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Encyclopedia Of Mythology, Folklore And Religion
Gods, Goddesses, Ghosts, Ghoulies,
Heroes, Villains and Things That Go Bump In The Night
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- Ha, a god of the deserts to the west of Egypt
- Ha Wen Neyu, the great spirit of the Iroquois.
- Haapkemnas. The god from before time and the creator of all
things. Takelma
- Haar. The High One, applied to Odin. Norse
- Hobatoke. The supreme god who lives in the sky. Sierra
Leone
- Habetrot. Goddess of healing and spinning and all who wore
the clothing she made would never fall ill. Anglo-Celtic
- Habioro. A sub-angelic Watchtower leader in the East.
Enochian
- Habondia aka Habonde. Goddess of abundance and prosperity.
Anglo-Celtic
- Habuiri, a creator and sky god who make plants grow. West
Indies
- Hacauitz, Mountains god Mayan
- Hachacyum. The creator and principle deity of the Lacandon.
Mexico
- Hachiman. God of war, battle, honour, courage, bravery and
personal success. Mayan
- Hadad, a god of storms, thunder and lightning, he also worked
part-time as a sky and sun god and a protecter of the harvest.
Syria
- Hadakai, Goddess of health and Rabies India
- Hades,
or Pluton, Pluto, Plouton, Dis (Roman), and Aidoneus, the god of
the lower world; Plato observes that people preferred calling him
Pluton (the giver of wealth) to pronouncing the dreaded name of
Hades or Aides. Hence we find that in ordinary life and in the
mysteries the name Pluton became generally established, while the
poets preferred the ancient name Aides or the form Pluteus.
Greek
- Hae Soon, Goddess of war Korea
- Haemon.
A son of Pelasgus and father of Thessalus. The ancient name of
Thessaly, viz. Haemonia, or Aemonia, was believed to have been
derived from him. (Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius)
- Haemon. A son of Lycaon, and the
reputed founder of Haemonia in Arcadia. (Description of Greece by
Pausanias.
Book 8; Apollodorus
III)
- Haemon. A son of Creon of Thebes, perished, according to some
accounts, by the sphinx. (Apollodorus III) But, according to
other traditions, he survived the war of the Seven against
Thebes, and he is said to have been in love with Antigone, and to
have made away with himself on hearing that she was condemned by
his father to be entombed alive.
Aeneid Book IX. In the Iliad Book 6. Maeon is called a son of
Haemon.
- Haepuru. A god of the heavens and part of a trinity who,
along with Roiho and Roake fashioned the first human female. New
Zealand
- Hagno. An Arcadian nymph, who is said to have brought up Zeus. Greek
- Hafoza, God of thunder and lightning. Jate
- Hah, God who was the bearer of heaven, a personification of
infinity and eternity. Egypt
- Hahana Ku, Messenger god. Mayan
- Hahgwehdiyu, the creator god; he planted a single maize plant
in his mother's body. This single plant grew and was a gift to
mankind. Iroquois
- Hahgwehdaetgan the evil twin brother of Hahgwehdiyu.
Iroquois
- Haikili, the god of thunder.Hawaii Polynesian
- Haili'la Haida, Plague god associated with small pox.
Interesting history. Cool PNW
- Hainuwele. 'The Coconut Girl' who, when she "answered the
call of nature" excreted valuable items. She was killed and
buried by villagers but her boyfriend exhumed the corpse and cut
it into pieces which he then re-buried around the village. These
pieces grew into the various tuberous plants, giving origin to
the principle foods the people of Indonesia have enjoyed ever
since. Seram, New Guinea
- Haiyococab, the Aztec “Water Over Earth,” from
which “the Earth-upholding gods escaped when the world was
destroyed by a deluge.
- Haka. The goddess who, along with her husband Tetoo, created
the sky and the earth. Polynesia
- Hakahotu. The Earth Mother and guiding feminine principle.
Polynesia
- Hakui A god who imbued his followers with a vigorous spirit
and the will to fight enemies Shinto
- Hala The sky god of the Kisi. Guinea
- Halahala, the name of a poison created from the sea when
Devas and Asuras churned the sea in order to obtain Amrita, the
nectar of immortality. Hindu
- Halakwulup. A sky god whose eyes are the sun and the moon.
Tierra del Fuego
- Halboredja. God of the sun, justice and victory. Arizona
- Haldi Urart, Tutelary god Armenia
- Halesus. An Argive, a companion of Agamemnon. He settled in
Italy, and at the head of the Osci aided Turnus against Aeneas.
He fell by the hand of Pallas,
Aeneid Book X. etc.
- Halia,
One of the Nereides (Apollodorus i.) but the plural,
Haliae, is used as a name for marine nymphs in general.
- Halia.
A sister of the Telchines in Rhodes, by whom Poseidon had six sons and one daughter,
Rhodos or Rhode, from whom the island of Rhodes received its
name. Halia, after leaping into the sea, received the name of
Leucothea, and was worshipped as a divine being by the Rhodians.
Greek
- Haliacmon. A son of Oceanus and
Tethys, was a river god of
Macedonia.
- Haliartus. A son of Thersander,
and grandson of Sisyphus, founded the
town of Haliartus in Boeotia. He is further said to have been
adopted with Coronus by Athamas
- Halimede, one of the Nereides. Greek
- Halios or Halius. The name of two mythical personages, one a
Lycian, who was slain by Odysseus and
the other a son of Alcinous and
Arete.
- Halirrhothius, a son of
Poseidon and Euryte. He attempted by
violence to seduce Alcippe, the
daughter of Ares and Agraulos, but he was taken by surprise by
Ares, who killed him. Greek
- Halitherses, a son of Mastor of Ithaca. He was a soothsayer.
Greek
- Halios, the name of two mythical personages, one a Lycian,
who was slain by Odysseus and the other a son of Alcinous and
Arete. Greek
- Halius. Slain by Pandarus.
Aeneid Book IX.
- Halki, God of barley and grain. Hittite
- Hallinskid. Another name of the god Heimdal. The possessor of
the learning way. Norse
- Halmus, a son of Sisyphus, and father of Chryse and
Chrysogeneia. He was regarded as the founder of the Boeotian town
of Halmones. Greek
- Halsodyne. That is, "the sea-fed," or the sea-born goddess,
occurs as a surname of Amphitrite
and Thetys. Greek
- Haltia, Goddess of healing Finnish/Ugric
- Halys. Killed by Turnus.
Aeneid Book IX.
- Ham vareti, the departed soul of a hero who hangs around to
help and protect his descendants. Persia
- Ham Ziwa. The male counterpart to the occult Tanna. Means:
"radiance glowed". Early Nazorean
- Hamadryads. Nymphs of trees supposed to live in
forest—trees, and die when the tree dies. The nymphs of
fruit—trees were called Melides or Hamamelids.
Roman/Greek
- Hamadryas. A daughter of Oreios
who was the mother of eight Hamadryad nymphs by her brother
Oxylus
- Hamavehae, Trinity of mother goddesses Roman/Rhineland
- Hambwira The sun god who wanders from land of Winnebago in
search for truth. Wisconsin
- Hamedicu, The supteme and most High god. Huron
- Hameh. In mythology, a bird formed from the blood near the
brains of a murdered man. This bird cries “Iskoonee!”
(Give me drink!), meaning drink of the murderer's blood; and this
it cries incessantly till the death is avenged, when it flies
away. Arabian
- Hamendiju. The Great Sky Spirit who watches over the people
to see that no harm came to them. The Wyandotte
- Hami-Yasu-Hime, Goddess of potters Japan/Shinto
- Hammon aka Ammon, an oracle god who had the shape of a ram.
This was taken over by the Egyptians, who identified the god with
their supreme god Amun; they called god of the oracle 'Amun of
Siwa, lord of good counsel'. Libya
- Hammon, or Ammon. An appellation of Jupiter, as worshipped in
Libya.
Aeneid Book IV.
- Hamskerper [Hide-hardener]. A horse; the sire of Hofvarpner,
which was Gnaa's horse. Norse
- Han, the black of darkness who was banished to the underworld
then became the nighttime. Plains Indians
- Han Xiang-Zhi, Immortal being, there were eight. And here
they are: Kao Kuo-Zhu; He Xian-Ku; Lan Kai-He; Li Thieh-Kuai; Lu
Tong-Pin; Zhang Kuo-Lao; Zhong-Li Kuan. China/Taoist
- Hana, God of silence. Norse
- Hananim The most ancient supreme god presiding over the
affairs of heaven and earth. Korea
- Hanghepi, God of the moon. Dakota
- Hani-Yasu-Hiko, God of potters. Japan/Shinto
- Hanis, a small-time god who, along with Sullat will escort
Adad when he brings the flood. Sumerian
- Hannahanna, Mother Goddess who recommends to the Storm-god
that he pay the Sea-god the bride-price for the Sea-god's
daughter on her wedding to Telipinu. Hittite
- Hanoona Wilapona The Sun-father of the Zuni Indians. New
Mexico
- Hansa. The name, according to the Bhagavata Purana, of the
"One Caste" when there were as yet no varieties of caste, but
verily "one Veda, one Deity and one Caste". Hindu/Puranic
- Hanuman, a celestial being, named Punjikasthala, who, due to
a curse, was born on the earth as a female vanara. The curse was
to be removed on her giving birth to an incarnation of Lord
Shiva. Hindu
- Hanumat, the fleet-footed manifestation of wind. Hindu
- Hanwasuit, Tutelary goddess of of the throne, kings received
their mandate from her Hittite
- Hanwi, Goddess of the dawn and twilight, the most beautiful
of all beings. Plains
- Ha’o. The supreme being and sky god whose eye is the
sun. Ethiopia
- Hao. God who resided in the river. Ethiopia
- Hao Ch'iu, God of the heart China
- Haokah is a god of thunder and lightning. His emotions are
portrayed opposite the norm; he laughs when he is sad and cries
when he is happy. In art, he is depicted as having two horns.
Lakota
- Haoma, name of a plant and its divinity, both of which play a
role in Zoroastrian doctrine and in later Persian culture.
- Hapantalli, God of the Nile, fish, barley, grain, herbs,
water, dew, and fertility. Egypt
- Hapantalli aka Hapantalliyas. He took his place at the
Moon-god's side when he fell from heaven on the 'kilammar'.
Irsirra
- Hapi, one of the Four sons of Horus depicted in funerary
literature as protecting the throne of Osiris in the Underworld.
Hapi is depicted as a baboon-headed mummified human on funerary
furniture and especially the canopic jars that held the organs of
the deceased. Hapi's jar held the lungs. Hapi was also the
protector of the North. Egypt
- Haptoring, the chieftain of the north constellations,
assigned by Ohrmazd in his struggle with Ahriman. Mazdayasnian
The
Bundahishn.
- Hapy, a deification of the annual flood of the Nile River.
Egypt
- Har. The first person of the Scandinavian Trinity, which
consists of Har (the Mighty), the Like Mighty, and the Third
Person. This Trinity is called “The Mysterious
Three,” and they sit on three thrones above the Rainbow.
The next in order are the Aesir, of which Odin, the chief, lives
in Asgard, on the heavenly hills between Earth and the Rainbow.
The third order is the Vanir — the gods of the ocean, air,
and clouds — of which Van Niord is the chief. Har has
already passed his ninth incarnation; in his tenth he will take
the forms first of a peacock, and then of a horse, when all the
followers of Mahomet will be destroyed.
- Har. In Indian mythology, is the second person of the
Trinity.
- Hara, Avatar of Siva. Hindu/Puranic
- Hara-Yama-Tsu-Mi, God of mountains concerned with the wooded
mountain slopes. Japan/Shinto
- Harachte, God of the morning sun. Egypt
- Harakhti, Form of the god Horus. Egypt
- Harbard. The name assumed by Odin in the Lay of Harbard.
Norse
- Hardaul, the patron of unmarried girls and brides who ensures
respectively the marriage and wellbeing in the married life.
Hindu
- Harendotes, a very young and very combative aspect of the
Horus god, who is included in the Texts of the Pyramids.
Egypt
- Hari. A name of Vishnu as a solar deity. India
- Harihara, Twin divinity composed of Visnu and Siva.
India
- Harimella, a Goddess of protection; of Tungrain origin.
Scotland
- Harisu. The benevolent and invisible great god who is the
source of all good. New Guinea
- Hariti, goddess for the protection of children, easy
delivery, happy child rearing and parenting, harmony between
husband and wife, love, and the well-being and safety of the
family. Women without children also pray to Kishimojin to help
them become pregnant. Originally, Hariti was a cannibalistic
demon. She had hundreds of children whom she loved and doted
upon, but to feed them, she abducted and killed the children of
others. Buddhist
- Haro. The sun god whose wife, Taio, is the moon.
Melanesia
- Haroot and Maroot. Two angels who, in consequence of their
want of compassion to man, are susceptible of human passions, and
are sent upon earth to be tempted. They were at one time kings of
Babel, and are still the teachers of magic and the black arts.
Hebrew
- Haronga A sky god and the father of Ra the sun and Marama the
moon. Maori
- Harmachis, Form of the Egyptian god Horus Greek
- Harmeti, demonic solar god. Egypt
- Harmonia,
a daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, or, according to others, of Zeus
and Electra, the daughter of Atlas, in Samothrace. When Athena
assigned to Cadmus the government of Thebes, Zeus gave him
Harmoia for his wife, and all the gods of Olympus were present at
the marriage. Cadmus on that day made her a present of a peplus
and a necklace, which he had received either from Hephaestus or
from Europa. Greek
- Harmonia's Robe. On the marriage of Harmonia, Vulcan, to avenge the infidelity of her mother,
made the bride a present of a robe dyed in all sorts of crimes,
which infused wickedness and impiety into all her offspring. Both
Harmonia and Cadmos, after having suffered many misfortunes, and
seen their children a sorrow to them, were changed into serpents.
Greek
- Haroeris, Form of the Egyptian god Horus, but this time as an
adult Greek
- Harpalycus, one of Aeneas' companions, who was slain by
Camillus.
Aeneid Book XI.
- Harpina,
a daughter of Asopus, from whom the town of Harpina or Harpinna
in Elis was believed to have derived its name. She became by Ares
the mother of Oenomaus. Greek
- Harpocrates. The Greek form of the Egyptian god
Har—pi—kruti (Horus the Child), made by the Greeks
and Romans the god of silence. This arose from a pure
misapprehension. It is an Egyptian god, and was represented with
its “finger on its mouth,” to indicate youth, but the
Greeks thought it was a symbol of silence. Greek
- Har—pi—kruti. Form of the Egyptian god Horus, as
a child sitting on his mother's knee.
- Harpre, God whose job was to protect the king from illness
and misfortune. Egypt
- Harpalyce. A daughter of Harpalycus, king of the Amymnaeans
in Thrace. As she lost her mother in her infancy, she was brought
up by her father with the milk of cows and mares, and was trained
in all manly exercises. After the death of her father, whom she
had once delivered from the hand of the Myrmidones, she spent her
time in the forests as a robber, being so swift in running that
horses were unable to overtake her. At length, however, she was
caught in a snare by shepherds, who killed her. Aeneid
Book 1. Hyginus. Fabulae, 193.
- Harpalyce. A maiden who died because her love of Iphiclus was
not returned. In commemoration of her fate, a contest in songs
was celebrated by maidens. Aristoxenus, ap. Athen. xiv.
- Harpalyce. The daughter of King Clymenus of Arcadia, son of
Schoeneus or of Teleus of Argos. Clymenus was overcome with
passion for his daughter. There are several versions of what
happened next. In the first version Clymenus, son of Schoeneus,
rapes his daughter and she becomes pregnant. When the son was
born she serves him up as a meal at a banquet, to his father. Her
father killed her. In an alternative version of this tale, she
was instead transformed into a bird, the Calchis. In the second
version Harpalyce is the daughter of Clymenus son of Teleus of
Argos, and of Epicasta, and she has two brothers: Idas and
Therager. Clymenus is overcome with passion for his daughter and
secretly embarks on an affair with her that lasts for some time.
Finally, Alastor, descendant of Neleus, came to claim Harpalyce
as his wife, she having been betrothed to him since she was
young. When the couple were halfway to their home, Clymenus
abducted her back and lived with her openly as his wife.
Harpalyce, being upset by father's treatment of her, killed her
younger brother and served him up to his father at a banquet. She
then prayed to the gods and was transformed into a bird called
the Calchis. Clymenus took his own life. Parthenius, Love
Romances 13; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 12.
- Harpalycus, one of Aeneas' companions, who was slain by
Camillus.
Aeneid Book XI.
- Harpyia
or Harpies, that is, "the swift robbers," are, in the Homeric
poems, nothing but personified storm winds. Homer mentions only
one by name, viz. Podarge, who was married to Zephyrus, and gave
birth to the two horses of Achilles, Xanthus and Balius.
Greek
- Harrimiah, the abused twin brother of Perindi, buries himself
in the sand and is watched over by the wattle and apple trees.
Australian
- Harsa, Goddess Hindu
- Harsaphes. Ram-headed god of fertility and water
Egypt/Greek
- Harsieses. Form of the god Horus, especially as the child of
Isis and Osiris. Egypt
- Harsaphes. God of Herakleopolis, represented with ram's head.
Harsaphes was eventually assimilated with Osiris and Re.
Egypt
- Harsomtus, from the Greek, indicating a form of Horus as a
child. Harsomtus unifies northern and southern Egypt. At the Edfu
Temple, he is identified as the offspring of Horus the elder and
Hathor.
- Harti, Demoness whom Buddha converted to a goddess who
protects children instead of eating them. Japan/China
- Haruspex. Persons who interpreted the will of the gods by
inspecting the entrails of animals offered in sacrifice. Cato
said, “I wonder how one haruspex can keep from laughing
when he sees another.” Roman
- Hasamelis, God who can protect travelers Hittite/Hurrian
- Hasameli, God of blacksmiths and of the craft of
wrought-iron. Hittite
- Hishe. The great self-created god who then created all the
lesser gods, the earth, mankind, wild animals and vegetation.
Botswana
- Hasta, Minor benevolent goddess of fortune
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Hastbaka, Oldest male of the spirits Navaho
- Hastebaad, Chief of the female spirits Navaho
- Hastehogan, Chief male spirit of the house Navaho
- Hastseltsi, Male spirit of racing. Navaho
- Hastseoltoi, Female spirit of hunting Navaho
- Hastseyalti, Talking God, God of the dawn and the eastern
sky. Navaho
- Hastsezini, Male spirit of fire Navaho
- Hatala. The creator of the earth which he poured out of head
of Naga Busai, the serpent in the primeval water. Borneo
- Hatan. The head honcho who made the laws of the sky world and
rules it. Philippines
- Hatartstl Chabatta. The god whose name must never be spoken.
Nootka
- Hatasa, Horse goddess Buddhist
- Hatdastsisi, Benevolent male spirit who helps cure disease
Navaho
- Hathor. "The Beautiful Face In The Boat For Thousands Of
Years". Goddess of procreation, sexuality, romance, trees,
poetry, music, alcohol, childbirth, infants, death, fertility,
love, marriage, beauty, joy and the sky. Egypt
- Hatmehyt, Hatmehit. Goddess of fertility and guardian of fish
and fishermen. Egypt
- Hatshepsut, Goddess of justice Egypt
- Hatti, Plague goddess associated with cholera Hindu
- Hatti, Throne goddess Hittite
- Hatuibwari, a winged serpent with a human head, four eyes and
four breasts and he suckled all he created. Solomon Islands
- Hasibwari. The supreme being, a winged serpent with a human
head who created a woman from red clay and baked her in heat of
the sun. When the woman was dry a man was made from her rib.
Melanesia
- Haubas, god worshipped in pre-Islamic southern Arabia,
particularly Sheba. Haubas's advice was often sought via
consultation with oracles.
- Hauhet, Primordial goddess, one of the Ogboad Egypt
- Hauhet. Female form of Huh, one of the initial primeval pairs
representing the infinity of space. Egypt
- Haukim and Anbay were oracular judge-gods and divine
administrerors of justice. Arabic
- Haumea, a goddess of fertility and childbirth. With Kane
Milohai, she is the mother of Pele, Ka-moho-ali'i, Namaka, Pere,
Kapo and Hi'iaka. She was a powerful sorceress and gave birth to
many creatures; some after turning herself into a young woman to
marry her children and grandchildren. She was finally killed by
Kaulu. Hawaii
- Haumia, the god of wild or uncultivated foods. Haumia was a
son of Rangi and Papa, and agreed to the forced separation of his
parents. Because of this he was subjected to the fury of his
brother Tawhirimatea, god of winds and storms, who would have
killed him if their mother had not hidden him in her body.
Maori
- Haumiatiketike, Vegetation god Polynesia/Maori
- Hauran-Hauraran - A flourishing vine of life in the Jordan by
whom Yawar raised up Uthras. Early Nazorean
- Haurun, Fiery earth god Canaan
- Hhauna-wela, "hot-striking", the manifestation in which
Kanaloa, god of the octopus, may appear as god of the sea and sea
creatures. Polynesian
- Haurvatat, One of the spirits, it is associated with life
after death. Zoroastrian
- Havaki. The sun god of the Tungus. Siberia
- Havea Lolo Fonua, Goddess of intercourse Polynesia
- Havgan. Minor Welsh god who vied for the kingship of the
Otherworld
- Hawenniyu. Great Spirit who gives the gifts of the earth.
From a buckskin pouch he takes the sacred Indian tobacco and
sprinkling it on the fire for incense makes certain motions of
his hands toward the sky. Sometimes he will fan the fire with a
turkey wing fan. Iroquois
- Hawa Kasia- The counterpart to Adam Kasia. Early
Nazorean
- Hawa Pagria - The wife of Adam (Eve). Early Nazorean
- Haya-Ji, God of the winds Japan/Shinto
- Hayagriva, Patron god of horses Buddhist/Tibet
- Hayagriva, Incarnation of Vishnu Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Hayasa, Horse god, could be Hayangriva in disguise Hindu
- Hayasum, May the Name of Kusta Live and Be With You Always.
Nazorean
- Hayye Rabba, 'Great Life', Ultimate Male and Female Deities
Early Nazorean
- Hayye Kadmaya, 'Primal Life', First Life Early Nazorean
- Hayye Tinyane, Second Life generally called Yoshamin Early
Nazorean
- Hayye T'lithaye, the Third Life, Father of the Uthre. 'The
Ancient'. Early Nazorean
- Hayye Ptahil, the Fourth Life. Early Nazorean
- Hazazban, An Uthra connected with the myrtle wreath. The name
means "This-Time. Early Nazorean
- Hazzi, God invoked in a Hittite treaties who was a mountain
and weather god Hittite/Hurrian
- Hbr. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Hcnbr. A minor angel. Enochian
- Hcoma. The spirit of Water. Enochian
- He Bo, Divine ruler of all rivers China
- He Xian-Ku, One of the eight immortals, she achieved
immortality through her exemplary life China/Taoist
- He Zur, Baboon god accepted as a manifestation of Thot
Egypt
- Hea, Goddess of wisdom Mesopotamia/Ugarit
- Heammawihio. A sky and creator god who taught his people to
make arrow points, knives, bows and arrows, how to hunt, and to
make fire. Plains Indians
- Heavens Various:
- The Three Heavens according to the Jewish system. The word
heaven in the Bible denotes
(1) the air, thus we read of “the fowls of heaven,”
“the dew of heaven,” and “the clouds of
heaven”;
(2) the starry firmament, as, “Let there be lights in the
firmament of heaven" (Gen. i. 14);
(3) the palace of Jehovah; thus we read that “heaven is My
throne”.
- The Five Heavens. According to the Ptolemaic system.
(1) The planetary heaven;
(2) the sphere of the fixed stars;
(3) the crystalline, which vibrates;
(4) the primum mobilë, which communicates motion to the
lower spheres;
(5) the empyrean or seat of deity and angels.
- The Seven Heavens. According to the Mahometan system.
The first heaven, says Mahomet, is of pure silver, and here the
stars are hung out like lamps on golden chains. Each star has an
angel for warder. In this heaven “the prophet” found
Adam and Eve.
The second heaven, says Mahomet, is of polished steel and
dazzling splendour. Here “the prophet” found
Noah.
The third heaven, says Mahomet, is studded with precious stones
too brilliant for the eye of man. Here Azrael, the angel of
death, is stationed, and is for ever writing in a large book or
blotting words out. The former are the names of persons born, the
latter those of the newly dead.
The fourth heaven, he says, is of the finest silver. Here dwells
the Angel of Tears, whose height is “500 days'
journey,” and he sheds ceaseless tears for the sins of
man.
The fifth heaven is of purest gold, and here dwells the Avenging
Angel, who presides over elemental fire. Here “the
prophet” met Aaron. (See below.
The sixth heaven is composed of Hasala, a sort of carbuncle. Here
dwells the Guardian Angel of heaven and earth, half—snow
and half—fire. It was here that Mahomet saw Moses, who wept
with envy.
The seventh heaven, says the same veritable authority, is formed
of divine light beyond the power of tongue to describe. Each
inhabitant is bigger than the whole earth, and has 70,000 heads,
each head 70,000 mouths, each mouth 70,000 tongues, and each
tongue speaks 70,000 languages, all for ever employed in chanting
the praises of the Most High. Here he met Abraham. (See
below).
To be in the seventh heaven. Supremely happy. The Cabbalists
maintained that there are seven heavens, each rising in happiness
above the other, the seventh being the abode of God and the
highest class of angels.
- The Nine Heavens. The term heaven was used anciently to
denote the orb or sphere in which a celestial body was supposed
to move, hence the number of heavens varied. According to one
system, the first heaven was that of the Moon, the second that of
Venus, the third that of Mercury, the fourth that of the Sun, the
fifth that of Mars, the sixth that of Jupiter, the seventh that
of Saturn, the eighth that of the “fixt” or
firmament, and the ninth that of the Crystalline.
- Heaven in modern phraseology means:
(1) a great but indefinite height,
(2) the sky or the vault of the clouds,
(3) the special abode of God,
(4) the place of supreme felicity,
(5) supposed residence of the celestial gods, etc.
- The heaven of heavens. A Hebrew term to express the highest
of the heavens, the special residence of Jehovah.
- Heart of Heaven. "There was only immobility and silence in
the darkness, in the night. Only the Creator, the Maker, Tepeu,
Gucumatz, the Forefathers, were in the water surrounded with
light. They were hidden under green and blue feathers, and were
therefore called Gucumatz... and to the three other deities,
collectively called "Heart of Heaven":
Then while they meditated, it became clear to them that when dawn
would break, man must appear. Then they planned the creation, and
the growth of the trees and the thickets and the birth of life
and the creation of man. Thus it was arranged in the darkness and
in the night by the Heart of Heaven who is called Huracán.
The first is called Caculhá Huracán. The second is
ChipiCaculhá. The third is Raxa-Caculhá. And these
three are the Heart of Heaven. So now you know... Guatemala
- Hebat, Goddess of the sky, her title was "Queen of heaven"
Hittite
- Hebe,
the personification of youth, is described as a daughter of
Zeus and Hera (
Apollodorus i), and is,
according to the Iliad IV, the minister of the gods, who fills
their cups with nectar; she assists Hera in putting the horses to
her chariot and she bathes and dresses her brother Ares. She was married to Heracles after his apotheosis. Greek
- Hebrus. A river and river-God of eastern Thrace
Aeneid Book I.
- Hebrus. Son of Dolichaon, slain by Mezentius,
Aeneid Book X.
- Hecabe,
or in Latin Hecuba, a daughter of Dymas in Phrygia, and second
wife of Priam, king of Troy. Some described her as a daughter of
Cisseus, or the Phrygian river-god Sangarius and Metope.
Greek
- Hecaerge, Goddess of archery Greek
- Hecale. The story of Hecale, of her receiving and
entertaining Theseus in this expedition, seems to be not
altogether void of truth; for the townships round about, meeting
upon a certain day, used to offer a sacrifice, which they called
Hecalesia, to Jupiter Hecaleius, and to pay honor to Hecale,
whom, by a diminutive name, they called Hecalene, because she,
while entertaining Theseus, who was quite a youth, addressed him,
as old people do, with similar endearing diminutives; and having
made a vow to Jupiter for him as he was going to the fight, that,
if he returned in safety, she would offer sacrifices in thanks of
it, and dying before he came back, she had these honors given her
by way of return for her hospitality, by the command of Theseus,
as Philochorus tells us. Plutarch, Parallel Lives. Theseus.
- Hecamede. Hecamede: daughter of Arsinous, given to Nestor
after Achilles' sack of Tenedos. She attends on Nestor and
Machaon. Iliad Book
11.
- Hecate,
a mysterious divinity, who, according to the most common
tradition, was a daughter of Persaeus or Perses and Asteria,
whence she is called Perseis. Others describe her as a daughter
of Zeus and Demeter, and state that she was sent out by her
father in search of Persephone; others again make her a daughter
of Zeus either by Pheraea or by Hera; and others, lastly, say
that she was a daughter of Leto or Tartarus. Greek
-
Hecatoncheires - Hundred-armed, were three gargantuan figures
of Greek mythology. They were known as Briareus the Vigorous,
Cottus the Furious, and Gyges (or Gyes) the Big-Limbed. Their
name derives from Greek and means "Hundred-Handed", "each of them
having a hundred hands and fifty heads". Greek
- Hector. The chief hero of the
Trojans in their war with the Greeks, was the eldest son of
Priam by Hecabe, the husband of Andromache, and father of Scamandrius.
- Hectoreus. a, um. Of Hector, Hectorian, Trojan,
Aeneid Book III. etc.
- Hecuba. Second wife of Priam, and
mother of nineteen children. When Troy was taken by the Greeks
she fell to the lot of Ulysses. She was afterwards metamorphosed
into a dog, and threw herself into the sea. Greek
- Hedammu, Snake demon who resides in the sea and is constantly
hungry Hurrian
- Hedetet, Scorpion goddess found in the Book of the dead
Egypt
- Hedrun, Goddess of intoxicating mead norse
- Heidrun [Bright-running]. A goat that stands over Valhal.
Norse
- Hegemone,
that is, the leader or ruler, is the name of one of the Athenian
Charites. When the Athenian ephebi took their civic oath, they
invoked Hegemone. Hegemone occurs also as a surname of Artemis at
Sparta, and in Arcadia. Greek
- Hegir-Nuna See Gangir
- Heh, Primordial god of infinity Egypt
- Heha, God of magical words Egypt
- Hehet, Primordial goddess of the immeasurable Egypt
- Heimdal. He was the heavenly watchman in the old mythology,
answering to St. Peter in the medieval. According to the Lay of
Rig (Heimdal), he was the father and founder of the different
classes of men, nobles, churls and thralls. He has a horn called
Gjallar-horn, which he blows at Ragnarok. His dwelling is
Himinbjorg. He is the keeper of Bifrost (the rainbow). Nine
giantesses are his mothers. Norse
- Heitsi-Eibib, a flood hero deity who “came from the
east,” landing in the west of Cape South Africa, a very
long time ago, with fellow survivors from a sunken kingdom.
Namaqua
- Heka aka Hike, the deification of magic, his name being the
egyptian word for magic. Heka literally means activating the Ka,
which Egyptians thought was how magic worked. Egypt
- Hel or Hela, queen of the dead, is goddess of the ninth earth
or nether world. She dwelt beneath the roots of the sacred ash
(yggdrasil), and was the daughter of Loki. The All—father
sent her into Helheim, where she was given dominion over nine
worlds, and to one or other of these nine worlds she sends all
who die of sickness or old age. Her dwelling is Elvidnir (dark
clouds), her dish Hungr (hunger), her knife Sullt (starvation),
her servants Ganglati (tardy—feet), her bed Kör
(sickness), and her bed—curtains Blikiandabol (splendid
misery). Half her body was blue. Scandinavian
- Hel. Goddess of death and the underworld. The Christian
concept of "Hell" came from this goddess, however, her realm of
the dead for those who were wicked was cold and dark, not fiery.
Scandinavia
- Hel Keplein. A mantle of invisibility belonging to the
dwarf—king Laurin. German
- Helblinde. A name of Odin. Norse
- Helgrind or Helgate. The gates of Hel. Norse
- Helheim. The abode of Hel. Norse
- Helice. A daughter of Lycaon, was
beloved by Zeus, but Hera, out of jealousy, metamorphosed her into a
she-bear, whereupon Zeus placed her among the stars, under the
name of the Great Northern Bear. When Demeter invoked her, asking for information
about her lost daughter, Helice referred her to Helios. (Fasti
By Ovid,
iv)
- Helice. A daughter of Selinus, and the wife of Ion. The town
of Helice, in Achaia, was believed to have derived its name from
her.
- Heimdall, God of fire and light norse
- Heitsi. Shape-shifting sorcerer God. Hottentots. Africa
- Heka. the deification of magic in Egypt
- Hekenjuk. "My people call the sun Hekenjuk. We believe she is
the sister of the moon, Taktik. They share the same house but
visit the sky at different times. There is always one coming when
one is going away." The Ihalmiut Eskimo
- Hekate, a variation on Hecate. Greek
- Heket aka Heqet, Hekit, Heget, goddess of childbirth and
midwives. Later, as a fertility goddess, associated with the
flooding of the nile, and with the germination of corn, she
became associated with the last stages of childbirth. Egypt
- Hekoolas. A sun goddess whose body is covered in abalone
shells. Miwok
- Hel. The supreme deity of the Pabir and the Bura.
Nigeria
- Helara, a daughter of Orchomenus, became by Zeus the mother
of Tityus, but the god, from fear of Hera, concealed her under
the earth. Greek
- Helen,
Helena, a daughter of Zeus and Leda, and the sister of Polydeuces and Castor; some traditions called
her a daughter of Zeus by Nemesis. She
was of surpassing beauty, and is said to have in her youth been
carried off by Theseus, in conjunction
with Peirithous to Attica. When therefore Theseus was absent in
Hades, Polydeuces and Castor (the
Dioscuri) undertook an expedition to
Attica. Athens was taken, Helena delivered, and Aethra, the mother of Theseus, was taken
prisoner, and carried by the Dioscuri, as a slave of Helena, to
Sparta. Greek
- Helena. A Daughter of Paris and Helena. By Helena, Paris is
said to have been the father of Bunicus (Bunomus or Bunochus),
Corythus, Aganus, Idaeus, and of a daughter Helena. Ptolemaeus
Hephaestion.
- Helena. A Daughter of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra.
Apollodorus 3
- Helena. A Daughter of Epidamnius. Ptolemaeus
Hephaestion.
- Helena. A Daughter of Priam. C. Suetonius Tranquillus,
Tiberius.
- Helena. A Daughter of Faustulus, the shepherd who brought up
Romulus and Remus. Ptolemaeus Hephaestion.
- Helena. "These stars occur both at sea and at land. I have
seen, during the night-watches of the soldiers, a luminous
appearance, like a star, attached to the javelins on the
ramparts. They also settle on the yard-arms and other parts of
ships while sailing, producing a kind of vocal sound, like that
of birds flitting about. When they occur singly they are
mischievous, so as even to sink the vessels, and if they strike
on the lower part of the keel, setting them on fire2. When there
are two of them they are considered auspicious, and are thought
to predict a prosperous voyage, as it is said that they drive
away that dreadful and terrific meteor named Helena. On this
account their efficacy is ascribed to Castor and Pollux, and they
are invoked as gods." Pliny the Elder, The Natural History.
- Helena. A Daughter of Tityrus. Ptolemaeus Hephaestion.
- Helena. A Daughter of Micythus, the beloved of Stesichorus.
Ptolemaeus Hephaestion
- Helena. She was carried off by a giant of "marvellous
bigness" at St Michael's Mount, near Pontorson. This monster, who
had come from Spain, had made his lair on the summit of the rocky
island, whither he had carried off the Lady Helena, niece of Duke
Hoel of Brittany. King Arthur encountered and slew the giant.
The Giant of Mont-Saint-Michel from Legends
and Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence.
- Helenor. Helenor, with Lycus, the only ones to escape the
falling tower. Lycus is later killed by Turnus.
Aeneid Book IX.
- Helenos. The prophet, the only son of Priam that survived the fall of Troy. He fell to
the share of Pyrrhos when the captives were awarded; and because
he saved the life of the young Grecian was allowed to marry
Andromache, his brother Hector's widow. (Virgil: Æneid.)
- Helenus. Son of Priam and Hecuba, a distinguished
sooth-sayer, and the only one of Priam's son's who survived the
destruction of Troy. He fell to the share of Pyrrhus, who took
him with him to Epirus, and gave him Andromache to wife, and
nominated him his successor to the kingdom of Epinis, to the
exclusion of his own son Molossus. Helenus kindly received Aeneas
when be landed in Epirus, and gave him directions about his
future course,
Aeneid Book III. etc.
- Helicaon. A son of Antenor, and husband of Laodice, a
daughter of Priam. Description of Greece by Pausanias
Book 10. Iliad of Homer. Book
3.
- Helicon. The Muses' Mount. It is part of the Parnassos, a
mountain range in Greece.
- Hellen,
a son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, or, according to others, a son of
Zeus and Dorippe (Argonautica), or of Prometheus and Clymene, and
a brother of Deucalion. By the nymph Orseis, that is, the
mountain nymph, he became the father of Aeolus, Dorus, and Xuthus
to whom some add Amphictyon. Greek
- Helia. A solar goddess, one of the Heliades: a daughter of Helios and sister of Phaethon. Greece
- Heliadae,
the male and female descendants of Helios, and might accordingly
be applied to all his children, but in mythology the name is
given more particularly to the seven sons and the one daughter of
Helios by Rhode or Rhodos. Their names are, Cercaphus, Actis,
Macareus, Tanages, Triopas, Phaeton, Ochimus, and Electryone.
Greek
- Helice. A daughter of Lycaon, was beloved by Zeus, but Hera, out of jealousy, metamorphosed
her into a she-bear, whereupon Zeus placed her among the stars,
under the name of the Great Northern Bear.
- Helice. A daughter of Selinus, and the wife of Ion.
- Helice. A daughter of Danaus, mentioned by Hyginus.
- Helios,
in Greece the cult of Helios was very ancient and was practised
throughout the land, at Elis, at Apollonia, on the Acropolis of
Corinth, at Argos, at Troezen, on Cape Taenarum, at Athens, in
Thrace and finally, and especially, in the island of Rhodes which
was sacred to him. In Rhodes could be seen.the colossal statue of
HeIios, the renowned work of the sculptor Chares. It was about
thirty yards high, and ships in full sail could pass between the
god's legs. Greek
- Hells Various: The seven hells of the Mohammedan faith
(1) Jabannam, for wicked Mohammedans, all of whom will be sooner
or later taken to paradise:
(2) The Flamer. Lathà, for Christians;
(3) The Smasber. Hutamah, for Jews;
(4) The Blazer. Sair, for Sabians;
(5) The Scorcher. Sakar, for Magians;
(6) The Burner. Johim, for idolaters; and
(7) The Abyss, Hawiyah, for hypocrites.
- Hell or Arka of the Jewish Cabalists, divided into seven
lodges, one under another (Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla)
—
All these presidents are under Duma, the Angel of Silence who
keeps the three keys of the three gates of hell.
- Buddhist system: there are 136 places of punishment after
death, where the dead are sent according to their degree of
demerit.
- Hell. This word occurs eighteen times in the New Testament.
In nine instances the Greek word is Hades; in eight instances it
is Gehenna; and in one it is Tartarus.
- Descended into hell, means the place of the dead.
(Anglo—Saxon, helan, to cover or conceal, like the Greek
“Hades,” the abode of the dead, from the verb
a—cido, not to see. In both cases it means “the
unseen world” or “the world concealed from
sight.” The god of this nether world was called
“Hades” by the Greeks, and “Hel” or
“Hela” by the Scandinavians. In some counties of
England to cover in with a roof is “to hell the
building,” and thatchers or tilers are termed
“helliers.”
- Hell, Rivers of. Classic authors tell us that the Inferno is
encompassed by five rivers: Acheron, Cocytus, Styx,
Phlegethon, and Lethe. Acheron from the
Greek achos—reo, grief—flowing; Cocytus, from the
Greek kokuo, to weep, supposed to be a flood of tears; Styx, from
the Greek stugeo, to loathe; Phlegethon, from the Greek phleo to
burn; and Lethê, from the Greek letle, oblivion.
- Hell Broth A magical mixture prepared for evil purposes. The
witches in Macbeth made it.
- Helle, Goddess of the sea Greek
- Hell Gates, according to Milton, are nine—fold —
three of brass, three of iron, and three of adamant; the keepers
are Sin and Death. This allegory is one of the most celebrated
passages of Paradise
Lost. Book
ii.
- Hell Shoon. In Icelandic mythology, indispensable for the
journey to Valhalla as the obolus for crossing the Styx.
- Heloha, Spirit[female] of thunder Choctaw
- Heli, Goddess of death germanic
- Helymus. Helymus was the supposed founder of the Elymi, a
Sicilian tribe. He was a Trojan who had migrated to Sicily from
Troy.
Aeneid Book V.
- Hemantadevi, Goddess of winter Buddhist/Tibet
- Hemen, a falcon–god, worshipped in Hefat, who was
depicted during the Old Kingdom as slaying hippopotami, and other
symbolic forces of chaos. Egypt
- Hemera,
the light of the terrestrial regions as Aether is the light of
the heavenly regions. The Protogenos and the female personification
of day. Both were the offspring of Erebus and Nyx. Hemera was
closely identified with Hera, the wife of Zeus, and Eos the
goddess of the morning red, who brings up the light of day from
the east. Greek
- Hemithea. For Cycnus had a son Tenes and a daughter Hemithea
by Proclia, daughter of Laomedon, but he afterwards married
Philonome, daughter of Tragasus; and she fell in love with Tenes,
and, failing to seduce him, falsely accused him to Cycnus of
attempting to debauch her, and in witness of it she produced a
flute-player, by name Eumolpus. Epitome
from Apollodorus
- Hemithea. "The story goes that Cyknos the son of Poseidon
made a second marriage after the birth of his children Hemithea
and Tennes; and Tennes was accused by his stepmother of trying to
seduce her. She persuaded Cyknos to throw the young man into a
chest; and after Hemithea had opted to share her brother's hazard
he hurled them both into the sea. The chest was carried to a
place which was formerly called Leukophrys but subsequently,
after him, Tenedos. Both Tennes and Hemithea were afterwards
worshipped as gods." Suidas, Tenedios Anthropos.
- Hemoana. In the beginning there was just the sea, and the
spirit world. Tangaloa took the sky and Maui the underworld.
Hemoana in the form of a sea snake, and Lupe, whose form was a
dove, then divided the remainder between them, Hemoana taking the
sea and Lupe taking the land. Tongans
- Hemsut, Goddess of fate and newborn babies Egypt
- Hendursaga, God of law
Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia/Sumeria
- Heng, Spirit of thunder Huron
- Heng E, Goddess of the moon China
- Heng o, Goddess of the moon China
- Henkhesesui, Ram headed, winged, beetle god of the east wind
Egypt
- Heno, God of the sky and the spirit of thunder. Iroquois
- Henwen. A sow Goddess. Welsh
- Hephaistos,
the god of smiths and metal-workers was the son of Hera. He was
born lame, and his mother was so displeased at the sight of him
that she flung him out of Olympus. Other accounts say that Zeus
threw him out for taking his mother's part in a quarrel which
occurred between them. Hephaistos's lameness, according to this
account, was the consequence of his fall. He was a whole day
falling, and at last alighted in the island of Lemnos, which was
thenceforth sacred to him. Greek
- Hephaestus,
the god of fire, was, according to the Homeric account, the son
of Zeus and Hera
The Romans, when speaking of the Greek Hephaestus, call him
Vulcan or Vulcanus, although Vulcanus
was an original Italian divinity. Later traditions state that he
had no father, and that Hera gave birth
to him independent of Zeus, as she was
jealous of Zeus having given birth to Athena independent of her. Greek
- Heqt, Goddess of life and childbirth, equipped with a frog's
head Egypt
- Hera,
probably identical with kera, mistress, just as her husband,
Zeus, was called eppos in the Aeolian dialect. The derivation of
the name has been attempted in a variety of ways, from Greek as
well as oriental roots, though there is no reason for having
recourse to the latter, as Hera is a purely Greek divinity, and
one of the few who, according to Herodotus, were not introduced
into Greece from Egypt. Greek
- Herabe, God who causes insanity. Huli
- Heracles,
and in Latin Hercules, the most celebrated of all the heroes of
antiquity. The traditions about him are not only the richest in
substance, but also the most widely spread for we find them not
only in all the countries round the Mediterranean, but his
wondrous deeds were known in the most distant countries of the
ancient world.
The Labours:
(1) To slay the Nemean lion.
(2) To kill the Lernean hydra.
(3) To catch and retain the Arcadian stag.
(4) To destroy the Erymanthian boar.
(5) To cleanse the stables of King Augeas.
(6) To destroy the cannibal birds of the Lake Stymphalis.
(7) To take captive the Cretan bull.
(8) To catch the horses of the Thracian Diomedes.
(9) To get possession of the girdle of Hippolyte, Queen of the
Amazons.
(10) To take captive the oxen of the monster Geryon.
(11) To get possession of the apples of the Hesperides.
(12) To bring up from the infernal regions the three—headed
dog Cerberos. Greek
- Heraclids. The descendants of Heracles and Deianeira. When
Hercules had been translated to the gods, his sons fled from
Eurystheus and came to Ceyx. But when Eurystheus demanded their
surrender and threatened war, they were afraid, and, quitting
Trachis, fled through Greece. Being pursued, they came to Athens,
and sitting down on the altar of Mercy, claimed protection.
Refusing to surrender them, the Athenians bore the brunt of war
with Eurystheus, and slew his sons, Alexander, Iphimedon,
Eurybius, Mentor and Perimedes. Eurystheus himself fled in a
chariot, but was pursued and slain by Hyllus just as he was
driving past the Scironian cliff's; and Hyllus cut off his head
and gave it to Alcmena; and she gouged out his eyes with
weaving-pins.
Apollodorus 2.
- Harakhte or Harakhtes, the Sun God and mythical first
pharaoh, son of Isis and Osiris. Represented as falcon headed god
he was later absorbed by Ra. Egypt
- Herbesus. Killed by Euryalus.
Aeneid Book IX.
- Herensugue. Seven-headed snake shaped devil spirit.
Basque
- Heret-Kau, Underworld goddess of the old kingdom Egypt
- Herfoder, The father of hosts. A name of Odin. Norse
- Herilus. Son of Feronia, and King of Praeneste. He had three
lives, so that he had three times to be prostrated in death
before finally subdued,
Aeneid Book VIII.
- Harimagadas. Holy Maidens who sacrificed themselves by
jumping from a towering cliff into the sea. This act was meant to
propitiate the sea-god and prevent him from sinking their island.
Canary Islands
- Herma,
in ancient Greece, before his role as protector of merchants and
travelers, Hermes was a phallic god, associated with fertility,
luck, roads and borders. His name comes from the word herma
(plural hermai) referring to a square or rectangular pillar of
stone, terracotta, or bronze; a bust of Hermes' head, usually
with a beard, sat on the top of the pillar, and male genitals
adorned the base. Greek
-
Hermaphroditos, the name is compounded of Hermes and
Aphrodite. He was originally a male Aphrodite (Aphroditus), and
represented as a Hermes with the phallus, the symbol of
fertility, but afterwards as a divine being combining the two
sexes, and usually with the head, breasts, and body of a female,
but with the sexual parts of a man. Greek
- Hermanubis, a god who combined Hermes with Anubis. He was
popular during the period of Roman domination. Depicted as having
a human body and jackal head, with the sacred caduceus that
belonged to the Greek god Hermes, he represented the Egyptian
priesthood.
- Hermes. A son of Zeus and Maia, the
daughter of Atlas, was born in a cave of Mount Cyllene or in
Olympus. In the first hours after his birth, he escaped from his
cradle, went to Pieiria, and carried off some of the oxen of
Apollo. The herald and messenger of the gods, of his travelling
from place to place and the concluder of treaties and the
promoter of social intercourse and of commerce among men.
Regarded as the maintainer of peace, and as the god of roads, who
protected travellers, and punished those who refused to assist
travellers who had mistaken their way. Greek
- Herminius. Large-hearted, large of limb, and eke in arms
renowned. Slain by Catillus.
Aeneid Book XI.
- Hermione,
the only daughter of Menelaus and Helena, and beautiful, like the
golden Aphrodite. As she was a granddaughter of Leda, the mother
of Helena Virgil calls her Ledaea. During the war against Troy,
Menelaus promised her in marriage to Neoptolemus and after his
return he fulfilled his promise. Greek
- Hermod, Messenger god norse
- Hermotimus. Of Pedasa in Caria,
fell, when a boy, into the hands of Panionius, a Chian, who made
him a eunuch, and sold him to the Persians at Sardis.
- Hermensul or Ermensul. A Saxon deity, worshipped in
Westphalia. Charlemagne broke the idol, and converted its temple
into a Christian church. Probably it was a war—god.
- Hermod [Courage of hosts]. Son of Odin, who gives him a
helmet and a corselet. He rode on Sleipner to Hel to bring Balder
back. Norse
- Hermoth or Hermod The deity, who, with Bragi, receives and
welcomes to Valhalla all heroes who fall in battle.
Scandinavian.
- Hermus, God of rivers Roman
- Herne, Underworld god and leader of the phantom hunt.
British/Anglo-Saxon
- Hero and Leander. Leander was a youth of Abydos, a town of
the Asian side of the strait which separates Asia and Europe. On
the opposite shore, in the town of Sestos, lived the maiden Hero,
a priestess of Venus. Leander loved her, and used to swim the
strait nightly to enjoy the company of his mistress, guided by a
torch which she reared upon the tower for the purpose. But one
night a tempest arose and the sea was rough; his strength failed,
and he was drowned. The waves bore his body to the European
shore, where Hero became aware of his death, and in her despair
cast herself down from the tower into the sea and perished. Ovid,
Heroides. 19. Hero
and Leander, by Christopher Marlowe.
- Herodotus
- The History
- Clio
- Euterpe
- Thalia
- Melpomene
- Terpsichore
- Erato
- Polymnia
- Urania
- Calliope
- Heron, God appearing on the monuments of the Greek and Roman
eras, thought to be a horseman god Egypt
- Herophilus
aka Herophile, a daughter of Poseidon and Aphrodite and a
sister of the Oceanide Rhode. The younger of the Erythraean
Sibylla she prophesied that Helen would be the ruin of both Asia
and Europe. Greek
- Herne the Hunted. The God of Hunted Animals. Herne appears as
a small figure with floppy rabbit ears, small horns and a good
turn of speed. He has the unfortunate job of being the constantly
terrified and apprehensive god of all small furry creatures whose
destiny it is to end their lives as a brief, crunchy squeak; it
has been said that he arose from the feelings of prey animals
during the hunt, whereas other gods of the hunt arose from the
passions of the hunters. Discworld
- Heros, Underworld god who is also a horseman Thrace
- Herovet, God of the army Slavic
- Herse.
The wife of Danaus and mother of
Hippodice and Adiante.
- Herse. A daughter of Cecrops and
sister of Agraulos, Pandrosos, and Erysichthon. She was the beloved of
Hermes, and the mother of Cephalus.
Greek
- Hertha. Mother earth. Worshipped by all the Scandinavian
tribes with orgies and mysterious rites, celebrated in the dark.
Her veiled statue was transported from district to district by
cows which no hand but the priest's was allowed to touch. Tacitus
calls this goddess Cybele.
- Heru-Behutet. A god of light and of blacksmiths. Egypt
- Heru-khuti. Horus of the two horizons, usually has the head
of a hawk and represents the course of the sun from sunrise to
sunset, across the skies. Egypt
- Haru-pa-khart, Harpocrates God of the rising sun. Horus the
Child, son of Isis and Osiris, originally a god of youth and
vigor, later taking on the aspects of the Sun-god. At Mendes he
was the son of Hat-mehit. Egypt
- Heru-ur The personification of the Face of Heaven by day,
while Set was that of night. He was depicted as a man or a lion
with the head of a hawk. An aspect of Horus. Egypt
- Heruka, God, one of the more popular in the pantheon
Buddhist/Mahayana
- Heryshaf, an ancient ram-god and a creator and fertility god
who was born from the primeval waters. He was pictured as a man
with the head of a ram, or as a ram. Egypt
- Hesat, Goddess of birth and a minor guardian of pregnant and
nursing mothers. Egypt
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Hesiod's Theogony
-
Life of Hesiod Greek
-
Introduction
-
Hesiod
-
Works and Days
-
The Shield Of Heracles
-
The Contest of Homer
-
The Divination by Birds
- The
Catalogues of Women and Eoiae
- The
Marriage Of Ceyx
- Hesione,
a daughter of Laomedon, and consequently a sister of Priam. When
Troy was visited by a plague and a monster oh account of
Laomedon's breach of promise, Laomedon, in order to get rid of
these calamities, chained Hesione to a rock, in accordance with
the command of an oracle, where she was to be devoured by wild
beasts. Greek
- Hesperides,
these goddesses of evenings and the golden light of sunset were
the famous guardians of the golden apples which Ge had given to Hera at
her marriage with Zeus. Their names are
Aegle, Erytheia, Hestia, and Arethusa, but their descent is not the same
in the different traditions; sometimes they are called the
daughters of Night or Erebus (Theogony of Hesiod 215),
sometimes of Phorcys and Ceto,
sometimes of Atlas and Hesperis, whence their names Atlantides or
Hesperides, and sometimes of Hesperus, or of Zeus and Themis
Greek
- Hesperus,
the evening-star, is called by Hesiod a son of Astraeus and Eos,
and was regarded, even by the ancients, as the same as the
morning star, whence both Homer and Hesiod call him the bringer
of light. Diodorus calls him a son of Atlas, who was fond of
astronomy, and once, after having ascended Mount Atlas to observe
the stars, he disappeared. Greek
- Hestia,
the goddess of the hearth, or rather the fire burning on the
hearth, was regarded as one of the twelve great gods, and
accordingly as a daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Greek
- Hetep, God of peace and happiness Egypt
- Hetepes-Sekhus, Underworld goddess Egypt
- Hettsui No Kami, Goddess who protected and provided for the
family Japan
- Heva. The legendary “first woman” who, together
with Ad-ima, arrived at the Indian subcontinent after the Great
Flood destroyed a former age of civilized greatness.
Polynesia
- Hevajira, God equivalent to the Hindu Siva
Buddhist/Mahayana
- Hexchuchan, God of war Mayan/Itza
- Hexe, Goddesses of curing illness germanic
- Hez-ur, Baboon god, considered to be a form of Thot
Egypt
- Hicetaonius. Son of Hicetaon who was a son of Laomedon,
brother of Priam, senior Trojan counselor: with Priam at Scaean
Gates. Of Hicetaonides.
Aeneid Book X.
- Hierax.
The name of two mythical personages, respecting whom nothing of
interest is related.
- Hierax.
A musician of the Mythic period, before the Trojan war. He is
said to have invented the Hieracian measure and to have been the
friend and disciple of Olympus the musician. He died young.
Greek
- Hi'lina. Tribal god who represents the Thunderbird Haida,
PNW
- Hi-Hiya-Hi, God of the sun Japan/Shinto
- Hiia Rba, Hayya Raba - 'Great Life', Ultimate Male and Female
Deities (Kuntazangpo and Kuntazangmo on the Bonpos and Nyingmas,
Zurvan) Early Nazorean
- Hiia, Hayya - The Life, the Living Ones. Early Nazorean
- Hi-No-Kagu-Tsuchi, Fire god whose birth caused the death of
the primordial goddess Izanami Japan/Shinto
- Hibil. One of the three sons of Adam Kasia and one of the
seven sons of Ptahil. Early Nazorean
- Hibil-Ziwa, the Primal Man of Mani. Yeshua the Nazorean is
said in the Ginza to have declared himself an incarnation of
Hibil-Ziwa. Early Nazorean
- Hidesato, the centipede stomping god of Japan
- Hieromneme. Daughter of the river-god simoeis, which flows
from mount Ida, and in the plain of Troy joins the Xanthus or
Scamander. He is described as a son of Oceanus and Tethys and as
the father of Astyoche and Hieromneme. By Assaracus, she became
the mother of Capys, the father of Anchises.
Apollodorus 3.
- Hihankara, Goddess of the Milky Way Lakota
- Hi'iaka, the patron goddess of Hawaiii and the hula dancers,
and lived in a sacred grove where she spent her days dancing with
the forest spirits.
- Hiisi. Group of evil spirit that worked with Lempo and Paha.
They were skilled sorcerers and necromancers who enjoyed banging
sacred drums and chanting. Finnish
- Hike aka Heka, the deification of magic, his name being the
egyptian word for magic. Egypt
- Hikoboshi, Astral god Japan/Shinto
- Hila. God/goddess of the atmosphere and of the cold weather,
storms, and drifts. Caribou Eskimo, Canada.
- Hilaeira, one of the fair daughters of Leucippus of Mycenae, was carried off with
her sisters by the Dioscuri. The name
occurs also as a surname of Selene.
Greek
- Hilal, God of the new moon. Arabic
- Hilde-svine [Means war]. Freyja's hog. Norse
- Hillon, sun god and the god of music. Gaul
- Hill—people or Hill—folk. A class of beings in
Scandinavian tradition between the elves and the human race. They
are supposed to dwell in caves and small hills, and are bent on
receiving the benefits of man's redemption.
- Himalia, a nymph. Zeus was enamoured with her and she produced
three sons with him, Spartaios, Kronios, and Kytos. Greek
- Himavan, God of mountains, the personification of the
Himalayan Mountains. Hindu
- Himefaxi or Rimefax [Rime-mane]. The horse of night.
Norse
- Hime-Gami. Goddess-consort of hikogami. Shinto
- Hime Okami. The god fishermen pray to to ensure a large
catch. Shinto
- Himerus
or Phanes, a mystic divinity in the system of the Orphics, is
also called Eros, Ericapaeus, Himerus Metis, and Protogonus. He
is said to have sprung from the mystic mundane egg, and to have
been the father of all gods, and the creator of men. Phanes means
"Manifestor" or "Revealer," and is related to the Greek words
"light" and "to shine forth." Greek
- Himerus
or Himeros, the personification of longing love, is first
mentioned by Hesiod, where he and Eros appear as the companions
of Aphrodite. He is sometimes seen in works of art representing
erotic circles and in the temple of Aphrodite at Megara, he was
represented by Scopas, together with Eros and Pothus. Greek
- Himinbjorg [Heaven, help, defense; hence heaven defender].
Heimdal's dwelling. Norse
- Himinbrjoter [Heaven-breaker]. One of the giant Hymer's oxen.
Norse
- Himivat See Himavan
- Hina, a moon goddess and the mother of Maui, whom she once
asked to slow down the sun so days would last longer. A dual
goddess, portrayed with two heads symbolizing day and night. She
was a guardian of the underworld and patron of artisans and
craftsmen. Hawaii
- Hine titama, Goddess of the dawn Maori
- Hine-Ahu-One, Chthonic goddess Polynesia/Maori
- Hine-Ata-Uira, Goddess of light Polynesia/Maori
- Hinegba, the supreme god, who is benevolent, resides in the
sky, and controls the universe. Nigeria
- Hine-Nui-Te-Po, giant goddess of death, of night and of the
underworld. She married her father, fled in horror to the
underworld when she found out and cursed humanity with death in
retribution. Maori
- Hinglaj-Mata, Mother goddess Hindu
- Hinkon Tungus, God of hunting as the controller of all
animals Siberia
- Hino, God of the sky Iroquois
- Hinokagutsuchi, Fire god whose birth killed the goddess
Izanami Japan/Shinto
- Hintubuet. The supreme being, the creator of the sky, earth
and humanities granny Melanesia
- Hinzelmann. The most famous house—spirit or kobold of
German legend. He lived four years in the old castle of
Hudemühlen, where he had a room set apart for him. At the
end of the fourth year (1588) he went away of his own accord, and
never again returned.
- Hipotga. A sub-angelic Watchtower leader in the East.
Enochian
- Hippasus, father of Hippomedon, by the nymph Ocyrrhoe, and
also of Charops, Socus, Agelaus, and Pammon. The Fall of Troy, by
Quintus Smyrnaeus Book
11. "Far-famed Ulysses, insatiable of craft and toil, this
day you shall either boast of having killed both the sons of
Hippasus and stripped them of their armour, or you shall fall
before my spear." Iliad Book 11.
- Hippasus the strong. Son of Eurytus. He was one of the
hunters of the Caledonian Boar. Ovid's The
Story of Meleager and Atalanta.
- Hippasus From the Pellene district of the Peloponnese, father
of Actor, Iphitus, Asterion, Amphion, and Naubolus. Hyginus.
Fabulae, 14
- Hippasus. Hippasus and his party, on the other hand, urged
the citizens to defend themselves, and not to give up many
advantages to the Dorians without striking a blow. The people,
however, accepted the opposite policy, and so Hippasus and any
others who wished fled to Samos. Great-grandson of this Hippasus
was Pythagoras, the celebrated sage. For Pythagoras was the son
of Mnesarchus, the son of Euphranor, the son of Hippasus. This is
the account the Phliasians give about themselves, and the
Sicyonians in general agree with them. Description of Greece by
Pausanias
Book 2.
- Hippasus, shepherd of the people, father of Hypsenor,
Demoleon, and Apisaon. Iliad Book
13.
- Hippasus. A Centaur, "whose beard his breast invades". Ovid's
The
Skirmish between the Centaurs and Lapithites
- Hippasus, one of the sons of Priam. Hyginus. Fabulae, 90.
Sons, Daughters of Priam.
- Hippasus. Heracles, after burying those of his own side who
had fallen, to wit, Hippasus, son of Ceyx, and Argius and Melas,
the sons of Licymnius, he pillaged the city and led lole captive.
And having put in at Cenaeum, a headland of Euboea, he built an
altar of Cenaean Zeus.
Apollodorus 2.
- Hippasus, son of Leucippe, torn to pieces by Bacchanals.
Tradition ran that the king’s three daughters long despised
the other women of the country for yielding to the Bacchic
frenzy, and sat at home in the king’s house scornfully
plying the distaff and the loom, while the rest, wreathed with
flowers, their dishevelled locks streaming to the wind, roamed in
ecstasy the barren mountains that rise above Orchomenus, making
the solitude of the hills to echo to the wild music of cymbals
and tambourines. But in time the divine fury infected even the
royal damsels in their quiet chamber; they were seized with a
fierce longing to partake of human flesh, and cast lots among
themselves which should give up her child to furnish a cannibal
feast. The lot fell on Leucippe, and she surrendered her son
Hippasus, who was torn limb from limb by the three. From these
misguided women sprang the Oleae and the Psoloeis, of whom the
men were said to be so called because they wore sad-coloured
raiment in token of their mourning and grief. William Smith. A
dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology.
- Hippo. One of the Oceanids. Theogony
of Hesiod.
- Hippo. One of the daughters of Thespius. Now this Thespius
was king of Thespiae, and Hercules went to him when he wished to
catch the lion. The king entertained him for fifty days, and each
night, as Hercules went forth to the hunt, Thespius bedded one of
his daughters with him (fifty daughters having been borne to him
by Megamede, daughter of Arneus); for he was anxious that all of
them should have children by Hercules. Thus Hercules, though he
thought that his bedfellow was always the same, had intercourse
with them all.
Apollodorus 2
- Hippocoon. A Thracian counselor and Trojan ally
Aeneid Book V.
- Hippocoon,
the eldest, but natural son of Oebalus and Bateia, and a
stepbrother of Tyndareus, Icarius and Arene, at Sparta.
After his father's death, Hippocoon expelled his brother
Tyndareus, in order to secure the kingdom to himself; but
Heracles led Tyndareus back and slew Hippocoon and his sons.
Greek
- Hippocrene. The fountain of the Muses, produced by a stroke
of the hoof of Pegasus. Greek
- Hippodameia.
A daughter of Oenomaus and mother of Thyestes, Atreus,
and Pittheus, Alacathous by Pelops. As
an oracle had declared to Oenomaus that he should be killed by
his son-in-law, he refused giving his fair daughter Hippodameia
in marriage to any one. Contest with Oenomaus and Hippodameia. Plutarch's Lives.
Life
Of Theseus.
- Hippodameia. A daughter of Atrax, mother of Polypoetes and
wife of Peirithous of the Lapiths.
During the wedding the bride Hippodameia and the female guests
along with the young boys were the victims of an attempted
abduction by the centaurs. Peirithous, Theseus and the Lapiths defeated the centaurs
and drove them from Mount Pelion in Thessaly to Aethicia. Odyssey
Book
21.
- Hippodameia. The wife of Alcathous, and eldest daughter of
Anchises, was the favourite of her parents. Iliad Book 13.
- Hippodameia. A patronymic from Briseus, and the name of
Hippodameia, the daughter of
Briseus of Lyrnessus, who fell into the hands of Achilles, and
about whom the quarrel arose between Achilles and Agamemnon. Iliad of Homer
- Hippodameia. The wife of Amyntor, and mother of Phoenix.
- Hippogriff. The winged horse, whose father was a griffin and
mother a horse. A symbol of love. Greek
- Hippolyta or Hippolyte. Queen of
the Amazons, and daughter of Mars.
Hippolyta was famous for a girdle given her by her father, and it
was one of the twelve labours of Hercules to possess himself of this prize.
greek
- Hippolyte. The wife of Acastus, according to Pindar, Nemean
(Odes); but Apollodorus calls her Astydameia. Greek
- Hippolochus. A son of Bellerophontes and Philonoe or
Anticleia, and father of Glaucus, the Lycian prince. Homer, The
Iliad. Book 6.
Apollodorus 3
- Hippolochus. A son of Antimachus, was slain by Agamemnon.
Homer, The Iliad. Book 11.
- Hippolytus. The husband of
Rhode, one of the Danaids.
Apollodorus 2
- Hippolytus. One of the giants who was killed by Hermes.
Apollodorus 1.
- Hippolytus. A son of Theseus by Hippolyte or Antiope.
(Hippolytus
in The Tragedies of Euripides) After the death of the Amazon,
Theseus married Phaedra, who fell desperately in love with
Hippolytus; but as the passion was not responded to by the
stepson, she brought accusations against him before Theseus, as
if he had made improper proposals to her. Theseus thereupon
cursed his son, and requested his father (Aegeus or Poseidon) to
destroy him. (Cicero, De Natura Deorum) Once therefore, when
Hippolytus was riding in his chariot along the sea-coast,
Poseidon sent a bull forth from the water. The horses were
frightened, upset the chariot, and dragged Hippolytus till he was
dead. Theseus afterwards learned the innocence of his son, and
Phaedra, in despair, made away with herself. Asclepius restored
Hippolytus to life again, and, according to Italian traditions,
Artemis placed him, under the name of Virbius, under the
protection of the nymph Egeria, in the grove of Aricia, in
Latium, where he was honoured with divine worship. Hyginus,
Fabulae, 47, Metamorphoses Book
15,
Apollodorus 3, etc. Description of Greece by Pausanias.
Book 1.
- Hippomedon. One of the seven heroes against Thebes.
Apollodorus 3 Hyginus (Fabulae 70) makes Hippomedon a son of
a sister of Adrastus.
- Hippomedon. A son of Aristomachus, or, according to
Sophocles, of Talaus, was one of the Seven against Thebes, where
he was slain during the siege by Hyperbius or Ismarus.
Apollodorus 3 Aeschylus
Seven Against Thebes Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus
- Hippomedon. A Phrygian, the father of Hippasus by the nymph
Ocyrhoe. The Fall of Troy, by Quintus Smyrnaeus. Book
11.
- Hippomenes. A son of Megareus of Onchestus, and a great
grandson of Poseidon. (Ovid's The
Story of Venus and Adonis) Apollodorus (
Book 3) calls the son of Hippomenes Megareus.
- Hippotes
The father of Aeolus.
- Hippotes.
A son of Phylas by a daughter of Iolaus, and a great-grandson of
Heracles. When the Heracleidae, on their invading Peloponnesus,
were encamped near Naupactus, Hippotes killed the seer Carnus, in
consequence of which the army of the Heracleidae began to suffer
very severely, and Hippotes by the command of an oracle was
banished for a period of ten years. Greek
- Hippothoe.
A daughter of Nereus and Doris. Theogony of Hesiod
- Hippothoe.
A daughter of Danaus. Hyginus Fabulae, 170
- Hippothoe.
An Amazon. Hyginus Fabulae, 163.
- Hippothoe.
A daughter of Pelias and Anaxibia.
Apollodorus 1
- Hippothoe.
A daughter of Nestor and Lysidice, became by Poseidon the mother
of Taphius.
Apollodorus 2 Greek
- Hippothoon,
an Attic hero, a son of Poseidon and Alope, the daughter of
Cercyon. He had a heroum at Athens and one of the Attic phylae
was called after him Hippothoontis. Greek
- Hippothous,
a son of Cercyon, and father of Aepytus, who succeeded Agapenor
as king in Arcadia, where he took up his residence, not at Tegea,
but at Trapezus. Greek
- Hippolyte,
a daughter of Ares and Otrera, was queen of the Amazons, and a
sister of Antiope and Melanippe. She wore, as an emblem of her
dignity, a girdle given to her by her father; and when Heracles,
by the command of Eurystheus, came to fetch this girdle,
Hippolyte was slain by Heracles. Greek
- Hippona, was regarded as the protectress of horses. Images of
her, either statues or paintings, were frequently seen in niches
of stables. Roman
- Hiranyagarbha, Creator god identified in the Rig Veda, the
demon King who proclaimed himself king of the universe
Hindu/Vedic
- Hiranyakasipu, Demon who held the earth prisoner, under flood
waters. India
- Hiribi, Goddess of summer. Canaan
- Hiro, God of rain and fertility Easter Island
- Hiruko. The Japanese god of fishermen, good luck, and
workingmen, as well as the guardian of the health of small
children. He is one of the Seven Gods of Fortune and the only one
of the seven to originate from Japan.
- Hisagitaimisi. 'The One Who Sits Above'. The Great Spirit who
manifested himself in bush fires. Creek Indians
- Hiovaki A sky god and the god. New Guinea
- Hisakitaimisi. The supreme god. Creek
- Hisbo. An ally of Turnus, killed by Pallas.
Aeneid Book X.
- Historis. A daughter of Teiresias, and engaged in the service of
Alcmene. By her cry that Alcmene had
already given birth, she induced the Pharmacides to withdraw, and thus enabled
her mistress to give birth to Heracles. Greek
- Hittavainen, God of hunting and the guardian of hare hunters.
Finnish
- Hlam Shua. The Supreme God of the Eskimo whose favourite
animal went into convulsions and caused the earth to quake.
Kodiak Island, Alaska
- Hlesey. The abode of Æger. Norse
- Hlidskjalf. The seat of Odin, whence he looked out over all
the worlds. Norse
- Hlin. One of the attendants of Frigg; but Frigg herself is
sometimes called by this name. . Norse
- Hlodyn. A goddess; a name of the earth; Thor's mother.
Norse
- Hloride. One of the names of Thor; the bellowing thunderer.
Norse
- Hlothyn, another name for Earth. Earth is Thor's mother. His
father is Odin. Norse
- Hnikar and Hnikuder. Names of Odin, Norse
- Hnos [Anglo-Sax. to hammer]. A costly thing; the name of one
of Freyja's daughters. Norse
- Hnossa, Goddess of infatuation norse
- Ho-Hsien-Ku, one of the `eight immortals' and the virgin of
the mountains, goddess of agility, immortality and mother
reverence. Chinese
- Ho Masubi, God of fire Japan
- Ho Po Ping I, God of the Yellow River China
- Ho-Musubi-No-Kami, Fire god Japan/Shinto
- Ho-Po, God who controls all rivers but in particular, the
Yellow River China/Taoist
- Hoa Tapu, God of war Tahiti
- Hoatziqui, Goddess of justice Mexico
- Hobas See Haubas
- Hod, God of winter norse
- Hodeken, means Little—hat, a German goblin or domestic
fairy; so called because he always wore a little felt hat over
his face.
- Hoder. The slayer of Balder. He is blind, returns to life in
the regenerated world. The Cain of the Norse
- mythology. Norse
- Hoder. One of the three creating gods. With Odin and Loder
Hœner creates Ask and Embla, the first human pair.
Norse
- Hodmimer's forest. Hodmimer's holt or grove, where the two
human beings Lif and Lifthraser were preserved during Ragnarok.
Norse
- Hoenir, God who gave all mortals the five senses. German
- Hoenir, an Aesir god and the brother of Odin and Ludor.
Together they slew Ymir, the great giant of the beginning. They
created the earth from his flesh, the sea and fresh water from
his blood, the mountains from his bones; then mankind from two
trees, man from the ash and woman from the elm. Hoenir gave them
their senses and understanding, intelligence and motion. The two
lesser brothers are sometimes considered aspects of Odin,
eventually disappearing, Hoenir as hostage to the Vanir at the
end of the war with the Aesir. Scandinavia
- Hoenu God of silence. He, along with his brother Lodur,
created Ask and Embla, the first humans. Scandinavia
- Hofvarpner [Hoof-thrower]. Gnaa's horse. His father is
Hamskerper and mother Gardrofa. Norse
- Hogfather The Discworld's version of Father Christmas or
Santa Claus. He wears a red, fur-lined cloak, and rides a sleigh
pulled by four wild boars, Gouger, Rooter, Tusker and Snouter. In
earlier times he gave households pork products, and naughty
children a bag of bloody bones. Earlier than that, he was a
winter god of the death-and-renewal kind. The modern version is a
jolly toymaker, with vestiges of the earlier myths (such as his
Castle of Bones, a vast palace of ice which has nothing notably
bony about it, except for the suggestion of a protruding femur or
scapula here and there) still clinging to him.
- Hokewingla, Turtle spirit Dakota
- Hoki the Jokester. A nature god usually found haunting the
deep woods of the Ramtops, in which he manifests himself as an
oak tree or a flute playing half-man, half-goat figure. Thought
of by many gods and people alike as a bloody nuisance and a bad
practical joker, he was eventually banished from Dunmanifestin
for pulling the old exploding mistletoe joke on Blind Io.
Discworld
- Hokushin-O-Kami, Astral deity, Ursa Minor Japan/Shinto
- Holda, Goddess of beauty and love germanic
- Holde. The gracious lady, a sky goddess who rode the winds.
Snow came from the feathers of her bed. German
- Holdyn See Hlothyn
- Holi, Goddess of happiness and merriment India
- Holle, Goddess of the newborn emerged from the underworld,
where she also accepts the souls of the dead germanic
- Holly King and Oak King, Two sacrificial gods Celtic
- Holmus. A son of Sisyphus, and father of Minyas. Greek
- Homagyrius. The god of the
assembly or league, a surname of Zeus,
under which he was worshipped at Aegium. Greek
-
Homeric Hymns, by Andrew Lang Greek
- Honabe, Primeval goddess Huli
- Honir, God who gave humans and their understanding and
feelings. Norse
- Honos, Honor, Honus, the personification of honour at Rome.
Roman
- Honoyeta, an enormous snake demon who brought mortality to
human beings. Papua New Guinea
- Hoples. A son of Ion, a king of Athens
between the reigns of Erechtheus
and Cecrops
- Hor-Hekenu, In this form, Horus is the lord of protection
Egypt
- Hora, Goddess of beauty Roman
- Horae,Horai,
originally the personifications or goddesses of the order of
nature and of the seasons, but in later times they were regarded
as the goddesses of order in general and of justice. In Homer,
who neither mentions their parents nor their number, they are the
Olympian divinities of the weather and the ministers of Zeus; and
in this capacity they guard the doors of Olympus, and promote the
fertility of the earth, by the various kinds of weather they send
down. Greek
- Horagalles. The Sami god of the sky and of thunder, normally
depicted wielding a pair of war-hammers. His Finnish counterpart
was Ukko, and he is generally associated with Thor. Horgalles was
married to Raudna.
- Horcus, Horkos, the personification of an oath, the son of
Eris, and the avenger of perjury.
Greek
- Horme, the personification of energetic activity. Greek
- Hornie, Auld Hornie. The devil, so called in Scotland. The
allusion is to the horns with which Satan is generally
represented.
- Horus. The Egyptian day—god, represented in
hieroglyphics by a sparrow—hawk, which bird was sacred to
him. He was son of Osiris and Isis, but his birth being premature
he was weak in the lower limbs. As a child he is seen carried in
his mother's arms, wearing the pschent or atf, and seated on a
lotus—flower with his finger on his lips. As an adult he is
represented hawk—headed. Strictly speaking, Horus is the
rising sun, Ra the noonday sun, and Osiris the setting sun.
- Horus, the god of the sky, and the son of Osiris. His mother
is Isis. Since he was god of the sky, Horus became depicted as a
falcon, or as a falcon-headed man. Egypt
- Horus-Harpocrates the god of quiet
life and silence. Greek/Roman
- Hosia, Goddess of holy rituals Greek
- Hospitalis, the guardian or protector of the law of
hospitality, the title is applied to a distinct class of gods,
though their names are not mentioned. The great protector of
hospitality was Jupiter, at Rome
called Jupiter hospitalis. Roman
- Hotei. God of happiness and one of the seven gods of luck. If
you rub his belly, you will receive good fortune. Japan
- Hotogov Mailgan, Goddess of heaven at night
Siberia/Buriat
- Hotoru, Wind spirit Pawnee
- Hotra, Minor goddess of sacrifices Hindu/Vedic
- Hottentot See Gaunab Kohl
- Hou Chi, Lord of abundant harvests China
- Hotu-matua. The legendary founding father of Easter Island
arrived from over the sea with a fleet of his family and
followers after surviving a great catastrophe. The god of
earthquakes, Poku, had upended Hotu-matua’s homeland with a
crowbar, sinking Hiva into the ocean depths. Lemuria,
Mu
- Hou T'u, God of the earth China
- Hound of Culann aka Cu Chulain, an Irish folk legend and the
pre-eminent hero of Ulster in the Ulster Cycle.
- Hours, Underworld goddesses, the 12 daughters of Re
Egypt
- Houri. The large blackeyed damsels of Paradise, possessed of
perpetual youth and beauty, whose virginity is renewable at
pleasure. Every believer will have seventy—two of these
houris in Paradise, and his intercourse with them will be
fruitful or otherwise, according to his wish. If an offspring is
desired, it will grow to full estate in an hour. (Persian, huri;
Arabic, huriya, nymphs of paradise. Koran
- Hov Ava, Goddess of the moon. Russia
- Hraap. A minor angel. Enochian
- Hraesvelger [Corpse-swallower]. A giant in an eagle's
plumage, who produces the wind. Norse
- Hrap. A minor angel. Enochian
- Hraudung. Geirrod's father. Norse
- Hreidmar. Father of Regin and Fafner. He exacts the
blood-fine from the gods for slaying Otter. He is slain by
Fafner. Norse
- Hrim Thursar, a new race begat by the only man and woman to
survive the Great Flood. All Norse traced their descent to the
Hrim Thursar, or “Hoar Frost.” Scandinavian
- Hrimthursar. Rime-giants or frost-giants, who dwell under one
of Ygdrasil's roots. Norse
- Hrodvitner. A wolf; father of the wolf Hate. Norse
- Hroan. A minor angel. Enochian
- Hropt. One of Odin's names. Norse
- Hrungner. A giant; friend of Hymer. Thor fought with him and
slew him. Norse
- Hringhorn. The ship upon which Balder's body was burned.
Norse
- Hrosthjof [Horse-thief]. A giant. Norse
- Hrsikesa, God, a minor avatar of Visnu Hindu
- Hru. A minor angel. Enochian
- Hsi Ling su, God of silk China
- Hsi shen, God of joy. Fu Shen denotes a generic title for the
beneficent gods of the Chinese. China
- Hsi Shih, Goddess who represents the old virtues and feminine
qualities of Chinese women. She also sponsors a nice line of face
creams, cosmetics and perfumes. China
- Hsi Wang Mu, Mother goddess of the Western Paradise and
female energy. China
- Hsiao Wu, God of prisons. China
- Hsieh T'ien chun, God personification of the planet Saturn.
China
- Hsien Nung, Agriculture god. China
- Hsien Se, Agriculture god. China
- Hsu Ch'ang, God of archery. China
- Hsuan T'ien. God of Wealth. China
- Hsuan-T'ien-Shang-Ti God who removes demons and evil spirits.
Invoke for exorcism, matters involving water. China
- Hsüan T’ung-tzu, ‘Sombre Youth’, more
commonly called ‘Deaf Celestial,‘ one of the
attendants of Wên Ch’ang. Thus they cannot divulge
the secrets of their master’s administration as he
distributes intellectual gifts, literary skill, etc.
- Hsuan Wen hua, God of hair, hairdressers, shampoo and hair
moisturisers.
- Htmorda. The senior element of Air associated with the Moon.
Enochian
- Hu, the personification of Divine Utterance, the voice of
authority. Egypt
- Hu The Mighty, aka Hu Gadarn, Hugh Guairy. Father God of the
Welsh who came to Wales and became part of the Welsh deluge
myths.
- Hu Baiyan. God of the Earthly Heroic Star. China
- Hu Daoyuan - God of the Water Earthworm Star. China
- Hu Sheng. God of the Western Constellations. China
- Hu Tu, Goddess of the Summer solstice, Earth Mother and the
personification of the earth. China
- Hu Yunpeng. God of the Western Constellations. China
- Hua. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Huaca, Huacas, spirits that either inhabit or actually are
physical phenomena such as waterfalls, mountains, or man-made
shrines. Peru
- Huan Yang ch'ang, God of the heart. China
- Huang Fei-hu. 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
- Huang T'ing. The Star God of Civil Virtue. China
- Huang Ti, 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 compass.
China
- Huang-di, Mythical yellow emperor. China
- Hubal. An Arab idol brought from Bulka, in Syria, by Amir
Ibn—Lohei, who asserted that it would procure rain when
wanted. It was the statue of a man in red agate; one hand being
lost, a golden one was supplied. He held in his hand seven arrows
without wings or feathers, such as the Arabians use in
divination. This idol was destroyed in the eighth year of
“the flight.” Arabic
- Huban. Supreme god of the Elamite.
- Hubris,
the daughter of Erebus and Nyx and the female spirit of
insolence, violence, wantonness, reckless pride, arrogance and
outrageous behaviour in general. Greek
- Huchi Goddess of fire and of volcanic eruptions. The name
Fuji is believed to be derived from "Huchi" or "Fuchi", the words
for the Aino Goddess of Fire. Japan
- Huecuvoe. The evil supreme being. Auraucanians, Chile
- Huehuecoyotl, the trickster god of music, dance, song. He is
depicted in the as a dancing coyote with human hands and feet,
accompanied by a human drummer. Aztec
- Huehueteotl, an ancient god of the hearth, the fire of life.
Associated with the pole star and the north, and serves as a
skybearer. Aztec
- Huehueteotl. "Old god". A central Mexican/Aztec deity
associated with fire
- Hugin [Mind]. One of Odin's ravens. Norse
- Huh, the deification of eternity in the Ogdoad, his name
itself meaning endlessness. Egypt
- Huiracocha. The creator of the world. Inca
- Huisiniamui A god of the sun and sky. He invented vegetation,
but was also fond of headhunting and cannibalism. Peru
- Huitaca, Goddess of the moon, intoxication, jolly bonking and
letting the good times roll. Chibcha
- Huitzilopochtli aka Mexitli. The "blue hummingbird", god of
war and the sun as well as the patron god of the Aztec
nation.
- Huitznahua, Collectively, the remaining brothers of God of
war who were defeated. Aztec
- Huixtocihuatl, Goddess of the ocean and salt. Aztec
- Huitzilopochtli, the divine leader who rescued an ancestral
people from his devastated island kingdom in the Atlantic Ocean,
Aztlan. Arriving in the Valley of Mexico, they built a new
capital to commemorate their lost city, when Tenochtitlan was
constructed on a rocky island at the center of a man-made lake.
Aztec
- Hulda. Goddess of marriage and fecundity, who sent
bridegrooms to maidens and children to the married. German
- Hulka Devi, Goddess of cholera. Hindu
- Hulluk Miyumko, The California Miwok name for the Pleiades.
The Hulluk Miyumko were female deities who gave birth to
“beautiful star chiefs”.
- Huma. A fabulous Oriental bird which never alights, but is
always on the wing. It is said that every head which it
overshadows will wear a crown.
- Humban, Supreme deity Mesopotamia
- Hun Batz. "One Big Monkey." A son of one of the Seven Ahpu,
he is a hero and a multi-tasking deity. Quiche
- Hun Hau, God of death and the Head of Demons. Mayan
- Hun Hunapu, Creator god. Mayan
- Hun Nal, God of maize. Mayan
- Hunab Ku aka Hun Itzamna. The Supreme Being and the greatest
deity in the pantheon. Mayan
- Hunahpa Utiu, Yet another god who helped create the human
race. Mayan
- Hunahpu, savior deity that incarnates to enlighten mankind
and show the way to divinity; born immaculately at dawn on the
winter solstice. Mayan
- Hunahpu. A god, who with his twin Xbalamwque, overcame the
powers of evil and of death of his father, then rose to the
heavens to become the sun and the moon. Mayan
- Hunahpu Gutch, One of the thirteen gods who created humans.
Mayan
- Hunahpu Vuch, a hunting-fox bitch and god of the dawn.
Quiché
- Hundred—eyed. Argus, in Greek and Latin fable. Juno
appointed him guardian of Io [the cow], but Jupiter caused him to
be put to death, whereupon Juno transplanted his eyes into the
tail of her peacock.
- Hung Sing, Guardian god of of fishing boats and their crews
China
- Hunhau, appears, sometimes with the head of an owl, sometimes
as a dog. A god of the underworld and the land of the dead.
Mayan
- Hunthaca, Goddess of the moon. Guatemala
- Huo Pu, God of fire China
- Hur ki, not the Goddess of the moon, just a very naughty
girl. Babylon/Mesopotamia
- Hurabtil, the god in charge of the Tablets of Destinies
Elamite/Iran
- Huracan, Creator god who fashioned the first humans
Quiche
- Hurakan, God of storms, thunder and hurricanes.
Nicaragua
- Huruing Wuhti. In the Hopi Indian creation story, they were a
pair of women who survived the Great Flood. The Huruing Wuhti
were later venerated as mother goddesses, because they gave birth
to the Hopi people.
- Hura-Te-Arangi. Mother of the Snow, Frost, and Ice children.
Maori, New Zealand
- Horus "The Mighty One of Transformations". Egyptian god, the
son of Isis and Osiris. God of the all-seeing eye. His animal is
the falcon.
- Horus, Hor, Heru-ur, the Elder Son of Nut and Seb. A sky god
whose eyes are the sun and the moon. The falcon symbolizes him.
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
- Hushtahli. The sun god who doubles as a war god. Choctaw
- Hutsipamamau'u Ocean Woman, the Great Mother, the creator of
all things who created the earth from her flaking skin.
Chemehuevis
- Huvi Bushmen, Supreme god Africa
- Huvi Ovimbundu, God of hunting Africa(west)
- Huwe, yet another supreme being and creator of all things,
this time from Botswana.
- Huzayui, Serpent headed, winged god of the west wind
Egypt
- Hvar, God of the sun Iran
- Hvergelmer [The old kettle]. A boiling cauldron in Niflheim,
whence issues twelve poisonous springs, which generate ice, snow,
wind, and rain.. The Northern Tartaros. Norse
- Hyacinthus,
the youngest son of the Spartan king Amyclas and Diomede
(Apollodorus iii), but according to others a son of Pierus and
Clio, or of Oebalus or Eurotas. He was a youth of extraordinary
beauty, and beloved by Thamyris and Apollo, who unintentionally
killed him during a game of discus. Greek
- Hyades,
that is, the rainy, the name of a class of nymphs whose number, names, and descent, are
described in various ways by the ancients. Their parents were
Atlas and Aethra, Atlas and Pleione, or Hyas and Boeotia; and others call
their father Oceanus, Melisseus, Cadmilus, or Erechtheus. Greek
- Hyagnis, a sun and fire god, also a god of lightning. Father
of Marsyas, a satyr who challenged
Apollo to a contest of music and lost
his hide and life. Phrygian
- Hyale. One of Diana’s nymphs.
- Hyas,
the name of the father and brother of the Hyades. The father was
married to Boeotia, and was looked upon as the ancestor of the
ancient Hyantes. His son, or the brother of the Hyades, was
killed in Libya by an animal, a serpent, a boar, or a lion.
Greek
- Hydra. A monster of the Lernean marshes, in Argolis. It had
nine heads, and Hercules was sent to kill it. As soon as he
struck off one of its heads, two shot up in its place. Greek
- Hyes, the moist or fertilising god, occurs like Hyetius, as a
surname of Zeus, as the sender of rain.
Greek
- Hygieia, also called Hygea. Hygia or Hugieia, the goddess of
health, and a daughter of Asclepius. (Pausanias.
Book 1.) In one of the Orphic hymns (66) she is called the
wife of Asclepius; and Proclus makes her a daughter of Eros and
Peitho. She was usually worshipped in the same temples with her
father, as at Argos, where the two divinities had a celebrated
sanctuary, at Athens, at Corinth, at Gortys, at Sicyon, at
Oropus. Pausanias.
Book 1, etc. At Rome there was a statue of her in the temple
of Concordia (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 19). In works of art, of which a
considerable number has come down to our time, she was
represented as a virgin dressed in a long robe, with the
expression of mildness and kindness, and either alone or grouped
with her father and sisters, and either sitting or standing, and
leaning on her father. Her ordinary attribute is a serpent, which
she is feeding from a cup. Although she is originally the goddess
of physical health, she is sometimes conceived as the giver or
protectress of mental health, that is, she appears as mens sana,
or huliea phrenôn (Aeschylus, Eumenides), and was thus
identified with Athena, surnamed Hygieia. Pausanias.
Book 1.
- Hylaeus. One of the Centaurs slain by Hercules.
Aeneid Book VIII.
- Hylas,
a son of Theiodamas, king of the Dryopes, by the nymph Menodice
or a son of Heracles, Euphemus, or Ceyx. He was the favourite of
Heracles, who, after having killed his father, Theiodamas, took
him with him when he joined the expedition of the Argonauts. When the Argonauts landed on the coast of Mysia,
Hylas went out to fetch water for Heracles but when he came to a
well, his beauty excited the love of the Naiads, who drew him
down into the water, and he was never seen again. Greek
- Hylech. That planet, or point of the sky, which dominates at
man's birth, and influences his whole life. Astrology
- Hyllus. A son of Ge, from whom the river Hyllus in Lydia was
believed to have derived its name. His gigantic bones were shown
in Lydia at a very late period. Pausanias Book 1.
- Hyllus. A son of Heracles by Deianeira, or, according to
others, by Melite or Omphale.
Argonautica 4.
- Hyllus. A warrior on the side of Aeneas. He was killed by
Turnus.
Aeneid Book XII.
- Hymen
or Hymenaeus. 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
- Hymir or Hymer. A giant with whom Thor went fishing when he
caught the Midgard-serpent. His wife was the mother of Tyr. Tyr
and Thor went to him to procure a kettle for Æger in which
to brew ale for the gods. . Norse
- Hyndla. A vala visited by Freyja, who comes to her to learn
the genealogy of her favorite, Ottar. Norse
- Hypanis, by comrades' hands is slain.
Aeneid Book II. etc.
- Hyperborea. The northern portion of the earth was supposed to
be inhabited by a happy race named the Hyperboreans, dwelling in
everlasting bliss and spring beyond the lofty mountains whose
caverns were supposed to send forth the piercing blasts of the
north wind, which chilled the people of Hellas (Greece). Their
country was inaccessible by land or sea. They lived exempt from
disease or old age, from toils and warfare.
- Hyperboreans. A mythical people who lived far to the north of
Thrace. The Greeks thought that Boreas, the North Wind, lived in
Thrace, and that therefore Hyperborea was an unspecified region
in the northern lands that lay beyond Scythia. Their land, called
Hyperborea or Hyperboria — "beyond the Boreas" — was
perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours a day. Pindar,
Olympian; Bacchylides, Diodorus Siculus Pausanias Book 1,
etc.
- Hysminae. The personifications of fighting and combat,
daughters of the goddess Eris. Greek
- Hyperion,
a Titan, a son of Uranus and Ge, and
married to his sister Theia, or
Euryphaessa, by whom he became the father of Helios, Selene, and
Eos. Greek
- Hyperenor,
one of the Spartae, or the men that grew up from the dragon's
teeth sown by Cadmus, was worshipped as
a hero at Thebes. (Apollodorus
iii) There are two other mythical personages of this name,
one a son of Poseidon and Alcyone (Apollodorus iii), and the other a son
of the Trojan Panthous, who was slain by Menelaus. Greek
-
Hypermnestra, a daughter of Thestius and Eurythemis, and the
wife of Oicles, by whom she became the mother of Amphiaraus. Her
tomb was shown at Argos. One of the daughters of Danaus was
likewise called Hypermnestra. Greek
- Hyperopia. The Goddess of Shoes. She has a small following
that gathers in the Temple of Small Gods and worships the Sacred
Lace of Hyperopia. Named after the technical term for
long-sightedness, and it is possible that she is inspired by the
Greek goddess Nike, and the shoes named after her. Discworld
-
Hymns of Orpheus Greek
- Hypnos,
the personification and god of sleep, the Greek Hypnos, is
described by the ancients as a brother of Death and as a son of
Night. At Sicyon there was a statue of Sleep surnamed the giver.
In works of art Sleep and Death are represented alike as two
youths sleeping or holding inverted torches in their hands.
Greek
- Hypseus,
a son of Peneius, and the Naiad
Creusa, or Phillyra, the daughter of
Asopus, was king of the Lapithae, and
married to Chlidanope, by whom he became the father of Cyrene, Alcaea, Themisto, and Astyageia. (Apollodorus) Another personage
of this name occurs in Ovid (Metamorphoses
v by Ovid). Greek
- Hypsipyle. "These with Jason as admiral put to sea and
touched at Lemnos. At that time it chanced that Lemnos was bereft
of men and ruled over by a queen, Hypsipyle, daughter of Thoas,
the reason of which was as follows. The Lemnian women did not
honour Aphrodite, and she visited them with a noisome smell;
therefore their spouses took captive women from the neighbouring
country of Thrace and bedded with them. Thus dishonoured, the
Lemnian women murdered their fathers- and husbands, but Hypsipyle
alone saved her father Thoas by hiding him. So having put in to
Lemnos, at that time ruled by women, the Argonauts had
intercourse with the women, and Hypsipyle bedded with Jason and
bore sons, Euneus and Nebrophonus."
Apollodorus 1.
- Hypsistos, the part of the Supreme Godhead that lets us
understand the structure of nature from Infinity.
Hebrew/Greek
- Hyrie. Mother of Cycnus. "And she saw the lakes of Hyrie in
Teumesia's Vale, by swans frequented—There to satisfy his
love for Cycnus, Phyllius gave two living vultures: shell for him
subdued a lion, and delivered it to him; and mastered a great
bull, at his command; but when the wearied Phyllius refused to
render to his friend the valued bull. Indignant, the youth said,
“You shall regret your hasty words;” which having
said, he leaped from a high precipice, as if to death; but
gliding through the air, on snow-white wings, was changed into a
swan—Dissolved in tears, his mother Hyrie knew not he was
saved; and weeping, formed the lake that bears her name". Ovid's
The
Death of Pelias.
- Hyrieus,
a son of Poseidon and Alcyone, was king of Hyria in Boeotia, and
married to the nymph Clonia, by whom he became the father of
Nycteus, Lycus, and Orion. Greek
- Hyrnetho. A daughter of Temenus, and wife of Deiphontes. Her
tomb and a heroum, with a sacred grove, were shown at Epidaurus
and Argos. Pausanias
Book 2.
- Hyrtacides. (patronymic). Son of Hyrtacus,
Aeneid Book V. etc.
- Hyrtacus. A Trojan, the husband of Arisbe, and father of
Asius and Nisus, who are hence called Hyrtacides.
Aeneid Book I.
- Hxgzd. A minor angel. Enochian
Hippoi Athanatoi. Horses famous in history and fable
- Horses in Christian art the horse is an emblem of courage and
generosity. The attribute of St. Martin, St. Maurice, St. George,
and St. Victor, all of whom are represented on horseback. St.
Léon is represented on horseback, in pontifical robes,
blessing the people.
- Abakur. One of the horses of Sunna. The word means the
“hot one.” Scandinavian.
- Abaster. One of the horses of Pluto. The word means
“away from the stars” or “deprived of the light
of day.” Greek
- Abatos. One of the horses of Pluto. The word means
“inaccessible,” and refers to the infernal realm.
Greek
- Abraxas. One of the horses of Aurora. The letters of this
word in Greek make up 365, the number of days in the year.
Greek
- Actæon (Greek, “effulgence"). One of the horses
of the Sun.
- Æthon (Greek, “fiery red"). One of the horses of
the Sun.
- Æthon. One of the fire-breathing steeds of Ares.
- Aithops. One of the four immortal horses of the sun-god
Helios
- Aeton. One of the horses of Pluto, “swift as an
eagle.” Greek
- Alfana. Gradasso's horse. The word means “a
mare.” Orlando
Furioso.
- Aligero Clavileno. The wooden-pin wing-horse which Don
Quixote and his squire mounted to achieve the deliverance of
Dolorida and her companions.
- Alsvidur. One of the horses of Sunna. The word means
“all scorching.” Scandinavian.
- Amethea. One of the horses of the Sun. The word means
“no loiterer.” Greek
- Aquiline. Raymond's steed, bred on the banks of the Tagus.
The word means “like an eagle.” Tasso: Jerusalem
Delivered.
- Arion. Hercules' horse, given to Adrastos. The horse of
Neptune, brought out of the earth by striking it with his
trident; its right feet were those of a human creature, it spoke
with a human voice, and ran with incredible swiftness. The word
means “martial,” i.e. “war-horse.”
Greek
- Arundel. The horse of Bevis of Southampton. The word means
“swift as a swallow.” French, hirondelle, “a
swallow.”
- Arvakur. One of the horses of Sunna. The word means
“splendid.” Scandinavian.
- Aslo. One of the horses of Sunna. Scandinavian
- Babieca (Spanish, “a simpleton"). The Cid's horse. He
survived his master two years and a half, during which time no
one was allowed to mount him; and when he died he was buried
before the gate of the monastery at Valencia, and two elms were
planted to mark the site. The horse was so called because, when
Rodrigo in his youth was given the choice of a horse, he passed
by the most esteemed ones and selected a rough colt; whereupon
his godfather called the lad babiéca (a dolt), and Rodrigo
transferred the appellation to his horse.
- Bajardo. Rinaldo's horse, of a bright bay colour, once the
property of Amadis of Gaul. It was found by Malagigi, the wizard,
in a cave guarded by a dragon, which the wizard slew. According
to tradition, it is still alive, but flees at the approach of
man, so that no one can ever hope to catch him. The word means of
a “bay colour.” Orlando
Furioso.
- Balios (Greek, “swift"). One of the horses given by
Neptune to Peleus. It afterwards belonged to Achilles. Like
Xanthos, its sire was the West-wind, and its dam Swift-foot the
harpy.
- Bayard. The horse of the four sons of Aymon, which grew
larger or smaller as one or more of the four sons mounted it.
According to tradition, one of the foot-prints may still be seen
in the forest of Soignes, and another on a rock near Dinant. The
word means “bright bay colour.”
- Binky. Death rides a pale horse and his nam is Binky.
Discworld.
- Black Bess. The famous mare ridden by the highwayman Dick
Turpin, which, tradition says, carried him from London to
York.
- Borak (Al). The “horse” which conveyed Mahomet
from earth to the seventh heaven. It was milk-white, had the
wings of an eagle, and a human face, with horse's cheeks. Every
pace she took was equal to the farthest range of human sight. The
word is Arabic for “the lightning.”
- Brigadore or Brigliadore. Sir Guyon's horse, which had a
distinguishing black spot in its mouth, like a horse-shoe in
shape. Spenser: Faërie Queene, Book
2.
- Brigliadoro. Orlando's famous charger, second only to Bayardo
in swiftness and wonderful powers. The word means
“golden-bridle.” Orlando Furioso, etc.
- Bronte. One of the horses of the Sun. The word means
“thunder.” Greek
- Bronzomarle. The horse of Sir Launcelot Greaves. The word
means “a mettlesome sorrel.”
- Bucephalos. The celebrated charger of Alexander the Great.
Alexander was the only person who could mount him, and he always
knelt down to take up his master. He was thirty years old at
death, and Alexander built a city for his mausoleum, which he
called Bucephala. The word means “ox-head.”
- Cerus. The horse of Adrastos, swifter than the wind. The word
means “fit.” Greek
- Clavileno. Spanish name meaning "wooden-pin wing-bearer."
This is the name of the wooden horse Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
mounted to achieve the liberation of Dolorida and her
companions.
- Cyllarus. An mmortal horse, reined and tamed By Pollux of
Amyclae. The
Georgics By Virgil.
- Dapple. Sancho Panza's ass in the History of Don Quixote de
la Mancha, by Cervantes. So called from its colour.
- Dinos. Diomed's horse. The word means “the
marvel.” Greek
- Dhuldul. The famous horse of Ali, son-in-law of Mahomet.
- Doomstead. The horse of the Norns or Fates.
Scandinavian.
- (Greek, “dawn"). One of the horses of Aurora.
- Eoues or Eoos. Already Aurora, goddess of dawn, had thrown
open the gates of the east and the stars were beginning to wane.
The Hours came forth to harness the four horses, and Phaethon
looked with exultation at the splendid creatures, whose lord he
was for a day. Wild, immortal steeds they were, fed with
ambrosia, untamed as the winds; their very pet names signified
flame, and all that flame can do, Pyrois, Eoues, Aethon,
Phlegon.
- Erythreos (Greek, “red-producer"). One of the horses of
the Sun.
- Ethon (Greek, “fiery") One of the horses of
Hector.
- Fadda. Mahomet's white mule.
- Frontaletto. Sacripant's charger. The word means
“little head.” Ariosto: Orlando Furioso.
- Frontino or Frontin. Once called “Balisarda.”
Rogero's or Rugiero's horse. The word means “little
head.” Ariosto: Orlando Furioso, etc.
- Galathe. One of Hector's horses. The word means
“cream-coloured.”
- Grane. Siegfried's horse, of marvellous swiftness. The word
means “grey-coloured.” Siegfried was the legendary
dragon-slaying hero in Nibelungenlied and subject of the opera.
German.
- Haïzum. The horse of the archangel Gabriel. Koran.
- Harpagos (Greek, “one that carries off rapidly.”)
One of the horses of Castor and Pollux.
- Hippocampes. One of Neptune's horses. It had only two legs,
the hinder quarter being that of a dragon's tail or fish.
- Hippalectryon. A creature with the foreparts of a horse and
the tail, wings and hind-legs of a rooster. The Hippalectryon may
be an early representation of the winged horse Pegasos with
Bellerophon as its rider.
- Hrimfaxi. The horse of Night, from whose bit fall the
“rime-drops” which every night bedew the earth [i.e.
frostmane]. Scandinavian
- Kantaka. The white horse of Prince Gautama of India
(Budda).
- Kelpy or Kelpie. The water-horse of fairy mythology. The word
means “of the colour of kelp or sea-weed.”
- Lampon (Greek, “the bright one"). One of the horses of
Diomed.
- Lampos (Greek, “shining like a lamp"). One of the
steeds of the Sun at noon.
- Llamrei
and Hengroen. King Arthur's horses. In Beroul's The Romance
of Tristan, his horse is called Passelande.
- Nonios. One of the horses of Pluto.
- O'Donohue's white horse. Those waves which come on a windy
day, crested with foam. The spirit of the hero reappears every
May-day, and is seen gliding, to sweet but unearthly music, over
the lakes of Killarney, on his favourite white horse. It is
preceded by groups of young men and maidens, who fling
spring-flowers in his path. Derrick's Letters.
- Passe Brewell. Sir Tristram's charger. Sir Tristram was one
of the round—table knights. (History of Prince Arthur, ii.
68.)
- Pegasi. A tribe of winged, horned horses native to Aithiopia.
The famous Pegasos horse of myth was himself said to have been
born near Aithiopia, on the Red Sea island of Erytheia.
"Aethiopia produces many monstrosities, including winged horses
armed with horns, called Pegasi." Pliny the Elder, Natural
History 8. 72.
- Pegasos. The winged horse of Apollo and the Muses. (Greek,
“born near the pege or source of the ocean.”) Perseus
rode him when he rescued Andromeda.
- Phaeton (Greek, “the shining one"). One of the steeds
of Aurora.
- Phallas. The horse of Heraclios. The word means
“stallion.”
- Phlegon (Greek, “the burning or blazing one"). One of
the horses of the Noon-day Sun
- Phrenicos. The horse of Hiero, of Syracuse, that won the
Olympic prize for single horses in the seventy-third Olympiad. It
means “intelligent.”
- Podarge. One of the horses of Hector. The word means
“swift-foot.”
- Puroeis. One of the horses of the Noon-day Sun. (Greek,
“fiery hot.”)
- Rabicano or Rabican. Argalia's horse in Orlando Innamorato,
and Astolpho's horse in Orlando Furioso. Its dam was Fire, its
sire Wind; it fed on unearthly food. The word means a horse with
a “dark tail but with some white hairs.”
- Reksh. Rustem's horse who had magic powers, knew the Dïv
in disguise, and awakened his master twice, at which Rustem was
angry, and tried to kill the horse for disturbing him. Reksh,
however, awakened him the third time, and then Rustem saw the
Dïv, and slew him after a fearful combat. Dwellers
In Fairyland
- Rosinante. Don Quixote's horse, all skin and bone. The word
means “formerly a hack.”
- Shibdiz. The Persian Bucephalos, fleeter than the wind. It
was the charger of Chosroes II. of Persia.
- Skinfaxi. The steed which draws the car of day. The word
means “shining mane.” Scandinavian
- Sleipnir (Slipeneer). Odin's grey horse, which had eight legs
and could traverse either land or sea. The horse typifies the
wind which blows over land and water from eight principal
points.
- Spumador. King Arthur's horse. The word means “the
foaming one.”
- Strymon. The horse immolated by Xerxes before he invaded
Greece. Named from the river Strymon, in Thrace, from which
vicinity it came.
- Tachebrune. The horse of Ogier the Dane.
- White Horse (The) on which Death rides. Revelation 6.
- Wooden Horse. The Trojan Horse from the Trojan War, as told
in Virgil's The Aeneid and by Quintus of Smyrna. The events in
this story from the Bronze Age took place after Homer's Iliad,
and before Homer's Odyssey.
- Xanthos. Achilles' wonderful horse. Being chid by his master
for leaving Patroclos on the field of battle, the horse turned
his head reproachfully, and told Achilles that he also would soon
be numbered with the dead, not from any fault of his horse, but
by the decree of inexorable destiny. Its sire was Zephyros, and
dam Podarge. The word means “chestnut
coloured.”
Lord Vishnu. From
The One Thousand Names of Lord Vishnu
- Hutabhuk: One who enjoys all that is offered in yajna.
- Hutabhuk: One who accepts oblations.
- Hemaangah: One who has limbs of gold.
- Havih: The oblation.
- Harih: The destroyer.
- Halaayudhah: One who has a plough as His weapon.
- Hiranyagarbhah: The creator.
- Havirharih: The receiver of all oblation.
- Hetuh: The cause.
- Hamsah: The swan.
- Hiranyanaabhah: He who has a golden navel.
- Hiranyagarbhah: He who dwells in the womb of the world.
- Hrisheekeshah: The Lord of the senses.
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