| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Gugulanna" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria | Great Bull of heaven. Husband of Ereshkigal, queen of the Netherworld. Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
| Goddess name "Gugulanna" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Minor underworld deity. The consort of the goddess ERESiKIGAL, mentioned as the pretext on which the fertility goddess INANA descends to the netherworld.... |
| King name "Gwethyr" | Wales | king of the Upperworld Gwyrthur Ap Gwreidawl |
| King name "Gwethyr aka Gwyrthur Ap Gwreidawl" | Welsh | king of the Upperworld. Welsh |
| Goddess name "Gwydion" | Celtic / Welsh | God of war. His mother is DON the Welsh mother goddess. He allegedly caused a war between Gwynedd and Dyfed. He visited the court of PRYDERI, son of RHIANNON, in Dyfed, and stole his pigs. In the ensuing combat Gwydion used magic powers and slew Pryderi. He seems to have underworld links, hence the route taken by the dead, the milky Way, was named Caer Gwydion.... |
| King name "Gwynn Ap Nudd" | Welsh | king of the fairies and the underworld. Welsh |
| God name "Gwynn Ap Nudd" | Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic underworld god. Known locally from South Wales. The leader of the phantom hunt which chases a white stag. He equates with HERNE in England and ARAWN in more northern parts of Wales.... |
| Deities name "Hachacyum (our very lord)" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The creator of the world åśśisted by three other deities, his consort and two brothers, one of whom is Sucunyum, his counterpart (or alter ego) in the underworld. Also Nohochacyum (our great lord).... |
| God name "Hachacyum/ Nohochacyum" | Maya | The creator the world who was helped by three other gods |
| God name "Hades" | Greek | Or Pluton, Pluto, Plouton, Dis (Roman), and Aidoneus, the god of the lower world; Plato observes that people preferred calling him Pluton (the giver of wealth) to pronouncing the dreaded name of Hades or Aides. Hence we find that in ordinary life and in the mysteries the name Pluton became generally established, while the poets preferred the ancient name Aides or the form Pluteus. Greek |
| God name "Haiyococab" | Aztec | The Aztec "Water Over earth," from which "the earth-upholding gods escaped when the world was destroyed by a deluge. |
| Goddess name "Hakea" | Polynesian, Hawaii | Goddess of the underworld. Her role was generally shared with the chthonic goddess Miru.... |
"Han" | India | The black of darkness who was banished to the underworld then became the nighttime. Plains Indians |
| Goddess name "Hannahannas" | Hittite / Hurrian | Mother goddess. Described as the great mother. In the legend of TELEPINU, the missing god, she sends a bee to locate him. When the bee stings Telepinu to awaken him, the god vents his rage on the natural world. NOTE: the priestesses of the Phrygian mother goddess KYBELE were, according to the Roman writer Lactantius, melissai or bees.... |
"Hapi" | Egypt | One of the Four sons of Horus depicted in funerary literature as protecting the throne of Osiris in the underworld. Hapi is depicted as a baboon-headed mummified human on funerary furniture and especially the canopic jars that held the organs of the deceased. Hapi's jar held the lungs. Hapi was also the protector of the North. Egypt |
"Hatan" | Philippines | The head honcho who made the laws of the sky world and rules it. Philippines |
| God name "Havgan" | Welsh | Minor Welsh god who vied for the kingship of the Otherworld |
| Goddess name "Hel" | Scandinavia | Goddess of death and the underworld. The Christian concept of "Hell" came from this goddess, however, her realm of the dead for those who were wicked was cold and dark, not fiery. Scandinavia |
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