| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| King name "Hoples" | Greek | A son of Ion, a king of Athens between the reigns of Erechtheus and Cecrops |
| God name "Horagalles" | Finnish | The Sami god of the sky and of thunder, normally depicted wielding a pair of war-hammers. His Finnish counterpart was Ukko, and he is generally åśśociated with Thor. Horgalles was married to Raudna. |
| God name "Horagalles" | Lappish | weather god. The local embodiment of the Nordic (Icelandic) god THOR. Depicted as a bearded figure carrying a pair of hammers.... |
| God name "Horus" | Egypt | A god of prophecy, healing, music, art, war, victory, light, the north & the sky |
| God name "Horus" | Egypt | Horus the Younger A solar deity, god of the rising Sun, of light, Son of Osiris and Isis. The latter taught him the arts of magick and healing through oracles. He absorbed and was identified with the other Horus gods-the Heru group. Egypt |
| God name "Horus" | Egyptian | The Mighty One of Transformations. Egyptian god, the son of Isis and Osiris. God of the all-seeing eye. His animal is the falcon. |
| God name "Horus" | Egyptian | The Egyptian day-god, represented in hieroglyphics by a sparrow-hawk, which bird was sacred to him. He was son of Osiris and Isis, but his birth being premature he was weak in the lower limbs. As a child he is seen carried in his mother's arms, wearing the pschent or atf, and seated on a lotus-flower with his finger on his lips. As an adult he is represented hawk-headed. Strictly speaking, Horus is the rising Sun, Ra the noonday Sun, and Osiris the setting Sun. |
| God name "Hotu-matua" | s | The legendary founding father of Easter Island arrived from over the sea with a fleet of his family and followers after surviving a great catastrophe. The god of earthquakes, Poku, had upended Hotu-matua's homeland with a crowbar, sinking Hiva into the ocean depths. Lemuria, Mu |
| Nymph name "Houri" | Koran | The large blackeyed damsels of Paradise, possessed of perpetual youth and beauty, whose virginity is renewable at pleasure. Every believer will have seventy-two of these houris in Paradise, and his intercourse with them will be fruitful or otherwise, according to his wish. If an offspring is desired, it will grow to full estate in an hour. (Persian, huri; Arabic, huriya, nymphs of Paradise. Koran |
| Goddess name "Hours" | Egypt | underworld goddesses. The twelve daughters of the Sun god RE. They act in concert against the adversaries of Re and control the destiny of human beings in terms of each person's life span, reflecting the supremacy of order and time over chaos. The Hours are sometimes represented on the walls of royal tombs in anthropomorphic form with a five-pointed star above the head. Also Horae (Greek).... |
| God name "Hreidmar" | Norse | Father of Regin and Fafner. He exacts the blood-fine from the gods for slaying Otter. He is slain by Fafner. Norse |
"Hringhorn" | Norse | The ship upon which Balder's body was burned. Norse |
| God name "Hsi Ling su" | China | God of silk China |
| Demon name "Hsuan-T'ien-Shang-Ti" | China | God who removes demons and evil spirits. Invoke for exorcism, matters involving water. China |
| Deities name "Hu" | Egypt | God personifying royal authority. One of several minor deities born from drops of blood emitting from the śéméñ of the Sun god RE (see also SIA). Hu epitomizes the power and command of the ruler.... |
| Spirit name "Huaca" | Inca / pre - Columbian South America / Peru, etc | spirit being. The apotheosis of a natural object such as a rock or a place of local importance such as a spring. It is uncertain whether the principle is one of animism (when a deity takes on different natural shapes at will) or anImatism (when an object is a supernatural being in its own right).... |
| God name "Huang T'ing" | China | The Star God of Civil Virtue. 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.... |
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