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List of Gods : "deity" - 836 records

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Name ▲▼Origin ▲▼Description ▲▼
God name
"Ho-Po"
Taoist / Chinese River god. The so-called “Count of the River,” the deity who controls all rivers but particularly the Yellow River, and who is the subject of an official cult and sacrifice. According to tradition he achieved immortality by weighing himself down with stones and drowning himself. He received an annual sacrifice of a young girl until the end of the Shou Dynasty circa 250 BC. Also Hebo; Ping-Yi....
Deity name
"Hokushin-O-Kami"
Japan Astral deity, Ursa Minor Japan / Shinto
God name
"Horus"
Egypt Horus the Younger A solar deity, god of the rising Sun, of light, Son of Osiris and Isis. The latter taught him the arts of magick and healing through oracles. He absorbed and was identified with the other Horus gods-the Heru group. Egypt
Deity name
"Houushin-O-Kami"
Shinto / Japan Astral deity. The apotheosis of the “little bear,” Ursa Minor....
Spirit name
"Huaca"
Inca / pre - Columbian South America / Peru, etc spirit being. The apotheosis of a natural object such as a rock or a place of local importance such as a spring. It is uncertain whether the principle is one of animism (when a deity takes on different natural shapes at will) or anImatism (when an object is a supernatural being in its own right)....
God name
"Hubal"
Pre - Islamic / Arabian Local tutelary and oracular god. An anthropomorphic figure of the deity in red carnelian still stands in the holy city of Mecca....
God name
"Huehueteotl"
Aztec Old god. A central Mexican / Aztec deity åśśociated with fire
Deity name
"Huiracocha/ Viracocho"
Inca The supreme deity accused of a virgin birth & creator of of the world
Deity name
"Humban"
Mesopotamia Supreme deity Mesopotamia
King name
"Hun Batz"
Quiche One Big Monkey. A son of one of the Seven Ahpu, he is a hero and a multi-tasking deity. Quiche
God name
"Hunab Ku"
Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico Creator god. The greatest deity in the pantheon, no image is created of Hunab Ku since he is considered to be without form. His son is the iguana god, ITZAM NA, and he may have become the Mayan counterpart of the Christian god....
Deity name
"Hunab Ku aka Hun Itzamna"
Mayan . The Supreme Being and the greatest deity in the pantheon. Mayan
God name
"Hunab Ku/ Itzamn"
Maya The most important creator god & the greatest deity in the pantheon
Goddess name
"Hung Sheng (boly one)"
Chinese Guardian god. A deity who protects fishing boats and their crews against danger at sea in the Southern Ocean. His role is similar to that of the goddess KUAN YIN. Little is known of the origin of Hung Sheng, but he was allegedly a mortal who died on the thirteenth day of the second moon, which falls two days before the spring equinox when the sea dragon king, Lung Wang, is believed to leave the ocean and ascend into the heavens. The god is propitiated with cakes made from the first grain of the year, on the fifth day of the fifth month and in some traditions he is seen as an aspect of the sea dragon king....
God name
"Hyakinthos"
Greek God of vegetation. An ancient pre-Homeric deity known particularly from Amyklai (preDorian seat of kingship at Sparta). He is beloved by APOLLO who perversely kills him with a discus and changes him into a flower. At Amyklai the bronze of Apollo stands upon an altar-like pedestal said to be the grave of Hyakinthos and, prior to sacrifice being made to Apollo, offerings to Hyakinthos were påśśed through a bronze door in the pedestal....
God name
"Hyeeiioi"
Greek God of primordial light. A pre-Homeric deity, one of the race of TITANS whose consort is, according to some texts, THEA and who is the father of HELIOS and SELENE....
Goddess name
"Icauna"
Roman / Celtic / Gallic River goddess. Guardian deity of the river Yonne [Brittany]....
God name
"Ifa"
Yoruba / western Nigeria, West Africa God of wisdom. An oracular deity who, according to tradition, lives in a sanctuary in the holy city of Ile Ife but who is called on by the tutelary god, OLDUMARE, for advice. He is the father of eight children, all of whom became paramount chiefs....
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