| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 "Hsi Ling su" | China | God of silk China |
| God name "Hunapu" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. According to the sacred text Popol Vub, the son of HUN HUNAPU and the twin brother of Ix Balan Ku. Tradition has it that, like his father, he was decapitated in a historic struggle with the underworld gods and subsequently became the Sun god, while his sibling is the apotheosis of the moon.... |
| Goddess name "Hygieia" | Greek | Goddess of health. The daughter of ASKLEPIOS, the physician god of healing. Hygieia was also a remedial drink made from wheat, oil and honey. She is depicted as Hygieia-Salus in a marble group sculpture in the Vatican, with Asclepius (the Roman god of healing) and the snake, which she is touching.... |
| God name "Imhotep" | Egypt | The first architect and physician known by name in written history. Two thousand years after his death, his status was raised to that of a god. He became the god of Medicine and healing. He was linked to Asclepius by the Greeks. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Inkanyamba" | Zulu / southern Africa | storm god. The deity specifically responsible for tornados and perceived as a huge snake coiling down from heaven to earth. According to some Zulu authorities, Inkanyamba is a goddess of storms and water.... |
| Goddess name "Isis" | Egypt | Goddess of childbirth, death, the earth, fertility, marital devotion, motherhood, healing, home, magic, the moon and the mother goddess Egypt |
| God name "Itzam Na/ Hun Itzamna/ Yaxcocahmut" | Maya | Another creator god, water, Agriculture, drawing, healing, Medicine & the moon |
| God name "Ixtlilton" | Aztec | The Little Black One God of healing and feasting. Aztec |
| God name "Izanagi and Izanami" | Japanese | were the two young gods chosen to bring order to the world of chaos in Japanese mythology. Izanagi was a tall and as strong as a willow sapling, while Izanami, his consort, was delicate in manner and speech, and as beautiful as the air that filled the High Plain of heaven. The Lord of heaven then gave Izanagi his legendary spear, Amanonuboko. |
| Goddess name "Janguli" | Buddhist | Goddess of healing and snakebites. Buddhist |
| God name "Jormungand" | Norse | The serpent, Jormungand was the middle child of Loki and the giantess, Angrboda. He had 2 siblings, Hel, and the wolf, Fenrir. Alarmed that Loki had fathered these children, Odin sent a group of gods to kidnap them. Once captured, Odin threw Jormungand into the ocean surrounding Midgard, where he lived from then on. The serpent grew so much that he encircled the whole world and bit his own tail. Norse |
| God name "Juggernaut or Jaggernaut" | Crow | The Hindu god Jagganath. The word is a corruption of the Sanscrit jagannatha (lord of the world). The temple of this god is in a town of the same name in Orissa. king Ayeen Akbery sent a learned Brahman to look out a site for a temple. The Brahman wandered about for many days, and then saw a crow dive into the water, and having washed, made obeisance to the element. This was selected as the site of the temple. While the temple was a-building the rajah had a prophetic dream, telling him that the true form of Vishnu should be revealed to him in the morning. When the rajah went to see the temple he beheld a log of wood in the water, and this log he accepted as the realisation of his dream, enshrined it in the temple, and called it Jagannath. |
| Goddess name "Jurasmat" | Latvia | Goddess of the sea and of healing who fell in love with a mortal called Kastysis. Latvia |
| Goddess name "Juterna/ Juturna" | Roman | A goddess of healing & springs invoked during drought |
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