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Goddess name "Hours" | Egypt | underworld goddesses, the 12 daughters of Re Egypt |
Goddess name "Hours" | Egypt | underworld goddesses. The twelve daughters of the Sun god RE. They act in concert against the adversaries of Re and control the destiny of human beings in terms of each person's life span, reflecting the supremacy of order and time over chaos. The Hours are sometimes represented on the walls of royal tombs in anthropomorphic form with a five-pointed star above the head. Also Horae (Greek).... |
"Hu" | Egypt | The personification of Divine Utterance, the voice of authority. Egypt |
Deities name "Hu" | Egypt | God personifying royal authority. One of several minor deities born from drops of blood emitting from the śéméñ of the Sun god RE (see also SIA). Hu epitomizes the power and command of the ruler.... |
"Huh" | Egypt | The deification of eternity in the Ogdoad, his name itself meaning endlessness. Egypt |
God name "Huzayui" | Egypt | serpent headed, winged god of the west wind Egypt |
Goddess name "Iabet" | Egypt | The goddess of the Eastern Desert, of fertility and rebirth. She was a personification of the land of the east. Egypt |
God name "Ibis or Nile-bird" | Egypt | The Egyptians call the sacred Ibis Father John. It is the avatar' of the god Thoth, who in the guise of an Ibis escaped the pursuit of Typhon. The Egyptians say its white plumage symbolises the light of the Sun, and its black neck the shadow of the moon, its body a heart, and its legs a triangle. It was said to drink only the purest of water, and its feathers to scare or even kill the crocodile. Egypt |
Nymph name "Idothea aka Eidothea" | Greek | The nymph, a daughter of the aged Proteus, who instructed Menelaus, in the island of Pharos at the mouth of the river Aegyptus, in what manner he might secure her father and compel him to say in what way he should return home. Greek |
God name "Ihi aka Ehi" | Egypt | God of the sistrum. Egypt |
"Ihi/ Ehi" | Egypt | He is the lord of the sistrum |
God name "Ihy" | Egypt | A young god personifying the jubilation emanating from the sacred rattle. Egypt |
Goddess name "Ihy" | Egypt / Upper | God of music. Minor deity personifying the jubilant noise of the cultic sistrum rattle generally åśśociated with the goddess Hathor. The son of HATHOR and HORUS. Particularly known from the Hathor sanctuary at Dendara. Depicted anthropomorphically as a nude child with a side-lock of hair and with finger in mouth. May carry a sistrum and necklace.... |
"Ikhekhu or Akhekhu" | Egypt | A semi-supernatural being described as a serpent with four legs, resembling an European griffin. Egypt |
God name "Imhotep" | Egypt | The first architect and physician known by name in written history. Two thousand years after his death, his status was raised to that of a god. He became the god of Medicine and healing. He was linked to Asclepius by the Greeks. Egypt |
God name "Imiut" | Egypt | Minor chthonic protective god Egypt |
Deities name "Imiut" | Egypt | Minor chthonic god. One of the attendant deities of the necropolis, he is linked with ANUBIS, and in pre-dynastic times was represented by a skin hung on a pole.... |
God name "Imset" | Egypt | Funerary god charged with the care of the liver of the deceased. Egypt |