| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Helle" | Greek | Goddess of the sea Greek |
| Goddess name "Hemera" | Greek | The light of the terrestrial regions as Aether is the light of the heavenly regions. The Protogenos and the female personification of day. Both were the offspring of Erebus and Nyx. Hemera was closely identified with Hera, the wife of Zeus, and Eos the goddess of the morning red, who brings up the light of day from the east. Greek |
| Goddess name "Hera/ Here" | Greek | A goddess of childbirth, marriage, motherhood, of the sky, & storms |
| Goddess name "Hermaphroditos" | Greek | God (Goddess) of uncertain status. The offspring of HERMES and APHRODITE and the lover of the water nymph Salmakis. Tradition has it that their påśśion for one another was so great that they merged into a single androgynous being.... |
| Goddess name "Hermraphroditos" | Greek | A god that it became one with a goddess & is now of uncertain status |
| Goddess name "Hesperides" | Greek | These goddesses of evenings and the golden light of Sunset were the famous guardians of the golden apples which Ge had given to Hera at her marriage with Zeus. Their names are Aegle, Erytheia, Hestia, and Arethusa, but their descent is not the same in the different traditions; sometimes they are called the daughters of night or Erebus (Theogony of Hesiod 215), sometimes of Phorcys and Ceto, sometimes of Atlas and Hesperis, whence their names Atlantides or Hesperides, and sometimes of Hesperus, or of Zeus and Themis Greek |
| Goddess name "Hesperos" | Greek | The goddess of evening |
| Goddess name "Hestia" | Greek | The goddess of the hearth, or rather the fire burning on the hearth, was regarded as one of the twelve great gods, and accordingly as a daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Greek |
| Goddess name "Horae" | Greek | Horai, originally the personifications or goddesses of the order of nature and of the seasons, but in later times they were regarded as the goddesses of order in general and of justice. In Homer, who neither mentions their parents nor their number, they are the Olympian divinities of the weather and the ministers of Zeus; and in this capacity they guard the doors of Olympus, and promote the fertility of the earth, by the various kinds of weather they send down. Greek |
| Goddess name "Horae/ Horai" | Greek | The goddesses of order & the seasons, all three of them |
| Goddess name "Hosia" | Greek | Goddess of holy rituals Greek |
| Goddess name "Hours" | Egypt | underworld goddesses. The twelve daughters of the Sun god RE. They act in concert against the adversaries of Re and control the destiny of human beings in terms of each person's life span, reflecting the supremacy of order and time over chaos. The Hours are sometimes represented on the walls of royal tombs in anthropomorphic form with a five-pointed star above the head. Also Horae (Greek).... |
| Goddess name "Hyeios" | Greek | God of sleep. One of the sons of the goddess of the night NYX and the brother of THANATOS.... |
| Goddess name "Hygeia" | Roman / Greek | Goddess of health and the daughter of ?sculapios. Her symbol was a serpent drinking from a cup in her hand. Roman / Greek |
| Goddess name "Hygieia" | Greek | Goddess of health. The daughter of ASKLEPIOS, the physician god of healing. Hygieia was also a remedial drink made from wheat, oil and honey. She is depicted as Hygieia-Salus in a marble group sculpture in the Vatican, with Asclepius (the Roman god of healing) and the snake, which she is touching.... |
| Goddess name "Hymenaeus" | Greek | This poor god is the goddess of marriage |
| Goddess name "Hyperopia" | Discworld | The Goddess of Shoes. She has a small following that gathers in the Temple of Small Gods and worships the Sacred Lace of Hyperopia. Named after the technical term for long-sightedness, and it is possible that she is inspired by the Greek goddess Nike, and the shoes named after her. Discworld |
| Goddess name "Iambe" | Greek | Daughter of Pan and Echo, and a slave of Metaneira, the wife of Hippothoon. Others call her a slave of Celeus. The extravagant hilarity displayed at the festivals of Demeter in Attica was traced to her for it is said that when Demeter, in her wanderings in search of her daughter, arrived in Attica, Iambe cheered the mournful goddess by her jokes. Greek |
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