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Goddess name "Empung Luminuut" |
N Celebes Is / Sulawesi |
A goddess that gave birth to the Sun god |
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Monster name "Empusa" |
Greek |
A monstrous spectre, which was believed to devour human beings. It could assume different forms, and was sent out by Hecate to frighten travellers. It was believed usually to appear with one leg of brass and the other of an ass. Whenever a traveller addressed the monster with insulting words, it used to flee and utter a shrill sound. The Lamiae and Mormolyceia, who assumed the fonm of handsome women for the purpose of attracting young men, and then sucked their blood like vampyrs and ate their flesh, were reckoned among the Empusae. Greek |
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Deity name "Empyrean" |
Greek |
There are five heavens, the last of which is pure elemental fire and the seat of deity; this fifth heaven is called the empyrean. Greek |
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Demon name "En" |
Iltyrain |
A god who was demoted a demon by the Christians |
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"En-lil" |
Babylon |
The name of Bel in the oldest inscriptions Bel. Babylon |
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God name "Enbilulu" |
Sumerian |
A river god in charge of the sacred rivers Tigris and Euphrates. He was also the deity of canals, irrigation and farming. Sumerian |
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God name "Enbilulu" |
Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian |
River god. In creation mythology he is placed in charge of the sacred rivers Tigris and Euphrates by the god ENKI. He is also god of canals, irrigation and farming. In Babylonian times he becomes the son of EA and is syncretized with ADAD.... |
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God name "Encelados" |
Greek |
The most powerful of the giants that conspired against Zeus. The king of gods and men cast him down, and threw Mount Etna over him. The poets say that the flames of this volcano arise from the breath of this giant. The battle-field of his contest was Phlegra, in Macedonia. Greek |
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God name "Enceladus" |
Greek |
A son of Tartarus and Ge, and one of the hundred-armed giants who made war upon the gods. He was killed, according to some, by Zeus, by a flash of lightning, and buried under mount Aetna and according to others, he was killed by the chariot of Athena, or by the spear of Seilenus. Greek |
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God name "Endouellicus" |
Roman |
God of healing Roman / Iberia |
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God name "Endouellicus" |
RomanoIberian |
Chthonic oracular and healing god. Known from the Portuguese region. Probably the recipient of pig sacrifice.... |
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God name "Endukugga" |
Sumeria |
God of the underworld Sumeria |
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God name "Endursaga" |
Mesopotamia |
Herald god Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
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God name "Endursaga (lofty mace)" |
Mesopotamian / Sumerian |
Herald god. He leads the Sumerian pantheon particularly in times of conflict. Also IS UM (Akkadian).... |
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"Endymion" |
Greek |
A youth distinguished for his beauty, and renowned in ancient story by the perpetual sleep in which he spent his life. Greek |
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Angel name "Enediel" |
Christians |
angels of the Mansions of the moon. |
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Angel name "Enejie" |
Greek |
The angel called up to grant wishes. |
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Goddess name "Enekpe" |
Africa |
Goddess of the family and guardian of destiny Africa |
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God name "Enipeus" |
Greek |
A river-god in Thessaly, who was beloved by Tyro, the daughter of Salmoneus. Poseidon, who was in love with her, assumed the appearance of Enipeus, and thus visited her, and she became by him the mother of twins, Pelias and Neleus. Greek |
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God name "Enki aka Ea" |
Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
A deity later known as Ea in Babylonian mythology, originally chief God of the city of Eridu. Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
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God name "Enki/ Ea" |
Sumeria / Mesopotamia |
A creator god, water, cunning & fertility |
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God name "Enkimdu" |
Sumeria |
God of canals, ditches, irrigation and sedentary farming. Sumeria |
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God name "Enlil" |
Sumeria |
God of air and weather. One of four Sumerian creating gods. Sumeria |
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God name "Enmesarra" |
Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Babylon / Akkadia |
The god of law |
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God name "Enmesharra" |
Sumerian |
A god of the underworld who often worked with Enbilulu to bring water to the surface of the earth. Sumerian |
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"Ennead" |
Egypt |
The Heliopolis pantheon as a group |
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Deities name "Ennead" |
Egypt / Lower |
The Heliopolis pantheon. The nine major deities enumerated and given their genealogy by the priesthood of Heliopolis, the center of the Sun-worshiping cult in Lower Egypt. Comprising the Sun god ATUM (or Atum-Re) and his offspring, S U, TEFNUT, GEB, NUT, OSIRIS, ISIS, SETH and NEPHTHYS. Other Egyptian cult centers possessed similar pantheons though not necessarily including the same list of deities. Thus, for example, the god PTAH presided at Thebes.... |
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"Enneads" |
Egypt |
The Ancient Egyptians set up multiple Enneads; the Great Ennead, the Lesser Ennead, the Dual Ennead, plural Enneads, and the Seven Enneads. |
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God name "Ennugi" |
Sumeria |
Attendant and throne bearer god. A younger brother of Sin, he was also the god of Irrigation and a canal inspector. Sumeria |
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God name "Ennugi" |
Mesopotamian / Sumerian / BabylonianAkkadian |
God. The attendant and throne-bearer of ENLIL (ELLIL).... |
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Goddess name "Enodia" |
Greek |
Goddess of crossroads and gates. Greek |
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"Enorches" |
Greek |
A son of Thyestes by his sister Daeta, was born out of an egg, and built a temple to Dionysus. Greek |
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King name "Entelechy" |
Rabelais |
The kingdom of queen Quintessence in the History of Gargantua and Pantagruel' (NOT for the easily offended). Pantagruel and his companions went thither in search of the Holy Bottle. It may be called the city of speculative science. Rabelais |
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God name "Enten" |
Mesopotamia |
Fertility god who doubled as Guardian deity of farmers Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
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God name "Enten" |
Mesopotamian / Sumerian |
Fertility god. Created by ENLIL as a guardian deity of farmers alongside the minor god EMES , Enten was given specific responsibility for the fertility of ewes, goats, cows, donkeys, birds and other animals. He is identified with the abundance of the earth and with the Winter period.... |
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"Entoria" |
Roman |
wife of Saturn, mother to Janus, Hymnus, Faustus, and Felix. Roman. |
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God name "Enudu Gisha" |
Uganda |
God of plague, specifically smallpox Uganda |
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God name "Enundu" |
Gishu / Uganda, East Africa |
Plague god. A god identified with smallpox and propitiated with the sacrifice of a goat.... |
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"Enyalius" |
Greek |
The warlike, frequently occurs in the Iliad (never in the Odyssey) as an epithet of Ares. Greek |
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Goddess name "Enyo" |
Greek |
The goddess of war, who delights in bloodshed and the destruction of towns, and accompanies Mars in battles. Greek |
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God name "Enzu" |
Akkadia |
God who was named appears to be a corrupted form of Suen Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia |
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God name "Enzu" |
Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian |
God. The name is a corruption, apparently a misreading of Suen, the archaic form of SIN.... |
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God name "Eolus" |
Roman |
God of the winds. Roman |
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Goddess name "Eos" |
Greek |
In Latin Aurora, the goddess of the morning red, who brings up the light of day from the east. She was a daughter of Hyperion and Theia or Euryphassa, and a sister of Helios and Selene. Greek |
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Goddess name "Eos" |
Hellenized Indo - European |
sky goddess. The spirit of the dawn. She is the daughter of HYPERION and THEA, and the sister of HELIOS (sun) and SELENE (moon). The consort of AEOLOS, the storm god son of POSEIDON, she bore six children who represent the various winds. Hesiod accounts her as the consort of Astraeos. In separate tradition she is the mother of Memnon who was slain at Troy, and her tears are the morning dew. See also AURORA.... |
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Goddess name "Eostre" |
Celtic |
A Goddess of animal reproduction. Easter is derived from her name. Celtic |
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Goddess name "Eostre" |
Anglo - Saxon |
Fertility goddess of spring. The derivation of Easter. Probably a number of the obscure folk customs surrounding Easter and still practiced in England trace back to her worship.... |
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God name "Epactaeus or Epactius" |
Greek |
The god worshipped on the coast and used as a surname of Poseidon in Samoa. Greek |
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Goddess name "Epaine" |
Greek |
The fearful, a surname of Persephone. Plutarch suggests, that it might also be understood in a euphemistic sense as the praised goddess. Greek |
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"Epaphos" |
Greek |
The progenitor of the Egyptians |
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"Epaphos aka Epaphus" |
Greek |
A son of Zeus and Io, who was born on the river Nile, after the long wanderings of his mother. He was then concealed by the Curetes, by the request of Hera, but Io sought and afterwards found him in Syria. Greek |
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King name "Epaphus" |
Greek |
A son of Zeus and was concealed by the Curetes, by the request of Hera. He subsequently became king of Egypt and built the city of Memphis. Greek |
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Goddess name "Epet" |
Egypt |
Goddess of healing, childbirth, children Egypt |
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God name "Ephesus" |
Greek |
A son of the river-god Caystrus, who was said, conjointly with Cresus, to have built the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and to have called the town after himself. Greek |
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"Ephialtes" |
Greek |
A giant who was deprived of his left eye by Apollo, and of his right eye by Hercules. Greek |
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God name "Ephialtes" |
Greek |
One of the giants, who in the war against the gods was deprived of his left eye by Apollo, and of the right by Heracles. Greek |
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"Ephialtes" |
Greek |
One of the Aloeidae. When Iphimedeia and her daughter, Pancratis, celebrated the orgies of Dionysus on Mount Drius, they were carried off by Thracian pirates to Naxos or Strongyle; but both were delivered by the Aloadae Otus and Ephialtes. Greek |
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Angel name "Ephra" |
Enochian |
A minor angel. Enochian |
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"Epiales" |
Greek |
The personification of the cold shivering fit which precedes an attack of fever. Greek |
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"Epidaurus" |
Greek |
The mythical founder of Epidaurus, a son of Argos and Evadne, but according to Argive legends a son of Pelops, and according to those of Elis a son of Apollo. Greek |
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God name "Epidotes" |
Greek |
A divinity who was worshipped at Lacedaemon, and averted the anger of Zeus Hicesius for the crime committed by Pausanias. Epidotes, which means the "liberal giver," occurs also as a surname of other divinities, such as Zeus at Mantineia and Sparta, of the god of sleep at Sicyon. Greek |
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Hero name "Epigones" |
Greek |
One of the sons of the seven heroes who were beaten before Thebes. Greek |
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"Epimetheus" |
Greek |
Was the brother of Prometheus ("foresight", literally "fore-thought"), a pair of Titans who "acted as representatives of mankind". They were the inseparable sons of Japetus, who in other contexts was the father of Atlas. Greek |
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Spirit name "Epimetheus" |
Greek / Roman |
Minor creator god. One of the four sons of IAPETOS and Klymene (Titan), and the brother of PROMETHEUS. Jointly responsible for the creation of mankind. Epimetheus' strongest claim to fame lies in his liaison with the first mortal woman, Pandora, whom the gods had cautioned him to avoid. Her curiosity caused her to open the box belonging to JUPITER in which he had placed all the vices, diseases and sufferings of humanity, but which also included the benevolent spirit of hope.... |
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Goddess name "Epona" |
Celtic |
Divine horse. Mother Goddess and goddess of horses. Celtic |
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God name "Epos Olloatir" |
Celtic |
horse God often seen as either a male or male representation and masculine aspect of Epona. Celtic |
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God name "Epos/ Olloatir" |
Britain |
A god often seen as a male form of Epona |
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"Eranoranhan" |
Canaan |
protector of men only Canary Is. / Hierro Is. |
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"Erathipa" |
Australian |
A huge boulder in the shape of a pregnant woman. It is said that the souls of dead children reside within it, and that if a woman of child-bearing age walks by a soul slips from the boulder and into her womb to be reborn. Australian |
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"Erato" |
Greek |
The Muse of lyric poetry & mime |
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Nymph name "Erato" |
Greek |
A nymph and the wife of Ares, by whom she became the mother of Elatus, Apheidas, and Azan. She was said to have been a prophetic priestess of the Arcadian Pan. Greek |
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Goddess name "Erce" |
Anglo-Saxon |
A triple goddess; a youthful maiden during the spring, maturing into a mother during the Summer, then aging into a crone at Winter-time. Anglo-Saxon |
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Goddess name "Erda" |
Germanic |
Very old and wise goddess of the earth germanic |
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Deity name "Erebos" |
Greek / Roman |
A primordial deity, different |
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Deity name "Erebos" |
Greco - Roman |
Primordial deity. Engendered by chaos and NYX, he formed an incestuous liaison with his mother to create the first elements of the cosmos, AETHER (light) and Hemera (day), in preHomeric mythology.... |
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God name "Erebus" |
Greek |
A primordial god, the personification of darkness. Greek |
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Hero name "Erechtheus Erichthonius" |
Greek |
There can be little doubt but that the names Erichthonius and Erechtheus are identical; but whether the two heroes mentioned by Plato, Hyginus, and Apollodorus, the one of whom is usually called Erichthonius or Erechtheus I. and the other Erechtheus II., are likewise one and the same person, as Muller and others think, is not so certain, though highly probable. Greek |
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Goddess name "Ereshkigal" |
Akkadia / Hittite |
This goddess is the mother of the storm god as well as an underworld goddess |
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Demon name "Erg" |
Enochian |
A cacodemon. Enochian |
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Spirit name "Erge" |
Basque |
spirit who takes men's lives Basque |
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Angel name "Ergediel" |
Christians |
angels of the Mansions of the moon. |
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Demon name "Erh Lang" |
China |
God, with a magic dog, who fights the mountain demons. China |
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King name "Erh Lang (master)" |
Chinese |
Tutelary deity. Associated with a celestial dog, Erh Lang was once honored with a sanctuary in Beijing (Peking). According to tradition he and the dog saved the city from flooding. His attributes include a bow which he is depicted drawing, and arrows. The dog may be replaced by a rat, in which case the arrows are not included. The rat is a sign of impending wealth and therefore the drawing of an empty bow at the rat is a sign which invokes wealth of children.... |
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Goddess name "Eri" |
Ireland |
Eri of the Golden Hair, Virgin Goddess of the Tuatha De Danann. Ireland |
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Goddess name "Eri of the Golden Hair" |
Irish |
A virgin goddess of the Tuatha De Danann |
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"Erigone" |
Greek |
A daughter of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra, and by Orestes the mother of Penthilus. Greek |
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Goddess name "Eriiys" |
Greek |
Chthonic goddess of wrath. According to legend she was a consort of POSEIDON by whom she bore the fabulous horse Areon. By implication she may also have been a grim maternal figure who engendered all horses. She may be equated with a wrathful DEMETER who is sometimes given the epithet Erinys. Erinys appears in the collec tive form of three Erinyes, their heads covered with snake locks and bearing torches from the underworld. In the Iliad they are described as those who beneath the earth punish dead men, whoever has sworn a false oath. In Roman mythology they are the Furies.... |
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"Erinnyes" |
Greek |
Erinnyes, Eumenides or Erinys (the Romans called them the Furies) were female personifications of vengeance. When a formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes "those who beneath the earth punish whoever has sworn a false oath" - "the Erinyes are simply an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained in the oath" Greek |
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Goddess name "Erinys" |
Greek |
A goddess of wrath |
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"Eriphila" |
Greek |
The personification of avarice, who guards the path that leads to pleasure, in Orlando Furioso. Greek |
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"Eriphyle" |
Greek |
A daughter of Talaus and Lysimache, and the wife of Amphiaraus, whom she betrayed for the sake of the necklace of Harmonia. Greek |
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Goddess name "Eris" |
Greek |
Born of Ate and Zeus, or, according to Homer, Hera and Zeus (Iliad IV), she is the goddess who calls forth war and discord. According to the Iliad, she wanders about, at first small and insignificant, but she soon raises her head up to heaven (IV). Greek |
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Goddess name "Eris" |
Greek |
Goddess of dissent or strife. The consort of ARES, the god of war, and the mother of HORKOS (oath). She is depicted throwing the apple of discord among guests at a wedding, offering it to the fairest to provoke argument. In Roman mythology she becomes DISCORDIA.... |
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Goddess name "Erishkigal" |
Sumeria |
A goddess of the underworld |
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"Eriskegal" |
Allatu / Babylon |
She is one of the divinities who ruled the netherworld |
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Demon name "Eriskegal aka Erishkigal" |
Babylon / Allatu |
demon queen of Seduction and Undeath, Mistress of Succubi. Babylon / Allatu |
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Goddess name "Eriu" |
Ireland |
One of the three queens of the Tuatha De Danann and Goddess of fertility. Ireland |
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Goddess name "Eriu" |
Celtic / Irish |
Fertility goddess. An aspect of the MORRIGAN. One of the deities who were known as the Sovereignty of Ireland and wedded sym bolically to a mortal king. Also a warrior goddess, capable of changing shape from girl to hag, and into birds and animals. She is patroness of the royal seat of Uisnech in County Meath. Eire and Erin are corruptions of her name. See also BADB.... |
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Goddess name "Eriu/ Erin/ Eire" |
Irish |
One of the three queens of the Tuatha De Danann & a fertility goddess |
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"Erix" |
Greek |
Son of Goliath and grandson of Atlas. He invented legerdemain. Greek |
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God name "Erkilek" |
Inuit |
Malevolent hunting god. Inuit |
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God name "Erkilek" |
Inuit / North America |
Hunting god. A malev olent deity with the head and nose of a dog and the body of a man. He carries a bow, with arrows contained in a quiver, and is an expert archer.... |
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God name "Erlik Samoyed" |
Finnish |
God of the netherworld Finnish |
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King name "Erlking" |
German |
king of the elves, who prepares mischief for children, and even deceives men with his seductions. He is said to haunt the Black Forest. German |
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Goddess name "Ermutu" |
Egypt |
Goddess of childbirth and midwives. Egypt |
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Demon name "Ern" |
Enochian |
A cacodemon. Enochian |
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God name "Eros" |
Greek |
In Latin, Amor or Cupido, the god of love. In the sense in which he is usually conceived, Eros is the creature of the later Greek poets; and in order to understand the ancients properly we must distinguish three Erotes: viz. the Eros of the ancient cosmogonies, the Eros of the philosophers and mysteries, who bears great resemblance to the first, and the Eros whom we meet with in the epigrammatic and erotic poets, whose witty and playful descriptions of the god, however, can scarcely be considered as a part of the ancient religious belief of the Greeks. Greek |
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Deity name "Eros" |
Greco Roman |
Primordial deity. One of the children of AETHER and Hemera in the pre Homeric cosmos. Listed in Hesiod's Theogony as one of three archetypal beings with chaos and GAIA. Also AMOR (Roman).... |
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God name "Erra" |
Akkadian |
The god of mayhem and pestilence who brought plagues and other calamities. Akkadian |
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God name "Erra" |
Mesopotamian / Babylonian Akkadian |
God of war. Known chiefly from the Erra Epic, circa 1000 BC, he is also the god of raids, riots and scorched earth. Closely identified with the god NERGAL, his cult center is Emeslam in the city of Kutha (lost). In Babylonian times he is identified as a plague god.... |
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Goddess name "Errata" |
Discworld |
The Goddess of Misunderstandings. This little known goddess was the cause of the Tsortean wars; not, as most people believe, Elenor. Understandably not the most liked goddess, Errata wasn't invited to many weddings. Discworld |
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"Ersa and Pandeia" |
Greek |
1. The wife of Danaus and mother of Hippodice and Adiante. (Apollod. ii. 1.) 2. A daughter of Cecrops and sister of Agraulos, Pandrosos, and Erysichthon. She was the beloved of Hermes, and the mother of Cephalus. Greek |
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"Erymanthean" |
Greek |
A devastating boar which wandered about in Arcadia. Its capture was one of the labours of Hercules. Greek |
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"Erysichthon" |
Greek |
That is, the tearer up of the earth. Greek |
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"Eryx" |
Greek |
In Apollodorus. ii he is called a son of Poseidon though others call him a son of Aphrodite and Butes of Sicily. Greek |
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Angel name "Erzla" |
Enochian |
A minor angel. Enochian |
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Goddess name "Erzuli" |
Haiti |
Goddess of justice. Haiti |
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Goddess name "Erzuli Mapiangueh" |
Haiti |
A goddess of justice |
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Goddess name "Erzulie" |
Haiti |
Goddess of health, clothes, flowers, jewelry, of fertility, love, virginity, beauty and sex. Haiti |
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God name "Es" |
Ket / Siberian |
Creator god. Described as an old man with a long black beard, he fashioned the first humans from clay. Those tossed from his right hand became men, and those from his left became women.... |
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God name "Es Ket" |
Siberia |
Creator god who fashioned humans from clay. Siberia |
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"Esceheman" |
Arapaho |
Grandmother earth. Arapaho |
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Goddess name "Eschetewuaraha" |
Chamacoco |
The goddess of Rain |
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God name "Eschu" |
Africa / Yoruba |
The god of mischief, is the son of Lusa and Mahu. He supported Legba in giving power of the loa to a mortal as a force of good against the evil unleashed by their brother Sagbata. Africa / Yoruba |
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Deities name "Eschu/ Legba" |
Yoruba / Africa |
These deities are messengers between gods & mortals, not very nice either |
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Goddess name "Eseasar" |
Africa |
Goddess of the earth. Africa |
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Goddess name "Esenchebis" |
Greek |
The Greek name of the goddess Isis. Greek |
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Goddess name "Eshara" |
Chaldea |
Goddess of productive fields and a war goddess who represented the armed defense of land and property. Chaldea |
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God name "Eshmun" |
Phonecian |
Lesser God of health and healing. Phonecian |
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God name "Eshmun" |
Semitic |
A northwestern Semitic god of healing and the tutelary god of Sidon. |
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Spirit name "Eshshata" |
Jewish |
The a spirit of fever. Jewish Folklore |
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"Eshu" |
Yoruba / Fon |
Divine messenger. Yoruba / Fon |
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God name "Eshu" |
Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa |
Itinerant god. An ancient deity regarded as the attendant and messenger of the creator god OLODUMARE. He passes among mortal people assessing character and meting out punishment. Devotees are identified by necklaces of black or brown beads.... |
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Goddess name "Esme" |
Welsh |
Minor goddess of wealth, also seen as a gracious protector. Welsh |
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Angel name "Espiacent" |
Hebrew |
Another angel concerned with earwax. Hebrew |
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"Esprit Follet" |
French |
The French poltergeist. |
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God name "Essus" |
Gaul |
Harvest God worshipped in Brittany and Gaul by the the Essuvi. |
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God name "Essus/ Esus" |
Britain / Gaul |
A harvest / woodcutter god |
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Goddess name "Estar" |
Akkadian |
queen Of heaven, the goddess of war, love and fertility. Akkadian |
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Goddess name "Estsanatlehi" |
Navaho |
Vegetative, fertility and creator sky goddess. Navaho |
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Goddess name "Estsanatlehi (woman that changes)" |
Navaho / USA |
Fertility goddess. Probably regarded as the most powerful deity in the Navaho pantheon, she has powers of endless self-rejuvenation. According to tradition, she was created from a small turquoise image into which life was infused through a ritual of the great gods and she is the sister of the goddess YOLKAI ESTAN. She is also the consort of the Sun god TSOHANOAI and the mother of the war god NAYENEZGANI. She is said to live in the west and is benevolent in nature, sending the gentle Rains of summer and the warm thawing winds of spring.... |
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God name "Esu" |
Benin / Yoruba |
The dark side of God. He is an independent entity and timeless. Benin / Yoruba |
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God name "Esu" |
Edo / Benin / Nigeria, West Africa |
God of passage. A fearsome deity who stands at the gates of the home of the gods holding a set of keys. He is known for his trickery.... |
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God name "Esu Edo" |
Benin / Yoruba |
A god of passage that stands at the gates of home of the gods |
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God name "Esus" |
Celtic |
The war god that may have been a tree god |
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God name "Esus" |
Celtic / Continental / European |
God of war. Mentioned by the Roman writer Lucan but otherwise virtually unknown. He may have originated as a tree god. One carving [Trier] identifies Esus felling a tree with birds in the branches (see also INANA). Elsewhere he is associated with three cranes and a bull.... |
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God name "Esus aka Essus" |
Gaul |
God of boatmen, fond of cutting branches from trees with his axe. Gaul |
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Goddess name "Esmun" |
Western Semitic / Phoenician |
God of healing. Known first from the Iron Age levels at Sidon, his cult spread as far as Carthage, Cyprus and Sardinia. Possibly became syncretized with the god MELQART and, in Hellenic times, with the physician god ASKLEPIOS. His name further became linked with the mother goddess CAELESTIS.... |
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Goddess name "Etain" |
Ireland |
Goddess of war Ireland |
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Goddess name "Etain/ Echraidhe" |
Irish |
A goddess of war |
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Ghost name "Etemmu" |
Akkadian |
The name given to the ghost of a person who had not been buried and considered potentially harmful. Akkadian |
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"Eteocles" |
Greek |
1. A son of Andreus and Evippe, or of Cephisus, who was said to have been the first that offered sacrifices to the Charites at Orchomenos, in Boeotia. |
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"Eteocles2" |
Greek |
A son of Oedipus and Jocaste. Greek |
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"Eternal Jew / Wandering Jew." |
Christian |
The Jew who hurried on Jesus Christ when he was led to crucifixion. As a punishment, he is compelled to wander about the world, homeless and restless, till the Day of Judgment. Christian |
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Angel name "Eth" |
Wicca |
An angel who carries out time and motion studies. Wicca |
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Goddess name "Ethausva" |
Etruscan |
An Etruscan Goddess of Childbirth and Midwifery. |
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Goddess name "Etugen" |
Mongol |
A virgin earth goddess |
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Goddess name "Etugen aka Itugen" |
Mongol |
Virgin goddess of the earth. Mongol |
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King name "Etzel" |
Nibelungenlied |
The second husband of Kriemhild, king of the Huns. Nibelungenlied |
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God name "Euboea" |
Greek |
A daughter of the river-god Asterion near Mycenae, who together with her sisters Acraea and Prosymna acted as nurses to Hera. Greek |
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Goddess name "Eucharis" |
Greek |
A nymph of the goddess Calypso. Greek |
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"Eucleia" |
Greek |
A personification of the glory which the Athenians had reaped in the battle of Marathon. Greek |
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"Eudora" |
Greek |
A daughter of Nereus and Doris. Greek |
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God name "Eueucoyotl" |
Aztec |
God of fertility, sex, pleasure, sorrow and spontaneity. Aztec |
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Goddess name "Eumenides" |
Grek |
Eumenides [the good-tempered goddesses ]. A name given by the Greeks to the Furies, as it would have been ominous and bad policy to call them by their right name, Erinnyes. |
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Goddess name "Eumenides/ Erinyes" |
Greek |
A goddesses of justice |
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"Eumeus" |
Greek |
A faithful servant and guardian of the troops of Ulysses. Greek |
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"Eumolpus" |
Greek |
That is, " the good singer," a Thracian who is described as having come to Attica either as a bard, a warrior, or a priest of Demeter and Dionysus. Greek |
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"Euneus" |
Greek |
A son of Jason by Hypsipyle, in the island of Lemnos, from whence he supplied the Greeks during their war against Troy with wine. Greek |
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Goddess name "Eunomia" |
Greek |
One of the Horae and goddess of order and lawful conduct. Greek |
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Goddess name "Eunomia" |
Greek |
Goddess of order. One of the children of ZEUS and THEMIS, her siblings include the Horae, DIKE and EIRENE.See also HOURS.... |
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Goddess name "Eunostos" |
Greek |
Goddess of flour mills Greek |
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"Eupatridae" |
Attica |
The lords of creation. Attica |
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"Euphemus" |
Greek |
A son of Poseidon by Europa, the daughter of Tityus, or by Mecionice or Oris, a daughter of Orion or Eurotas. Greek |
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"Eupheno" |
Greek |
wife of Hyperbios. |
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"Euphorbus" |
Greek |
A son of Panthous and brother of Hyperenor, was one of the bravest among the Trojans. He was the first who wounded Patroclus, but was afterwards slain by Menelaus, who subsequently dedicated the shield of Euphorbus in the temple of Hera, near Mycenae. Greek |
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Goddess name "Euphrosyne" |
Greek |
One of the three Charites or Graces. The cheerful one, or life lived in exuberance and joy, the Goddess of mirth, and the incarnation of grace and beauty. A daughter of Zeus and Eurynome, or of Dionysus and Aphrodite. Greek |
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Planet name "Eurabatres" |
Greek |
An angel from the planet Venus. |
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Demon name "Euronomus" |
Greek |
A demon who ate the flesh of corpses. Greek |
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King name "Europa" |
Greek |
The daughter of Agenor, king of Phoenicia, or Telephassa, Her famous brother was Cadmus. She was a beautiful girl who caught the eye of Zeus one day while on the shore at Sidon (Tyre). He transformed himself into a snow-white bull with crescent horns among the herds of Agenor and lay down at her feet as she gathered flowers in the meadows with her attendants. Greek |
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God name "Euros" |
East |
God of the east winds Roman / Greek |
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God name "Euros" |
Greco - Roman |
God of the east winds. One of the sons of EOS. Particularly known from Sparta and later Romanized as Eurus.... |
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"Eurotas" |
Greek |
A son of Myles and grandson of Lelex. He was the father of Sparta, the wife of Lacedaemon, and is said to have carried the waters, stagnating in the plain of Lacedaemon, into the sea by means of a canal, and to have called the river which arose therefrom after his own name, Eurotas. Greek |
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"Eurus" |
Greek |
The east wind. Greek |
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"Euryale" |
Greek |
The name of the three sisters known as the Gorgons; her name means Wide-Wanderer. Greek |
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"Eurybates" |
Greek |
The herald of Odysseus, who followed his master to Troy. He is humorously described as hump-backed, of a brown complexion, and witn curly hair; but he was honoured by his master, since he was kind and obedient. Greek |
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"Eurybates aka Eribotes" |
Greek |
The son of Teleon, was one of the Argonauts, and appears to have acted as surgeon, as he is represented as attending on Oileus when he was wounded by one of the Stymphalian birds.. (Argonautica). Greek |
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"Eurybia" |
Greek |
A daughter of Pontus and Ge, who became by Crius the mother of Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses. Greek |
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Demon name "Eurydamas" |
Greek |
1. A son of Irus and demonassa, was one of the Argonauts. Apollonius Rhodius calls him a son of Ctimenus. 2. One of the suitors of Penelope, who was killed by Odysseus. Greek |
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Nymph name "Eurydice" |
Greek |
A mountain valley nymph with a sad love story[ aren't they all?] |
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God name "Eurydice" |
Greek |
The most famous was a woman-or a nymph-who was the wife of Orpheus. While fleeing from Aristaeus, she was bitten by a serpent and died. Distraught, Orpheus played such sad songs and sang so mournfully that all the nymphs and gods wept and gave him advice. Orpheus accomplished something no other person ever has: he traveled to the underworld and by his music softened the heart of Hades and Persephone, who allowed Eurydice to return with him to the world of the living. Greek |
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"Eurylochus" |
Greek |
One of the companions of Odysseus in his wanderings. He was the only one that escaped from the house of Circe, while his friends were metamorphosed into swine; and when Odysseus went to the lower world, Eurylochus and Perimedes performed the prescribed sacrifices. It was on his advice that the companions of Odysseus carried off some of the oxen of Helios. Greek |
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"Eurymedon" |
Greek |
A Cabeirus, a son of Hephaestus and Cabeiro, and a brother of Alcon. 2. One of the attendants of Nestor. 3. A son of Ptolemaeus, and charioteer of Agamemnon; his tomb was shown at Mycenae. Greek |
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"Eurynome" |
Greek |
A daughter of Oceanus. When Hephaestus was expelled by Hera from Olympus, Eurynome and Thetis received him in the bosom of the sea. Greek |
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Goddess name "Eurynome" |
Greek |
Sea goddess. The daughter of Nisos and mother of the Graces. Also the mother of Bellepheron, fathered by POSEIDON, though she is accounted as the consort of GLAUKOS. Little else is known, but her cult center was apparently at Phigaleia (Arcadia).... |
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"Eurynomus" |
Greek |
A daemon of the lower world, concerning whom there was a tradition at Delphi, according to which, he devoured the flesh of dead human bodies, and left nothing but the bones. Greek |
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King name "Eurypylus" |
Greek |
A son of Euaemon and Ops. He appears in the different traditions about him, as a hero of Ormenion, or Hyria, or as a king of Cyrene. Greek |
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Nymph name "Euryte" |
Greek |
A nymph, the daughter of Hippodamas. She married Porthaon and produced Licymnius, Sterope, Agrius and Oeneus. Greek |
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Demon name "Eurytion" |
Greek |
A son of Irus and demonassa, and a grandson of Actor, is mentioned among the Argonauts. (Argonautica) According to others he was a son of Actor, and he is also called Eurytus. (Apollodorus i) When Peleus was expelled from his dominions, he fled to Eurytion and married his daughter Antigone but in shooting at the Calydonian boar, Peleus inadvertently killed his father-in-law, (Apollodorus iii) |
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God name "Eurytos" |
Greek |
One of the giants that made war with the gods. Bacchus killed him with his thyrsus. Greek |
