| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Grdhrasya" | Buddhist | Minor goddess whose name translates to face of a vulture Buddhist |
| Goddess name "Grdhrasya (face of a vulture)" | Buddhist | Minor goddess. Grismadevi (goddess of summer)... |
| Goddess name "Gugulanna" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Minor underworld deity. The consort of the goddess ERESiKIGAL, mentioned as the pretext on which the fertility goddess INANA descends to the netherworld.... |
| God name "Hani(s)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor god. The attendant of ADAD and linked with SULLAT.... |
| God name "Hani[s]" | Mesopotamia / Babylon / Akkadia | A minor god |
| 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.... |
| Goddess name "Hasta" | Hindu | Minor benevolent goddess of fortune Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
| Goddess name "Hasta (band)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor goddess of fortune. A benevolent NAKSATRA or astral goddess; daughter of DAKSA and wife of CANDRA (SOMA).... |
| God name "Havgan" | Welsh | Minor Welsh god who vied for the kingship of the Otherworld |
| Demon name "Hayagriva (horse neck)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | (1) The most significant minor incarnation of the god VIS'NU. He probably originated as a horse god and later became an avatara åśśociated with wisdom and knowledge. At the behest of BRAHMA, Hayagriva rescued the Vedas, stolen by two demons, from the bottom of the primeval ocean. Depicted in human form with the head of a horse and, according to the texts, eight hands. Attributes: Book (Veda), horse's mane and rosary. Also the attributes of Vis'nu. Also Hayasirsa, Vadavavaktra.(2) Patron god of horses. Buddhist-Lamaist [Tibet]. One of a group of DHARMAPALA with terrible appearance and royal attire, he is considered to be an emanation of AKSOBHYA or AMITABHA. His SAKTI is MARICI. Color: red. Attributes: horse heads, staff and trident, but also arrow, ax, banner, bow, club, flames, flower, image of Aksobhya or Amitabha on the crown, lotus, noose, prayer wheel, skin, snakes, sword and trident. Three-eyed.... |
| God name "Hayasum" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor god. Known from texts, but of uncertain function.... |
| Goddess name "Heket" | Egypt | Frog goddess concerned with birth. Minor deity who by some traditions is the consort of HAROERIS (see also HORUS). Texts refer to a major sanctuary at Tuna et-Gebel which has been totally obliterated. The remains of another sanctuary survive at Qus in Upper Egypt. In the Pyramid Texts she is referred to as a deity who eases the final stages of labor. Depicted as wholly frog-like or as a frog-headed human figure, often found on amulets or other magical devices åśśociated with childbirth.... |
| Goddess name "Hesat" | Egypt | Goddess of birth and a minor guardian of pregnant and nursing mothers. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Hesat" | Egypt | Goddess of birth. Minor guardian of pregnant and nursing mothers whose milk, the beer of Hesat, nourishes humanity. Identified in some texts as the mother of ANUBIS. Depicted as a cow.... |
| Goddess name "Hetepes-Sekhus" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld goddess. A minor deity accompanied by a retinue of crocodiles. As one of the manifestations of the vengeful eye of RE, she destroys the souls of the adversaries of the underworld ruler OSIRIS. Depicted as a cobra or anthropomorphically with a cobra's head.... |
| Deities name "Hi-Hiya-Hi" | Shinto / Japan | Sun god. One of a number of minor Sun deities, engendered from the blood of the god KAGU-TSUCHI and worshiped in the mountain sanctuary of the fire KAMIS, Kono-Jinja. In Japan certain older people still worship the Sun. They go outside at Sunrise, face east and bow, clapping their hands.... |
| God name "Hiisi Karelin" | Finland | A pre-Christian tree god that of course was demoted to mean devil, but in the eight minor sense |
| Goddess name "Hiko-Sashiri-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of carpenters. One of several minor deities involved in the building of a sacred hall of great beauty, used to entice the Sun goddess Amaterasu from her cave. Linked with the god TAOKI-HO-OI-NO-KAMI.... |
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