HEAVENLY FATHER: Hebrew, Essene. His six angels were of Eternal Life, Creative Work, Peace, Power, Love and Wisdom. His complement was the Earthly Mother, with her six angels of Earth, Life, Joy, the Sun, Water and Air. Mankind stood at the intersection between these two polarized groups of forces and must attune itself to both. Jesus's statement 'I and the Father are one' would seem to derive from the Essene's Friday night ritual statement 'The Heavenly Father and I are one' - and it is interesting that their Saturday morning ritual began with 'I and the Earthly Mother are one' .
HEAVENLY MASTER OF THE FIRST ORIGIN, HEAVENLY MASTER OF THE DAWN OF JADE OF THE GOLDEN DOOR - see JADE, AUGUST PERSONAGE OF.
HECATONCHEIRES, CENTIMANES, THE: ('Hundred-Handed') Greek. With the CYCLOPES and TITANS, represented the raw forces of Nature. They were three: Cottus the Furious, Briareus the Vigorous and Gyges the Big-Limbed.
HEH - see NEHE.
HEIMDAHL: Scandinavian. Guardian of Bifrost, the rainbow bridge from Earth to Asgard. Son of nine virgins (i.e. of a group of priestesses). Tall and handsome, with teeth of pure gold. His horse was called Culltoppr, his sword Hoefu and his horn Gjallar. He fought LOKI to regain Freya's necklace which Loki had stolen. Said to have repopulated the world after some disaster.
HEITSI-EIBIB: African, Hottentot. Willing to aid mortals, he can assume the form of any animal. He did not create the animals but gave them their characteristics. Born either of a cow or of a virgin who ate a certain herb. A dying and resurrecting god. His ritual 'graves' are in mountain defiles; people passing one throw a stone on it for luck, praying 'Give us more cattle.'
HELBLINDI: Scandinavian. Son of FARBAUTI and brother of LOKI. Also a name given to ODIN, which suggests he was a memory of an earlier god.
HELIOGABALUS: A Syrian Sun god, symbolized by a conical stone.
HELlOS: Greek Sun god. Son of HYPERION and the Titaness Theia, and brother to Moon goddess Selene and dawn goddess Eos (Aurora). Eos orginally accompanied him through the sky during the day, but this role was later taken over by Hemera. His many wives included Clymene (who bore him the female heliades and PHAETON, and Pasiphaë, who married King Minos of Crete); the nymph Rhodos (daughter of Aphrodite by POSEIDON, after whom the island of Rhodes is named and who bore him the male heliads); and the oceanid Perse (whose children included the sorceress Circe). (Another version gives Rhodos as daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, and mother of seven children by Helios.) 777: Tarot: Sun; gem: crysoleth; plants: sunflower, laurel, heliotrope; animals: lion, sparrowhawk; perfumes: olibanum, cinammon, all glorious odours; magical weapons: Lamen or Bow and Arrow.
HENGIST: Saxon. Supposed leader, with Horsa, of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain in the fifth century AD - but see The Witches' Goddess p.141.
HENO - see HINO (this page).
HEPHAESTUS: Greek smith and craftsman god.
HERAKLES: Greek. Son of Alcmene by ZEUS. Roman name Hercules. In Tyre, linked with Astarte; a cult of Astarte and Tyrian Herakles, served by priestesses, existed in London, Carlisle and Corbridge, Northumberland, in Roman times, probably due to the presence of Eastern traders. His Earthly wife was Deineira, daughter of DIONYSUS and Althaea; he wrestled with a bull-headed snake (the River Achelous personified) to win her, and tore off one of its horns, which became the Cornucopia. At the wedding he 'accidentally' killed a cup-bearer, but the victim must originally have been the bride's father. Then he fought and killed the CENTAUR Nessus, who had tried to rape her. Before he died, Nessus gave Deineira some of his blood as a charm to keep Herakles' love, to put on his shirt. But it poisoned Herakles by burning him. The details of his death are typical of the Dying King who marries the Goddess-Queen to ensure the fertility of the land but who knows he is ultimately doomed. The Twelve Labours of Herakles were imposed on him by the Delphic Oracle after he had killed his children in a fit of madness sent by the jealous Hera. When he was admitted to Olympus as a god, Zeus gave him his and Hera's daughter Hebe ('Youth', 'Puberty') as wife; they had two children, Alexiares and Anicerus.
HERES: Canaanite name for SHAMASH.
HERMAKHIS: Egyptian. The rising or setting Sun; a name given to HORUS or RA.
HERMAPHRODITE: Greek. Son of HERMES (below) and Aphrodite, he united with the nymph Salmacis to become one bisexual body.
HERMES: Greek. Messenger of the gods, the god of intellect, communication, commerce and travel; on occasion also a trickster, bringing good luck to thieves. Originally, like PAN, who was then said to be his son, Hermes was Arcadian and in that form seems also to have been horned and goat-footed. He was the Psychopompos, conducting dead souls to the afterlife. Son of ZEUS and the Pleiad Maia. His many reputed lovers included Aphrodite, Hecate and Persephone. His symbols were the caducaeus, the winged cap and winged sandals. Roman equivalent MERCURY. 777: Tarot: Eights, Magician; gems: opal (especially fire opal), agate; plants: moly, anhalonium lewisii, vervane, herb mercury, marjolane, palm; animals: hermaphrodite, jackal, swallow, ibis, ape; mineral: mercury; perfumes: storax, mastic, white sandal, mace, all fugitive odours; magical weapons: Names and Versicles and Apron, Wand or Caducaeus.
HERMOD: Scandinavian. Son of ODIN who went to Hel to try to bring back his brother BALDUR.
HERNE: British Celtic horned god.
HESPER, HESPERUS: Greek. The Evening Star (Venus). Son of ATLAS and the dawn goddess Eos. Called Vesper by the Romans. His Morning Star brother was PHOSPHORUS.
HESUS: Gaulish. A war god similar to TEUTATES.
HEY-TAU. Phoenician. God of the Byblos region, known from about 3000 BC. A god of trees, of great economic importance locally. Known to the Egyptians as Ba-Tau.
HIISI: Finnish. One of the triad of evil spirits, the others being Lempo and Paha.
HIMAVAT: Hindu. God of the Himalayas, and father of Parvati, wife of SHIVA.
HINE-NUI-TE-PO - see ROHE.
HINO, HINU, HINUN, HENO: Amerindian, Iroquois. Thunder god, brother of the West Wind; together they defeated the Stone Giants, aboriginal inhabitants of the land.
HINOKAGU: Japanese. Fire god, son of IZANAGI and his sister / wife Izanami-No-Kami.
HIPPOMENES - see MELANION.
HIRANYAKSHA, HIRANY AKASIPU: Hindu. The first incarnation of RAVANA. A demon who dethroned INDRA to become ruler of the universe and expel the gods from Heaven. he was destroyed by VARAHA, the boar avatar of VISHNU, during the Deluge.
HIRIBI: ('The Summer's King') Hittite. The Moon god YERA gave him 140,000 gold shekels for the hand of his daughter Nikkal, goddess of the fruits of the Earth. 'Daughter of the Summer's King' may mean the bride of the new Moon after the harvest, still a favourite time for weddings in 1:he area.
HIRUKU: Japanese. A solar god, grandson of the supreme Sun goddess Amaterasu. Probably an early Sun god overshadowed by her as a result of .1!he conquest by the Yamato tribe.
HMIN: Burmese. A demon of ague, afflicting travellers.
