| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Haumea" | Hawaiian | Mother goddess. ] She is the daughter of PAPATUANUKU, the primordial earth mother, and is revered by many people of Polynesia and by the Maori of New Zealand. Her more notable children include PELE, the volcano goddess of Hawaii, and HI'AIKA, the goddess of the dance. As a deity responsible for birth, Haumea possesses a magical wand that she used at the time of creation to engender fruit trees and fish. From time to time she uses it to replenish stocks. Mythology also identifies her as a heroine who saved herself and her consort from enemies at the time of creation by hiding in a breadfruit tree and fending off the attackers with poisonous sap and wood splinters.... |
| Goddess name "Hemsut" | Egypt | Goddess of fate and newborn babies Egypt |
| Goddess name "Hemsut/ Hemuset" | Egypt | A goddess of fate and newborn babies |
| God name "Hilal" | Arabic | God of the new moon. Arabic |
| God name "Hilal" | Pre - Islamic / Arabian | moon god. Specifically the deity of the new moon.... |
| Goddess name "Hintubuhet" | New Ireland Is / Melanesia | This goddess is a supreme being, however she is androgynous |
| God name "Hiovaki" | New Guinea | A sky god and the god. New Guinea |
| God name "Hogfather" | Europian | The Discworld's version of Father Christmas or Santa Claus. He wears a red, fur-lined cloak, and rides a sleigh pulled by four wild boars, Gouger, Rooter, Tusker and Snouter. In earlier times he gave households pork products, and naughty children a bag of bloody bones. Earlier than that, he was a Winter god of the death-and-renewal kind. The modern version is a jolly toymaker, with vestiges of the earlier myths (such as his Castle of Bones, a vast palace of ice which has nothing notably bony about it, except for the suggestion of a protruding femur or scapula here and there) still clinging to him. |
| Goddess name "Holle" | Germanic | Goddess of the newborn emerged from the underworld, where she also accepts the souls of the dead germanic |
| Demon name "Honoyeta" | New Guinea | An enormous snake demon who brought mortality to human beings. Papua New Guinea |
| Nymph name "Houri" | Koran | The large blackeyed damsels of Paradise, possessed of perpetual youth and beauty, whose virginity is renewable at pleasure. Every believer will have seventy-two of these houris in Paradise, and his intercourse with them will be fruitful or otherwise, according to his wish. If an offspring is desired, it will grow to full estate in an hour. (Persian, huri; Arabic, huriya, nymphs of Paradise. Koran |
"Hrim Thursar" | Norse | A new race begat by the only man and woman to survive the Great Flood. All Norse traced their descent to the Hrim Thursar, or "Hoar Frost." Scandinavian |
| King name "Huitzilopochtli" | Aztec | The Divine leader who rescued an ancestral people from his devastated island kingdom in the Atlantic Ocean, Aztlan. Arriving in the Valley of Mexico, they built a new capital to commemorate their lost city, when Tenochtitlan was constructed on a rocky island at the center of a man-made lake. Aztec |
"Hura-Te-Arangi" | Maori | Mother of the Snow, Frost, and Ice children. Maori, New Zealand |
| God name "Idun or Idunn" | Norse | Daughter of the dwarf Svald, and wife of Bragi. She kept in a box the golden apples which the gods tasted as often as they wished to renew their youth. Loki on one occasion stole the box and hid it in a wood; but the gods compelled him to restore it. Norse |
"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 |
| Goddess name "Intercidona" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. A guardian deity invoked to keep evil spirits away from the newborn child. Symbolized by a cleaver.... |
| God name "Io/ Khio" | New Zealand | The chief god who appears to be known only to the nobility & the priests |
Table of Gods
Your guide to the World gods, spirits,
demons and legendary monsters
1996 - 2024 Copyright © Godfinder.org
