| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Hygeia" | Roman / Greek | Goddess of health and the daughter of ?sculapios. Her symbol was a serpent drinking from a cup in her hand. Roman / Greek |
| Goddess name "Hygieia" | Greek | Goddess of health. The daughter of ASKLEPIOS, the physician god of healing. Hygieia was also a remedial drink made from wheat, oil and honey. She is depicted as Hygieia-Salus in a marble group sculpture in the Vatican, with Asclepius (the Roman god of healing) and the snake, which she is touching.... |
| Supreme god name "Hypsistos" | Hebrew / Greek | The part of the Supreme Godhead that lets us understand the structure of nature from Infinity. Hebrew / Greek |
| God name "IS KUR" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Iraq | storm god. The chief Rain and thunder god of herdsmen, Iskur is described as the brother of the Sun god UTU. In creation mythology Iskur is given charge over the winds, the so-called silver lock of the heart of heaven, by the god ENKI. According to some authors, in prehistoric times he was perceived as a bull or as a lion whose roar is the thunder. He may be depicted as a warrior riding across the skies in a chariot, dispensing Raindrops and hailstones. In one text he is identified as the son of AN and twin brother of Enki. He is to be compared with NINURTA who was primarily a god of farmers. He was also adopted by the Hittites as a storm god.... |
| God name "Iapetos" | Greek | God. One of the sons of OURANOS (heaven) and a member of the TITAN race which clashed with the Olympian gods. He is the father of the heroes Atlas and PROMETHEUS.... |
"Iapis or Iapyx" | Greek | Was a son of Iasus, and a favourite of Apollo, who wanted to confer upon him the gift of prophecy and the lyre, but Iapis, wishing to prolong the life of his father, preferred the more tranquil art of healing to all the others. He also cured Aeneas of the wound he had received in the war against La- tinus. Greek |
| 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 |
"Ictinike" | Sioux | The 'father of lies' who was expelled from heaven for deceit and trickery. Sioux |
| God name "Idavold" | Norse | A plain where the gods first åśśemble, where they establish their heavenly abodes, and where they åśśemble again after Ragnarok. The plains of Ida. Norse |
| Goddess name "Idothea" | Greek | A goddess of the sea |
| 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 "Igigi" | Mesopotamia | Collective name for the group of younger sky gods. They were the gods of heaven, in contrast to the Anunnaki, who were the gods of the earth. Mesopotamia |
| God name "Igigi" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Collective name of a clåśś of gods. The group of younger sky gods in the pantheon headed by ENLIL (ELLIL). They are often described in the texts in conjunction with the ANUNNAKI.... |
| Spirit name "Ignis Fatuus" | Russian | According to a Russian superstition, these wandering fires are the spirits of still-born children which flit between heaven and the Inferno. |
| God name "Ikenga (right forearm)" | Ibo / Nigeria, West Africa | God of fortune. A benevolent deity who guides the hands of mankind. He is depicted wearing a horned headdress, and carrying a sword and a severed head. He is invoked as a household guardian.... |
| God name "Ilabrat" | Mesopotamia / Babylon / Akkadia | A minor god, heavy into politics |
| God name "Imana" | Burundi / East Africa | Creator god. He engendered the first man, Kihanga, who descended from heaven on a rope. Symbolized by a lamb or a young ram, he is also thought to speak through the roar of the bull.... |
| 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 |
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