| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Heru-ur" | Egypt | The personification of the Face of heaven by day, while Set was that of night. He was depicted as a man or a lion with the head of a hawk. An aspect of Horus. Egypt |
| God name "Heruka" | Buddhist | God, one of the more popular in the pantheon Buddhist / Mahayana |
| Deities name "Heruka" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God. One of the most popular deities in the pantheon, though probably owing much to the influence of the Hindu god S IWA. Originally an epithet for another Hindu god, GANESA, but in Buddhism seen as an emanation of AKSOBHYA. His SAKTI is NAIRAMATA and the product of their liaison is nirvana (eternal bliss). Typically he stands upon a corpse. In northeastern India, Heruka is worshiped as a compåśśionate god. Attributes: club, flayed human skin, image of Aksobhya, jewel, knife, fifty skulls, sword, staff and teeth.... |
| God name "Herysaf" | Egypt | A primeval god |
| God name "Heryshaf" | Egypt | An ancient ram-god and a creator and fertility god who was born from the primeval waters. He was pictured as a man with the head of a ram, or as a ram. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Hesat" | Egypt | Goddess of birth and a minor guardian of pregnant and nursing mothers. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Hesat" | Egypt | Goddess of birth. Minor guardian of pregnant and nursing mothers whose milk, the beer of Hesat, nourishes humanity. Identified in some texts as the mother of ANUBIS. Depicted as a cow.... |
| Monster name "Hesione" | Greek | A daughter of Laomedon, and consequently a sister of Priam. When Troy was visited by a plague and a monster oh account of Laomedon's breach of promise, Laomedon, in order to get rid of these calamities, chained Hesione to a rock, in accordance with the command of an oracle, where she was to be devoured by wild beasts. Greek |
| Goddess name "Hesperides" | Greek | These goddesses of evenings and the golden light of Sunset were the famous guardians of the golden apples which Ge had given to Hera at her marriage with Zeus. Their names are Aegle, Erytheia, Hestia, and Arethusa, but their descent is not the same in the different traditions; sometimes they are called the daughters of night or Erebus (Theogony of Hesiod 215), sometimes of Phorcys and Ceto, sometimes of Atlas and Hesperis, whence their names Atlantides or Hesperides, and sometimes of Hesperus, or of Zeus and Themis Greek |
| Goddess name "Hesperos" | Greek | The goddess of evening |
"Hesperus" | Greek | The evening-star, is called by Hesiod a son of Astraeus and Eos, and was regarded, even by the ancients, as the same as the morning star, whence both Homer and Hesiod call him the bringer of light. Diodorus calls him a son of Atlas, who was fond of astronomy, and once, after having ascended Mount Atlas to observe the stars, he disappeared. Greek |
| Goddess name "Hestia" | Greek | The goddess of the hearth, or rather the fire burning on the hearth, was regarded as one of the twelve great gods, and accordingly as a daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Greek |
| God name "Hetep" | Egypt | God of peace and happiness Egypt |
| Goddess name "Hetepes-Sekhus" | Egypt | underworld goddess Egypt |
| Goddess name "Hetepes-Sekhus" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld goddess. A minor deity accompanied by a retinue of crocodiles. As one of the manifestations of the vengeful eye of RE, she destroys the souls of the adversaries of the underworld ruler OSIRIS. Depicted as a cobra or anthropomorphically with a cobra's head.... |
| Goddess name "Hettsui No Kami" | Japan | Goddess who protected and provided for the family Japan |
"Heva" | Polynesia | The legendary "first woman" who, together with Ad-ima, arrived at the Indian subcontinent after the Great Flood destroyed a former age of civilized greatness. Polynesia |
| God name "Hevajira" | Buddhist | God equivalent to the Hindu Siva Buddhist / Mahayana |
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