| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Hu Sheng" | China | God of the Western Constellations. China |
| Goddess name "Hu Tu" | China | Goddess of the Summer solstice, earth Mother and the personification of the earth. China |
| God name "Hu Yunpeng" | China | God of the Western Constellations. China |
| God name "Huan Yang ch'ang" | China | God of the heart. China |
| God name "Huang Fei-hu" | China | Originally an earth god who was promoted to the god Tai mountain eastern China and he now judges the souls of the dead when they come to his mountain. China |
| God name "Huang T'ing" | China | The Star God of Civil Virtue. China |
| God name "Huang Ti" | China | God of architecture and Astral god, some myths relate that Huang-ti manufactured and used "miraculous tripods" which were made in the "likeness of the Great Infinite," Tao, the concealed engine of the Universe. He also invented the compåśś. China |
| God name "Huehuecototl-Coyotlinahual" | Aztec | A minor god of feather workers |
| God name "Huehuecoyotl-Coyotlinahual (coyote his disguise)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of feather workers. One of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Hung Sing" | China | Guardian god of of fishing boats and their crews China |
| God name "Huo Pu" | China | God of fire China |
| God name "Hymen" | Greek | The god of marriage, was conceived as a handsome youth, and invoked in the hymeneal or bridal song. The names originally designated the bridal song itself, which was subsequently personified. The first trace of this personification occurs in Euripides or perhaps in Sappho. Greek |
| Goddess name "Ilmatar" | Finland | The virgin goddess of the air. She is portrayed as androgynous with both male and female aspects, though she is primarily female. Despite her virginity, she was the mother of Vainamoinen, the god of music, Lemminkainen, god of magic, and Ilmarinen, the god of smithing. Finland |
| Supreme god name "In-Shushinak" | Babylonia | The supreme god of the Elamites. East of Babylonia |
| God name "Ina" | Polynesia | A lunar deity daughter of Kui or Vaitere, who kept an eel in a jar, but it soon grew into the eel-god, Tuna, who tried to rape her. The people of Upolo rescued her and sentenced him to death. At his request, she buried his head in the sand and from it grew the first coconut. Ina is married to Marama, the god of the night. She lives in the sky during the daytime when her husband is not visible. Polynesia |
| God name "Inachus" | Greek | A river god and king of Argos, is described as a son of Oceåñuś and Tethys. By a Melian nymph, a daughter of Oceåñuś, or, according to others, by his sister Argeia, he became the father of Phoroneus and Aegialeus, to whom others add Io, Argos Panoptes, and Phegeus or Pegeus. Greek |
| Goddess name "Inana" | Mesopotamian / Sumeria | A goddess of fertility, of love & war |
| Goddess name "Inana, Istar,Ishtar" | Akkadian / Sumerian | The most important of all Mesopotamian goddesses, and a multi-faceted personality, occurring in cuneiform texts of all periods. The Sumerian name probably means "Lady of heaven";, and the Akkadian name Ishtar is related to the Syrian Astarte and the biblical Ashtaroth is usually considered as a daughter of Anzu, with her cult located in Uruk, but there are other traditions as to her ancestry, and it is probable that these reflect originally different goddesses that were identified with her. Ishtar is the subiect of a cycle of texts describing her love affair and ultimately fatal relationship with Tammuz. |
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