Occult Terms: I

Ibn Yusuf and Ibn Yunus are two distinct scholars from different centuries, different disciplines, and different schools of thought, connected only by the similarity of their names.

Jupiter IC line.

Ifa is a system of divination and wisdom (not a religion in the Western sense) that originated among the Yoruba people of present-day Nigeria and Benin, then traveled across the Atlantic with enslaved Africans.

An ifrit is a powerful class of jinn in Islamic mythology, created from smokeless fire, known for immense strength, cunning, and a volatile nature that can serve or destroy depending on how it is addressed.

Imagery analysis for tarot practitioners is the systematic decoding of visual symbols, colors, numbers, and spatial relationships within a card to reveal its layered meanings.

Photo : Paula Powlett · Pexels (libre d'utilisation) A ewe gives birth in the dead of winter, her milk coming in just as the snow begins to recede.

Inanna and Astarte are distinct goddesses from different cultures — Sumerian and Canaanite respectively — who share a core domain of love, war, and planetary power (Venus).

Inari is a Shinto kami of rice, prosperity, and foxes. Kitsune are fox spirits who serve as Inari’s messengers. The key difference: Inari is a deity, while kitsune are yokai, though the two are so intertwined that many shrines treat them as one.

A Spanish chronicler once watched a Quechua noble trace a spiral in the dust with his finger.

A Roman priest once told a Greek colleague that his gods had no myths, only rituals. The Greek laughed. The Roman was not joking.

Indra is the Vedic king of the gods, a storm-bringer and warrior whose power flows from sacrifice and conquest, while Shiva is the Puranic destroyer and supreme ascetic whose authority is absolute and self-contained.

A medieval magician sat in a candlelit chamber, a grimoire open on the table.

Ingwaz and Inguz are not different runes. They are different transliterations of the same Proto-Germanic name for the twenty-second rune of the Elder Futhark.

Inti Raymi (IN-tee RYE-mee) is the Incan winter solstice festival honoring Inti, the sun god and supreme deity of the Tawantinsuyu empire. Held on June 24 each year in the Southern Hemisphere, it marked the new year, the return of the sun after the winter solstice, and the symbolic rebirth of the Inca emperor as the living son of Inti.

Intuitive reading techniques for students are methods of divination that bypass memorized card meanings in favor of direct sensory, symbolic, or somatic perception.

Ipos is a Prince and Earl of Hell in the Goetic tradition, one of the 72 spirits sealed by King Solomon. His domain is knowledge: he knows all things past, present, and future, and he grants courage and wit to those who summon him.

Isaac Luria (1534–1572) and Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) are separated by four centuries and two intellectual worlds. Yet their work converges on a single idea: that creation begins with a catastrophe, and that redemption depends on recovering what was broken.

Ishtar and Astarte share a common origin in the Semitic worship of the morning and evening star, but they are not the same goddess.

Ix Chel, the Maya goddess of the moon, childbirth, medicine, weaving, and rain.

Izanagi is the god of creation, purification, and the threshold that separates the living from the dead.

Izanami-no-Mikoto.