Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Nymph name "Egeria" | Greek | The nymph who instructed Numa in his wise legislation. Numa used to meet her in a grove near Aricia. Greek |
Goddess name "Egeria" | Roman | Goddess of childbirth of midwives, fountains and justice. Roman |
Goddess name "Egeria" | Roman | Fertility goddess. deity of oak trees whose priestess enacted an annual sacred marriage with the king of Rome, who took the part of JUPITER. The festival is a variation of that celebrating the marriage of ZEUS and HERA which took place in Athens. A number of springs and lakes were sacred to her.... |
Angel name "Egibiel" | Christians | angels of the Mansions of the moon. |
"Egil" | Scandinavian | Brother of Weland, the Vulcan of Northern mythology. Egil was a great archer, and his tale is the exact counterpart of the famous fable about William Tell. |
"Egill" | Norse | The father of Thjalfe; a giant dwelling near the sea. Thor left his goats with him when on his way to the giant Hymer to get a vessel in which to brew ale. Norse |
"Egoir aka Egder" | Norse | An eagle that appears at Ragnarok. Norse |
God name "Egres" | Finnish | Fertility god in charge of the the turnip crop Finnish |
God name "Egres" | Karelian / Finland | Fertility god. The deity responsible for the turnip crop. Also Akras.... |
God name "Egres/ Akras Karelian" | Finland | A fertility god in charge of the the turnip crop |
Goddess name "Egungun oya" | Africa | Another form of the Yoruba goddess of divination |
God name "Ehacatl" | Aztec | God of education and the wind Aztec |
God name "Ehacatl/ Quetzalcoatl" | Aztec | A god of education & the wind |
Deities name "Ehecatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the second of the five world ages, each of which lasted for 2028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fifty-two terrestrial years. Assigned to the air or wind and presided over by QUETZALCOATL, to whose complex of deities he belongs. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by hurricanes. All humanity turned into monkeys. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also (4) Ehecatl; Ehecatonatiuh.... |
God name "Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Primordial god. A syncretization of EHECATL and QUETZALCOATL, one of four gods who support the lowest heaven at each cardinal point. He is perceived as residing in the west (codices Borgia and Vaticåñuś B). He is the deity who rules over the ninth of the thirteen heavens, Itztapal Nanatzcayan (where the stone slabs crash together). In a separate tradition, EhecatlQuetzalcoatl executed the monstrous god XOLOTL when he declined to offer his blood in self-sacrifice for the creation of mankind.... |
Angel name "Eheres" | Greek | The angel invoked to remove earwax. |
Spirit name "Ehlose" | Zulu | The guardian spirit which may take many forms, and warns of approaching dangers. Zulu |
God name "Eiael" | Christian | A minor god of the occult sciences and longevity. Christian |