Lachesis

Goddess of lot-casting. Pre-Homeric Greek.

According to Hesiod one of the daughters of ZEUS and THEMIS. One of an ancient trio of MOIRAI with KLOTHO and ATROPOS, she sustains the thread of life and is depicted carrying a scroll.

Hygieia

Goddess of health. Greek. The daughter of ASKLEPIOS, the physician god of healing. Hygieia was also a remedial drink made from wheat, oil and honey. She is depicted as Hygieia-Salus in a marble group sculpture in the Vatican, with Asclepius (the Roman god of healing) and the snake, which she is touching.

Harsomtus [Greek]

Form of the god HORUS. Egyptian. In this form Horus unites the northern and southern kingdoms of Egypt. He is depicted as a child comparable with HARPOKRATES. At the Edfu temple, he is identified thus as the offspring of Horus the elder and HATHOR. Also Har-mau (Egyptian).

Glaukos

Sea god. Greek. Allegedly an impoverished fisherman who ate a sea-grass with magical properties, dived into the ocean and remained there as a guardian deity of fishermen and their nets.

Hyakinthos

God of vegetation. Greek. An ancient pre-Homeric deity known particularly from Amyklai (pre-Dorian seat of kingship at Sparta). He is beloved by APOLLO who perversely kills him with a discus and changes him into a flower. At Amyklai the bronze of Apollo stands upon an altar-like pedestal said to be the grave of Hyakinthos and, prior to sacrifice being made to Apollo, offerings to Hyakinthos were passed through a bronze door in the pedestal.

HORUS [Greek] (the high one)

ORIGIN Egyptian. Sky god.

KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 3000 BC until end of Egyptian history (circa AD 400).

SYNONYMS Har (Egyptian); HAROERIS; Har-pakhered or Harpokrates (Greek); HARSIESE. Also Har-nedj-itef or Harendotes (Greek); Har-mau or HARSOMTUS (Greek); HARAKHTI; Har-emakhet or HARMACHIS (Greek).

HESTIA

ORIGIN Greek. Goddess of hearth and home.

KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 800 BC but probably earlier and through until Christianization (circa AD 400).

SYNONYMS Histie.

CENTER(S) OF CULT local household shrines.

Hermaphroditos

God(dess) of uncertain status. Greek. The offspring of HERMES and APHRODITE and the lover of the water nymph Salmakis. Tradition has it that their passion for one another was so great that they merged into a single androgynous being.

HERAKLES (the fame of Hera?)

ORIGIN Greek. Heroic god.

KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 800 BC, but probably originating from a prehistoric model, until Christianization (circa AD 400).

SYNONYMS Heracles (Roman).

CENTER(S) OF CULT none specific.

HEKATE

ORIGIN Greek. Goddess of the moon and of pathways.

KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 800 BC until Christianization (circa AD 400).

SYNONYMS Hecate.

CENTER(S) OF CULT Lagina.