Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Ho-No-Kagu-Tsuchi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Fire god. One of a number of fire KAMIS who are honored in special Hi-Matsuri festivals. The sacred fire can only be generated by a board and stick and is regarded as a powerful purifier in Shintoism. The most celebrated temple of the fire kamis is on Mount Atago near Kyoto to which worshipers are drawn from all over Japan to obtain charms as protection against fire.... |
"Horme" | Greek | The personification of energetic activity. Greek |
God name "Huitznahua" | Aztec | Collectively, the remaining brothers of God of war who were defeated. Aztec |
Goddess name "Iambe" | Greek | Daughter of Pan and Echo, and a slave of Metaneira, the wife of Hippothoon. Others call her a slave of Celeus. The extravagant hilarity displayed at the festivals of Demeter in Attica was traced to her for it is said that when Demeter, in her wanderings in search of her daughter, arrived in Attica, Iambe cheered the mournful goddess by her jokes. Greek |
Spirit name "Iatiku and Nautsiti" | Acoma | Sisters who, when giving life to the snakes and fishes, accidentally created the evil spirit. Acoma. Native American |
God name "Icarius" | Greek | Also called Icarus and Icarion. An Athenian, who lived in the reign of Pandion, and hospitably received Dionysus on his arrival in Attica. The god showed him his gratitude by teaching him the cultivation of the vine, and giving him bags filled with wine. Icarius now rode about in a chariot, and distributed the precious gifts of the god; but some shepherds whom their friends intoxicated with wine, and who thought that they were poisoned by Icarius, slew him, and threw his body into the well Anygrus, or buried it under a tree. Greek |
God name "Igigi" | Mesopotamia | Collective name for the group of younger sky gods. They were the gods of heaven, in contrast to the Anunnaki, who were the gods of the earth. Mesopotamia |
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.... |
Ghost name "Ihoiho" | Tahiti | The ghosts of the dead, which were supposed often to visit the living, especially relatives, and to inflict illness or death. Tahiti |
God name "Ikal Ahau" | Mayan / Tzotzil, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic god of death. Perceived as a diminutive figure who lives in a cave by day but wanders at night attacking people and eating raw human flesh. He is also considered to inhabit Christian church towers in Mexico and is probably personified by vampire bats.... |
God name "Ilmarinen" | Finnish | Finnish creator god, also a sky and smith god. He is also protective deity of travelers |
God name "Ilmarinen" | Finnish | A god of good weather & the wind, he is also a protective deity of travelers & for a lark he forged the Sun |
Spirit name "Ilmatar" | Finland | Female spirit of air; the daughter of primeval substance of creative spirit. Mother of Väinämöinen in Kalevala. |
God name "Imiut" | Egypt | Minor chthonic protective god Egypt |
Demon name "Immat" | Kafir / Afghanistan | demonic god. A deity to whom sacrifices were addressed in the Ashkun villages of southwestern Kafiristan. Legend has it that Immat carries off twenty virgin daughters every year. A festival includes blood sacrifice and dances by twenty carefully selected young priestesses.... |
God name "Imra" | Hindu / Kush | The chief pre-Islamic god of the Hindukush Kafir people. He was worshipped as the god of creation. By his breath, Imra created other gods of Kafir pantheon. Frequent sacrifiices were made to Imra, sometimes for recovery from sickness, seasonable weather, or other material benefits, sometimes from motives of simple piety. Imra was more honored than the other gods at the religious dances. Hindu / Kush |
"India" | Indian | Numerous Indian tribes keep Yuletide as a religious festival. |
"Inkosazana" | Africa | Who came out on the same day that men came out of the earth. She is not commonly seen. We hear it said the primitive men knew her. No one existing at the present time ever saw her. She is said to be a very little animal, as large as a polecat, and is marked with little white and black stripes; on one side there grows a bed of reeds, a Forest, and gråśś;97 the other side is that of a man. Such is her form. South Africa |