| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Hero name "Nudd or Lud Lludd Llaw Eraint" | Welsh | Nudd or Lud Lludd Llaw Eraint, "Lludd of the Silver Hand", son of Beli Mawr, a legendary hero. Welsh |
| God name "Nurelli (Nooralie)" | Australian aboriginal | Creator god. Chiefly revered among the Wiimbaio aborigines living in the area of the Murray River, he is believed to have created the land of Australia and then brought law and order to humankind. His son is Gnawdenoorte.... |
| God name "Nymphae" | Greek | The name of a numerous clåśś of inferior female divinities, though they are designated by the title of Olympian, are called to the meetings of the gods in Olympus, and described as the daughters of Zeus. But they were believed to dwell on earth in groves, on the summits of mountains, in rivers, streams, glens, and grottoes. Greek |
| God name "Nysa" | Greek | A daughter of Aristaeus, who was believed to have brought up the infant god Dionysus, and from whom one of the many towns of the name of Nysa was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
| God name "Oceåñuś" | Greek | The god of the river Oceåñuś, by which, according to the most ancient notions of the Greeks, the whole earth was surrounded. An account of this river belongs to mythical geography, and we shall here confine ourselves to describing the place which Oceåñuś holds in the ancient cosmogony. Greek |
"Odras" | Ireland | Refused to let her cow be mated with the bull belonging to the Morrigan. So they took the cow away and she followed them to the underworld where she was turned into a pool of water. Ireland |
| Hero name "Oetylus" | Greek | A son of Amphianax, and grandson of Antimachus of Argos. The Laconian town of Oetylus was believed to have received its name from him, and he there enjoyed heroic honours. Greek |
| God name "Ogiuwu" | Edo / Benin, West Africa | God of death. Believed to own the blood of all living things which he smears on the walls of his palace in the otherworld. Until recent times human sacrifice was made regularly to this deity in the capital of the Edo region, Benin City.... |
"Oime" | Greek | wife of Arbelos. |
| Spirit name "Okitsu-Hiko" | Japanese | Is a divinity in Japanese Shinto. His name literally translates to "Great Land Master", and he was originally the ruler of Izumo Province, until he was replaced by Ninigi. In compensation, he was made ruler of the unseen world of spirits and magic. He is believed a god of nation-building, farming, business and Medicine. |
| God name "Ometeoti (two god)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Primordial being. According to some traditions, the dual principle personified in a bisexual force which the Aztecs believed to be the only reality, all else being illusory. Ometeotl rules in the highest (thirteenth) heaven, Omeyocan (place of duality) which rests above Sun, moon, wind and other elements. Ometeotl impregnated itself to engender the four TEZCATLIPOCAS (aspects of the Sun). Another female aspect, COATLICUE, gave birth to the national Aztec god HUITZILOPOCHTLI. No formal cult existed for Ometeotl, but he was considered to be present in every aspect of ritual.See also TONACATECUHTLI and TONACACIHUATL.... |
| Goddess name "Omorca" | Babylonian | The goddess who was sovereign of the universe when it was first created. It was covered with water and darkness, but contained some few animals of monster forms, representations of which may be seen in the Temple of Bel. Babylonian |
"Ops" | Roman | A female Roman divinity of plenty and fertility, as is indicated by her name, which is connected with opimus opulentus, inops, and copia. She was regarded as the wife of Saturnus, and, accordingly, as the protectress of every thing connected with Agriculture. Her abode was in the earth, and hence those who invoked her, or made vows to her, used to touch the ground, and as she was believed to give to human beings both their place of abode and their food, newly-born children were recommended to her care. |
"Orneus" | Greek | A son of Erechtheus, father of Peteus, and grandfather of Menestheus; from him the town of Orneae was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
| Goddess name "Orthia" | Sparta | a locally worshipped mother goddess of later syncretized with the more widely accepted maternal deities such as Kybele |
| Goddess name "Orthia" | Sparta | Mother goddess. Locally worshiped and probably soon syncretized with the more widely recognized maternal deities of Asia Minor such as KYBELE.... |
"Osael" | s | A cherub summoned from Tinkabell's Wishing Well. |
"Pagan" | Christian | Pagan properly means "belonging to a village";. The Christian Church fixed itself first in cities, the centres of intelligence. Long after it had been established in towns, idolatrous practices continued to be observed in rural districts and villages, so pagan and villager came to mean the same thing. |
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