| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Eacus aka Aeacus" | Greek | A son of Zeus and Aegina. He was born in the island of Oenone or Oenopia, whither Aegina had been carried by Zeus to secure her from the anger of her parents. Greek |
| Goddess name "Ebech" | Canaan | Old mountain god who was overcome by Inanna, the goddess of war, love and the planet Venus. Canaan |
"Echinades" | Greek | One of the five surviving Spartae that had grown up from the dragon's teeth, which Cadmus had sown. Greek |
| King name "Edusa aka Edulica" | Cuba | A Roman divinity, who was worshipped as the protectress of children, and was believed to bless their food, just as Potina and Cuba blessed their drinking and their sleep. |
"Egil" | Scandinavian | Brother of Weland, the Vulcan of Northern mythology. Egil was a great archer, and his tale is the exact counterpart of the famous fable about William Tell. |
| Goddess name "Egungun oya" | Africa | Another form of the Yoruba goddess of divination |
| God name "Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Primordial god. A syncretization of EHECATL and QUETZALCOATL, one of four gods who support the lowest heaven at each cardinal point. He is perceived as residing in the west (codices Borgia and Vaticåñuś B). He is the deity who rules over the ninth of the thirteen heavens, Itztapal Nanatzcayan (where the stone slabs crash together). In a separate tradition, EhecatlQuetzalcoatl executed the monstrous god XOLOTL when he declined to offer his blood in self-sacrifice for the creation of mankind.... |
| Goddess name "Eir" | Scandinavia | A goddess of mercy & teaching |
"Eirek" | Scandinavian | Whilst ourneying toward Paradise he came to a stone bridge guarded by a dragon and, on entering its mouth, found that he had arrived in a world of bliss. Scandinavian |
| God name "Eistibus" | Hebrew | A minor god of divination. Hebrew |
| God name "El'eb" | Western Semitic / Canaanite | Primordial god. In some texts the god EL (IL) is not the original being but is preceded by a father figure. EL-EB translates as god the father.See also YALDABAOTH.... |
| God name "Elagabal (lord of the mountain)" | Syrian | Local tutelary god. Probably originating as a mountain deity with strong solar links. His sacred animal is the eagle. His cult was based on the town of Emesa [Homs], where he was worshiped in the form of a dome-shaped, black stone obelisk. His name became Hellenized as Heliogabalos.... |
| Demon name "Elel Puelche" | Argentina | Malevolent demonic being. Argentina |
"Elivager" | Scandinavian | A cold venomous stream which issued from Niflheim, and in the abyss called the Ginnunga Gap, hardening into layer upon layer of ice. Scandinavian |
"Elle-Maid" | Scandinavian | Elle-Women, Elle-Folk, Scandinavian fairies. |
| God name "Enki aka Ea" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria | A deity later known as Ea in Babylonian mythology, originally chief God of the city of Eridu. Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
| Demon name "Erh Lang" | China | God, with a magic dog, who fights the mountain demons. China |
| God name "Esus" | Celtic / Continental / European | God of war. Mentioned by the Roman writer Lucan but otherwise virtually unknown. He may have originated as a tree god. One carving [Trier] identifies Esus felling a tree with birds in the branches (see also INANA). Elsewhere he is åśśociated with three cranes and a bull.... |
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