| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Hero name "Echetlaeus" | Greek | A mysterious being who during the battle of Marathon appeared among the Greeks a man, who resembled a rustic, and slew many of the barbarians with his plough. After the battle, when he was searched for, he was not to be found anywhere, and when the Athenians consulted the oracle, they were commanded to worship the hero Echetlaeus. Greek |
"Ecstatici" | Greek | A clåśś of Diviners among the ancient Greeks, who used to lie in trances, and when they came to themselves gave strange accounts of what they had seen while they were "out of the body." |
| Deities name "Ehecatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the second of the five world ages, each of which lasted for 2028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fifty-two terrestrial years. Assigned to the air or wind and presided over by QUETZALCOATL, to whose complex of deities he belongs. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by hurricanes. All humanity turned into monkeys. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also (4) Ehecatl; Ehecatonatiuh.... |
| 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.... |
| God name "Ekadasarudra" | Hindu | Collective name for a group of gods. The eleven forms of the god RUDRA, each typically represented with sixteen arms. Common attributes include ax, moon disc and tiger skin.... |
| Demon name "Ekimmu" | Babylonian | demons that infest the graves. Babylonian |
| Demon name "Elel Puelche" | Argentina | Malevolent demonic being. Argentina |
| Monster name "Empusa" | Greek | A monstrous spectre, which was believed to devour human beings. It could åśśume different forms, and was sent out by Hecate to frighten travellers. It was believed usually to appear with one leg of bråśś and the other of an åśś. Whenever a traveller addressed the monster with insulting words, it used to flee and utter a shrill sound. The Lamiae and Mormolyceia, who åśśumed the fonm of handsome women for the purpose of attracting young men, and then sucked their blood like vampyrs and ate their flesh, were reckoned among the Empusae. Greek |
| Demon name "En" | Iltyrain | A god who was demoted a demon by the Christians |
| God name "Enipeus" | Greek | A river-god in Thessaly, who was beloved by Tyro, the daughter of Salmoneus. Poseidon, who was in love with her, åśśumed the appearance of Enipeus, and thus visited her, and she became by him the mother of twins, Pelias and Neleus. Greek |
| God name "Epidotes" | Greek | A divinity who was worshipped at Lacedaemon, and averted the anger of Zeus Hicesius for the crime committed by Pausanias. Epidotes, which means the "liberal giver," occurs also as a surname of other divinities, such as Zeus at Mantineia and Sparta, of the god of sleep at Sicyon. Greek |
| Demon name "Erg" | Enochian | A cacodemon. Enochian |
| Demon name "Erh Lang" | China | God, with a magic dog, who fights the mountain demons. China |
"Eriphyle" | Greek | A daughter of Talaus and Lysimache, and the wife of Amphiaraus, whom she betrayed for the sake of the necklace of Harmonia. Greek |
| Goddess name "Eris" | Greek | Goddess of dissent or strife. The consort of ARES, the god of war, and the mother of HORKOS (oath). She is depicted throwing the apple of discord among guests at a wedding, offering it to the fairest to provoke argument. In Roman mythology she becomes DISCORDIA.... |
| Demon name "Eriskegal aka Erishkigal" | Babylon / Allatu | demon queen of Seduction and Undeath, Mistress of Succubi. Babylon / Allatu |
| Demon name "Ern" | Enochian | A cacodemon. Enochian |
| God name "Eshu" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | Itinerant god. An ancient deity regarded as the attendant and messenger of the creator god OLODUMARE. He påśśes among mortal people åśśessing character and meting out punishment. Devotees are identified by necklaces of black or brown beads.... |
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