| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Makumba" | Rhodesia | A great god, the tribal god from whom the chief gets his authority. He gives, deprives, and kills, is invoked and made offerings. The Baushi , Rhodesia |
"Melampus" | Greek | A son of Amythaon by Eidomene, or according to others, by Aglaia or Hhodope and a brother of Bias. He was looked upon by the ancients as the first mortal that had been endowed with prophetic powers, as the person that first practised the medical art, and established the worship of Dionysus in Greece. Greek |
"Nauplius" | Greek | A son of Poseidon and Amymone, of Argos, the husband of Philyra and a famous navigator, and father of Proetus and Damastor (Apollon. Rhod. i. 136). He is the reputed founder of the town of Nauplia, which derived its name from him. He is also said to have discovered the constellation of the great bear. Greek |
| God name "Ne'nenkicex" | Kamchadal / southeastern Siberia | Creator god. The name given to the Christian god by the Kamchadals under influence of the Russian Orthodox church.... |
| Angel name "Nhodd" | Enochian | A minor angel. Enochian |
"Nireus" | Greek | 1. A son of Charopus and Aglaia, was, next to Achilles, the handsomest among the Greeks at Troy, but unwarlike. He came from the island of Syme (between Rhodes and Cnidus), and commanded only three ships and a small number of men. According to Diodorus he also ruled over a part of Cnidus, and he is said to have been slain by Eurypylus or Aeneias. His beauty became proverbial. |
"Perse" | Greek | A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and wife of Helios, by whom she became the mother of Aeetes and Circe. She is further called the mother of Pasiphae, Perses and Aloeus. Homer and Apollonius Rhodius call her Perse, while others call her Perseis. Greek |
"Polymede" | Greek | A daughter of Autolycus, was married to Aeson, and by him became the mother of Jason. Apollonius Rhodius ( Argonautica) calls her Alcimede. Greek |
| God name "Redeemer" | Jewish | Often applied by Christians to Jesus Christ as the Son of God who sacrificed himself as a propitiation of the sin his Father invented. Prometheus, Dionysus and others can also be called redeemers. The serpent Agathodaimon is another name for the cosmic redeemer; Lucifer the Light-bringer and illuminator, could be clåśśed as our inner redeemer, as was the mystic serpent who withstood the Jewish God in Eden. |
"Rhoda" | Greek | wife of Hippolytos. |
"Rhode" | Greek | The oldest of the Oceanides and a daughter of Tethys and Oceåñuś. Later, she was thought of as a daughter of Poseidon and Halia, or Poseidon and Amphitrite. Greek |
"Rhodeia" | Greek | A daughter of Oceåñuś and Thetys and one of the playmates of Persephone. Greek |
"Rhodia" | Greek | wife of Chalcedon. |
| Nymph name "Rhodope" | Greek | The nymph of a Thracian well, was the wife of Haemus and mother of Hebrus, and is mentioned among the playmates of Persephone. Greek |
| Nymph name "Rhodos" | Greek | A sea-nymph, according to Diodorus, a daughter of Poseidon and Halia, and sometimes called Rhode. The island of Rhodes was believed to have derived its name from her. Greek |
| Goddess name "Say" | Egypt | Minor god of destiny. Depicted wholly in human form. Say is mentioned in the Ani papyrus as being present at the ritual of the weighing of the heart, in company with funerary goddesses including Meskhenet, SEPSET and RENENUTET. In Greco-Roman times he was syncretized with the snake god Agathodaimon.... |
| God name "Sohodo-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of scarecrows. Identified as the apotheosis of the actual scarecrow made by Japanese farmers and known as a kakasbi. Traditionally it is constructed from reeds and wears a round peasant hat. According to the sacred texts, though his legs do not walk he knows everything under heaven.... |
| Nymph name "Spartaeus" | Greek | A son of Zeus by the Rhodian nymph Himalia. Brother to Cronius, and Cytus. |
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