| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Hymir or Hymer" | Norse | A giant with whom Thor went fishing when he caught the Midgard-serpent. His wife was the mother of Tyr. Tyr and Thor went to him to procure a kettle for ?ger in which to brew ale for the gods. . Norse |
| God name "Icarius" | Greek | Also called Icarus and Icarion. An Athenian, who lived in the reign of Pandion, and hospitably received Dionysus on his arrival in Attica. The god showed him his gratitude by teaching him the cultivation of the vine, and giving him bags filled with wine. Icarius now rode about in a chariot, and distributed the precious gifts of the god; but some shepherds whom their friends intoxicated with wine, and who thought that they were poisoned by Icarius, slew him, and threw his body into the well Anygrus, or buried it under a tree. Greek |
| Goddess name "Igaehinvdo" | Cherokee | Goddess of the Sun Cherokee |
| God name "Ihoiho" | Society Isl | Creator god who created everything including the primeval waters Society Is. |
| God name "Ihoiho" | Polynesian / Society Islands | Creator god. Before Ihoiho there was nothing. He created the primeval waters on which floated TINO TAATA, the creator of mankind.... |
| God name "Iksvaku" | Hindu / Vedic | Creator god. One of the ancestral dynasty of Sun gods or ADITI.... |
| Deities name "Iku-Ikasuchi-No-Kami" | Japan | God of thunder, the most significant of the eight thunder deities, Japan / Shinto |
| Deities name "Iku-Ikasuchi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of thunder. The most significant of the eight thunder deities which emerged from the corpse of IZANAMI after she was burned to death.... |
| God name "Ikvaku" | Hindu / Vedic | An ancestral Sun god, that creator god |
| Goddess name "Ila" | Hindu | Minor goddess of sacrifices Hindu / Vedic |
| Goddess name "Ila" | Hindu / Vedic | Minor god(dess) of sacrifices. She is invoked to appear on the sacrificial field before a ritual. Usually åśśociated with the goddess SARASVATI, Ila is linked with the sacred cow and her epithets include butter-handed and butter-footed.... |
| Goddess name "Ilmatar" | Finland | The virgin goddess of the air. She is portrayed as androgynous with both male and female aspects, though she is primarily female. Despite her virginity, she was the mother of Vainamoinen, the god of music, Lemminkainen, god of magic, and Ilmarinen, the god of smithing. Finland |
| Goddess name "Imazuma" | Japan | Goddess of lightning Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Imra" | Hindu / Kush | The chief pre-Islamic god of the Hindukush Kafir people. He was worshipped as the god of creation. By his breath, Imra created other gods of Kafir pantheon. Frequent sacrifiices were made to Imra, sometimes for recovery from sickness, seasonable weather, or other material benefits, sometimes from motives of simple piety. Imra was more honored than the other gods at the religious dances. Hindu / Kush |
| God name "In r" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Tutelary and weather god. The brother of GISH and father of DISANI and Pano. Probably derived from the more widely recognized Aryan god INDRA, Indr is known chiefly from the Waigal and Prasun areas of the southern Hindukush. It is generally åśśumed that he was ousted from major importance by the god IMRA. Indr is also a god of wine who owns substantial vineyards and is åśśociated in south Nuristan with wine rituals (the annals of Alexander the Great suggest that he met with winedrinking worshipers of DIONYSOSin the Hindukush). In the Ashkun region of southwestern Kafiristan, a famous vineyard near the village of Wamais is sacred to Indr. Also Inder.... |
| Supreme god name "In-Shushinak" | Babylonia | The supreme god of the Elamites. East of Babylonia |
| Goddess name "Inar (rice-grower)" | Shinto / Japan | God (Goddess) of foodstuffs. The popular name of a god(dess) worshiped under the generic title Miketsu-No-Kami in the Shi-Den sanctuary of the imperial palace, but rarely elsewhere. The deity displays gender changes, develops many personalities and is revered extensively in Japan. Inari is often depicted as a bearded man riding a white fox but, in pictures sold at temple offices, (s)he is generally shown as a woman with long flowing hair, carrying sheafs of rice and sometimes, again, riding the white fox. Inari sanctuaries are painted bright red, unlike most other Shinto temples. They are further characterized by rows of wooden portals which form tunnels leading to the sanctuary. Sculptures of foxes are prolific (an animal endowed, in Japanese tradition, with supernatural powers) and the shrines are decorated with a special device, the Hoju-No-Tama, in the shape of a pear surrounded by small flames. Often identified with the food goddess TOYO-UKE-BIME.... |
| God name "Inari" | Japan / Shinto | God of fertility, rice, Agriculture, and foxes. Inari's foxes, or kitsune, are pure white and act as his messengers. Japan / Shinto |
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