| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Inanna" | Mesopotamia | Inana, the original "Holy Virgin," as the Sumerians called her, is the first known divinity åśśociated with the planet Venus. This Sumerian goddess became identified with the Semitic goddesses Ishtar and later Astarte, Egyptian Isis, Greek Aphrodite, Etruscan Turan and the Roman Venus. Mesopotamia |
| God name "Inmutef/ Inummutef" | Egypt | A minor canopic god |
| God name "Intal (gods their father)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of fire. Associated with paternalism and one of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Ipalnemoani (he who through one lives)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. One of the group clåśśed as the OMETEOTL complex.... |
| God name "Iruva" | African | Sun god. A number of tribes worship the Sun by this generic name, particularly in Cameroon, Congo and Tanzania.... |
| Goddess name "Is'ara" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian / / western Semitic | Goddess of marriage and childbirth. Also a deity concerned with the enforcing of oaths. Known chiefly from early inscriptions and some Akkadian texts. Her Mesopotamian cult center was the Babylonian town of Kisurra, but she is also thought to have been worshiped across a wide area among Syrians, Canaanites and Hittites. Her symbol is the scorpion. Also Es ara.... |
| God name "Ithm" | Canaan | God of herds, usually sheep. Canaan |
| God name "Itzam Cab" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic earth god. The earth aspect of the creator god ITZAM NA. He is also a god of fire, and hearthstones are called head of Itzam Cab. Sticks of firewood are his thighs, flames his tongue and the pot resting on the fire his liver. In his vegetation aspect he is depicted with leaves of maize sprouting from his head.... |
| God name "Itzcoliuhqui" | Aztec | God of volcanoes, destruction and of the night Aztec |
| Goddess name "Itzcuintli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Goddess of hearths. A guardian deity of the home personified by fire. One of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
| Goddess name "Itzpapalotl (obsidian butterfly)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor mother goddess. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex. Also recognized as a fire goddess.... |
| Goddess name "Itzpapalotl-Itzcueye (possessor of obsidian skirt)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor mother goddess. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex. Limited to the Valley of Mexico.... |
| God name "Itztapal Totec (our lord the stone slab)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Fertility god. A god of Agriculture but also a patron of precious metallurgists. One of the group clåśśed as the XIPE TOTEC complex.... |
| Goddess name "Ix Chebel Yax" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Mother goddess. Goddess of weaving and patroness of weavers, whose tutelage is shared with IX CHEL.See also CHIBIRIAS.... |
| Goddess name "Ix Chel" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | moon goddess. Also the goddess of childbirth and Medicine and of Rain bows. A consort of the Sun god. She has a major shrine as Cozumel and small figurines of the goddess have been conventionally placed beneath the beds of women in labor. Such women are considered to be in great danger at times of lunar eclipse when the unborn child may develop deformities. Ix Chel is a guardian against disease and the Quiche Indians regard her as a goddess of fertility and sexual inter course. A goddess of weaving, believed to be the first being on earth to weave cloth, she was employed in this craft when she first attracted the attention of the Sun god. She carries her loom sticks across the sky to protect her from jaguars. Under Chris tian influence she has been largely syncretized with the Virgin Mary.See also IX CHEBEL YAX.... |
| Goddess name "Ix Kanan" | Mayan / Mesoamer ican / Mexico | vegetation goddess. The guardian of the bean plant. Her consort is the maize god IH P'EN. The cou ple are invoked at sowing time when turkeys and chickens are sacrificed.... |
| Goddess name "Ix Zacal Nok (lady cloth-weaver)" | Mayan / Mesoameri can / Mexico | Creator goddess. The consort of the Sun god Kinich Ahau and also the inventor of weaving. She may represent another aspect of the mother goddess COLEL CAB. Also Ix Azal Uoh; Ixchel.See also AH KIN.... |
| God name "Ixcozauhqui (yellow face in the house)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mex ico | God of fire. Associated with paternalism and one of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
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