| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Iasus 2" | Greek | A son of Argus and Evadne, a daughter of Strymon, or a son of Peitho, the father of Agenor, and father of Argus Panoptes. |
| God name "Ida Ten" | Japan | Young god who protects monasteries and is rather quick Japan |
| God name "Ida-Ten" | Japan | Buddhist god of law and monasteries. Japan |
| Demon name "Idlirvirisong" | Inuit | demonic cousin of the Sun Inuit |
| God name "Iku-Turso" | Finland | A malevolent sea monster and a god of war. Finland |
| Demon name "Illujanka" | Hittite | Hittite snake demon. |
| Demon name "Immat" | Kafir / Afghanistan | demonic god. A deity to whom sacrifices were addressed in the Ashkun villages of southwestern Kafiristan. Legend has it that Immat carries off twenty virgin daughters every year. A festival includes blood sacrifice and dances by twenty carefully selected young priestesses.... |
| Demon name "Imp" | Greek | A puny demon or spirit of mischief. |
| Demon name "Imps" | Discworld | Imps are tiny demons that perform minor tasks rapidly. A number of Discworld labour-saving devices exist which function by trapping small imps. The most notable is the iconograph, but others include watches, food processors, razors and personal organisers. The imps in these devices seem not to mind their jobs, although they get sarcastic if overworked or asked to do things outside their purview. Discworld |
| God name "Indra" | Mongolia | The god of the Sun and of light, åśśociated with the east. Mongolia |
| Goddess name "Indrani" | Hindu | The goddess of wrath and jealousy, and a daughter of Puloman, a demon who was killed by Indrani's future husband, Indra. She is beautiful and has one-thousand eyes. She is åśśociated with lions and elephants. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Indrani" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Goddess of wrath. Daughter of Puloman, a demonic figure killed by the god INDRA, and the SAKTI and consort of Indra. One of seven MATARAS (mothers) who in later Hinduism became regarded as of evil intent. Also one of a group of eight ASTAMATARAS personifying jealousy (also named Aindri in this capacity). In another grouping one of nine NAVASAKTIS or astral deities who, in southern India, rank higher than the SAPTAMATARAS. Her attendant animal is either an elephant or a lion. Attributes: hook, rosary, Santana flower, staff and waterjar. One thousand-eyed. Also Aindri; Mahendri; Paulomi; Saci; Sujata.... |
"Inkosazana" | Africa | Who came out on the same day that men came out of the earth. She is not commonly seen. We hear it said the primitive men knew her. No one existing at the present time ever saw her. She is said to be a very little animal, as large as a polecat, and is marked with little white and black stripes; on one side there grows a bed of reeds, a Forest, and gråśś;97 the other side is that of a man. Such is her form. South Africa |
"Inous" | Greek | That is, the son of Ino, a name given to Melicertes and Palaemon. Greek |
| Demon name "Ipet" | Egypt | She was originally the demon-wife of Apep, the original god of evil. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Iphigeneia" | Greek | According to the most common tradition, a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra but, according to others, a daughter of Theseus and Helena, and brought up by Clytaemnestra only as a foster-child. Agamemnon had once killed a stag in the grove of Artemis, or had boasted that the goddess herself could not hit better, or, according to another story, in the year in which Iphigeneia was born, he had vowed to sacrifice the most beautiful thing which that year might produce, but had afterwards neglected to fulfil his vow.Greek |
| Goddess name "Is'ara" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian / / western Semitic | Goddess of marriage and childbirth. Also a deity concerned with the enforcing of oaths. Known chiefly from early inscriptions and some Akkadian texts. Her Mesopotamian cult center was the Babylonian town of Kisurra, but she is also thought to have been worshiped across a wide area among Syrians, Canaanites and Hittites. Her symbol is the scorpion. Also Es ara.... |
| Goddess name "Isi" | India | Goddess moderating the whole world, giving laws to heaven, earth, and Ocean, as the common parent both of gods and men, and as the productive cause both of corn and trees. India |
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