Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Ice Giants" | Discworld | Similar to the Jotuns of Norse mythology, the Ice Giants are apparently necessary for the Apocralypse. When this came close to occurring during the events of Sourcery, the Ice Giants, described as huge beings made of ice with tiny, coal-like eyes and riding tame glaciers, hurtled down towards the civilised world. They spoke with a pronounced Nordic accent. Discworld |
Goddess name "Ichpuchtli" | Aztec | The ruler of love, marriage, flowers, art, music, women, magic, spinning, fertility, sex, weaving, and changes. Ichpuchtli is also the Goddess of Sacred Prostitutes, and professions which imitate nature. Aztec |
"Ichthyocentaurus" | Greek | A fish-centaur, or a particular kind of Triton. Ichthyocentauri were fabulous beings, the upper part of whose body was conceived to have a human form, and the lower that of a fish, while the place of the hands was occupied by a horse's feet. Greek |
"Ida" | Hindu | Of the earth, abundant food, and nourishment. She is also the granter of any blessings evoked through her. Hindu |
God name "Iegad" | Pelew Is | this is the god that is guilty of bringing light to earth |
God name "Ifa" | Yoruba | God of wisdom, knowledge and divining Yoruba |
God name "Ifa" | Yoruba / western Nigeria, West Africa | God of wisdom. An oracular deity who, according to tradition, lives in a sanctuary in the holy city of Ile Ife but who is called on by the tutelary god, OLDUMARE, for advice. He is the father of eight children, all of whom became paramount chiefs.... |
God name "Ifing" | Norse | A river which divides the giants from the gods. Norse |
Spirit name "Igalilik" | Inuit | Hunting spirit who travels through the icy wastes. Inuit |
Spirit name "Igalilik" | Inuit / North American | Hunting spirit. He travels the icy wastes with a kitchen strapped to his back which includes a pot big enough to carry a whole seal. It boils as he carries it.... |
Spirit name "Ignis Fatuus" | Russian | According to a Russian superstition, these wandering fires are the spirits of still-born children which flit between heaven and the Inferno. |
Goddess name "Ih P'eu" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic fertility god. The deity concerned with the growth of plants, and consort of the bean goddess IX KANAN. He is also god of family life, property and other wealth. The couple are invoked as a single personality with the sacrificeof turkeys and chickens at sowing time. Ih Fen may be represented sowing maize seed.... |
Goddess name "Ihi" | Tahiti | Goddess of learning, of wisdom. Tahiti |
God name "Ihoiho" | Society Isl | Creator god who created everything including the primeval waters Society Is. |
Ghost name "Ihoiho" | Tahiti | The ghosts of the dead, which were supposed often to visit the living, especially relatives, and to inflict illness or death. Tahiti |
God name "Ihoiho" | Polynesian / Society Islands | Creator god. Before Ihoiho there was nothing. He created the primeval waters on which floated TINO TAATA, the creator of mankind.... |
God name "Ihy" | Egypt | A young god personifying the jubilation emanating from the sacred rattle. Egypt |
Goddess name "Ihy" | Egypt / Upper | God of music. Minor deity personifying the jubilant noise of the cultic sistrum rattle generally åśśociated with the goddess Hathor. The son of HATHOR and HORUS. Particularly known from the Hathor sanctuary at Dendara. Depicted anthropomorphically as a nude child with a side-lock of hair and with finger in mouth. May carry a sistrum and necklace.... |