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The House of Sasan (Sasanian dynasty, Sassanids) is a hereditary royal house that founded and ruled the Sasanian Empire (Ērānšahr) from 224–651 CE. In source traditions it functions as a political-dynastic institution fused with Zoroastrian religious legitimacy, associated with sacred fires and priest-king authority rather than supernatural agency.
A Turanian noble family and lineage in Persian mythology, known for their martial prowess and leadership roles. (Note: 1. Power tier: According to source material, the House of Viseh is a prominent Turanian clan in Persian mythology, but there's no indication of their power level being Greater (deity-level). 2. Origin)
The House of Yngling is a dynastic lineage named in early medieval Scandinavian literary tradition and later genealogical documents. Primarily attested through the poem Ynglingatal and referenced in works like Beowulf (as the Scylfings), the Ynglings function in sources as an ancestral royal house providing genealogical legitimacy for rulers in Sweden and later Norway.
A household deity is a deity or spirit that protects the home and its members, cared for inside domestic spaces and integrated into everyday household ritual. The category spans distinct cultural instantiations — hearth goddesses, ancestral family kami, and animistic house-spirits — and is characterized by reciprocal relations of offering and protection rather than cosmic sovereignty.
Howard the Duck is a fictional anthropomorphic duck character created for American comic books published by Marvel Comics, featured in satirical and metafictional stories about a sentient duck 'trapped' in a human-dominated Earth. Created by Steve Gerber and Val Mayerik, he first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 (Dec. 1973) and has appeared in comics, a 1986 film, and later cameo roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and animation.
Paired supernatural patrons in Classic and Postclassic Maya religion who oversee scribal arts, sculpture, music, and related ritual knowledge; personifications of the day-sign Batz in calendrical/divinatory contexts and remembered in colonial-era narratives such as the Popol Vuh and accounts by Bartolomé de las Casas.
Hoʻohōkūkalani (also attested as Kahoʻohokuokalani-i-kau-i-kaheahea) is named in the cited sources as a Hawaiian goddess mentioned in ancient chants; she is described in those brief accounts as a beautiful woman who became a consort to her own father. The available sources are concise and do not provide extended narrative, ritual, or iconographic detail.
Hreiðmarr is a dwarf in the Old Norse mythic corpus, presented as the patriarch of a household whose possession of the cursed treasure (Andvari's gold and the ring Andvaranaut) sets in motion a chain of kin-slaying and the later Fafnir/Sigurðr cycle found in the Völsunga saga and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.
Hrym (also attested Hrymr) is a jötunn in Norse myth who, at Ragnarök, leads the legions of the jötnar toward the battlefield of Vígríðr. He is attested only in eschatological passages that present him as a commander-figure approaching from the east "with his shield before him."
Hrólfr Kraki is a semi-legendary early 6th-century Danish king of the Scylding lineage preserved in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse sources. He appears as Hroðulf in Beowulf and is expanded into a fuller heroic-biographical figure in Scandinavian saga material and in Saxo's Gesta Danorum.
The provided source corpus contains no attestation of a supernatural being named 'Hua Po' or 'Flower Demon.' Materials in the corpus instead reference unrelated names and topics (e.g., Hua Mulan, modern literature, opera conventions), and do not document a flower‑associated demon figure.
In the Quechua mythology, Huacas are mountain deities revered as protectors of regional ethnicities and central figures in myths. (Note: 1. Power tier: Primordial seems too high given that Huacas are mountain deities and not cosmic entities. 2. Appearance: Should be added that there is no physical description provided for the Huacas, b)
Huanca refers to two related Andean referents in the supplied sources: (A) an ethnonym for a Quechua people of the Junín region of central Peru, and (B) huanca/wanka, a sacred elongated vertical standing stone (monolith) in Andean ritual practice that is worshipped and given offerings and is believed to represent chiefs and ancestors.
Semi-mythological Taoist hermit and legendary scribe who imparted knowledge and wisdom through written texts. (Note: - Power tier: Primordial (since he's semi-mythological and a figure from ancient Chinese culture, but not explicitly stated as deity-level) - Appearance: "No physical description is provided in the so)
A formidable supernatural being in the Buddhist tradition associated with immense power and strength. (Note: - Summary: Inaccurate. Huangmei Dawang is a major antagonist, not associated with "immense power and strength". - Power tier: Possibly incorrect. Although it has significant spiritual authority and ca)
A legendary creature in Maya tradition with characteristics of an evil sorcerer and ability to transform into various animal forms. (Note: - The power tier should be Greater, not Lesser, considering its ability to transform itself and connect with shamanic or magical powers. - The origin story is incorrect; it mentions the Huay Chivo as )
Deity in Inca mythology associated with the upper world or sky, connected to weather and natural phenomena. (Note: - Power tier: Should be Ancient, not Greater, as a deity is typically on a higher power level than regional. - Sensory cues, wards, and weaknesses: None mentioned in source material; should be deleted)
Hudoq are ritualized pest-figures in Dayak agricultural cosmology of East Kalimantan: a group of thirteen crop‑destroying pests (in the traditions of Bahau, Busang, Modang, Ao’heng, and Penihing) that are personified in masked dance during the Erau harvest‑thanksgiving cycle and ritually expelled to secure abundant rice harvests.
A fictional undead monster attested in Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder bestiaries, depicted as the reanimated corpses of former religious practitioners who violated vows or embraced heresy. Bestiary entries describe it as a robed, decaying corpse with abilities and auras tied to the corruption of faith.
In Norse tradition, the Hug represents various aspects of human consciousness, encompassing spirit, will, prudence, thought, understanding, reason, and the soul as the seat of thoughts, feelings, and will. (Note: - The Power tier should be revised to Ancient (Hug is a concept related to human consciousness, not cosmic or deity-level). - The Origin story, Appearance, Sensory cues, Weaknesses, and Wards sections)
Huitaca is a female deity in modern secondary accounts of the Muisca (Chibcha) tradition, described in those sources as a goddess associated with pleasure, arts, dance, music, sexual freedom and—in some modern summaries—the Moon. She is commonly portrayed in retellings as a rebellious figure whose diversion of humans from labor leads to punishment and transformation into an owl in the narrative tradition preserved in secondary sources.
Huitztlampaehecatl is the Nahuatl name for the Aztec personification and deity of the South wind, one member of a quartet of cardinal wind gods in Aztec cosmology.
Huixtocihuatl is an Aztec fertility and provider goddess associated primarily with salt and salt water. She is attested in Sahagún’s ethnographic materials as the patron of salt-makers, honored during the Tecuilhuitontli festival with an embodied impersonator (ixiptla) whose ritual dance and eventual sacrifice connect local salt-production communities to state temple cults.
The Huiñao is a geographical location with cultural significance in Inca tradition, possibly having some supernatural connotations. (Note: 1. Power tier should be Primordial (since it's a geographical location with cultural significance, implying a more significant impact). 2. Add Appearance, Abilities, Sensory cues, Weaknesses, and Ward)
The hulder (Norwegian huldra) is a class of Scandinavian 'hidden folk' — a forest-associated local spirit traditionally conceived as a race or kind rather than a single individual. They are counted among the rå (wardens/keepers) of particular natural places and are widely attested in Scandinavian toponyms and folk belief.
A seductive forest spirit of Scandinavian folklore — beautiful from the front but with a cow's tail or hollow back — who lures men into the wilderness, sometimes to their ruin.
Huldufólk is a broad, loosely defined category of place‑bound hidden people in Nordic and Insular Scots traditions—beings who live in a parallel, concealed layer of the landscape and who look and behave much like humans. They are tied to mounds, rocks, mountains, forests, and waters, and traditions emphasize respect, avoidance, and occasional interaction or retaliation when their habitat is disturbed.
Huli jing (狐狸精), commonly rendered in English as "fox spirit," are shapeshifting supernatural beings from Chinese folklore and mythology. Classified among the broader class of yāoguài, they are morally ambivalent figures that may be benevolent, malevolent, or trickster-like depending on the tale and context.
Hulkbusters is the name applied to three distinct organized human groups in Marvel Comics whose purpose is to confront, capture, or neutralize the Hulk. The label is used for a U.S. military task force, a Bruce Banner–led scientific/operational team based at Gamma Base, and a S.H.I.E.L.D. unit; each iteration functions as an instrument of state or agency policy within the fictional Marvel Universe.
In Persian tradition, the Huma bird is a mythical creature that inhabits the air, never touching down on the ground. (Note: - Power tier: Primordial (or not specified at all), as it has cosmic abilities - Appearance: Invisible entity (already correct) - Abilities: Add "existing solely as a concept rather than a tangible be)
Humay-ē Chehrzad is a legendary Kayanian queen of Iran who, according to the Kayanian cycle as summarized in the available sources, served as vice-regent and then ruled for about 32 years before handing the throne to her son Kai Darab. Her narrative emphasizes dynastic succession, the protection and concealment of a royal infant, and military response to foreign assault; later chroniclers at times equated her with the Near Eastern queen Semiramis.
The divine guardian of the Cedar Forest appointed by Enlil, a terrifying giant whose roar was the flood, whose breath was fire, and whose gaze was death — slain by Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
Ancient Elamite god associated with divine protection and revered as a protector deity. (Note: 1. Power tier: Humban's association with "divine protection" and his importance as a deity suggest he should be placed at Ancient power tier is correct. 2. Weaknesses: absence of specific weaknesses m)
Huminodun is a sacred ancestral maiden in the Nunuk Ragang cycle of Kadazan‑Dusun tradition whose voluntary sacrifice ends a famine and, according to the legend, gives rise to cultivated staple crops (especially rice) and the ritual institutions of Momolianism including the bobohizan priesthood. Her story is commemorated in the Kaamatan harvest festival and the Unduk Ngadau pageant.
Hun Hunahpu is a mythic ancestral figure in the Kʼicheʼ Maya Popol Vuh narrative: one of two brothers (with Vucub‑Hunahpu) who were lured into Xibalba, sacrificed, and whose severed head was suspended in a trophy tree and changed to a calabash. The calabash-head's juice impregnates Xquic, producing the Hero Twins (Hunahpu and Xbalanque); later the Twins recover their fathers' remains but cannot fully resuscitate them. Some scholars compare Hun Hunahpu with the Classic-period Tonsured Maize God, though this identification is debated in the sources provided.
Hun (魂) and po (魄) are complementary soul-aspects in classical Chinese thought: hun is the more ethereal, yang-associated component that departs the body after death, while po is the more corporeal, yin-associated component tied to physiological and lunar-linked functions and which remains with the corpse.
A legendary tribe or clan in Germanic tradition, known for their conflict with the Wulfings. (Note: * Power tier should be Ancient (deity-level) is too high; given the lack of supernatural powers and behaviors associated with the Hundings. * The article incorrectly states that no physical descriptio)
A powerful non‑human spirit figure from the 16th‑century Chinese novel Journey to the West (Chapter 73). Presented in the story as a centipede spirit who disguises himself as a Daoist abbot, reveals a hundred glowing eyes beneath his ribs that emit a blinding golden light, and serves poisoned tea to the pilgrims before being subdued by the bodhisattva Pilanpo.
A proposed label for a 'hungry spirit' (preta) associated with the name Mahāmāyā mentioned in some modern queries; the supplied sources do not document any such named entity. The materials provided only place the general notion of postmortem experiential states within Tibetan bardo literature and do not describe a Mahāmāyā preta.
The Hungry Tiger is a fictional anthropomorphic tiger character created by L. Frank Baum for his Oz books, first appearing in Ozma of Oz. Presented within the enchanted Land of Oz as a speaking, feeling animal-person, he served as comic relief in Baum's work and was later expanded into a protagonist by subsequent Oz authors and continuators.
Listed in a compiled catalogue of supernatural beings from Chinese folk culture and contemporary literature, 'hungry ghost (E gui)' appears as an itemized class of supernatural being in the provided sources. The supplied materials contain the name but do not give further descriptive or ritual detail.
Hunzahúa is the legendary first zaque (northern ruler) of the Muisca polity based at Hunza (present-day Tunja). Presented in source material as a foundational cacique and moralizing figure, his myth explains local toponyms and landmarks (the Hunzahúa Well, rocks at Tequendama Falls) through a narrative of incest, communal outrage, and consequent etiological transformations.
A legendary fire-associated beast from texts describing southern China, depicted as a large black dog that 'eats fire' and emits flames; in classical passages it is treated as an omen or sign of conflagration and is grouped with calamities.
The huoshu or huo shu (火鼠), literally "fire rat" or "fire mouse," is attested in modern reference works as a fantastical beast in Chinese tradition. Available cited references (Wikipedia and Wikidata) provide only this lexical identification and classification; no further descriptive, narrative, or ritual material is supplied in those sources.
Huracán (Mayan: Hunraqan), often rendered in Kʼicheʼ as U Kʼux Kaj ('Heart of Sky'), is a Kʼicheʼ Maya creator deity associated with wind, storm, fire, and lightning. He takes part in the cosmogonic attempts to create humanity and is the agent of the Great Flood who calls land up from the waters.
In Mesopotamian tradition, Hursag refers to a geographical feature, specifically a mountain or hill. (Note: - Power tier: Hursag is a geographical feature, not a being with primordial power; correct tier to be Lesser (local spirit) or Minor Spirit (weak), as it's a natural landform. - Abilities: Remove stat)
Hushang (Avestan Haoshyangha; New Persian Hūshang/Hōshang) is an early hero-king and culture‑founder in Iranian tradition credited with establishing sovereign rule (Pishdad/Paradhāta), receiving divine royal glory (khvarenah) through sacrifice, defeating the daēvas, and inaugurating arts of settled life including fire, metallurgy, agriculture, and architecture.
Hurrian divine female figures associated with fate and with birth/midwifery. Frequently attested as part of the court of the goddess Ḫepat (Hebat), they appear in ritual offering lists and in mythic narratives as attendants who determine destiny and assist at births.
Huēhuecoyōtl (Nahuatl huēhuehcoyōtl, 'very old coyote') is an auspicious Mexica (Aztec) deity of music, dance, song, mischief, deception, and uninhibited sexuality. He is a trickster-figure in the Tezcatlipoca family who rules the day sign cuetzpallin and the fourth trecena Xochitl in the Aztec calendar and who could be appealed to to mitigate ill fates.
Huītzilōpōchtli is the principal Aztec (Nahua) solar and war deity, patron of the Mexica and Tenochtitlan. In Aztec cosmology he is a cosmic warrior whose continued vigor is sustained by ritual nourishment—notably human blood and hearts—administered in formal festivals and sacrifices.
Hušbišag (Hushbishag) is a Mesopotamian netherworld goddess attested as a member of the underworld household; she is named as the wife of Namtar and mother of Hemdikug and is described in one literary passage as a 'handmaid of the dark gods' who may welcome the dead.
Hvitserk (Old Norse Hvítserkr, 'White-Shirt') is a figure from Norse legendary‑historical tradition presented as one of the sons of the legendary 9th‑century Viking Ragnar Lodbrok and his wife Aslaug. Attested in the Tale of Ragnar's Sons (Ragnarssona þáttr), he appears as a warrior and raider who traveled to Garðaríki and pillaged with the Rus; the saga tradition records that, when faced with an overwhelming foe, he chose to be burned alive on a pyre of human remains.
Divine being in Korean tradition, son of Hwanin, Lord of Heaven. Associated with human development and progress. (Note: - Power tier: Primordial may be too high given the description of abilities (institution of laws, teaching arts and medicine) which more closely align with a Greater (deity-level, but not cosmic) or A)
Hwin is a fictional talking mare from C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, prominently featured in The Horse and His Boy (1954). She is a Narnian free-talking beast characterized by humility, clear thinking, and gentle temperament, who was captured in Calormen as a foal and later escapes back to Narnia.
Hyacinth (Ancient Greek Ὑάκινθος, Latinized Hyacinthus) is a beautiful youth in Greek myth who is beloved by the god Apollo and whose death is said to have produced a spring-blooming flower bearing his name. He is treated as a deified or memorialized hero in myth and poetry; the ancient plant-name ὑάκινθος was applied to real spring plants, but exact botanical identification in antiquity is uncertain.
A sisterhood of mythic figures in ancient Greek tradition identified with an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus; popularly called 'the rainy ones' because their seasonal risings and settings were associated with rain and the rainy season. They appear in myth as nurses/escorts (notably caring for the infant Dionysus) and in astronomy as the Hyades star cluster.
An idiom and folkloric motif in Japanese tradition describing a mass nocturnal procession of supernatural creatures (yōkai and related beings) that march through human streets at night. Depictions and stories vary: sometimes an orderly parade, sometimes a chaotic riot, and encounters are commonly described as dangerous to humans.
Hyang is an indigenous spiritual concept from Java and Bali denoting a venerated unseen presence that ranges from deified ancestors and place-spirits to formulations of a supreme divine principle. Hyang inhabit a realm called Kahyangan and are engaged through ritual practices such as sembahyang and Sanghyang trance dances.
Hydaspes is the Hellenic personification of the river now known as the Jhelum (Vitasta) in north‑western India; in Greek epic and late antique poetry he appears as a river-god (Potamos) and local naiads who participate in the narrative of Dionysus’ Indian campaign.
The Hydra (commonly cited as the Lernaean Hydra) is presented in the supplied sources as a many-headed serpentine monster from Greek myth. The available material is limited to brief reference entries and modern reuses of the name; detailed mythic narratives and attributes are not present in the supplied excerpts.