| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Gulissa Mata" | Hindu | Mother goddess who became a goddess of evil intent, inflecting sickness Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
| Goddess name "Gulliveig" | Norse | A goddess / sorceress of the Vanir race of gods |
| Goddess name "Gulsilia Mata" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. A SAKTI who in later Hinduism became regarded as of evil intent, inflicting sickness. Particularly known from Bengal.... |
| Goddess name "Gum Lin" | China | Goddess of rivers and Bamboo. China |
| Goddess name "Gunabibi" | Australian aboriginal | Creator goddess. Also known as Kunapipi, she is extensively revered by aborigines in northern Australia, including the Yolngu people. Her cult bears some similarity to that of the Greek mother goddess DEMETER and to Tantric cults in India. For this reason the cult is thought to have been introduced from Asia to Arnhem Land and then to other parts of the Australian continent as early as the sixth century. Mythology indicates that Gunabibi has been perceived as a deity who came from the sea or the rivers during the Dreamtime but who reigns now over dry land. Among modern aborigines she is the subject of esoteric rituals which also involve the great serpent Yulunggul with whom Gunabibi has been closely involved.... |
| Goddess name "Gungu" | Aryan | Goddess of the new moon who is invoked to place the fetus in the womb. Aryan |
| Goddess name "Gunura" | Sumeria | Goddess who had a seat named 'House Pure heaven,' in the Temple at Babil. Sumeria |
| Goddess name "Gunura" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | deity of uncertain status. Described variously as the husband of the goddess NIN'INSINA and the father of Damu (DUMUZI), but also as the sister of Damu.... |
| Goddess name "Gwen" | Celtic | Goddess of happiness who was so beautiful that no one could live if they looked at her to long. Celtic |
| Goddess name "Gwenn Teir Bronn" | Celtic | Goddess of motherhood. Celtic |
| Goddess name "Gwydion" | Celtic / Welsh | God of war. His mother is DON the Welsh mother goddess. He allegedly caused a war between Gwynedd and Dyfed. He visited the court of PRYDERI, son of RHIANNON, in Dyfed, and stole his pigs. In the ensuing combat Gwydion used magic powers and slew Pryderi. He seems to have underworld links, hence the route taken by the dead, the milky Way, was named Caer Gwydion.... |
| Goddess name "Gyhldeptis" | Haida | Kindly Forest goddess Tlingit / Haida |
| Goddess name "HUITZILPOCHTLI" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Blue hummingbird on left foot. Sun god, patron god of the Aztec nation. The tutelary god of the Aztecs who also regarded him as a war god. He is the southern (blue) aspect or emanation of the Sun god TEZCATLIPOCA, the so-called high-flying Sun, and the head of the group clåśśed as the Huitzilpochtli complex. He is regarded, in alternative tradition, as one of the four sons of Tezcatlipoca. His mother is the decapitated earth goddess COATLICUE, from whose womb he sprang fully armed. He slaughtered his sister (moon) and his 400 brothers (stars) in revenge for the death of his mother, signifying the triumph of Sunlight over darkness.... |
| Goddess name "Habetrot" | Anglo-Celtic | Goddess of healing and spinning and all who wore the clothing she made would never fall ill. Anglo-Celtic |
| Goddess name "Habetrot" | Celtic | A goddess of spell casting on the wheel of the year |
| Goddess name "Habondia aka Habonde" | Anglo-Celtic | Goddess of abundance and prosperity. Anglo-Celtic |
| Goddess name "Habondia/ Abondia/ Abunciada/ Habonde" | Britain | A goddess of abundance & prosperity |
| Goddess name "Hadad" | Western Semitic / Syrian / Phoenician | weather god. Derived from the Akkadian deity ADAD. In texts found at the site of the ancient Canaanite capital of Ugarit [Ras Samra] , the name of Hadad apparently becomes a substitute for that of BAAL. His voice is described as roaring from the clouds and his weapon is the thunderbolt. His mother is the goddess ASERAH. During Hellenic times he was predominantly worshiped at Ptolemais and Hierapolis. His Syrian consort is ATARGATIS, who overshadowed him in local popularity at Hierapolis. Statues of the two deities were carried in procession to the sea twice yearly. According to the Jewish writer Josephus, Hadad also enjoyed a major cult following at Damascus in the eighth and ninth centuries BC. By the third century BC the Hadad-Atargatis cult had extended to Egypt, when he becomes identified as the god SUTEKH. In the Greek tradition his consort becomes HERA.See also ADAD.... |
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