| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Elkunirsa" | Western Semitic / Canaanite / / Hittite | Creator god. Allegedly borrowed and modified from the Canaanite god IL. His consort is Aserdus (Canaanite: ASERTU).... |
| Ghost name "Elohim" | Semitic | The genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal, Jahveh, etc., were species. The ghost or spectre which appeared to Saul is called Elohim. Semitic |
| God name "Elohim" | Semitic | In theology, Elohim (the plural of Eloah) means the "Lord of Hosts," or Lord of all power and might. Jehovah signifies rather the God of mercy and forgiveness. Hence, Elohim is used to express the God of creation, but Jehovah the God of the covenant of mercy. Semitic |
| God name "Erra" | Akkadian | The god of mayhem and pestilence who brought plagues and other calamities. Akkadian |
| God name "Eshmun" | Semitic | A northwestern Semitic god of healing and the tutelary god of Sidon. |
| Goddess name "Esmun" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | God of healing. Known first from the Iron Age levels at Sidon, his cult spread as far as Carthage, Cyprus and Sardinia. Possibly became syncretized with the god MELQART and, in Hellenic times, with the physician god ASKLEPIOS. His name further became linked with the mother goddess CAELESTIS.... |
| Goddess name "Fortuna" | Roman | Goddess of good fortune. A deity who particularly appealed to women, partly in an oracular context. She is depicted carrying a globe, rudder and cornucopiae. She probably evolved from the model of the Greek goddess TYCHE. Her main symbol is the wheel of fate which she may stand upon and Renaissance artists tended to depict her thus. Among her more celebrated sanctuaries in Rome, the temple of Fortuna Redux was built by Domitian to celebrate his victories in Germany. She is depicted in a well-known stone carving in Gloucester Museum, England, holding her three main attributes.... |
| Deity name "Gad" | Babylonian | The pan-Semitic deity of fortune worshipped during the babylonian captivity. |
| Goddess name "Gad" | Western Semitic / Punic / Carthaginian | God of uncertain status. Probably concerned with chance or fortune and known from Palmyrene inscriptions, and from the Vetus Testamentum in place names such as Baal-Gad and Midal-Gad. Popular across a wide area of Syrio-Palestine and Anatolia in preBiblical times. Thought to have been syncretized ultimately with the Greek goddess TYCHE.... |
"Ganna" | Celtic | A Celtic prophetess, who succeeded Velleda. She went to Rome, and was received by Domitian with great honours. |
| Goddess name "Hadad" | Western Semitic / Syrian / Phoenician | weather god. Derived from the Akkadian deity ADAD. In texts found at the site of the ancient Canaanite capital of Ugarit [Ras Samra] , the name of Hadad apparently becomes a substitute for that of BAAL. His voice is described as roaring from the clouds and his weapon is the thunderbolt. His mother is the goddess ASERAH. During Hellenic times he was predominantly worshiped at Ptolemais and Hierapolis. His Syrian consort is ATARGATIS, who overshadowed him in local popularity at Hierapolis. Statues of the two deities were carried in procession to the sea twice yearly. According to the Jewish writer Josephus, Hadad also enjoyed a major cult following at Damascus in the eighth and ninth centuries BC. By the third century BC the Hadad-Atargatis cult had extended to Egypt, when he becomes identified as the god SUTEKH. In the Greek tradition his consort becomes HERA.See also ADAD.... |
| God name "Haurun" | Western Semitic / Canaanite | Chthonic or earth god. Haurun was introduced to Egyptian religion probably by emigre workers who related him to the sculpture of the Sphinx at Giza. Haurun was known locally as a god of healing.... |
| Monster name "Hesione" | Greek | A daughter of Laomedon, and consequently a sister of Priam. When Troy was visited by a plague and a monster oh account of Laomedon's breach of promise, Laomedon, in order to get rid of these calamities, chained Hesione to a rock, in accordance with the command of an oracle, where she was to be devoured by wild beasts. Greek |
| God name "Il" | Semitic | A Semitic name for god, similar to El. |
| God name "Ilaalge" | Semitic | Local god Semitic |
| God name "Ilaalge" | Western Semitic / Nabataean | Local god. Worshiped at Al-Ge [el-Gi in Wadi Musa, in the Arabian desert].... |
| God name "Ilah" | Semitic | moon god. South Semitic |
| Goddess name "Inanna" | Mesopotamia | Inana, the original "Holy Virgin," as the Sumerians called her, is the first known divinity åśśociated with the planet Venus. This Sumerian goddess became identified with the Semitic goddesses Ishtar and later Astarte, Egyptian Isis, Greek Aphrodite, Etruscan Turan and the Roman Venus. Mesopotamia |
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