Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Huraaan" | Mayan / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Guatemalan highlands | Creator god. Having created the world, he fashioned the first humans from pieces of maize dough. The counterpart of the Yucatec HUNAB KU.... |
God name "Hurakan" | Nicaragua | God of storms, thunder and hurricanes. Nicaragua |
God name "Huvi" | Ovimbundu / central Angola, West Africa | God of hunting. All meat is kept in front of his shrines, which are decorated with poles capped by skulls. He is propitiated by dance and offerings, presided over by a priesthood.... |
God name "Huvi Ovimbundu" | Africa | God of hunting Africa(west) |
God name "IS KUR" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Iraq | storm god. The chief Rain and thunder god of herdsmen, Iskur is described as the brother of the Sun god UTU. In creation mythology Iskur is given charge over the winds, the so-called silver lock of the heart of heaven, by the god ENKI. According to some authors, in prehistoric times he was perceived as a bull or as a lion whose roar is the thunder. He may be depicted as a warrior riding across the skies in a chariot, dispensing Raindrops and hailstones. In one text he is identified as the son of AN and twin brother of Enki. He is to be compared with NINURTA who was primarily a god of farmers. He was also adopted by the Hittites as a storm god.... |
Deities name "Iku-Ikasuchi-No-Kami" | Japan | God of thunder, the most significant of the eight thunder deities, Japan / Shinto |
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.... |
Supreme god name "Ilat" | Kenya | Means "thunder." In Suk it means Rain, and is the name of the Rain-god, as in Elgeyo. But some Suk say that Ilat is the supreme god. Kenya |
God name "Illapa or Illapa" | Inca | God of lightning, thunder and Rain storms. Inca |
God name "Illapa/ Illyapa/ Katoyalla" | Inca | He is the god of lightning, thunder & Rain storms |
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.... |
Goddess name "Immap Ukua" | Inuit / eastern Greenland | Sea goddess. The mother of all sea creatures and invoked by fishermen and seal-hunters. See also SEDNA.... |
God name "Imyapa" | Inca / pre - Columbian South America / Peru, etc | weather god. Also perceived as a thunder god, he became syncretized with Santiago, the patron saint of Spain. The Indians called Spanish firearms Ilyapa. Also Inti-Ilyapa; Coqi-Ilya; Illapa; Katoylla.... |
Goddess name "Inara" | Hurrian | The daughter of the storm-god Teshub or Tarhunt and the goddess of the wild animals of the steppe. Hurrian |
God name "Indra" | Hindu | A god of Rain, storms, thunder & clouds |
God name "Indra" | Hindu | The king of the gods and ruler of the heavens, the god of thunder and Rain and a great warrior who symbolises courage and strength. His mount is an elephant called Airavata and he has a golden chariot drawn by ten thousand horses. Hindu |
Goddess name "Ishtar" | Assyrian / Babylon | A mother goddess, fertility goddess, the goddess of spring, a storm goddess, a warrior goddess and goddess of war, a goddess of the hunt, a goddess of love, goddess of marriage and childbirth, and a goddess of fate. She was also an underworld deity, her twin sister being Ereshkigal, the Goddess of death, but her dominant aspects are as the mother goddess of compåśśion and the goddess of love, sex and war. Assyrian / Babylon |
God name "Iskur" | Mesopotamia | Chief Rain and thunder god Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Iraq |