| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Deities name "Canola" | Ireland | One of the oldest of the Irish deities, invented the harp from the sinews of a gutted whale. Ireland |
| Goddess name "Carmentes" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. Responsible for bringing the newborn child into the light. Usually åśśociated with LUCINA and CANDELIFERA.... |
| God name "Cernunnos aka Cernowain" | Pan-Celtic | Cernenus, Herne The Hunter, Hu Gadarn, Belatucadros, Vitiris. The Horned God, God of nature, God of the underworld. The Druids knew him as Hu Gadarn, the Horned God of Fertility. Pan-Celtic |
| Goddess name "Chirakan Ixmucane" | Mayan | One of the new goddess formed by the four gods who made the world. Mayan |
| Goddess name "Cinei-new" | Siberia / Chukchee | A sea goddess and wife of Peruten, god of the sea. Siberia / Chukchee |
| Goddess name "Deverra" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. A guardian of newborn children. Symbolized by a broom used to sweep away evil influences.... |
| God name "Dryops" | Greek | A son of the river-god Spercheius, by the Danaid Polydora or, according to others, a son of Lycaon (probably a mistake for Apollo) by Dia, the daughter of Lycaon, who concealed her new-born infant in a hollow oak tree. |
| Hero name "Evangelos" | Greek | The bearer of good news. Under this name the shepherd Pixodarus had a sanctuary at Ephesus where he enjoyed heroic honours, because he had found a quarry of beautiful marble, of which the Ephesians built a temple. Greek |
| God name "Faro" | Bambara / Mali, West Africa | River god. Regarded as the deity who brought order to the world at the time of creation. He impregnated himself and gave birth to twins who were the first human beings. He is also the progenitor of fish stocks in the river Niger. His chief adversary is the god of the desert wind, TELIKO. Faro is propitiated annually by a Komo society of men in a ritual of dancing. They use a special mask which is created anew each year. According to legend Faro came to earth after a long period of drought during which most of the living things died. He also gave mankind the gift of speech.... |
| God name "Gainji" | New Guinea | Creator god of the Papuan Keraki people. New Guinea. |
| God name "God of the Gaps" | Creationism | The god who made everything that cannot yet be explained scientifically. Shrinks in power with each new scientific advance. Creationism |
| Goddess name "Gungu" | Aryan | Goddess of the new moon who is invoked to place the fetus in the womb. Aryan |
| God name "Haepuru" | New Zealand | A god of the heavens and part of a trinity who, along with Roiho and Roake fashioned the first human female. New Zealand |
"Hainuwele" | Indonesia | 'The Coconut Girl' who, when she "answered the call of nature"; excreted valuable items. She was killed and buried by villagers but her boyfriend exhumed the corpse and cut it into pieces which he then re-buried around the village. These pieces grew into the various tuberous plants, giving origin to the principle foods the people of Indonesia have enjoyed ever since. Seram, New Guinea |
"Hanoona Wilapona" | Mexico | The Sun-father of the Zuni Indians. New Mexico |
| God name "Harisu" | New Guinea | The benevolent and invisible great god who is the source of all good. New Guinea |
| God name "Harmachis [Greek]" | Egypt | Form of the god HORUS. Harmachis is Horus as the Sun god. Inscriptions from the New kingdom (circa 1550-1000 BC) identify the sphinx at Giza as Harmachis looking toward the eastern horizon. Also Har-em-akhet (Egyptian).... |
| God name "Hatdastsisi" | Navaho / USA | God. A benevolent deity, he cures disease through the medium of his priest, who flagellates the affected parts. His home is believed to be near Tsegihi in New Mexico. Sacrifices to Hatdastsisi are made up from reeds decorated with a design representing the blue yucca plant, which is buried in the earth to the east of the tribal lodge. His priest wears a buckskin mask decorated with owl feathers, and a spruce collar, but otherwise ordinary Navaho dress with white buckskin leggings.... |
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