| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Hauhet" | Egypt | Primordial goddess. One of the eight deities of the OGDOAD, representing chaos, she is coupled with the god HEH and appears in anthropomorphic form but with the head of a snake. The pair epitomize the concept of infinity. She is also depicted greeting the rising Sun in the guise of a baboon.... |
| God name "Haukim" | SArabia | A local god thought to be concerned with arbitration & the law |
| God name "Haukim" | Pre - Islamic southern Arabian | Local god. Possibly a deity concerned with arbitration and the law.... |
| God name "Haukim and Anbay" | Arabic | Haukim and Anbay were oracular judge-gods and Divine administrerors of justice. Arabic |
| Goddess name "Haumea" | Hawaii | A goddess of fertility and childbirth. With Kane Milohai, she is the mother of Pele, Ka-moho-ali'i, Namaka, Pere, Kapo and Hi'iaka. She was a powerful sorceress and gave birth to many creatures; some after turning herself into a young woman to marry her children and grandchildren. She was finally killed by Kaulu. Hawaii |
| Goddess name "Haumea" | Hawaiian | Mother goddess. ] She is the daughter of PAPATUANUKU, the primordial earth mother, and is revered by many people of Polynesia and by the Maori of New Zealand. Her more notable children include PELE, the volcano goddess of Hawaii, and HI'AIKA, the goddess of the dance. As a deity responsible for birth, Haumea possesses a magical wand that she used at the time of creation to engender fruit trees and fish. From time to time she uses it to replenish stocks. Mythology also identifies her as a heroine who saved herself and her consort from enemies at the time of creation by hiding in a breadfruit tree and fending off the attackers with poisonous sap and wood splinters.... |
| God name "Haumia" | Maori | The god of wild or uncultivated foods. Haumia was a son of Rangi and Papa, and agreed to the forced separation of his parents. Because of this he was subjected to the fury of his brother Tawhirimatea, god of winds and storms, who would have killed him if their mother had not hidden him in her body. Maori |
| God name "Haumiatiketike" | Maori | vegetation god Polynesia / Maori |
| God name "Haumiatiketike" | Polynesian / including Maori | vegetation god. The deity concerned with wild plants gathered as food, and particularly with the rhizome of the bracken which has been traditionally relied on by the Maori in times of famine or need.... |
| God name "Haumiatiketike/ Haumia" | Polynesia / Maori | A vegetation God |
| God name "Haurun" | Canaan | Fiery earth god Canaan |
| God name "Haurun" | Western Semitic / Canaanite | Chthonic or earth god. Haurun was introduced to Egyptian religion probably by emigre workers who related him to the sculpture of the Sphinx at Giza. Haurun was known locally as a god of healing.... |
| Goddess name "Hi'aika" | Hawaiian | Goddess. The daughter of HAUMEA and younger sister of PELE, the volcano goddess, Hi'aika is the mistress of the dance and especially of the hula. Separate traditions identify her with LAKA, the god of the hula and the son of KANE, the god of light; and with a goddess, Na Wahine, the daughter of the primordial creator principle KEAWE. The hula was designed to give a formalized structure to the enactment of myths and among the favorite topics is the romance between Pele and the hero Lohiau. According to mythology Hi'aika was entrusted with a mission to find Lohiau on Pele's behalf and to bring him back to her, a mission that subsequently enflamed the jealousy of Pele over her sister's developing relationship with Lohiau, and brought about his death in Pele's fiery lava.... |
| God name "Hoki the Jokester" | Discworld | A nature god usually found haunting the deep woods of the Ramtops, in which he manifests himself as an oak tree or a flute playing half-man, half-goat figure. Thought of by many gods and people alike as a bloody nuisance and a bad practical joker, he was eventually banished from Dunmanifestin for pulling the old exploding mistletoe joke on Blind Io. Discworld |
| Demon name "Hun Hau" | Mayan | God of death and the Head of demons. Mayan |
| God name "Hunhau" | Mayan | Appears, sometimes with the head of an owl, sometimes as a dog. A god of the underworld and the land of the dead. Mayan |
| God name "Hunhau" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of death. One of the several lords of death listed in the codices who rule the underworld, Mictlan. Hunhau is generally depicted with canine attributes, or with the head of an owl.See also YUM CIMIL. Also God A.... |
| Angel name "Ikal Ahau" | Maya | A chthonic death god, that strangely enough, is considered to inhabit Christian church towers in Mexico |
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