| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Harakhti" | Egypt | A form of the god HORUS. The aspect of the god who rises at dawn in the eastern sky. According to Pyramid Texts, the king is born on the eastern horizon as Harakhti, which contradicts the more commonly held belief that the king is the son of RE, the Sun god.... |
| God name "Hardaul" | Hindu | Plague god, also a wedding god. A locally worshiped deity known particularly in Bundelkhand, northern India, as a protector against cholera and considered to have been an historical figure who died in AD 1627.... |
| God name "Harendotes" | Egypt | A very young and very combative aspect of the Horus god, who is included in the Texts of the Pyramids. Egypt |
| God name "Harendotes [Greek]" | Egypt | Form of the god HORUS. Under this name, Horus specifically guards and protects his father OSIRIS in death. He thus becomes åśśociated with sarcophagi and appears frequently in coffin texts. Also Har-nedj-itef (Egyptian).... |
| God name "Hari (yellowish brown)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor incarnation of the god V IS'NU. Popularized by modern religious movements, Hari is one of the sons of the god DHARMA who sprang from the heart of BRAHMA. He is most closely linked with KRSNA, but he and Krsna also parallel Dharma's other sons, NARA and NARAYANA. Hari can be a more generic epithet applied to several Hindu gods.... |
| God name "Harimagadas" | Islands | Holy Maidens who sacrificed themselves by jumping from a towering cliff into the sea. This act was meant to propitiate the sea-god and prevent him from sinking their island. Canary Islands |
| Goddess name "Harimella" | Scotland | A Goddess of protection; of Tungrain origin. Scotland |
| Goddess name "Harimella/ Viradechthis" | Scotland | A goddess of Tungrain origin |
| God name "Harisu" | New Guinea | The benevolent and invisible great god who is the source of all good. New Guinea |
| Goddess name "Hariti" | Buddhist | A plague goddess åśśociated with smallpox |
| Goddess name "Hariti" | Buddhist | Goddess for the protection of children, easy delivery, happy child rearing and parenting, harmony between husband and wife, love, and the well-being and safety of the family. Women without children also pray to Kishimojin to help them become pregnant. Originally, Hariti was a cannibalistic demon. She had hundreds of children whom she loved and doted upon, but to feed them, she abducted and killed the children of others. Buddhist |
| Goddess name "Hariti (green or stealing)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | (1) Mother goddess. One of the group of MATARAS (mothers) who are the patrons of children. Considered by some to be identical with the goddess Vriddhi. Her consort is Pancika, alternatively KUBERA. In her destructive aspect she steals and eats children. Particularly known from the north and northwest of India. Attribute: a child may be held at her hip, sometimes being eaten.(2) Plague goddess. Buddhist. Associated with smallpox. Also regarded in some texts as the goddess of fertility.... |
| God name "Harmachis" | Greek | Another form of the Egyptian god Horus |
| God name "Harmachis [Greek]" | Egypt | Form of the god HORUS. Harmachis is Horus as the Sun god. Inscriptions from the New kingdom (circa 1550-1000 BC) identify the sphinx at Giza as Harmachis looking toward the eastern horizon. Also Har-em-akhet (Egyptian).... |
| God name "Harmeti" | Egypt | The tutelary god of Seden, a form of Horus |
| God name "Harmonia" | Greek | A daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, or, according to others, of Zeus and Electra, the daughter of Atlas, in Samothrace. When Athena åśśigned to Cadmus the government of Thebes, Zeus gave him Harmoia for his wife, and all the gods of Olympus were present at the marriage. Cadmus on that day made her a present of a peplus and a necklace, which he had received either from Hephaestus or from Europa. Greek |
| Goddess name "Harmonia" | Greco - Roman | Goddess of joining. Daughter of ARES (MARS) and APHRODITE (VENUS) or Cytherea. The consort of Cadmus and mother of Ino, SEMELE, Agave, Autonoe and Polydorus. She is the apotheosis of harmony in life which is also displayed in musical euphony. Also Hermione.... |
| God name "Haro" | Melanesia | The Sun god whose wife, Taio, is the moon. Melanesia |
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