Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Horus" | Egypt | The god of the sky, and the son of Osiris. His mother is Isis. Since he was god of the sky, Horus became depicted as a falcon, or as a falcon-headed man. Egypt |
God name "Horus" | Egyptian | The Egyptian day-god, represented in hieroglyphics by a sparrow-hawk, which bird was sacred to him. He was son of Osiris and Isis, but his birth being premature he was weak in the lower limbs. As a child he is seen carried in his mother's arms, wearing the pschent or atf, and seated on a lotus-flower with his finger on his lips. As an adult he is represented hawk-headed. Strictly speaking, Horus is the rising Sun, Ra the noonday Sun, and Osiris the setting Sun. |
Goddess name "Hsi Wang Mu" | China | Mother goddess of the Western Paradise and female energy. China |
Goddess name "Hu Tu" | China | Goddess of the Summer solstice, earth Mother and the personification of the earth. China |
God name "Huang Fei-hu" | China | Originally an earth god who was promoted to the god Tai mountain eastern China and he now judges the souls of the dead when they come to his mountain. China |
"Hura-Te-Arangi" | Maori | Mother of the Snow, Frost, and Ice children. Maori, New Zealand |
Goddess name "Huruing Wuhti" | Hopi | In the Hopi Indian creation story, they were a pair of women who survived the Great Flood. The Huruing Wuhti were later venerated as mother goddesses, because they gave birth to the Hopi people. |
King name "Hutsipamamau'u Ocean Woman" | Chemehuevis | The Great Mother, the creator of all things who created the earth from her flaking skin. Chemehuevis |
God name "Hymir or Hymer" | Norse | A giant with whom Thor went fishing when he caught the Midgard-serpent. His wife was the mother of Tyr. Tyr and Thor went to him to procure a kettle for ?ger in which to brew ale for the gods. . Norse |
"Hypermnestra" | Greek | A daughter of Thestius and Eurythemis, and the wife of Oicles, by whom she became the mother of Amphiaraus. Her tomb was shown at Argos. One of the daughters of Danaus was likewise called Hypermnestra. Greek |
Spirit name "Icci" | Siberia | The spirit of Mother earth. Siberia |
"Id?'an Mother" | Asia Minor | Cybele, who had a temple on Mount Ida, in Asia Minor. |
"Idaeus" | Greek | A son of Dardåñuś and Chryse, and brother of Deimas, went with his father from Peloponnesus, by way of Samothrace, to Phrygia, and settled on the mountains of Phrygia, which derived from him the name of Ida, or the Idaean mountains.Greek |
"Iemaparu" | Pueblo / Kachina? | corn mother |
"Ikas" | Algonquin | Mother earth Algonquin |
Goddess name "Ilamatecuhtli" | Aztec | Old mother goddess |
Spirit name "Ilmatar" | Finland | Female spirit of air; the daughter of primeval substance of creative spirit. Mother of Väinämöinen in Kalevala. |
Goddess name "Ilmatar" | Finland | The virgin goddess of the air. She is portrayed as androgynous with both male and female aspects, though she is primarily female. Despite her virginity, she was the mother of Vainamoinen, the god of music, Lemminkainen, god of magic, and Ilmarinen, the god of smithing. Finland |