Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Hunab Ku" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The greatest deity in the pantheon, no image is created of Hunab Ku since he is considered to be without form. His son is the iguana god, ITZAM NA, and he may have become the Mayan counterpart of the Christian god.... |
Deity name "Hunab Ku aka Hun Itzamna" | Mayan | . The Supreme Being and the greatest deity in the pantheon. Mayan |
God name "Hunab Ku/ Itzamn" | Maya | The most important creator god & the greatest deity in the pantheon |
God name "Hunahpa Utiu" | Mayan | Yet another god who helped create the human race. Mayan |
God name "Hunahpu" | Mayan | A god, who with his twin Xbalamwque, overcame the powers of evil and of death of his father, then rose to the heavens to become the Sun and the moon. Mayan |
God name "Hunahpu Gutch" | Maya | He is one of the 13 gods that mistakenly created humans |
God name "Hunahpu Vuch" | Quiche | A hunting-fox bitch and god of the dawn. Quiche |
God name "Hunapu" | Maya | Another creator god |
God name "Hunapu" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. According to the sacred text Popol Vub, the son of HUN HUNAPU and the twin brother of Ix Balan Ku. Tradition has it that, like his father, he was decapitated in a historic struggle with the underworld gods and subsequently became the Sun god, while his sibling is the apotheosis of the moon.... |
"Hundred-eyed" | Greek | Argus, in Greek and Latin fable. Juno appointed him guardian of Io [the cow], but Jupiter caused him to be put to death, whereupon Juno transplanted his eyes into the tail of her peaçõçk. |
Goddess name "Hung Sheng (boly one)" | Chinese | Guardian god. A deity who protects fishing boats and their crews against danger at sea in the Southern Ocean. His role is similar to that of the goddess KUAN YIN. Little is known of the origin of Hung Sheng, but he was allegedly a mortal who died on the thirteenth day of the second moon, which falls two days before the spring equinox when the sea dragon king, Lung Wang, is believed to leave the ocean and ascend into the heavens. The god is propitiated with cakes made from the first grain of the year, on the fifth day of the fifth month and in some traditions he is seen as an aspect of the sea dragon king.... |
God name "Hung Sing" | China | Guardian god of of fishing boats and their crews China |
God name "Hunhau" | Mayan | Appears, sometimes with the head of an owl, sometimes as a dog. A god of the underworld and the land of the dead. Mayan |
God name "Hunhau" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of death. One of the several lords of death listed in the codices who rule the underworld, Mictlan. Hunhau is generally depicted with canine attributes, or with the head of an owl.See also YUM CIMIL. Also God A.... |
Goddess name "Hunthaca" | Guatemala | Goddess of the moon. Guatemala |
God name "Huo Pu" | China | God of fire China |
Goddess name "Hur ki" | Babylon / Mesopotamia | Not the Goddess of the moon, just a very naughty girl. Babylon / Mesopotamia |
"Hura-Te-Arangi" | Maori | Mother of the Snow, Frost, and Ice children. Maori, New Zealand |