Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"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. |
Deities name "Aether" | Greco - Roman | Primordial god of light. A remote cosmic deity, the son of EREBOS (darkness) and NYX (night) who overthrew these archetypal deities of chaos. In Hesiod's Epic Cycle he is also described as the father of OURANOS.... |
Angel name "Ahaozpi" | East | A sub-angelic Watchtower leader in the East. |
Deity name "Amaethon / Amathaon" | Celtic | Amaethon aka Amathaon great ploughman', was a son of Don and an agricultural deity. Celtic |
"Amythaon" | Greek | A son of Cretheus and Tyro and brother of Aeson and Pheres. He dwelt at Pylos in Messenia, and by Idomene became the father of Bias, Melampus, and Aeolia. |
Goddess name "An Zu" | Assyria | Goddess of chaos Assyria |
Goddess name "Anshur/ Ashur/ Asshur" | Assyria | Not only be goddess of the Sun, but it was the that killed the dragon of chaos during creation |
God name "Asclepius" | Greek | Or Aesculapius, the god of the medical art. In the Homeric poems Aesculapius does not appear to be considered as a divinity, but merely as a human being. No allusion is made to his descent, and he is merely mentioned as the the father of Machaon and Podaleirius. |
"Astapaios" | Gnostic Christian | The Prime parent ruling the seven heavens of chaos in gnostic mythology |
Deity name "Astaphaios" | Gnostic Christian | Primordial deity. One of the androgynous principles born to YALDABAOTH, the prime parent, ruling the seven heavens of chaos in gnostic mythology.... |
"Bias" | Greek | Son of Amythaon, and brother of the seer Melampus. He married Pero, daughter of Neleus, whom her father had refused to give to any one unless he brought him the oxen of Iphiclus. Greek |
God name "Bumba" | Boshongo / Bantu / southern Africa | Creator god. The progenitor of the world out of chaos. When he experienced stomachache he vomited the earth, Sun, moon and, finally, all living things, including mankind.... |
God name "Chao T'eng k'ang" | China | God of the bowels China |
Goddess name "Chao san Niang" | China | Goddess of wig salesmen China |
God name "Chaob" | Mayan | The four wind gods. Mayan |
God name "Chaob" | Mayan | wind[s] god[s] Mayan / Lacandon |
God name "Chaob (carrying off)" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | wind god(s). They live in the four cardinal directions and, according to tradition, will bring about the end of the current world with earthquakes and tempests when the last of the Lacandon people dies. They will blow so hard that they blast the monkeys out of the trees. The names of two are identified, Hunaunic in the east and Chikinkuh in the West.... |
God name "Chaos" | Greek | The vacant and infinite space which existed according to the ancient cosmogonies previous to the creation of the world (Theogony 116), and out of which the gods, men, and all things arose. Greek |