| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "ADONIS (lord)" | Lebanon / Syria | Fertility and vegetation god. Adonis is modeled on the Mesopotamian dying vegetation god DUMUZI (Hebrew: Tammuz). He appears as a youthful deity. The river Adonis [Nahr Ibrahim] is sacred to him largely because its waters flow red after heavy Winter Rains, having become saturated with ferrous oxide. In Hellenic tradition he is the son of the mythical Cyprian king Cinyras and his mother is MYRRHA. According to Hesiod he is also the son of Phoenix and Alphesiboea. He is the consort of APHRODITE. Tradition has it that he was killed by a boar during a hunting expedition and is condemned to the underworld for six months of each year, during which the earth's vegetation parches and dies under the summer Sun and drought. He was honored in a spring festival when priests in effeminate costume gashed themselves with knives. Frequently depicted nude and sometimes carrying a lyre. Also ATTIS (Phrygian); ATUNIS (Etruscan).... |
| 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 |
| Goddess name "ASTARTE (star)" | Semitic, Phoenician, Lebanon, Syria / The goddess of the evening star, of war / of sexual love | Fertility goddess. Inscriptions from the fifth century BC in her major temple at Sidon suggest she was perceived as an emanation of BAAL SAMIN, personifying his Divine power. She is also his consort. Her animal is the sphinx, which typically appears on either side of her throne.... |
| Demon name "Abaddon" | Babylonian | It is the second of the seven names of the underworld in the Babylonian Talmud. Chief of the demons of the 7th hierarchy Hebrew / Christian |
"Abaddon" | Hebrew | The region of the dead, synonym of She'ol in the Old Testament. Hebrew |
| King name "Achilles" | Greek | The son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidones in Phthiotis, in Thessaly, and of the Nereid Thetis. |
| King name "Admetus" | Greek | A son of Pheres, the founder and king of Pherae in Thessaly, and of Periclymene or Clymene. (Apollodorus i) He took part in the Calydonian chase and the expedition of the Argonauts. (Apollodorus i) |
| Spirit name "Adona" | Christian | A seraph, the tutelar spirit of James, the "first martyr of the twelve." Christian |
| Spirit name "Adonai" | Zanoni | The mysterious spirit of pure mind, love, and beauty that inspires. Zanoni |
| God name "Adonai aka Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh" | Jewish | El, Elohim, Shaddai, Shalom, Yah, YHWH / YHWH Tzevaot, God. YHWH is often transliterated "Jehovah" or "Yahweh", but only by people outside of Jewish tradition. |
| King name "Adonis" | Assyria | A son of Cinyras and Medarme, according to Hesiod a son of Phoenix and Alphesiboea, and according to the cyclic poet Panyasis, a son of Tlieias, king of Assyria, who begot him by his own daughter Smyrna. (Myrrha.) |
| God name "Adonis" | Phoenicia / Syria | A dying & resurrected god that embodies vegetation scorched by the heat of the summer Sunshine |
| God name "Aeolos" | Greek | God of storms and winds. One of the sons of POSEIDON, said to have presented the winds in a leather bag to the hero Odysseus, and to have given the sail to seafarers. According to legend his home was the Aeolian Island [Lipari Island]. In one legend he is married to EOS and is the father of six sons, the various directional winds. The hexagonal Temple of winds, on each side of which is depicted a flying figure of one of the winds, and which is dedicated to Aeolos, still stands at Athens.... |
"Aethalides" | Greek | A son of Hermes and Eupolemeia, a daughter of Myrmidon. He was the herald of the Argonauts. Greek |
"Aethusa" | Greek | A daughter of Poseidon and Alcyone, who was beloved by Apollo, and bore to him Eleuther. (Apollodorus iii) |
| King name "Agenor" | Libya | A son of Poseidon and Libya, king of Phoenicia, and twin-brother of Belus. (Apollod. ii. 1. § 4.) He married Telephåśśa, by whom he became the father of Cadmus, Phoenix, Cylix, Thasus, Phineus, and according to some of Europa also. 2 3 4 5 6 |
"Agla" | Hebrew | An acronymic, representing the Hebrew phrase: "Ateh Gibor le-Olam Adonai", ie. "Thou art mighty forever,O Lord". Often found in magical or Qabalistic texts. |
| God name "Ah Cuxtal (come to hfe)" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of birth. Responsible for the safe delivery of women.... |
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