| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Horus-Harpocrates" | Greek / Roman | the god of quiet life and silence. Greek / Roman |
| 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).... |
| God name "Huehueteotl" | Aztec | An ancient god of the hearth, the fire of life. Associated with the pole star and the north, and serves as a skybearer. Aztec |
| Deities name "Hulluk Miyumko" | Miwok | The California Miwok name for the Pleiades. The Hulluk Miyumko were female deities who gave birth to "beautiful star chiefs". |
| God name "Hyagnis" | Phrygian | A Sun and fire god, also a god of lightning. Father of Marsyas, a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest of music and lost his hide and life. Phrygian |
| Planet name "Hylech" | Astrology | That planet, or point of the sky, which dominates at man's birth, and influences his whole life. Astrology |
"Iapis or Iapyx" | Greek | Was a son of Iasus, and a favourite of Apollo, who wanted to confer upon him the gift of prophecy and the lyre, but Iapis, wishing to prolong the life of his father, preferred the more tranquil art of healing to all the others. He also cured Aeneas of the wound he had received in the war against La- tinus. Greek |
| Spirit name "Iatiku and Nautsiti" | Acoma | Sisters who, when giving life to the snakes and fishes, accidentally created the evil spirit. Acoma. Native American |
| Spirit name "Iguanchi" | Peru | The benevolent and friendly chief spirit who directs all the important acts in the life of the Jivaro. Peru |
| Goddess name "Ih P'eu" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic fertility god. The deity concerned with the growth of plants, and consort of the bean goddess IX KANAN. He is also god of family life, property and other wealth. The couple are invoked as a single personality with the sacrificeof turkeys and chickens at sowing time. Ih Fen may be represented sowing maize seed.... |
| God name "Ika ere" | Polynesian | Fish god. The son of Punga and grandson of TANGAROA, the sea and creator god, he is revered in various regions of Polynesia as the progenitor of all life in the sea, especially fish. His brother is Tu-Te-Wanawana, the deity responsible for the well-being of lizards, snakes and other reptiles. When fierce storms arose at the time of creation under the control of TAWHIRIMATEA, the god of winds, mythology records that Tu-Te-Wanawana went inland to escape the devastation while Ikatere took to the safety of the sea. The incident became known as the schism of Tawhirimatea and has resulted in an eternal conflict between TANE(MAHUTA) the Forest god and Tangaroa, the sea god.... |
| Goddess name "Inanna" | Sumeria | A goddess of heaven, light, long life, the moon, & war |
| Goddess name "Inar (rice-grower)" | Shinto / Japan | God (Goddess) of foodstuffs. The popular name of a god(dess) worshiped under the generic title Miketsu-No-Kami in the Shi-Den sanctuary of the imperial palace, but rarely elsewhere. The deity displays gender changes, develops many personalities and is revered extensively in Japan. Inari is often depicted as a bearded man riding a white fox but, in pictures sold at temple offices, (s)he is generally shown as a woman with long flowing hair, carrying sheafs of rice and sometimes, again, riding the white fox. Inari sanctuaries are painted bright red, unlike most other Shinto temples. They are further characterized by rows of wooden portals which form tunnels leading to the sanctuary. Sculptures of foxes are prolific (an animal endowed, in Japanese tradition, with supernatural powers) and the shrines are decorated with a special device, the Hoju-No-Tama, in the shape of a pear surrounded by small flames. Often identified with the food goddess TOYO-UKE-BIME.... |
| Spirit name "Inuat" | Inuit | These are the spirit beings that reside with all living creatures & maintain the lamp of life |
| Supreme god name "Ipalnemohuani" | Aztec | 'he by whom the people live'. The supreme god and the giver of Life. Aztec |
| Goddess name "Ipet/ Ipi" | Egypt | She started life as a hippopotamus goddess |
| God name "Jacy" | Brazilian | moon god and the creator of plant life. Brazilian |
| Goddess name "Jagadhamba" | Hindu | She Who dances the dance of life. The goddess of the cosmic energy which motivates evolution. Hindu |
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