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.... |
God name "Hung Sing" | China | Guardian god of of fishing boats and their crews China |
God name "Hurabtil" | Elamite / Iran | God of uncertain status. Known only from påśśing mention in Akkadian texts. Also Lahurabtil.... |
God name "Hyes" | Greek | The moist or fertilising god, occurs like Hyetius, as a surname of Zeus, as the sender of Rain. 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 "Iae" | Brazil | God of the moon. Iae and his brother, Kuat, stole the light from the vulture god Urubutsin. Kuat became the Sun god and Iae god of the moon. Brazil |
Goddess name "Ih P'eu" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic fertility god. The deity concerned with the growth of plants, and consort of the bean goddess IX KANAN. He is also god of family life, property and other wealth. The couple are invoked as a single personality with the sacrificeof turkeys and chickens at sowing time. Ih Fen may be represented sowing maize seed.... |
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.... |
Goddess name "Inlti (sun)" | Inca / pre - Columbian South America / Peru, etc | Sun god. His consort is the moon goddess MAMA-KILYA. Inti was depicted as a trinity in the sanctuaries in Cuzco, possibly in deference to the Christian Trinity. The Temple of the Sun is reported to have housed images, in gold, of all the sky gods in the Inca pantheon on more or less equal terms, since the Sun is regarded as one of many great celestial powers. Inti may also have been depicted as a face on a gold disc. The socalled fields of the Sun supported the Inca priesthood. The three Sun deities are Apo-Inti (lord Sun), Cori-Inti (son Sun) and Inti-Wawqi (sun brother). The Sun god(s) is perceived as the progenitor of the Inca rulers at Cuzco through two childrena son Manco Capac and his sister / consort Mama Ocllo Huaco. The Quechua Indians of the central Andes call the same deity Inti Huayna Capac and perceive him as part of a trinity with the Christian god and Christ.... |
God name "Isimud" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Messenger god. Readily identified by possessing two faces looking in opposite directions, Isimud is the messenger of the god ENKI. Also Isinu; Usumu (Akkadian).... |
God name "Isinu" | Mesopotamian | A two-faced god who carried messages for Enki. Mesopotamian |
God name "Jawhe" | Israel | Thought to be God of mountains prior to becoming the god of Israel,Mount Sinai is his suspected mountain Israel |
God name "Jawhe/ Jahve/ Jehovah" | Israel | Thought to be a mountain god prior to becoming the god of Israel, Mount Sinai is his suspected mountain |
God name "K'uei Hsing" | Chinese | Chinese god of examinations. |
God name "Kai Yum (singing lord)" | Mayan / Lacandon / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of music. He lives in the sky and is attendant on CACOCH, one of the aspects the Mayan creator god. Depicted as a brazier shaped like a pottery drum.... |
God name "Kamalasana" | Hindu / Puranic | God. An epithet of BRAHMA. One of the clåśśic depictions in Hindu art wherein Brahma is drawn seated on a lotus, which blossoms from the navel of VISINU.... |
God name "Kamantakamurti" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor god. A violent aspect of SI IVA in which he is depicted immolating Kama, the god of sexual love, using a blast of fire from his third eye. The reason given for this åśśault is that Kama had interrupted the ascetic meditation of SI iva by making him desirous of PARVATI.... |
Goddess name "Kamrusepa" | Hittite / Hurrian | Goddess of healing. Mother of Aruna. Involved in the legend of TELEPINU, the missing vegetation fertility god.... |