| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Hloride" | Norse | One of the names of Thor; the bellowing thunderer. Norse |
"Hnos [Anglo-Sax" | Norse | To hammer]. A costly thing; the name of one of Freyja's daughters. Norse |
| God name "Ho Po Ping" | China | God of the Yellow River China |
| God name "Ho Po Ping I" | China | A god of the Yellow River |
| God name "Ho-Po" | Taoist / Chinese | River god. The so-called Count of the River, the deity who controls all rivers but particularly the Yellow River, and who is the subject of an official cult and sacrifice. According to tradition he achieved immortality by weighing himself down with stones and drowning himself. He received an annual sacrifice of a young girl until the end of the Shou Dynasty circa 250 BC. Also Hebo; Ping-Yi.... |
| God name "Hoder" | Norse | One of the three creating gods. With Odin and Loder H?ner creates Ask and Embla, the first human pair. Norse |
"Hodmimer's forest" | Norse | Hodmimer's holt or grove, where the two human beings Lif and Lifthraser were preserved during Ragnarok. Norse |
| God name "Hoenir" | Scandinavia | An Aesir god and the brother of Odin and Ludor. Together they slew Ymir, the great giant of the beginning. They created the earth from his flesh, the sea and fresh water from his blood, the mountains from his bones; then mankind from two trees, man from the ash and woman from the elm. Hoenir gave them their senses and understanding, intelligence and motion. The two lesser brothers are sometimes considered aspects of Odin, eventually disappearing, Hoenir as hostage to the Vanir at the end of the war with the Aesir. Scandinavia |
| God name "Hoenir" | Nordic / Icelandic / Identified in the Voluspa / Poetic Edda / as the priest of the Viking gods who handles the blood wands i | God. e. Divines future events. Some authors believe Hoenir to be a hypostasis of the god OTHIN, particularly concerned with giving the human race senses and feelings. Also known in north Germanic culture. He is said to have fled to Vanaheim after the great battle between the AESIR and VANIR gods.... |
| God name "Hogfather" | Europian | The Discworld's version of Father Christmas or Santa Claus. He wears a red, fur-lined cloak, and rides a sleigh pulled by four wild boars, Gouger, Rooter, Tusker and Snouter. In earlier times he gave households pork products, and naughty children a bag of bloody bones. Earlier than that, he was a Winter god of the death-and-renewal kind. The modern version is a jolly toymaker, with vestiges of the earlier myths (such as his Castle of Bones, a vast palace of ice which has nothing notably bony about it, except for the suggestion of a protruding femur or scapula here and there) still clinging to him. |
| Spirit name "Hokewingla" | Dakota | Turtle spirit Dakota |
| God name "Hoki the Jokester" | Discworld | A nature god usually found haunting the deep woods of the Ramtops, in which he manifests himself as an oak tree or a flute playing half-man, half-goat figure. Thought of by many gods and people alike as a bloody nuisance and a bad practical joker, he was eventually banished from Dunmanifestin for pulling the old exploding mistletoe joke on Blind Io. Discworld |
| God name "Holly King & Oak King" | Celtic | Two sacrificial gods |
| God name "Holly King and Oak King," | Celtic | Two sacrificial gods Celtic |
| God name "Honir" | Norse | God who gave humans and their understanding and feelings. Norse |
| God name "Honir" | Norse | this is the god they gave humans and their understanding & feelings |
| Demon name "Honoyeta" | New Guinea | An enormous snake demon who brought mortality to human beings. Papua New Guinea |
| God name "Honus" | Roman | God of military honors. Depicted as a youthful warrior carrying a lance and cornucopia.... |
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