| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Idliragijenget" | Inuit | Goddess of the sea. Inuit |
| God name "Igaluk" | Inuit | God of the moon Inuit |
| God name "Ignerssauk" | Inuit | God of the sea, generally benevolent Inuit |
| God name "Ignirtoq" | Inuit | A god of light and truth. Inuit |
| Deities name "Iguerssuak (great fire)" | Inuit / North American | Sea god. One of a group of generally benevolent deities. Numbers of Ignerssuak are thought to surround mariners and the entrance to their home is on the sea spéñïś.... |
| Goddess name "Immap Ukua" | Inuit | Goddess of the sea, mother to all of the sea creatures Inuit / Greenland |
| 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.... |
| Goddess name "Kattakju" | Innuit | Goddess of healing. Innuit |
| God name "Makawe" | New Zealand | The chief god of the Arawa, Ngatituwharetoa, and Whanganui tribes. New Zealand |
| Goddess name "Mallina" | Inuit | Goddess of the Sun Inuit |
| Goddess name "Maui" | Polynesian / Maori / New Zealand | Tutelary god. Not a creator god but one who åśśists mankind in various supernatural ways. According to tradition he was aborted at birth and cast into the sea by his mother, who thought he was dead. He was rescued entangled in seaweed. He is the deity who drew the islands of New Zealand from the floor of the ocean in a net. Maui caught the Sun and beat it into submission, making it travel more slowly across the sky so that the days became longer. He also brought fire from the underworld for mankind and tried, unsuccessfully, to harness immortality for him by entering the vulva of the underworld goddess HINE-NUI-TE-PO while she was asleep. She awoke and crushed him to death. Though a deity, he had been made vulnerable to death by a mistake during his rites of birth (see also Balder). Also Mawi.... |
| God name "Nanook/ Nanuq" | Inuit | The bear god |
| Goddess name "Nerrivik" | Inuit | Goddess of the sea Inuit |
| Goddess name "Nerrivik" | Inuit | Sea goddess. The mother of all sea creatures, invoked by fishermen and seal hunters.See also SEDNA.... |
| Goddess name "Nerrivik/ Sedena" | Inuit | The sea goddess |
| Goddess name "Nuliayoq" | Inuit | The queen of the deep who became a goddess of rivers and inlets. Inuit |
| Goddess name "Papatuanuku" | Polynesian / including Maori | Chthonic mother goddess. According to tradition she evolved spontaneously in the cosmic night personified by TE PO and became the apotheosis of papa, the earth. In other traditions she was engendered, with the sky god RANGINUI, by a primordial androgynous being, ATEA. Paptuanuku and Ranginui are regarded as the primal parents of the pantheon who, through a prolonged period of intercourse, produced at least ten major deities as their children. In Maori culture Papatuanuku, like all deities, is represented only by inconspicuous, slightly worked stones or pieces of wood and not by the large totems, which are depictions of ancestors.... |
| Goddess name "Pinga" | Inuit | A goddess of the hunt, fertility and Medicine. She was also the psychopomp, bringing souls of the newly-dead to Adlivun, the underworld. Inuit |
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