Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Inuat" | Inuit | These are the spirit beings that reside with all living creatures & maintain the lamp of life |
God name "Inuus" | Roman | An ancient protector of livestock, one of the di indigetes, indigenous gods. He was probably a god of fertility or sexual intercourse, as his name was thought by some to be connected with the word inire, "to copulate". He was also sometimes identified with the Roman god Faunus. Roman |
"Invidia" | Greek | The personification of envy, is described as a daughter of the giant Pallas and Styx. Greek |
Goddess name "Inyan" | Lakota | The first of the superior Gods. Uncreated and existing before time, he created Maka and gave it the earth Goddess Maka-akan, the second of the superior Gods and a part of Inyan. Creating Maka required all of Inyan's blood, which was blue, to form a great disk, beyond which there was nothing. This effort made Inyan hard and powerless. His blood became the blue waters and the sky, and Nagi Tanka (Sky God), the Great spirit who is all powerful and called Skan (Most Holy), the third superior God. Lakota |
God name "Inzak" | Arabia | The god who watches over his people. Bahrain, Arabia |
Nymph name "Io" | Greek | A nymph of the Argive River Inachos who was loved by Zeus. Greek |
God name "Io/ Khio" | New Zealand | The chief god who appears to be known only to the nobility & the priests |
"Iodameia" | Greek | A priestess of Athena Itonia, who was changed into a block of stone on seeing the head of Medusa. Greek |
"Iole" | Greek | The last beloved of Heracles, and a daughter of Eurytus of Oechalia. According to some writers, she was a half-sister of Dryope. |
"Ion" | Greek | The fabulous ancestor of the Ionians, a son of Apollo by Creusa, the daughter of Erechtheus and wife of Xuthus. |
Goddess name "Iord" | Nordic / Icelandic | earth goddess. In Viking tradition lord embodies the abstract sacredness of the earth. Said to be the mother of THOR and in some legends, the wife of OTHIN.See also FJORGYN.... |
"Iormungandur" | Scandinavian | Iormungandr. The Midgard serpent. The serpent that encompåśśes the whole earth. Scandinavian |
"Ioskeha" | Iroquois | Creator of the first man and woman Iroquois |
God name "Ipalnemoani (he who through one lives)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. One of the group clåśśed as the OMETEOTL complex.... |
Supreme god name "Ipalnemohuani" | Aztec | 'he by whom the people live'. The supreme god and the giver of Life. Aztec |
Demon name "Ipet" | Egypt | She was originally the demon-wife of Apep, the original god of evil. Egypt |
Goddess name "Ipet/ Ipi" | Egypt | She started life as a hippopotamus goddess |
"Iphicles' Oxen" | Greek | Iphiclos or Iphicles was the possessor of large herds of oxen, and Neleus promised to give his daughter in marriage to Bias if he would bring him the oxen of Iphicles, which were guarded by a very fierce dog. Melampos contrived to obtain the oxen for his brother, but being caught in the act, he was cast into prison. Melampos afterwards told Astyocha, wife of Iphicles, how to become the mother of children, whereupon Iphicles gave him the coveted herd, and his brother married the daughter of Neleus. The secret told by Melampos to Astyocha was "to steep the rust of iron in wine for ten days, and drink it." This she did, and became the mother of eight sons. |