Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Ishkur" | Mesopotamia | God of the storm and Rain. Mesopotamia |
God name "Isimud" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Messenger god. Readily identified by possessing two faces looking in opposite directions, Isimud is the messenger of the god ENKI. Also Isinu; Usumu (Akkadian).... |
God name "Isinu" | Mesopotamian | A two-faced god who carried messages for Enki. Mesopotamian |
God name "Iskur" | Mesopotamia | Chief Rain and thunder god Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Iraq |
God name "Ismud" | Mesopotamia | Dual-faced messenger god. Mesopotamia |
Goddess name "Istar" | Akkadia | Goddess of fertility and war known as the star of heaven Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia |
Goddess name "Istar/ Estar" | Mesopotamia / Babylon / Akkadia | A goddess of fertility & war known as the star of heaven |
God name "Istaran" | Mesopotamia | Tutelary god of the city of Der Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
God name "Isthmus" | Greek | The god worshipped on the Isthmus (of Corinth), a surname of Poseidon, in honour of whom the Isthmian games were celebrated. Greek |
God name "Isum" | Akkadia | Minor god, possibly a god of fire Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia |
God name "Istaran" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Local god. The tutelary god of the city of Der, east of the river Tigris in northern Babylonia. Also GUSILIM.... |
God name "Isum" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Minor god. The brother of SAMAS', the Sun god, and an attendant of the plague god ERRA. He may have been a god of fire and, according to texts, led the gods in war as a herald but was nonetheless generally regarded as benevolent. Known particularly from the Babylonian legend of Erra and Isum. Also ENDURSAGA.... |
God name "Ithomatas" | Greek | A surname of Zeus, derived from the Messenian hill of Ithome, where the god had a sanctuary, and where an annual festival, the Ithomaea was celebrated in his honour. Greek |
God name "Ithome" | Greek | A nymph from whom the Messenian hill of Ithome derived its name. According to a Messenian tradition, Ithome and Neda, from whom a small river of the country derived its name, were said to have nursed Zeus, and to have bathed the infant god in the well Clepsydra. Greek |
Spirit name "Itonde" | Mongo / Nkundo / central Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa | God of death. He consumes rats as food and is also the god of hunters in the dark jungle Forests. Described in the Epic of Lianja as the first man to die whose spirit reincarnated at the instant of death, into his son LIANJA. He possesses a bell with magical properties, the elefo, by which he predicts where death will strike.... |
God name "Itzam Cab" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic earth god. The earth aspect of the creator god ITZAM NA. He is also a god of fire, and hearthstones are called head of Itzam Cab. Sticks of firewood are his thighs, flames his tongue and the pot resting on the fire his liver. In his vegetation aspect he is depicted with leaves of maize sprouting from his head.... |
Goddess name "Itzcuintli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Goddess of hearths. A guardian deity of the home personified by fire. One of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
Goddess name "Itzpapalotl (obsidian butterfly)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor mother goddess. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex. Also recognized as a fire goddess.... |