Hariti
Perhaps a relic of ancient agricultural ritual, she may have been brought
to India as Isis by the Greeks in the 4th century AD. She is a mother
suckling five hundred demons; the wife of Kubera, the god of dark spirits;
or of Panchika. She is said to have been converted to Buddhism by the
Buddha himself.
Himvati
('Wife of Mountain God'). A form of Parvati, the wife of Shiva in one
of his avatars.
Hulka
Devi
A goddess of cholera.
Ida
(Adda, Ila) The Hindu goddess of prayer and devotion. She is also an earth
goddess representing many other aspects of occult psychology including
instruction, speech, divination, devotion, fire, etheric force, the Lunar
woman or wife. In Tantric teaching, she is related to vital forces in
the medulla oblongata and heart; and in Hatha Yoga to the left
nostril, the lunar breath. She is also regarded as one of the three Vital
Airs of the Kundalini, the other two being Pingala and Shushumna.
Indrani
Indrani was Indra's wife and consort; in the early Vedic accounts she
was merely a female shadow of him. She is sometimes referred to as the
goddess of wrath. She was the daughter of the demon Puloman, whom Indra
killed. She was always described as beautiful, but was said to have one
thousand eyes. In later Hindu times, she came to personify jealousy and
was regarded as of evil intent. In southern India, however, she was ranked
as one of the nine astral deities who were the highest of the gods. Her
symbolic animal was either the lion or the elephant.
Ikugui-No-Kami
("life-integrating") A primeval Hindu goddess, emanating from
the Mother and associated with the Earth and the sands. According to H.P.
Blavatsky she was "of denser substance" than most of the gods,
but "fair and graceful".
Isani
(Gouri) A godess of abundance and fertility. An earthen image of her,
and a smaller one of her husband Ishwara, are placed together, and barley
is sown and tended in a small trench. When it sprouts, women dance around
it, calling the blessing of Isani on their husbands; they give the young
barley shoots to their husbands to wear in their turbans.
Jagad-Yoni
('universe-yoni') The Womb of the World, the female First Cause. Her
symbols include the inverted triangle, the upright oval, the rose and
the cauldron.
Jambavati
The wife of Krishna. She is of the family of Jambavan, the King of the
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