Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "APHRODITE (foam-born)" | Greek / Cypriot | Goddess of sexual love. She was a daughter of Helios and Amphitrite, or of Poseidon and Aphrodite, lastly of Oceåñuś. Greek |
"Aeneas" | Greek | The son of Anchises and Aphrodite, and born on mount Ida. On his father's side he was a greatgrandson of Tros, and thus nearly related to the royal house of Troy, as Priam himself was a grandson of Tros. He was educated from his infancy at Dardåñuś, in the house of Alcathous, the husband of his sister. |
Nymph name "Aetna" | Roman | A Sicilian nymph, and according to Alcimus, a daughter of Uråñuś and Gaea, or of Briareus. Simonides said that she had acted as arbitrator between Hephaestus and Demeter respecting the possession of Sicily. |
God name "Alisanos" | Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Local chthonic earth god. Known only from inscription in the region of the Cote d'Or and åśśociated with the land. Also Alisonus, Alisåñuś.... |
God name "Alpheus" | Greece | Alpheus as man. Hunting in the Forests of Greece, Alpheus saw Artemis and desired her. Alpheus as a river (present Alfeios River) and river-god, thus like most river-gods a son of Oceåñuś and Tethys. |
Goddess name "Anat / Athene" | Greek | Anat and Athene In a Cyprian inscription the Greek goddess Athêna Sôteira Nikê is equated with Anat. Anat is also presumably the goddess whom Sanchuniathon calls Athene, a daughter of El, mother unnamed, who with Hermes (that is Anubis) councelled El on the making of a sickle and a spear of iron, presumably to use against his father Uråñuś. However, in the Baal cycle, that rôle is åśśigned to Asherah / Elat and Anat is there called the "Virgin." |
God name "Ani" | Etruscan | sky god. Identified as residing in the highest heaven and sometimes depicted with two faces, equating possibly with the Roman god JANUS.... |
God name "Anu/ Anus" | Babylon | The head of the gods, he had an army of stars to destroy evildoers |
God name "Anus Hurrite" | The king of heaven who declared war on the father of the gods, he lost | |
Goddess name "Aphrodite" | Greek | One of the great Olympian divinities, according to the popular and poetical notions of the Greeks, the goddess of love and beauty. Some traditions stated that she had sprung from the foam of the sea, which had gathered around the mutilated parts of Uråñuś, that had been thrown into the sea by Cronus after he had unmanned his father. (Theogony of Hesiod) |
"Aristaeus" | Greece | An ancient divinity worshipped in various parts of Greece, as in Thessaly, Ceos, and Boeotia, but especially in the islands of the Aegean, Ionian, and Adriatic seas, which had once been inhabited by Pelasgians. He is described either as a son of Uråñuś and Ge, or according to a more general tradition, as the son of Apollo by Cyrene, the grand-daughter of Peneius. |
"Asia" | Greek | 1. A surname of Athena in Colchis. Her worship was believed to have been brought from thence by Castor and Polydeuces to Laconia, where a temple was built to her at Las. 2. A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, who became by Japetus the mother of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus. (Theogony of Hesiod 359.) According to some traditions the continent of Asia derived its name from her. |
God name "Asopus" | Greek | The god of the river Asopus, was a son of Oceåñuś and Tethys, or according to others, of Poseidon and Pero, of Zeus and Eurynome, or lastly of Poseidon and Cegluse. |
"Athena" | Greek | One of the great divinities of the Greeks. Homer calls her a daughter of Zeus, without any allusion to her mother or to the manner in which she was called into existence, while most of the later traditions agree in stating that she was born from the head of Zeus. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, Metis, the first wife of Zeus, was the mother of Athena, but when Metis was pregnant with her, Zeus, on the advice of Gaea and Uråñuś, swallowed Metis up, and afterwards gave birth himself to Athena, who sprang from his head. |
"Bateia" | Greek | A daughter of Teucer or of Tros, the wife of Dardåñuś, and mother of Ilus and Erichthonius. Greek |
God name "Bhaisajyaguru (supreme physician)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Physician god. Accounted among one of a series of Medicine buddhas known as a SMAN-BLA in Tibet. In Lamaism he is the fifth in a series of måñuśibud dhas. Typically depicted with stretched earlobes and a row of small curls fringing the forehead. Color: blue or gold. Attributes: fruit, sometimes with a bowl.... |
Goddess name "Bolbe" | Greek | An extremely beautiful lake Goddess, the daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys. Bolbe's offspring was Limnades who are nymphs living in fresh water lakes. Greek |
God name "Bormåñuś" | Briton | God of hot springs Celtic / Briton |