| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Imana" | Burundi / East Africa | Creator god. He engendered the first man, Kihanga, who descended from heaven on a rope. Symbolized by a lamb or a young ram, he is also thought to speak through the roar of the bull.... |
| God name "Imra" | Kafir / Afghanistan | A creator god that is still worshipped today |
"Indeesa" | Tanzania | The creator gooddess who caused no afflictions and is invoked for inner reflection. Tanzania |
"Ioskeha" | Iroquois | Creator of the first man and woman Iroquois |
| God name "Ipalnemoani (he who through one lives)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. One of the group clåśśed as the OMETEOTL complex.... |
| Spirit name "Irik" | Borneo | A primeval creator spirit, in the form of a bird, who created the earth; with Ara, created mankind from clay. The Sea Dyaks of Sarawak, Borneo |
| God name "Irma" | Peru | An early coastal name of the creator god. Peru |
| God name "Isewahanga" | Tanzania | The creator god of the Zinza. Tanzania |
| God name "Isten" | Pre - Christian Hungarian | Creator god. According to tradition, his sacred animal, the eagle, guided the Hungarian people to their homeland. Other attributes include arrow, horse phallus and tree.... |
| God name "Ithuwa" | Tanzania | The Sun and creator god. Tanzania |
| God name "Itzam Cab" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic earth god. The earth aspect of the creator god ITZAM NA. He is also a god of fire, and hearthstones are called head of Itzam Cab. Sticks of firewood are his thighs, flames his tongue and the pot resting on the fire his liver. In his vegetation aspect he is depicted with leaves of maize sprouting from his head.... |
| God name "Itzam Na/ Hun Itzamna/ Yaxcocahmut" | Maya | Another creator god, water, Agriculture, drawing, healing, Medicine & the moon |
| Goddess name "Iusaas" | Egypt / Lower | Creator goddess. Locally known from Heliopolis and perceived as being a feminine principle in the cosmos equating to the Sun god ATUM. Depicted anthropomorphically with a scarab on her head.... |
| Goddess name "Ix Zacal Nok" | Mayan | Inventor of weaving as well as Creator goddess Mayan |
| Goddess name "Ix Zacal Nok (lady cloth-weaver)" | Mayan / Mesoameri can / Mexico | Creator goddess. The consort of the Sun god Kinich Ahau and also the inventor of weaving. She may represent another aspect of the mother goddess COLEL CAB. Also Ix Azal Uoh; Ixchel.See also AH KIN.... |
| God name "Ixpiyacoc" | Mayan | One of the thirteen creator gods who helped construct humanity. Mayan |
| God name "Izanagi" | Japan | Izanagi-no-Mikoto. "Male Who invites". Creator god, father god, man of men. Symbolizes magic. Japan |
| Goddess name "Izanagi-No-Kami (his augustness the one who invites)" | Shinto / Japan | Creator god. One of seventeen beings involved in creation. His consort is IZANAMI-NO-KAMI. They are strictly of Japanese origin with no Chinese or Buddhist influence. Jointly they are responsible to the other fifteen primordial deities to make, consolidate and give birth to this drifting land. The reference, in the Kojiki sacred text, is to the reed beds which were considered to float on the primal waters. The pair were granted a heavenly jeweled spear and they stood upon the floating bridge of heaven, stirring the waters with the spear. When the spear was pulled up, the brine which dripped from it created the island of Onogoro, the first dry land, believed to be the island of Nu-Shima on the southern coast of Awagi. According to mythology, the pair created two beings, a son HIRUKO and an island Ahaji. They generated the remaining fourteen islands which make up Japan and then set about creating the rest of the KAMI pantheon. Izanagi's most significant offspring include AMATERASU, the Sun goddess, born from his nose and SUSANOWO, the storm god, born from his left eye, who are the joint rulers of the universe. Also IzanagiNo-Mikoto.... |
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