| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Garuda" | India | God-mount of Vishnu and his consort Lakshmi, is usually pictured as a creature with the head, talons, beak, and wings of an eagle and limbs and trunk of human shape. India |
| Demon name "Garuda (the devourer)" | Hindu / Vedic | Archaic Sun god and Divine vehicle. Originally depicted as a solar deity, Garuda evolved into a bird-like human hybrid who became the deified mount of VIS'NU. Also a chief adversary of nagas (snake-like demons), which he devours. In early depictions Garuda has a parrot's beak. Said to have been born from an egg, the son of Vinata and KASYAPA. Epithets include Amrtaharana, Garutman, Tarksya. Attributes: conch, club, lotus and nectar, but may also bear the attributes of Vis'nu.(2) Mount or vahana of VAJRAPANI. Buddhist. Attributes: flower, horse-head, noose, skin and staff. Three-eyed and three-headed.... |
"Giants" | Greek | Of Greek mythology, sons of Tartaros and Ge. When they attempted to storm heaven, they were hurled to earth by the aid of Hercules, and buried under Mount Etna. |
| Goddess name "Giriputri" | Bali | Goddess of mountains and water. Bali |
| God name "Glanis" | France | A Gaulish god åśśociated with a healing spring at the town of Glanum in the Alpilles mountains of Provence in southern France. |
| King name "Gluskap" | Algonquin | Was responsible for making all the good things in the universe from his mother's body. His evil brother Malsum created the mountains and valleys and all the nasty things. Algonquin |
| Demon name "Gnomes" | Pan-European | demonic beings who inhabit woods, mountains and water. Pan-European |
| God name "Gon-Po Peng" | Tibet | mountain god and the great guardian of Tantrism. Tibet |
| God name "Great Father" | Celtic | The Horned God, The Lord. Lord of the Winter, harvest, land of the dead, the sky, animals, mountains, lust, powers of destruction, regeneration. Represents the male principle of creation. Celtic |
| God name "Hacauitz" | Mayan | mountains god Mayan |
| God name "Hara-Yama-Tsu-Mi" | Japan / Shinto | God of mountains concerned with the wooded mountain slopes. Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Hara-Yama-Tsu-Mi" | Shinto / Japan | mountain god. Particularly the deity of wooded mountain slopes.... |
| God name "Hazzi" | Hittite | God invoked in a Hittite treaties who was a mountain and weather god Hittite / Hurrian |
| God name "Hazzi" | Hittite / Hurrian | mountain god. Invoked in Hittite treaties as a deity responsible for oaths. A deity of the same name was worshiped by the Hurrians, but not necessarily in the same context.... |
"Helicon" | Greece | The Muses' Mount. It is part of the Parnåśśos, a mountain range in Greece. |
| Nymph name "Hellen" | Greek | A son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, or, according to others, a son of Zeus and Dorippe (Argonautica), or of Prometheus and Clymene, and a brother of Deucalion. By the nymph Orseis, that is, the mountain nymph, he became the father of Aeolus, Dorus, and Xuthus to whom some add Amphictyon. Greek |
| God name "Hermes" | Greek | A son of Zeus and Maia, the daughter of Atlas, was born in a cave of Mount Cyllene or in Olympus. In the first hours after his birth, he escaped from his cradle, went to Pieiria, and carried off some of the oxen of Apollo. The herald and messenger of the gods, of his travelling from place to place and the concluder of treaties and the promoter of social intercourse and of commerce among men. Regarded as the maintainer of peace, and as the god of roads, who protected travellers, and punished those who refused to åśśist travellers who had mistaken their way. Greek |
"Hesperus" | Greek | The evening-star, is called by Hesiod a son of Astraeus and Eos, and was regarded, even by the ancients, as the same as the morning star, whence both Homer and Hesiod call him the bringer of light. Diodorus calls him a son of Atlas, who was fond of astronomy, and once, after having ascended Mount Atlas to observe the stars, he disappeared. Greek |
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