Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Hemera" | Greek | The light of the terrestrial regions as Aether is the light of the heavenly regions. The Protogenos and the female personification of day. Both were the offspring of Erebus and Nyx. Hemera was closely identified with Hera, the wife of Zeus, and Eos the goddess of the morning red, who brings up the light of day from the east. Greek |
Spirit name "Hemoana" | Tongans | In the beginning there was just the sea, and the spirit world. Tangaloa took the sky and Maui the underworld. Hemoana in the form of a sea snake, and Lupe, whose form was a dove, then divided the remainder between them, Hemoana taking the sea and Lupe taking the land. Tongans |
Goddess name "Hemsut" | Egypt | Goddess of fate and newborn babies Egypt |
Goddess name "Hemsut/ Hemuset" | Egypt | A goddess of fate and newborn babies |
God name "Hendursaga" | Akkadia | God of law Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria |
God name "Hendursaga" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of the law. He was titled by Gudea of Lagas herald of the land of Sumer.... |
Spirit name "Heng" | Huron | spirit of thunder Huron |
Goddess name "Heng E" | China | Goddess of the moon China |
Goddess name "Heng o" | China | Goddess of the moon China |
God name "Henkhesesui" | East | Ram headed, winged, beetle god of the east wind Egypt |
Spirit name "Heno" | Iroquois | God of the sky and the spirit of thunder. Iroquois |
Spirit name "Heno/ Hinu/ Hino" | Iroquois | The sky god & the spirit of thunder |
Goddess name "Henwen" | Welsh | A sow Goddess. Welsh |
God name "Hephaestos" | Greek | A god of volcanoes, fire & metal working |
God name "Hephaestus" | Greek | The god of fire, was, according to the Homeric account, the son of Zeus and Hera The Romans, when speaking of the Greek Hephaestus, call him Vulcan or Vulcåñuś, although Vulcåñuś was an original Italian divinity. Later traditions state that he had no father, and that Hera gave birth to him independent of Zeus, as she was jealous of Zeus having given birth to Athena independent of her. Greek |
God name "Hephaistos" | Greek | The god of smiths and metal-workers was the son of Hera. He was born lame, and his mother was so displeased at the sight of him that she flung him out of Olympus. Other accounts say that Zeus threw him out for taking his mother's part in a quarrel which occurred between them. Hephaistos's lameness, according to this account, was the consequence of his fall. He was a whole day falling, and at last alighted in the island of Lemnos, which was thenceforth sacred to him. Greek |
Goddess name "Heqt" | Egypt | Goddess of life and childbirth, equipped with a frog's head Egypt |
Hero name "Hera" | Greek | Probably identical with kera, mistress, just as her husband, Zeus, was called eppos in the Aeolian dialect. The derivation of the name has been attempted in a variety of ways, from Greek as well as oriental roots, though there is no reason for having recourse to the latter, as Hera is a purely Greek divinity, and one of the few who, according to Herodotus, were not introduced into Greece from Egypt. Greek |