| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Esu" | Edo / Benin / Nigeria, West Africa | God of påśśage. A fearsome deity who stands at the gates of the home of the gods holding a set of keys. He is known for his trickery.... |
"Forsete" | Norse | [The fore-sitter, president, chairman]. Son of Balder and Nanna. His dwelling is Glitner, and his office is that of a peacemaker. Norse |
| God name "Forseti" | Norse / Germanic | A god of justice for men & gods |
| God name "Forseti" | Nordic / Icelandic | God of unknown status. A god of Asgard said by Snorri to be the son of Balder and NANNA. According to an Icelandic list of dwellings of the gods, Forseti owned a gold and silver hall, Glitnir, and was a good law maker and arbiter of disputes. Also Fosite (Friesian).... |
"Gaasyendietha" | Haudenosaunee | Meteor Fire Lizards, they travel quickly from lake to lake to avoid setting the Forest ablaze. Haudenosaunee |
| Angel name "Gethel" | Greek | An angel set over hidden things. |
"Glitner [The glittering]" | Norse | Forsete's golden hall. Norse |
| God name "Haroeris [Greek]" | Egypt | Form of the god HORUS as a man. The name distinguishes the mature deity from HARPOKRATES, the child Horus. In this form he avenges his father, OSIRIS, and regains his kingdom from SETH, his uncle. He is depicted as the falcon god. Also Harueris; Har-wer (both Egyptian); HARENDOTES.... |
| God name "Hastehogan" | Navaho / USA | Chief house god. Also a god of farming identified with the west and the sky at Sunset. Regarded as a benevolent deity who aids mankind and cures disease. Believed to live in a cave system near San Juan. He also has a malevolent aspect in which he can cast evil spells. His priest wears a blue mask, at the bottom of which is a horizontal yellow band representing evening light, with eight vertical black strokes representing Rain. It is decorated with eagle and owl feathers.... |
| Goddess name "Hemsut/ Hemuset" | Egypt | A goddess of fate and newborn babies |
"Heru-khuti" | Egypt | Horus of the two horizons, usually has the head of a hawk and represents the course of the Sun from Sunrise to Sunset, across the skies. Egypt |
"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 |
| 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 |
| Spirit name "Hinzelmann" | German | The most famous house-spirit or kobold of German legend. He lived four years in the old castle of Hudemuhlen, where he had a room set apart for him. At the end of the fourth year (1588) he went away of his own accord, and never again returned. |
| 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. |
"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 |
| God name "Imset" | Egypt | Funerary god charged with the care of the liver of the deceased. Egypt |
| God name "Imset/ Amset" | Egypt | This god is a funerary god charged with the care of the liver of the deceased |
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