Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Fornjot" | Norse | The most ancient giant. He was father of ?ger, or Hler, the god of the ocean; of Loge, flame or fire, and of Kaare, wind. His wife was Ran. These divinities are generally regarded as belonging to an earlier mythology, probably to that of the Fins or Celts. Norse |
Goddess name "Fotla" | Ireland | A patron goddess of Ireland and the wife of the Tuatha king MacCeacht. |
"Freya" | Scandinavia | Scandinavia held at Yuletide the festival called Jul, in honour of Freya, wife of Odin. |
God name "Frigg" | Norse | [Love]. She is the wife of Odin, and mother of Balder and queen of the gods, and reigns with Odin in Hlidskjalf. She exacts an oath from all things that they shall not harm Balder. Norse |
Goddess name "Fuamnach" | Ireland | Midir's first wife and a witch goddess. When Midir fell in love with Etain and married her, Fuamnach got so jealous that she cast several spells on her, but she did not succeed. Ireland |
"Glauca" | Greek | wife of Alcis. |
"Glaucippa" | Greek | wife of Potamon. |
"Gorga" | Greek | wife of Hyppothooa. |
"Gorge" | Greek | A daughter of Oeneus and Althaea, and the wife of Andraemon. When Artemis metamorphosed her sisters into birds, on account of their unceasing lamentations about their brother Meleager, Gorge and Deianeira alone were spared. Greek |
"Gorgophon" | Greek | wife of Proteus. |
Goddess name "Hariti" | Buddhist | Goddess for the protection of children, easy delivery, happy child rearing and parenting, harmony between husband and wife, love, and the well-being and safety of the family. Women without children also pray to Kishimojin to help them become pregnant. Originally, Hariti was a cannibalistic demon. She had hundreds of children whom she loved and doted upon, but to feed them, she abducted and killed the children of others. Buddhist |
God name "Harmonia" | Greek | A daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, or, according to others, of Zeus and Electra, the daughter of Atlas, in Samothrace. When Athena åśśigned to Cadmus the government of Thebes, Zeus gave him Harmoia for his wife, and all the gods of Olympus were present at the marriage. Cadmus on that day made her a present of a peplus and a necklace, which he had received either from Hephaestus or from Europa. Greek |
God name "Haro" | Melanesia | The Sun god whose wife, Taio, is the moon. Melanesia |
Goddess name "Hasta (band)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor goddess of fortune. A benevolent NAKSATRA or astral goddess; daughter of DAKSA and wife of CANDRA (SOMA).... |
"Hawa Pagria" | Nazorean | The wife of Adam (Eve). Early Nazorean |
God name "Hecabe" | Greek | Or in Latin Hecuba, a daughter of Dymas in Phrygia, and second wife of Priam, king of Troy. Some described her as a daughter of Cisseus, or the Phrygian river-god Sangarius and Metope. Greek |
"Hecuba" | Greek | Second wife of Priam, and mother of nineteen children. When Troy was taken by the Greeks she fell to the lot of Ulysses. She was afterwards metamorphosed into a dog, and threw herself into the sea. Greek |
"Helcita" | Greek | wife of Cåśśos. |