| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Demon name "Hun Hau" | Mayan | God of death and the Head of demons. Mayan |
| God name "Hun Hunapu" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The father of HUNAPU and Ix Balan Ku. According to the sacred Mayan text Popol Vub, he was decapitated during a football game and his head became lodged in the calabash tree which bore fruit from that day.... |
| God name "Hunhau" | Mayan | Appears, sometimes with the head of an owl, sometimes as a dog. A god of the underworld and the land of the dead. Mayan |
| God name "Hunhau" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of death. One of the several lords of death listed in the codices who rule the underworld, Mictlan. Hunhau is generally depicted with canine attributes, or with the head of an owl.See also YUM CIMIL. Also God A.... |
| God name "Huzayui" | Egypt | serpent headed, winged god of the west wind Egypt |
| Monster name "Hydra" | Greek | A monster of the Lernean marshes, in Argolis. It had nine heads, and Hercules was sent to kill it. As soon as he struck off one of its heads, two shot up in its place. Greek |
| Supreme god name "Hypsistos" | Hebrew / Greek | The part of the Supreme Godhead that lets us understand the structure of nature from Infinity. Hebrew / Greek |
| God name "Igigi" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Collective name of a clåśś of gods. The group of younger sky gods in the pantheon headed by ENLIL (ELLIL). They are often described in the texts in conjunction with the ANUNNAKI.... |
| God name "Ikenga (right forearm)" | Ibo / Nigeria, West Africa | God of fortune. A benevolent deity who guides the hands of mankind. He is depicted wearing a horned headdress, and carrying a sword and a severed head. He is invoked as a household guardian.... |
| God name "Ina" | Polynesia | A lunar deity daughter of Kui or Vaitere, who kept an eel in a jar, but it soon grew into the eel-god, Tuna, who tried to rape her. The people of Upolo rescued her and sentenced him to death. At his request, she buried his head in the sand and from it grew the first coconut. Ina is married to Marama, the god of the night. She lives in the sky during the daytime when her husband is not visible. Polynesia |
"Iodameia" | Greek | A priestess of Athena Itonia, who was changed into a block of stone on seeing the head of Medusa. Greek |
| Goddess name "Ipy" | Egypt | Mother goddess. In the Pyramid Texts Ipy appears occasionally as a benevolent guardian and wet nurse to the king. She is also perceived to exert a benign influence on amulets. Depicted as a hippopotamus or anthropomorphically with a hippo's head. Also Ipet.... |
| God name "Is tanu" | Hittite | Sun god. A god of judgment, depicted bearing a winged Sun on his crown or headdress, and a crooked staff.... |
| Goddess name "Issaki" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | A goddess walking around with a headless child |
| Goddess name "Issaki" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. Depicted carrying a headless child. Also Kerala.... |
| 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.... |
| 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.... |
| God name "Jambhala (devouring)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God. An emanation of AKSOBHYA, RATNASAMBHAVA or Vajrasattva, or a collective emanation of the five DHYANIBUDDHAS, he is the equal of the Hindu god KUBERA. His SAKTI is VASUDHARA and he may stand upon a man or a conch. Color: blue or white. Attributes: arrow, bow, cup, hook, Ichneumon fly, image of Aksobhya in the hair, jewel, noose, other jewels, staff, sword and trident. Threeheaded, each head representing one of the three named Dhyanibuddhas.... |
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