Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Hsuan Wen hua" | China | God of hair, hairdressers, shampoo and hair moisturisers. |
Demon name "Hsuan-T'ien-Shang-Ti" | China | God who removes demons and evil spirits. Invoke for exorcism, matters involving water. China |
God name "Hu Baiyan" | China | God of the earthly Heroic Star. China |
God name "Hu Daoyuan" | China | God of the water earthworm Star. China |
God name "Hu Shen" | China | A god of hail |
God name "Hu Sheng" | China | God of the Western Constellations. China |
Goddess name "Hu Tu" | China | Goddess of the Summer solstice, earth Mother and the personification of the earth. China |
God name "Hu Yunpeng" | China | God of the Western Constellations. China |
God name "Huan Yang ch'ang" | China | God of the heart. China |
God name "Huang Fei-hu" | China | Originally an earth god who was promoted to the god Tai mountain eastern China and he now judges the souls of the dead when they come to his mountain. China |
God name "Huang T'ing" | China | The Star God of Civil Virtue. China |
God name "Huang Ti" | China | God of architecture and Astral god, some myths relate that Huang-ti manufactured and used "miraculous tripods" which were made in the "likeness of the Great Infinite," Tao, the concealed engine of the Universe. He also invented the compåśś. China |
God name "Huang Ti" | Chinese | Astral god. Allegedly a deified emperor, the so-called yellow emperor, who rules the moving as distinct from dark heavens, the latter being presided over by the god PAK TAI. He is attributed with giving mankind the wheel.... |
Goddess name "Hulka Devi" | Hindu | Goddess of cholera. Hindu |
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 "Huo Pu" | China | God of fire China |
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.... |