| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Abundantia" | Roman | Minor fertility goddess. The personification of abundance. She continued in French mythology after the Roman occupation, as a lady who enters houses in the night, bringing prosperity.... |
| Spirit name "Acacila" | Aymara Indian / Peru / BoliviaTiticaca Basin | Animistic spirit. One of a group of vaguely defined beings who control the weather, including Rain, hail and frost.... |
| God name "Acala" | India / Buddhism | This god is protector of of the teaching & defends temples |
| King name "Acala aka Achala" | Buddhist / India | Acala, is the best known of the Five Wisdom kings of the Womb Realm. Acala means "The Immovable One" in Sanskrit. Acala is also the name of the eighth of the ten stages of the path to buddhahood. Acala is the destroyer of delusion and the protector of Buddhism. Buddhist / India |
| King name "Acastus" | Greek | A son of Pelias, king of lolcus, and of Anaxibia, or as others call her, Philomache. |
| God name "Accasbel" | Ireland | A Partholan who is credited with making the first tavern in Ireland. Most likely was an early God of wine or meade. Rules over the vine harvest, Beltane's blessing of the meade. Ireland |
| Goddess name "Acchupta (untouched)" | Jain / India | Goddess of learning. One of sixteen VIDYADEVI headed by the goddess SARASVATI.... |
| God name "Achelous" | Greece | The god of the river Achelous which was the greatest, and according to tradition, the most ancient among the rivers of Greece. |
| Hero name "Acheron" | Greek | Acheron a son of Helios and Gaea or Demeter, and was changed into the river bearing his name in the lower world, because he had refreshed the Titans with drink during their contest with Zeus. |
| King name "Achilles" | Greek | The son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidones in Phthiotis, in Thessaly, and of the Nereid Thetis. |
"Achiroe" | Greek | According to Apollodorus ii Anchinoe, which is perhaps a mistake for Anchiroe, was a daughter of Nilus, and the wife of Belus, by whom she became the mother of Aegyptus and Danaus. |
| God name "Achlae/ Aclelous/ Acleloos/ Achelous" | Greek | A river god of some standing in the community |
"Achlys" | Greek | According to some ancient cosmogonies, the eternal night, and the first created being which existed even before chaos. According to Hesiod, she was the personification of misery and sadness, and as such she was represented on the shield of Heracles: pale, emaciated, and weeping, with chattering teeth, swollen knees, long nails on her fingers, bloody cheeks, and her shoulders thickly covered with dust. |
"Acis" | Greek | According to Ovid (Metamorphoses I) a son of Faunus and Symaethis. |
"Acoran" | Gran Canary / Canary Is | The supreme Being who really really likes milk |
"Acrasia" | Britain | Self-indulgence. An enchantress who lived in the "Bower of Bliss," situate in "Wandering Island" She transformed her lovers into monstrous shapes, and kept them captives. Sir Guyon having crept up softly, threw a net over her, and bound her in chains of adamant; then broke down her bower and burnt it to ashes. Britain. |
| King name "Acrisius" | Greek | A mythical king of Argos, and a son of Abas and Ocalea (or Aglaea, depending on the author). He quarrelled constantly with his twin brother Proetus, inventing bucklers in the process, and in the end expelled him to Tiryns. |
"Actaeon" | Greek | Son of Aristaeus and Autonoe, a daughter of Cadmus. He was trained in the art of hunting by the centaur Cheiron, and was afterwards torn to pieces by his own 50 hounds on mount Cithaeron. The names of these hounds are given by Ovid (Metamorphoses III) and Hyginus. |
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