Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Ganiklis" | Lithuania | A household spirit of herds, sheep, and cowboys. Lithuania |
God name "Gardaitis" | Lithuania | A god of ships and sailors. Lithuania |
Goddess name "Giliiie" | Pre - Christian Lithuanian | Goddess of death. She is said to enter the house of a dying person, dressed in a white gown, and suffocate them.... |
Goddess name "Giltine" | Lithuania | The goddess of death whose sacral bird is the owl. Giltine proclaims disaster. She goes with the goddesses of black death. Lithuania |
God name "Gondas" | Lithuanian | A local god of domesticity and human sexuality. Lithuanian |
God name "Guan Di" | Chinese | The god of martial arts. Chinese |
Goddess name "Guan Yin" | China | Goddess of mercy China |
Goddess name "Guan Yin/ Guanyin" | Chinese | The goddess of mercy |
"Guan Yu" | China | Deified in the Sui Dynasty as the epitome of loyalty and righteousness. China |
"Han Xiang-Zhi" | China / Taoist | Immortal being, there were eight. And here they are: Kao Kuo-Zhu; He Xian-Ku; Lan Kai-He; Li Thieh-Kuai; Lu Tong-Pin; Zhang Kuo-Lao; Zhong-Li Kuan. China / Taoist |
God name "Hastehogan" | Navaho / USA | Chief house god. Also a god of farming identified with the west and the sky at Sunset. Regarded as a benevolent deity who aids mankind and cures disease. Believed to live in a cave system near San Juan. He also has a malevolent aspect in which he can cast evil spells. His priest wears a blue mask, at the bottom of which is a horizontal yellow band representing evening light, with eight vertical black strokes representing Rain. It is decorated with eagle and owl feathers.... |
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.... |
"Hecatoncheires - Hundred-armed" | Greek | Were three gargantuan figures of Greek mythology. They were known as Briareus the Vigorous, Cottus the Furious, and Gyges (or Gyes) the Big-Limbed. Their name derives from Greek and means "Hundred-Handed", "each of them having a hundred hands and fifty heads". Greek |
Goddess name "Hine-Ahu-One (maiden formed of the earth)" | Polynesian / including Maori | Chthonic goddess. Engendered by the god TANE when he needed a consort because, with the exception of the primordial earth mother PAPATUANUKU, all the existing gods of creation were male. Tane created her out of the red earth and breathed life into her. She became the mother of HINE-ATA-UIRA.... |
God name "Hsuan T'ien" | China | God of Wealth. China |
God name "Hsuan Wen hua" | China | God of hair, hairdressers, shampoo and hair moisturisers. |
Demon name "Hsuan-T'ien-Shang-Ti" | China | God who removes demons and evil spirits. Invoke for exorcism, matters involving water. China |
God name "Hu Daoyuan" | China | God of the water earthworm Star. China |