eilethyia, Eleuto, Goddess of childbirth. Greek |
God name "Imana Banyarwanda" | Africa | Chief god Africa(east) |
God name "Imhotep" | Egypt | The first architect and physician known by name in written history. Two thousand years after his death, his status was raised to that of a god. He became the god of Medicine and healing. He was linked to Asclepius by the Greeks. Egypt |
God name "Imra" | Hindu / Kush | The chief pre-Islamic god of the Hindukush Kafir people. He was worshipped as the god of creation. By his breath, Imra created other gods of Kafir pantheon. Frequent sacrifiices were made to Imra, sometimes for recovery from sickness, seasonable weather, or other material benefits, sometimes from motives of simple piety. Imra was more honored than the other gods at the religious dances. Hindu / Kush |
God name "In r" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Tutelary and weather god. The brother of GISH and father of DISANI and Pano. Probably derived from the more widely recognized Aryan god INDRA, Indr is known chiefly from the Waigal and Prasun areas of the southern Hindukush. It is generally åśśumed that he was ousted from major importance by the god IMRA. Indr is also a god of wine who owns substantial vineyards and is åśśociated in south Nuristan with wine rituals (the annals of Alexander the Great suggest that he met with winedrinking worshipers of DIONYSOSin the Hindukush). In the Ashkun region of southwestern Kafiristan, a famous vineyard near the village of Wamais is sacred to Indr. Also Inder.... |
God name "Infoniwoo" | Taiwanese | God of child-birth and generation. Taiwanese |
Goddess name "Inkosikasi" | Africa | A Chicken hypnotist and a beneficent sky goddess. The Zulu, South Africa |
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.... |
Goddess name "Intercidona" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. A guardian deity invoked to keep evil spirits away from the newborn child. Symbolized by a cleaver.... |
God name "Io/ Khio" | New Zealand | The chief god who appears to be known only to the nobility & the priests |
Goddess name "Iphigeneia" | Greek | According to the most common tradition, a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra but, according to others, a daughter of Theseus and Helena, and brought up by Clytaemnestra only as a foster-child. Agamemnon had once killed a stag in the grove of Artemis, or had boasted that the goddess herself could not hit better, or, according to another story, in the year in which Iphigeneia was born, he had vowed to sacrifice the most beautiful thing which that year might produce, but had afterwards neglected to fulfil his vow.Greek |
Goddess name "Is'ara" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian / / western Semitic | Goddess of marriage and childbirth. Also a deity concerned with the enforcing of oaths. Known chiefly from early inscriptions and some Akkadian texts. Her Mesopotamian cult center was the Babylonian town of Kisurra, but she is also thought to have been worshiped across a wide area among Syrians, Canaanites and Hittites. Her symbol is the scorpion. Also Es ara.... |
Goddess name "Isara" | Semitic | Goddess of marriage and childbirth who dealt with the enforcement of oaths. Semitic |
God name "Ischys" | Greek | A son of Elatus, and the beloved of Coronis at the time when she was with child (Asclepius) by Apollo. The god wishing to punish her faithlessness, caused Artemis to kill her, together with Ischys.Greek |