A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Gods, Goddesses, Ghosts, Ghoulies,
Heroes, Villains and Things That Go Bump In The Night
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- I. 'The Excellent Archer', god of bowmen. China
- Iabet, the goddess of the Eastern Desert, of fertility and
rebirth. She was a personification of the land of the east.
Egypt
- Iacchus, the solemn name of the mystic Bacchus at Athens and Eleusis. The Phrygian
Bacchus was looked upon in the Eleusinian mysteries as a child,
and as such he is described as the son of Demeter and Zeus, and
as the brother of Cora, that is, the male Cora or Corus.
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- Iadalbaoth. Child from the egg of Chaos; the spirit of
matter, the chief of the lower elohim and father of the six dark
stellar spirits. Gnostic
- Iae, God of the moon. Iae and his brother, Kuat, stole the
light from the vulture god Urubutsin. Kuat became the Sun god and
Iae god of the Moon. Brazil
- Iakchos, an epithet of Dionysus
in the Eleusinian mysteries, derived from the element iacho,
meaning "to shout." Greek
- Ialanus, the male deification of riverside clearings.
Celtic
- Ialemus, a personification of the dirge, or a song of a very
serious and mournful character, only to be sung on the most
melancholy occasions. Greek
- Ialmenues, a son of Ares and
Astyoche, and brother of Ascalaphus.
One the Argonauts and a suitor of
Helena. Greek
- Ialonus, the personification of the land and fertility god.
Celtic
- Iambe, daughter of Pan and Echo, and a slave of Metaneira, the wife of
Hippothoon. Others call her a slave
of Celeus. The extravagant hilarity displayed at the festivals of
Demeter in Attica was traced to her for it is said that when
Demeter, in her wanderings in search
of her daughter, arrived in Attica, Iambe cheered the mournful
goddess by her jokes. Greek
- Iamus, a son of Apollo and Evadne,
was initiated in the art of prophecy by his father, and was
regarded as the ancestor of the famous family of seers, the
Lamidae at Olympia. Greek
- Iao, 'serpent-faced' Archon. Gnostic
- Iapetos. The father of Atlas and ancestor of the human race,
called genus Iapeti, the progeny of Iapetus. By many considered
the same as Japheth, one of the sons of Noah. Greek
- Iapis or Iapyx, was a son of Iasus, and a favourite of
Apollo, who wanted to confer upon him the gift of prophecy and
the lyre, but Iapis, wishing to prolong the life of his father,
preferred the more tranquil art of healing to all the others. He
also cured Aeneas of the wound he had received in the war against
La- tinus. Greek
- Iarila, Goddess of Spring and fertility. She leads the dance
at the Summer Solstice. Russia
- Iasion, also called Iasius, was,
according to some, a son of Zeus and
Electra, tLe daughter of Atlas, and a brother of Dardanus (Theogony of Hesiod 970 ) but
others called him a son of Corythus
and Electra, of Zeus and the nymph Hemera, or of Ilithyius, or of Minos and the nymph Pyronia.Greek
- Iaso, a daughter of Asclepius or
Amphiaraus, and sister of Hygieia,
was worshipped as the goddess of recovery. Greek
- Iasus 1. A son of Phoroneus, and brother of Pelasgus and Agenor, or Arestor.
- Iasus 2. A son of Argus and Evadne, a daughter of Strymon, or a son of
Peitho, the father of Agenor, and father of Argus Panoptes.
- Iasus 3. A son of Argus Panoptes and
Ismene, the daughter of Asopus, and the
father of Io.
- Iasus 4. A son of Io.
- Iasus 5. A son of Triopas, grandson of Phorbas, and brother of Agenor.
- Iasus 6. An Arcadian, a son of
Lycurgus and Cleophile or Eurynome, a
brother of Ancaeus and Amphidamas, and the husband of Clymene, the daughter of Minyas, by whom he
became the father of Atalante.
- Iasus 7. A son of Eleuther, and father of Chaeresileus.
- Iasus 8. The father of Amphion, and king of the Minyans.
- Iasus 9. A son of Sphelus, the
commander of the Athenians in the Trojan war, was slain by
Aeneias.
- Iasus 10. The father of Dmetor, king
of Cyprus.
- Iatiku and Nautsiti. Sisters who, when giving life to the
snakes and fishes, accidentally created the Evil Spirit. Acoma.
Native American
- Iasonia or Latrovia, a surname of
Athena at Cyzicus.
- Ibath, one of the two sons of Magog, one of the ancestors of
the Irish
- Ireland
- Ibis or Nile—bird. The Egyptians call the sacred Ibis
Father John. It is the avatar' of the god Thoth, who in the
guise of an Ibis escaped the pursuit of Typhon. The Egyptians say its white plumage
symbolises the light of the sun, and its black neck the shadow of
the moon, its body a heart, and its legs a triangle. It was said
to drink only the purest of water, and its feathers to scare or
even kill the crocodile. Egypt
- Iblis or Eblis. The Lucifer of Moslem theology. Once called
Azazel (prince of the apostate angels). He has five sons:
—
(1) Tir, author of fatal accidents;
(2) Awar, the demon of lubricity;
(3) Dásim, author of discord;
(4) Sât, father of lies; and
(5) Zalambûr, author of mercantile dishonesty.
- Ibmel. A sky god and a general name for various gods.
Finland
- Ibofanga, aka Hisagita-Imisi, Hisagitaimisi. The Master of
Breath, created the world and all other things. The Creek,
Georgia
- Icarius, also called Icarus and
Icarion. An Athenian, who lived in the reign of Pandion, and
hospitably received Dionysus on his arrival in Attica. The god
showed him his gratitude by teaching him the cultivation of the
vine, and giving him bags filled with wine. Icarius now rode
about in a chariot, and distributed the precious gifts of the
god; but some shepherds whom their friends intoxicated with wine,
and who thought that they were poisoned by Icarius, slew him, and
threw his body into the well Anygrus, or buried it under a tree.
Greek
- Icauna, the patronness of the Yonne River Yonne. France.
Celtic
- Icci. The spirit of Mother Earth. Siberia
- Iccovellauna, Goddess of water. Celtic
- Iccovellauna. God of Ale Brewing. Ouranian
- Ice Giants. Similar to the Jotuns of Norse mythology, the Ice
Giants are apparently necessary for the Apocralypse. When this
came close to occurring during the events of Sourcery, the Ice
Giants, described as huge beings made of ice with tiny, coal-like
eyes and riding tame glaciers, hurtled down towards the civilised
world. They spoke with a pronounced Nordic accent. Discworld
- Ichor. The colourless blood of the heathen deities
- Ichpuchtli, the ruler of love, marriage, flowers, art, music,
women, magic, spinning, fertility, sex, weaving, and changes.
Ichpuchtli is also the Goddess of Sacred Prostitutes, and
professions which imitate nature. Aztec
- Ichthyocentaurus. A fish-centaur,
or a particular kind of Triton.
Ichthyocentauri were fabulous beings, the upper part of whose
body was conceived to have a human form, and the lower that of a
fish, while the place of the hands was occupied by a horse's
feet. Greek
- Ictinike, the 'father of lies' who was expelled from
heaven for deceit and trickery. Sioux
- Ida, of the earth, abundant food, and nourishment. She is
also the granter of any blessings evoked through her. Hindu
- Idæ'an Mother. Cybele, who had a temple on Mount
Ida, in Asia Minor.
- Idavold. A plain where the gods first assemble, where they
establish their heavenly abodes, and where they assemble again
after Ragnarok. The plains of Ida. Norse
- Idaeus, a son of Dardanus and
Chryse, and brother of Deimas, went with his father from
Peloponnesus, by way of Samothrace, to Phrygia, and settled on
the mountains of Phrygia, which derived from him the name of Ida,
or the Idaean mountains.Greek
- Ida Ten, Young god who protects monasteries and is rather
quick Japan
- Idas, A person who was killed by
Phineus at the wedding of Perseus.
- Idas. A son of Aegyptus, who was married to Hippodice.
(Apollodorus. ii.)
- Idas. One of the companions of
Diomedes, who were metamorphosed into
birds by the anger of Aphrodite. (
Metamorphoses V)
- Idas. A son of Aphareus and Arene,
the daughter of Oebalus, whence he and
his brother Lyriceus are called Apharetides, or
Aphareidae.Greek
- Ida-Ten. Buddhist god of law and monasteries. Japan
- Idem Huva Finnish, Goddess of autumn Ugric
- Idliragijenget, Goddess of the sea. Inuit
- Idlirvirisong, Demonic cousin of the sun Inuit
- Idothea aka Eidothea, the nymph, a daughter of the aged Proteus, who instructed Menelaus, in the island of Pharos at the
mouth of the river Aegyptus, in what
manner he might secure her father and compel him to say in what
way he should return home. Greek
- Idun or Idunn. Daughter of the dwarf Svald, and wife of
Bragi. She kept in a box the golden apples which the gods tasted
as often as they wished to renew their youth. Loki on one
occasion stole the box and hid it in a wood; but the gods
compelled him to restore it. Norse
- Iegad, God who is guilty of bringing light to earth Pelew
Is.
- Iemaparu Pueblo, Corn mother Kachina?
- Ifa, God of wisdom, knowledge and divining Yoruba
- Ifing. A river which divides the giants from the gods.
Norse
- Ifru Roman, God known from an inscription at Crita
Africa
- Ifreet or Afreet or Afrit. A powerful evil jin or spirit of
Arabian mythology.
- Ifurin. The Hades of the ancient Gauls. A dark region
infested by serpents and savage beasts. Here the wicked are
chained in loathsome caverns, plunged into the lairs of dragons,
or subjected to a ceaseless distillation of poison. Celtic
- Igaehinvdo, Goddess of the sun Cherokee
- Igalilik, hunting spirit who travels through the icy wastes.
Inuit
- Igaluk, God of the moon Inuit
- Igigi, Collective name for the group of younger sky gods.
They were the gods of heaven, in contrast to the Anunnaki, who
were the gods of the earth. Mesopotamia
- Ignerssauk, God of the sea, generally benevolent Inuit
- Ignirtoq, a god of light and truth. Inuit
- Ignis Fatuus. According to a Russian superstition, these
wandering fires are the spirits of still—born children
which flit between heaven and the Inferno.
- Iguanchi. The benevolent and friendly chief spirit who
directs all the important acts in the life of the Jivaro.
Peru
- Igwekaala, a sky god. Igbos. Nigeria
- Ih P'en, Chthonioc fertility god, concerned with the
growth of plants as well as family, property and other wealth
Mayan
- Ihi, Goddess of learning, of wisdom. Tahiti
- Ihi aka Ehi, god of the sistrum. Egypt
- Ihoiho, Creator god who created everything including the
primeval waters Society Is.
- Ihoiho, the ghosts of the dead, which were supposed often to
visit the living, especially relatives, and to inflict illness or
death. Tahiti
- Ihy, a young god personifying the jubilation emanating from
the sacred rattle. Egypt
- Iju aka Ba-Chi. The sky god who sends the fertilizing rain.
Nigeria
- Ikal Ahau, Chthonic death god, who who savours raw human
flesh. Mayan
- Ikanam. A kind being who touched up the coyote's crude
essays with a sharp stone, opening the eyes of men, and giving
their hands and feet the powers of movement. He also acted as a
"culture-hero," introducing the first arts. The
Chinook, Oregon/Washington
- Ikas, Mother Earth Algonquin
- Ikebana. The Goddess of Topiary, worshipped by the Militant
Servitors of Ikebana. She is named after the Japanese art of
formal flower arranging. Discworld
- Ikenga, god of fortune and industry. Nigeria
- Ikhekhu or Akhekhu . A semi-supernatural being described as a
serpent with four legs, resembling an European griffin.
Egypt
- Ikoro, the spirit of the drums. Igbos. Nigeria
- Ikto. God of human speech. Sioux
- Iku, God of death Nigeria
- Iku-Ikasuchi-No-Kami, God of thunder, the most significant of
the eight thunder deities, Japan/Shinto
- Iku-Turso, a malevolent sea monster and a god of war.
Finland
- Ikvaku, God of the sun Hindu/Vedic
- Il, Creator god Syria/Canaan/Lebanon
- Il. A Semitic name for god, similar to El.
- Il-a-bi, the father god. Ugaritic
- Ila, Minor goddess of sacrifices Hindu/Vedic
- Ilaalge, Local god Semitic
- Ilabrat, a messenger of Anu. Babylon
- Ilaeira. A daughter of Leucippus and Philodice, and a sister of
Phoebe, together with whom she is often
mentioned by the poets under the name of Leucippidae. Greek
- Ilah, moon god. South Semitic
- Ilai. The male aspect of the supreme power, Indara being the
female aspect. Together they made humankind. Indonesia
- Ilem. 'One who cannot speak'. The supreme God of the
Siberian Ostiaks.
- Ilmatecuhtli, the goddess of the beauty and creator of the
stars. Aztec
- Ilankaka, Goddess of the sun Nkundo
- Ilankaka, Goddess of war Zaire
- Ilat, means "thunder." In Suk it means rain, and is
the name of the rain-god, as in Elgeyo. But some Suk say that
Ilat is the supreme god. Kenya
- Ilat, Allat. "The Goddess", a pre-Islamic Arabian
goddess who was one of the three chief goddesses of Mecca who the
pre-Islamic Meccans referred to as "The Daughters of
God".
- Ilazki, Apotheosis of the moon in a feminine form Basque
- Ilithyia Eileithyia, Eilethyia,
Eleuto, Goddess of childbirth. Greek
- Ilanzi. The supreme god and creator. Tanzania
- Ilkwang. The Bodhisattva of Sunlight. Korea
- Illalei. Yet another supreme being and the creator humanity.
Ethiopian this time
- Illapa or Illapa, god of lightning, thunder and rain storms.
Inca
- Illargui, Goddess of the moon Basque
- Ilma. God of air. Symbolizes element of Air, the element of
wind. Finland
- Ilmarinen. Finnish creator god, also a sky and smith god. He
is also protective deity of travelers
- Ilmatar. The virgin goddess of the air. She is portrayed as
androgynous with both male and female aspects, though she is
primarily female. Despite her virginity, she was the mother of
Väinämöinen, the god of music, Lemminkäinen,
god of magic, and Ilmarinen, the god of smithing. Finland
- Illujanka. Hittite snake demon.
- Ilma. Finnish god of the air.
- Ilu. Father of night. Samoa, Polynesia
- Ilus, 1. A son of Dardanus by Bateia,
the daughter of Teucer. Ilus died without issue, and left his
kingdom to his brother, Erichthonius. 2. A son of Tros, and
grandson of Erichthonius. His mother was Calirrhoe, and being a
great-grandson of Dardanus, he is called Dardanides.Greek
- Ilyapa, God of storms and weather Inca
- Im, Storm god Mesopotamia
- Im. A son of the giant Vafthrudner. Norse
- Imana, the Creator deity in Banyarwanda mythology in
Rwanda.
- Imberombera, travels over the country making everything and
leaving spirit children behind her. She sends out her spirit
children to different parts of the country telling them to talk
different languages. Kakadu, Australia.
- Imd. One of Heimdal's nine giant mothers. Norse
- Imana Banyarwanda, Chief god Africa(east)
- Imazuma, Goddess of lightning Japan/Shinto
- Imdugud See Zu
- Imhotep, the first architect and physician known by name in
written history. Two thousand years after his death, his status
was raised to that of a god. He became the god of medicine and
healing. He was linked to Asclepius
by the Greeks. Egypt
- Imiut, Minor chthonic protective god Egypt
- Immaculate Conception. The dogma that the Virgin Mary was
conceived without Original sin. This dogma was first broached by
St. Bernard, and was stoutly maintained by Duns Scotus and his
disciples, but was not received by the Roman Catholic Church as
an article of faith till 1854.
- Immap Ukua, Goddess of the sea, mother to all of the sea
creatures Inuit/Greenland
- Immat, ensures the balance between the shariah or the
exoteric aspect of the faith, and its esoteric, spiritual
essence. Neither the exoteric nor the esoteric obliterates the
other. While the Imam is the path to a believer's inward,
spiritual elevation, he is also the authority who makes the
shariah relevant according to the needs of time and universe.
Islam
- Imntd. A minor angel. Enochian
- Imo, Goddess of justice Africa
- Imo miri, river spirit. Igbos. Nigeria
- Imps. Imps are tiny demons that perform minor tasks rapidly.
A number of Discworld labour-saving devices exist which function
by trapping small imps. The most notable is the iconograph, but
others include watches, food processors, razors and personal
organisers. The imps in these devices seem not to mind their
jobs, although they get sarcastic if overworked or asked to do
things outside their purview. Discworld
- Improcitor, Minor god of agriculture and a helper of Ceres.
Roman
- Imra, the chief pre-Islamic god of the Hindukush Kafir
people. He was worshipped as the god of creation. By his breath,
Imra created other gods of Kafir pantheon. Frequent sacrifiices
were made to Imra, sometimes for recovery from sickness,
seasonable weather, or other material benefits, sometimes from
motives of simple piety. Imra was more honored than the other
gods at the religious dances. Hindu/Kush
- Imset. Funerary god charged with the care of the liver of the
deceased. Egypt
- Imtd. A minor angel. Enochian
- Ina, a lunar deity daughter of Kui or Vaitere, who kept an
eel in a jar, but it soon grew into the eel-god, Tuna, who tried
to rape her. The people of Upolo rescued her and sentenced him to
death. At his request, she buried his head in the sand and from
it grew the first coconut. Ina is married to Marama, the god of
the night. She lives in the sky during the daytime when her
husband is not visible. Polynesia
- Inahitelan, the supreme being whose name maens
”Supervisor.” Siberia
- Inanna. "Queen Moon". Near Eastern queen of heaven.
She ruled over the stars, planets, water, and light. Also
symbolizes love, destruction of the indestructible, health, the
moon workings. Sumaria
- Inanna, Inana, the original "Holy Virgin," as the
Sumerians called her, is the first known divinity associated with
the planet Venus. This Sumerian goddess became identified with
the Semitic goddesses Ishtar and later Astarte, Egyptian Isis,
Greek Aphrodite, Etruscan Turan and
the Roman Venus. Mesopotamia
- Inapirikuri. The primordial god who drew mankind from the
ground and gave them their moral precepts. Venezuela
- Inara, the daughter of the Storm-god Teshub or Tarhunt and
the goddess of the wild animals of the steppe. Hurrian
- Inaras, Goddess of the wild animals of the steppe. The one
who set a trap for Illuyankas. Hittite
- Inari, god of fertility, rice, agriculture, and foxes.
Inari's foxes, or kitsune, are pure white and act as his
messengers. Japan/Shinto
- Inachus, a river god and king of
Argos, is described as a son of Oceanus and Tethys. By a Melian
nymph, a daughter of Oceanus, or, according to others, by his
sister Argeia, he became the father of Phoroneus and Aegialeus,
to whom others add Io, Argos Panoptes, and Phegeus or Pegeus.
Greek
- Incubus. A nightmare, anything that weighs heavily on the
mind. At one time supposed to consort with women an their sleep.
Roman
- Indagarra. The supreme being and god of judgment after death
created a man and a woman. Under him is Ryangombe. The Wa-Twa,
Burundi
- Indara. The Maiden, the earth. With Ilai, the sun, they are
the supreme powers of the Torajas. They created mankind, but not
plants and animals. Celebes, Indonesia
- Indr, Tutelary and weather god. Afghanistan
- Indeesa. The creator gooddess who caused no afflictions and
is invoked for inner reflection. Tanzania
- Indra, the king of the gods and ruler of the heavens, the god
of thunder and rain and a great warrior who symbolises courage
and strength. His mount is an elephant called Airavata and he has
a golden chariot drawn by ten thousand horses. Hindu
- Indra, the god of the sun and of light, associated with the
east. Mongolia
- Indrani, the goddess of wrath and jealousy, and a daughter of
Puloman, a demon who was killed by Indrani's future husband,
Indra. She is beautiful and has one-thousand eyes. She is
associated with lions and elephants. Hindu
- Indukari, Goddess Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Inemes, Goddess of love and of sexuality Micronesia
- Infoniwoo. God of child-birth and generation. Taiwanese
- Ing, Ancestral god. Anglo-Saxon
- Inghean, One of the sisters who made up a triple goddess and
goddess of summer. Ireland
- Inguma, the god of dreams. He was regarded as a malevolent
force who entered houses at night and plagued the residents with
nightmares. Basque
- Ingun's Frey. One of the names of Frey. Norse
- Ini, Goddess of justice Egypt
- Ini Heret, the Maidservant of Onuris. Goddess associated with
warriors and hunters. Egypt
- Inkanyamba, a legendary serpent living in a waterfall lake
area in the northern forests near Cape Town, South Africa
- Inkosazana, who came out on the same day that men came out of
the earth. She is not commonly seen. We hear it said the
primitive men knew her. No one existing at the present time ever
saw her. She is said to be a very little animal, as large as a
polecat, and is marked with little white and black stripes; on
one side there grows a bed of reeds, a forest, and grass;97 the
other side is that of a man. Such is her form. South Africa
- Inkosikasi. A Chicken hypnotist and a beneficent sky goddess.
The Zulu, South Africa
- Inmar, Sky goddess. Finnish/Ugric
- Inmutef. Egyptian bearer of the heavens.
- Inna, Goddess of justice. Africa
- Innana, Goddess of love, procreation, and war Sumeria.
- Ino. Greek heroine who raised the
infant Dionysus. Later she was
elevated to a sea goddess under the name of Leukothea. Greek
- Inous, that is, the son of Ino, a name given to Melicertes
and Palaemon. Greek
- In-Shushinak. The supreme god of the Elamites. East of
Babylonia
- Insitor, God concerned with the sowing of crops and a helper
of Ceres. Roman
- Instein. The father of Ottar Heimske; the favourite of
Freyja. Norse
- Inta, God of fire who is associated with paternalism.
Aztec
- Intercidona, one of the Deverra,
three symbolic beings whose influence was sought by the Romans,
at the birth of a child, as a protection for the mother against
the vexations of Sylvanus. Roman
- Inti, God of war and the sun and a patron deity of
Tahuantinsuyu. Inca
- Intonsus, i. e. unshorn, a surname of Apollo and Bacchus,
alluding to the eternal youth of these gods, as the Greek youths
allowed their hair to grow until they attained the age of
manhood, though in the case of Apollo it may also allude to his
being the god of the sun, whence the long floating hair would
indicate the rays of the sun. Greek
- Inuat, Spirit beings who reside with all living creatures and
maintain the lamp of life. Inuit
- Inuus, an ancient protector of livestock, one of the di
indigetes, indigenous gods. He was probably a god of fertility or
sexual intercourse, as his name was thought by some to be
connected with the word inire, "to copulate". He was
also sometimes identified with the Roman god Faunus. Roman
- Invidia, the personification of envy, is described as a
daughter of the giant Pallas and
Styx. Greek
- Invisible Pink Unicorn, the goddess of a satiric parody
religion aimed at theistic beliefs, which takes the form of a
unicorn that is paradoxically both invisible and pink. These
attributes serve to satirize the apparent contradictions in
properties which some attribute to a theistic God.
"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual
power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible
and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the
Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We
have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are
invisible because we can't see them." --Steve Eley.
On-line culture
- Inyan, the first of the superior Gods. Uncreated and existing
before time, he created Maka and gave it the Earth Goddess
Maka-akan, the second of the superior Gods and a part of Inyan.
Creating Maka required all of Inyan's blood, which was blue,
to form a great disk, beyond which there was nothing. This effort
made Inyan hard and powerless. His blood became the blue waters
and the sky, and Nagi Tanka (Sky God), the Great Spirit who is
all powerful and called Skan (Most Holy), the third superior God.
Lakota
- Inzak, the god who watches over his people. Bahrain,
Arabia
- Io, a Nymph of the Argive River Inachos
who was loved by Zeus. Greek
- Iodameia. A priestess of Athena Itonia, who was changed into a block of
stone on seeing the head of Medusa.
Greek
- Iole. The last beloved of Heracles, and a daughter of Eurytus of Oechalia. According to some
writers, she was a half-sister of Dryope.
- Ion. The fabulous ancestor of the Ionians, a son of Apollo by Creusa, the
daughter of Erechtheus and wife of
Xuthus.
- Iormungandur, Iormungandr. The Midgard serpent. The serpent
that encompasses the whole earth. Scandinavian
- Ioskeha, Creator of the first man and woman Iroquois
- Ipalnemohuani, 'he by whom the people live'. The
supreme god and the giver of Life. Aztec
- Ipet. She was originally the demon-wife of Apep, the original
god of evil. Egypt
- Iphicles' Oxen. Iphiclos or Iphicles was the possessor of large herds of
oxen, and Neleus promised to give his
daughter in marriage to Bias if he would
bring him the oxen of Iphicles, which were guarded by a very
fierce dog. Melampos contrived to
obtain the oxen for his brother, but being caught in the act, he
was cast into prison. Melampos afterwards told Astyocha, wife of
Iphicles, how to become the mother of children, whereupon
Iphicles gave him the coveted herd, and his brother married the
daughter of Neleus. The secret told by Melampos to Astyocha was
“to steep the rust of iron in wine for ten days, and drink
it.” This she did, and became the mother of eight
sons.
- Iphigeneia, according to the
most common tradition, a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra
but, according to others, a daughter of Theseus and Helena, and
brought up by Clytaemnestra only as a foster-child. Agamemnon had
once killed a stag in the grove of Artemis, or had boasted that
the goddess herself could not hit better, or, according to
another story, in the year in which Iphigeneia was born, he had
vowed to sacrifice the most beautiful thing which that year might
produce, but had afterwards neglected to fulfil his
vow.Greek
- Iphimedeia, a daughter of
Triops, and the wife of Aloeus. Being in love with Poseidon, she
often walked to the sea, and collected its waters in her lap,
whence she became, by Poseidon, the mother of the Aloadae, Otus
and Ephialtes.Greek
- Iphis, a young man of humble
parentage who died for love of Anaxarete. Greek
- Iphitus, A son of Eurytus of
Oechalia, is mentioned among the Argonauts, but was killed by
Heracles.
- IphitusA son of Naubolus, and
father of Schedius, Epistrophus, and Eurynome, in Phocis, was
likewise one of the Argonauts.Greek
- Iphthima,
- Iphthima One of the Nereides, and
the mother of the Satyrs.
- IphthimaA daughter of Icarius, and
sister of Penelope. Athena assumed the appearance of Iphthime,
when she appeared to the unfortunate mother of
Telemachus.Greek
- Ipy aka Ipet, Apet, Opet, a benign hippopotamus goddess known
as a protective and nourishing deity. Egypt
- Irene aka Eirene, Goddess of peace and of spring. Greek
- Irik. A primeval creator spirit, in the form of a bird, who
created the earth; with Ara, created mankind from clay. The Sea
Dyaks of Sarawak, Borneo
- Irioba, Iriuba, Enokwe. The sun, the sky, the only real god
who created the world and all that it contains. Tanzania
- Iris, Goddess of the rainbow, or the rainbow itself. In
classic mythology she is called the messenger of the gods when
they intended discord, and the rainbow is the bridge or road let
down from heaven for her accommodation. When the gods meant peace
they sent Mercury. Greek/Roman
- Iris, A daughter of Thaumas (whence
she is called Thaumantias) and Electra, and sister of the
Harpies. Greek
- Irma. An early coastal name of the creator god. Peru
- Irmin. The mythical founder of the Hermiones tribe, son of
Mannus, war god, Germanic
- Irminsul, the pillar that was said to connect heaven and
earth, represented by oak or wooden pillars venerated by the
Saxons.
- Irsirra, Goddess of fate and destiny. Hurrian
- Irus, a son of Actor, and father of
Eurydamas and Eurytion. He propitiated Peleus for the murder of
his brother but during the chase of the Calydonian boar, Peleus
unintentionally killed Eurytion, the son of Irus, Peleus
endeavoured to soothe him by offering him his flocks but Irus
would not accept them, and at the command of an oracle, Peleus
allowed them to run wherever they pleased. A wolf devoured the
sheep, but was thereupon changed into a stone, which was shown in
later times on the frontier between Locris and Phocis. Greek
- Irus. The beggar of gigantic stature, who kept watch over the
suitors of Penelope. His real name
was Arneos, but the suitors nicknamed him Iros because he carried
their messages for them. Ulysses, on his return, felled him to
the ground with a single blow, and flung him out of doors.
Greek
- Iruwa, Sun and war god. Kenya
- Iruwa, god of the Wachaga, but they insist that the sun is
not the same thing as God. Bantu
- Irvun, God of the sun. Cameroon
- Isa, Guardian deity Buddhist
- Isa, the Muslim Jesus. The Messiah supported by the Holy
Spirit
- Isa, Aspect of Siva Hindu/Puranic
- Isa, was a prophet of Islam and will have an important role
in the end times, establishing Islam and making war until he
destroys all religions save Islam. He shall kill the Evil
One.
- Isaf. An Arabian idol in the form of a man, brought from
Syria, and placed in Es—Safa, near the temple of Mecca.
Some say Isaf was a man converted into stone for impiety, and
that Mahomet suffered this one “idol” to remain as a
warning to his disciples.
- Isakakate, Ruler of the Anasazi and a god of the heavens and
the sky. Crow
- Isahi. The supreme being of the Logoli. Kenya
- Isakakate. The supreme being of the Crow. Plains Indians
- Isamba, Goddess of the moon Africa
- Isara. Goddess of marriage and childbirth who dealt with the
enforcement of oaths. Semitic
- Ischys, a son of Elatus, and the beloved of Coronis at the time when she was with child
(Asclepius) by Apollo. The god wishing to punish her
faithlessness, caused Artemis to kill
her, together with Ischys.Greek
- Isden See Isten
- Isdes, Chthonic god of death Egypt
- Isdustaya, Goddess of of fate Proto-Hattic
- Ises, Goddess of bow and arrow Africa
- Isewahanga. The creator god of the Zinza. Tanzania
- Ishaki, god of the tempest. Sumar
- Ishi-Kori-Dome, God/goddess of stonecutters Japan/Shinto
- Ishkur. God of the storm and rain. Mesopotamia
- Ishtar. A mother goddess, fertility goddess, the goddess of
spring, a storm goddess, a warrior goddess and goddess of war, a
goddess of the hunt, a goddess of love, goddess of marriage and
childbirth, and a goddess of fate. She was also an underworld
deity, her twin sister being Ereshkigal, the Goddess of Death,
but her dominant aspects are as the mother goddess of compassion
and the goddess of love, sex and war. Assyrian/Babylon
- Isi, Goddess moderating the whole world, giving laws to
Heaven, Earth, and Ocean, as the common parent both of gods and
men, and as the productive cause both of corn and trees.
India
- Isinu. A two-faced god who carried messages for Enki.
Mesopotamian
- Isiququmadevu, a swallowing
monster who killed Untombinde and who then went on to the
chief's kraal, swallowed up all the inhabitants, with their
dogs and their cattle, as well as all the people in the
surrounding country. Zulu
- Isis, Goddess of childbirth, death, the earth, fertility,
marital devotion, motherhood, healing, home, magic, the moon and
the mother goddess Egypt
- Isivsanen. The maker of the Universe. Karuk
- Iskur, Chief rain and thunder god
Mesopotamia/Sumeria/Iraq
- Island of Flame, Though not a god, without it eight gods
would never have came into being Egypt
- Islands of the Blessed, called by the Greeks “Happy
Islands,” and by the Romans “Fortunate
Islands.” Imaginary islands somewhere in the west, where
the favourites of the gods are conveyed at death, and dwell in
everlasting joy.
- Island of St. Brandan. The flying island, the supposed
retreat of King Rodrigo. So called from St. Brandan, who went in
search of the Islands of Paradise in the sixth century. Gaul
- Ismene. Daughter of OEdipus and Jocasta. Antigone was buried
alive by the order of King Creon, for burying her brother
Polynices, slain in combat by his brother Eteocles. Ismene
declared that she had aided her sister, and requested to be
allowed to share the same punishment. Greek
- Ismenius, 1. A son of Apollo and
Melia, who is said to have given his name to the Boeotian river
which was before called Ladon or Cadmus. 2. A surname of Apollo
at Thebes, who had a temple on the river Ismenus. The sanctuary
of the god, at which the Daphnephoria was celebrated, bore the
name of Ismenium, and was situated outside the city.Greek
- Ismud, Dual-faced messenger god. Mesopotamia
- Ismud, the visier of Enki, whose secrets he kept.
Sumerian
- Isodaetes, the god who distributes his gifts equally to all,
occurs as a surname of Dionysus Zagreus. Greek
- Isodetes, the god who binds all equally, is used as a surname
of Pluto, to express his impartiality, and of Apollo. Greek
- Israfil. The angel of music, who possessed the most melodious
voice of all God's creatures. This is the angel who is to
sound the Resurrection Trump, and will ravish the ears of the
saints in paradise. Israfil, Gabriel, and Michael were the three
angels that warned Abraham of Sodom's destruction. Islam
- Issa, a daughter of Macareus in Lesbos, and the beloved of
Apollo, from whom the Lesbian town of Issa is said to have
received its name. Greek
- Issitoq, a deity that punishes those who break taboos. He
usually takes the form of a giant flying eye. Inuit
- Issoria, a surname of the Laconiaii Artemis, derived from ,
Mount Issorion, on which she had a sanctuary. Greek
- Istadevata, a favourite god a person chooses to show devotion
and develop a special relationship with. Hindu
- Istadevata, Generic title for a personal god or a house icon
Hindu
- Istanu. A god of the sun. Hittite
- Istar, Goddess of fertility and war known as the star of
heaven Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia
- Istaran, Tutelary god of the city of Der
Mesopotamia/Sumeria
- Isten, Chief deity Hungary
- Isten, God related to knowledge and wisdom Egypt
- Isthmus, the god worshipped on the Isthmus (of Corinth),
a surname of Poseidon, in honour of whom the Isthmian games were
celebrated. Greek
- Istustaya, One of the deities who awaited the return of
Telipinus Hittite
- Isum, Minor god, possibly a god of fire
Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia
- Isvara, Epitaph of Siva Hindu
- Itaba, Ancestral goddess Haiti
- Italus. An ancient king of the
Pelasgians, Siculians, or Oenotrians, from whom Italy was
believed to have derived its name.
- Itchita Yakut, Goddess of the earth, prevents illness
Siberia
- Ithacensian Suitors. The suitors of Penelope, wife of
Ulysses, King of Ithaca. While Ulysses was absent, many suitors
presented themselves to Penelope, affirming that Ulysses was
certainly dead. Penelope put them off, saying she would give a
definite answer when she had finished the robe she was weaving
for Laertes, but at night she unravelled all she had woven during
the day. At last Ulysses returned and slew the suitors.
Greek
- Ithm, God of herds, usually sheep. Canaan
- Ithomatas, a surname of Zeus, derived from the Messenian hill of Ithome,
where the god had a sanctuary, and where an annual festival, the
Ithomaea was celebrated in his honour. Greek
- Ithome, a nymph from whom the
Messenian hill of Ithome derived its name. According to a
Messenian tradition, Ithome and Neda, from whom a small river of
the country derived its name, were said to have nursed Zeus, and
to have bathed the infant god in the well Clepsydra. Greek
- Itonia, Itonias, Itonis, a surname
of Athena, derived from the town of Iton, in the south of
Phthiotis. Greek
- Itonus. A son of Amphictyon, and husband of the nymph
Melanippe, by whom he became the father of Boeotus and
Chromia.Greek
- Itonus. A son of Boeotus, and father of Hippalcimus.
Electryon, Archilochus, and Alegenor. Greek
- Ithuriel “the discovery of God.”. One of the
angels commissioned by Gabriel to search for Satan, who had
effected his entrance into Paradise. The other angel who
accompanied him was Zephon. Hebrew
- Ithuriel's Spear. The spear of the the angel Ithuriel,
the slightest touch of which exposed deceit. Hence, when Satan
squatted like a toad “close to the ear of Eve,”
Ithuriel only touched the creature with his spear, and it resumed
the form of Satan. Hebrew
- Ithuwa. The sun and creator god. Tanzania
- Itonde Mongo, The god of death and hunters Zaire
- Itonius, Itonia, Itonias, Itonis
or Itonius, a surname of Athena, derived from the town of Iton,
in the south of Phthiotis. The goddess there had a celebrated
sanctuary and festivals, and is hence also called Incolaltoni.
From Iton her worship spread into Boeotia and the country about
lake Copais, where the Pamboeotia was celebrated, in the
neighbourhood of a temple and grove of Athena. Greek
- Itpomu. the world and all that therein is are the children of
Itpomu the Creative Mother. Sikkim
- Ituana, Goddess of the afterworld Brazil
- Itukoviche. A somewhat shy god who is responsible for the
existence of the world. Brazil
- Itzeti Mara Edutzi. The sun god of the Araona. Bolivia
- Iusaaset. The female counterpart of Tem and a solar goddess.
Egypt
- Itzam Cab, Chthonic earth god as well as a god of fire
Mayan
- Itzamna. the founder of the Maya culture, taught his people
to grow maize and cacao, as well as writing, calendars and
medicine. He was a good-natured god who was especially worshiped
by the wealthier classes. He was associated with snakes and
mussels. His father was Kinich Ahau or Hunab Ku. The city of
Izamal was sacred to him.
- Itzcoliuhqui, God of volcanoes, destruction and of the night
Aztec
- Itzcutintli, Guardian goddess of the home Aztec
- Itzli, a god of stone, particularly in the shape of a
sacrifical knife. He served Tezcatlipoca as the god of the Second
Hour of the Night. Aztec
- Itzpapalotl. "Clawed Butterfly" or "Obsidian
Butterfly" was a fearsome skeletal goddess, who ruled over
the paradise world of Tamoanchan. Aztec
- Itzpapalotl-Itzcyeye, Minor mother goddess who was found only
in the Valley of Mexico Aztec
- Itztlacoliuhqui. "Everything Has Become Bent by Means of
Coldness", or "Plant-Killer-Frost". The god of
frost. Aztec
- Iubdan of the Faylinn, Ulster god Ireland
- Iunones, Goddesses of femininity Roman/Greek
- Iusaas, a goddess of Heliopolis whose name means, "she
comes who is great". She plays a crucial role as the
feminine principle in the creation of the world. Egypt
- Iuturna, Goddess of springs and who was real handy in times
of drought Roman
- Ivald. A dwarf. His sons construct the ship Skidbladner.
Norse
- Ivory Gate of Dreams. Dreams which delude pass through this
gate, those which come true pass through the Gate of Horn. This
fancy depends upon two puns: ivory in Greek is elephas, and the
verb elephairo means “to cheat with empty hopes;” the
Greek for horn is keras, and the verb karanoo means “to
accomplish.”
- Ix Ahau, Goddess of the moon Mayan
- Ix Ch'up, Goddess of the moon Mayan
- Ix Chebel Yax, Goddess of teaching, childbirth, the moon,
sexual relations, storms and water Mayan
- Ix Chel, the goddess of the moon. Maya
- Ix Kanan, Vgetation goddess who takes care of bean plant
Mayan
- Ix Ku, Goddess of rain Mayan
- Ix Zacal Nok, Inventor of weaving as well as Creator goddess
Mayan
- Ixbalanque, God of the moon, also be twin of Hunahpu
Mayan
- Ixchebelyax, Zapotec goddess. Mayan
- Ixchel, Zapotec earth goddess Mayan
- Ixcozauhqui, fire god of Tlatelolco. Aztec
- Ixcuiname, earth goddess. She was linked with sex, which in
the Aztec mind was unclean, and thus she was also regarded as a
personification of filth. Aztec
- Ixion, a son of Phlegyas or,
according to others, a son of Antion by Perimela, of Pasion, or
of Ares. According to the common tradition, his mother was Dia, a
daughter of Deioneus. He was king of the Lapithae or Phlegyes,
and the father of Peirithous. He was bound to a revolving wheel
of fire in the Infernal regions, for his impious presumption in
trying to imitate the thunder of heaven. Greek
- Ixmucane, One of the 13 gods who created humans Mayan
- Ixpiyacoc, one of the thirteen creator gods who helped
construct humanity. Mayan
- Ixpuztec aka Mictlantecuhtl, "broken face",
underworld god on their way to whom the dead people’s skin
would be ripped off by a wind of knives and would eventually live
as skeletons. Aztec
- Ixquimilli. the god of cold, stone and castigation.
Aztec
- Ixtab, goddess of suicide and wife of Chamer. Ixtab, depicted
as a corpse with a rope around her neck, would accompany the
suicides to their eternal rest Mayan
- Ixtlilton. "The Little Black One" God of healing
and feasting. Aztec
- Iya, “The Stone Child killed the evil spirit Iya.
That’s how the Great Salt Lake was formed, from the blood
of Iya. When you find a Stone Child, a perfectly round stone, the
Stone Child will bring you home.” — Lakota Myth
- Iyatiku, the mother of maize and humans. Pueblo/Navaho
- Izanagi and Izanami were the two young gods chosen to bring
order to the world of chaos in Japanese mythology. Izanagi was a
tall and as strong as a willow sapling, while Izanami, his
consort, was delicate in manner and speech, and as beautiful as
the air that filled the High Plain of Heaven. The Lord of Heaven
then gave Izanagi his legendary spear, Amanonuboko.
- Izanagi, Izanagi-no-Mikoto. "Male Who invites".
Creator god, father god, man of men. Symbolizes magic. Japan
- Izanami. Mother goddess, the female counterpart to Izanagi.
Japan
- Izuwa, Izua, Izuva. Another Creation and sun god, this time
from Tanzania
- Izanami-No-Kami "The Female Who Invites", Shinto
earth mother who was given the task of creating the world.
Japan
- Izaz. A minor angel. Enochian
- Izinr. A minor angel. Enochian
- Izixp. A minor angel. Enochian
- Iznr. A minor angel. Enochian
- Izquitecatl, Fertility god personified by the Maguey plant
Aztec
- Izraz. A minor angel. Enochian
- Izxp. A minor angel. Enochian
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