Dictionary Of God And Godedesses

Hanui–o–rangi 111with the SAKTI on the left knee. Color: white.Attributes: arrow, bow, cup, grass, image ofAMITABHA on crown, lotus, tiger skin and trident.Three-headed and three-eyed.HaldiTutelary god. Urartian [Armenia]. Known fromcirca 1000 BC until circa 800 BC.Halki (barley)Corn god. Hittite and Hurrian. He may also havebeen invoked by beer makers.their lifestyle. Attributes include a basket of flowersand a flute.See also BA XIAN.Hani(s)Minor god. Mesopotamian (Babylonian-Akkadian).The attendant of ADAD and linked with SULLAT.Hani-Yasu-HikoGod of potters. Shinto [Japan]. The consort ofHANI-YASU-HIME, he is one of the clay deities madefrom the faeces of the primordial goddess IZANAMI.HamadryadesAnimistic tree spirits. Greco-Roman. Vaguelydefined female beings whose existence isrestricted to the individual trees of which theyare guardians.Hani-Yasu-HimeGoddess of potters. Shinto [Japan]. The consortof HANI-YASU-HIKO, she is one of the clay deitiesmade from the faeces of the primordial goddessIZANAMI.HamavehaeMother goddesses. Romano-Celtic (Rhineland).A trio of matres known from inscriptions.HammonGod of the evening sun. Libyan. An ancient deitydepicted with ram’s horns.Hammu MataMother goddess. Hindu. Locally worshiped bythe Bhils.Han Xiang-ziImmortal being. Taoist (Chinese). One of the“eight immortals” of Taoist mythology. Oncemortal beings, they achieved immortality throughHannahannasMother goddess. Hittite and Hurrian. Describedas the “great mother.” In the legend of TELEPINU,the missing god, she sends a bee to locate him.When the bee stings Telepinu to awaken him, thegod vents his rage on the natural world.NOTE: the priestesses of the Phrygian mothergoddess KYBELE were, according to the Romanwriter Lactantius, melissai or bees.Hansa (goose)Minor avatara of VIŠNU. Hindu (Puranic).Depicted in the form of a goose.Hanui-o-Rangi (father of winds)God of winds and weather. Polynesian. He is theson of the sky god RANGINUI, who fathered him