| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
"Au Co" | Vietnam | An immortal fairy who married a dragon, their hundred children being the ancestors of the Vietnam people. Vietnam |
| God name "Cizin (stench)" | Mayan / Yucatec / other tribes, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of death. The most important death god in the Mayan cultural area. Said to live in Metnal, the Yucatec place of death, and to burn the souls of the dead. He first burns the mouth and åñuś and, when the soul complains, douses it with water. When the soul complains of this treatment, he burns it again until there is nothing left. It then goes to the god Sicunyum who spits on his hands and cleanses it, after which it is free to go where it chooses. Attributes of Cizin include a fleshless nose and lower jaw, or the entire head may be depicted as a skull. Spine and ribs are often showing. He wears a collar with death eyes between lines of hair and a long bone hangs from one earlobe. His body is painted with black and particularly yellow spots (the Mayan color of death).... |
| God name "Colop U Uichkin (tears out the eye of the sun)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | sky god. Said to live in the midst of the sky, but with a night avatara of the same name who lives in the underworld land of the dead, Metnal, and who is the bringer of disease.... |
| God name "Encelados" | Greek | The most powerful of the giants that conspired against Zeus. The king of gods and men cast him down, and threw Mount Etna over him. The poets say that the flames of this volcano arise from the breath of this giant. The battle-field of his contest was Phlegra, in Macedonia. Greek |
| God name "Enceladus" | Greek | A son of Tartarus and Ge, and one of the hundred-armed giants who made war upon the gods. He was killed, according to some, by Zeus, by a flash of lightning, and buried under mount Aetna and according to others, he was killed by the chariot of Athena, or by the spear of Seilenus. Greek |
"Giants" | Greek | Of Greek mythology, sons of Tartaros and Ge. When they attempted to storm heaven, they were hurled to earth by the aid of Hercules, and buried under Mount Etna. |
| God name "Kho" | Vietnamese | Vietnamese god of fishermen. |
| God name "Khu" | Vietnamese | the brother of the Vietnamese god of fishermen. |
| Spirit name "Lietna'irgin" | Chukchee / E Siberia | The spirit of the dawn |
| Spirit name "Lietna'irgin (genuine dawn)" | Chukchee / eastern Siberia | spirit of the dawn. One of four beings concerned with the dawn in different directions.See also TNE'SGAN, MRATNA'IRGIN and NA'- CHITNA'IRGIN.... |
| Spirit name "Lietna'irgin Chukchee" | East | spirit of the dawn Siberia(East) |
| Spirit name "Mratna'irgin (right-hand dawn)" | Chukchee / eastern Siberia | spirit of the dawn. One of four beings responsible for the dawn in different directions. See also TNE'SGAN, LIETNA'IRGIN and NA'CHITNA'IRGIN.... |
| Spirit name "Na'chitna'irgin (genuine dawn)" | Chukchee / eastern Siberia | spirit of the dawn. One of four beings responsible for the different directions of the dawn. The brother of WU'SQUUS, spirit of darkness.See also TNE'SGAN, MRATNA'IRGIN and LIETNA'IRGIN.... |
| God name "Palici" | Greek | Twin gods, originating in Sicily. They were sometimes said to have been the sons of Zeus by Thaleia the daughter of Hephaestus, sometimes the sons of Zeus by Aetna. While she was pregnant with the twins, Thaleia, fearing Hera's jealousy hid in the earth and when the time came the twin boys emerged from the ground, which explains their name 'the Returners'. Greek |
| Spirit name "Tecei'vune/ Tne'sqan/ Mratna'igrin/ Lietna'igrin/ Na'chitna'igrin" | Chukchee / SE Siberia | The female spirit of the dawn |
| Spirit name "Tnecei'vune (dawn walking woman)" | Chukchee / southeastern Siberia | spirit of the dawn. The female consort of the dawn.See also TNE'SGAN, MRATNA'IRGIN, LIETNA'IRGIN and NA'CHITNA'IRGIN.... |
"Typhoeus" | Greek | A giant with a hundred heads, fearful eyes, and a most terrible voice. He was the father of the Harpies. Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt, and he lies buried under Mount Etna. Greek |
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