| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Harakhte or Harakhtes" | Egypt | The Sun God and mythical first pharaoh, son of Isis and Osiris. Represented as falcon headed god he was later absorbed by Ra. Egypt |
| God name "Harakhti" | Egypt | A form of the god HORUS. The aspect of the god who rises at dawn in the eastern sky. According to Pyramid Texts, the king is born on the eastern horizon as Harakhti, which contradicts the more commonly held belief that the king is the son of RE, the Sun god.... |
| God name "Harmachis [Greek]" | Egypt | Form of the god HORUS. Harmachis is Horus as the Sun god. Inscriptions from the New kingdom (circa 1550-1000 BC) identify the sphinx at Giza as Harmachis looking toward the eastern horizon. Also Har-em-akhet (Egyptian).... |
| God name "Haro" | Melanesia | The Sun god whose wife, Taio, is the moon. Melanesia |
| God name "Haronga" | Maori | A sky god and the father of Ra the Sun and Marama the moon. Maori |
| God name "Haru-pa-khart" | Egypt | Harpocrates God of the rising Sun. Horus the Child, son of Isis and Osiris, originally a god of youth and vigor, later taking on the aspects of the Sun-god. At Mendes he was the son of Hat-mehit. Egypt |
"Hasibwari" | Melanesia | The supreme being, a winged serpent with a human head who created a woman from red clay and baked her in heat of the Sun. When the woman was dry a man was made from her rib. Melanesia |
| God name "Hastehogan" | Navaho / USA | Chief house god. Also a god of farming identified with the west and the sky at Sunset. Regarded as a benevolent deity who aids mankind and cures disease. Believed to live in a cave system near San Juan. He also has a malevolent aspect in which he can cast evil spells. His priest wears a blue mask, at the bottom of which is a horizontal yellow band representing evening light, with eight vertical black strokes representing Rain. It is decorated with eagle and owl feathers.... |
| Goddess name "Hauhet" | Egypt | Primordial goddess. One of the eight deities of the OGDOAD, representing chaos, she is coupled with the god HEH and appears in anthropomorphic form but with the head of a snake. The pair epitomize the concept of infinity. She is also depicted greeting the rising Sun in the guise of a baboon.... |
| God name "Havaki" | Siberia | The Sun god of the Tungus. Siberia |
| King name "Heitsi-Eibib" | Namaqua | A flood hero deity who "came from the east," landing in the west of Cape South Africa, a very long time ago, with fellow survivors from a Sunken kingdom. Namaqua |
"Hekenjuk" | Eskimo | My people call the Sun Hekenjuk. We believe she is the sister of the moon, Taktik. They share the same house but visit the sky at different times. There is always one coming when one is going away. The Ihalmiut Eskimo |
| Goddess name "Hekoolas" | Miwok | A Sun goddess whose body is covered in abalone shells. Miwok |
| Goddess name "Hel" | Germanic / Nordic / Icelandic | Chthonic underworld goddess. The daughter of LOKI and the giantess Angrboda, and the sibling of both the Midgard worm who will cause the sea to flood the world with the lashings of his tail, and of Fenrir, the phantom wolf who will swallow the Sun, at Ragnarok. She is queen of the otherworld, also known as Hell, and she takes command of all who die, except for heroes slain in battle, who ascend to Valhalla. In some mythologies she is depicted as half black and half white. She was adopted into British mythology.... |
"Heru-khuti" | Egypt | Horus of the two horizons, usually has the head of a hawk and represents the course of the Sun from Sunrise to Sunset, across the skies. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Hesperides" | Greek | These goddesses of evenings and the golden light of Sunset were the famous guardians of the golden apples which Ge had given to Hera at her marriage with Zeus. Their names are Aegle, Erytheia, Hestia, and Arethusa, but their descent is not the same in the different traditions; sometimes they are called the daughters of night or Erebus (Theogony of Hesiod 215), sometimes of Phorcys and Ceto, sometimes of Atlas and Hesperis, whence their names Atlantides or Hesperides, and sometimes of Hesperus, or of Zeus and Themis Greek |
| God name "Hi-Hiya-Hi" | Japan | God of the Sun Japan / Shinto |
| Deities name "Hi-Hiya-Hi" | Shinto / Japan | Sun god. One of a number of minor Sun deities, engendered from the blood of the god KAGU-TSUCHI and worshiped in the mountain sanctuary of the fire KAMIS, Kono-Jinja. In Japan certain older people still worship the Sun. They go outside at Sunrise, face east and bow, clapping their hands.... |
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