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Hero name "Erechtheus Erichthonius" | Greek | There can be little doubt but that the names Erichthonius and Erechtheus are identical; but whether the two heroes mentioned by Plato, Hyginus, and Apollodorus, the one of whom is usually called Erichthonius or Erechtheus I. and the other Erechtheus II., are likewise one and the same person, as Muller and others think, is not so certain, though highly probable. Greek |
Demon name "Eurydamas" | Greek | 1. A son of Irus and demonåśśa, was one of the Argonauts. Apollonius Rhodius calls him a son of Ctimenus. 2. One of the suitors of Penelope, who was killed by Odysseus. Greek |
Nymph name "Euryte" | Greek | A nymph, the daughter of Hippodamas. She married Porthaon and produced Licymnius, Sterope, Agrius and Oeneus. Greek |
Spirit name "Genii" | Eastern | Genie and genius. Eastern spirits, whether good or bad, who preside over a man or nation. |
God name "Genius" | Roman | God of the men only Roman |
Spirit name "Genius" | Roman | God of men. The personification of creativity and strength in mortal males, the counterpart of JUNO. Roman religion also dictated that every place had its guardian spirit, the genius loci.... |
Deity name "Genius Loci" | Latin | The tutelary deity of a place. Latin |
Goddess name "Govannon" | Celtic / Welsh | God of skills. Son of the goddess DON.See also GOBNIU.... |
God name "HERYSAF (he who is upon his lake)" | Egypt | Primeval deity åśśociated both with Osiris and Re. Herysaf is a ram god said to have emerged from the primeval ocean, possibly recreated in the form of a sacred lake at Hnes, the capital of Lower Egypt for a time at the beginning of the third millennium (during the First Intermediate Period). The god is depicted with a human torso and the head of a ram wearing the atef crown of Lower Egypt. Herysaf began as a local deity but took on national importance as the soul (ba) of RE, and of OSIRIS. Herysaf's sanctuary was enlarged by Rameses II and the god is said to have protected the life of the last Egyptian pharaoh when the Persian and later Macedonian dominations began. He eventually became syncretized with HERAKLES in Greco-Roman culture and Hnes became known as Herakleopolis ... |
"Hermotimus" | Grek | Of Pedasa in Caria, fell, when a boy, into the hands of Panionius, a Chian, who made him a eunuch, and sold him to the Persians at Sardis. |
King name "Ilus" | Greek | 1. A son of Dardåñuś by Bateia, the daughter of Teucer. Ilus died without issue, and left his kingdom to his brother, Erichthonius. 2. A son of Tros, and grandson of Erichthonius. His mother was Calirrhoe, and being a great-grandson of Dardåñuś, he is called Dardanides.Greek |
God name "Ismenius" | Greek | 1. A son of Apollo and Melia, who is said to have given his name to the Boeotian river which was before called Ladon or Cadmus. 2. A surname of Apollo at Thebes, who had a temple on the river Ismenus. The sanctuary of the god, at which the Daphnephoria was celebrated, bore the name of Ismenium, and was situated outside the city.Greek |
Goddess name "Itonius" | Greek | Itonia, Itonias, Itonis or Itonius, a surname of Athena, derived from the town of Iton, in the south of Phthiotis. The goddess there had a celebrated sanctuary and festivals, and is hence also called Incolaltoni. From Iton her worship spread into Boeotia and the country about lake Copais, where the Pamboeotia was celebrated, in the neighbourhood of a temple and grove of Athena. Greek |
"Julus" | Roman | The eldest son of Ascanius, who claimed the government of Latium, but was obliged to give it up to his brother Silvius. Roman |
Ghost name "Larvae" | Roman | Mischievous spectres. The larva or ghost of Caligula was often seen, according to Suetonius, in his palace. Roman |
King name "Latinus" | Greek | A king of Latium, is described in the common tradition as a son of Faunus and the nymph Marica, as a brother of Lavinius, and the husband of Amata, by whom he became the father of Lavinia, whom he gave in marriage to Aeneas. Greek |
Book name "Lausus" | Greek | 1. A son of Mezentius, who was slain while defending his father against Aeneas. (The Aeneid Book VII) According to the author of the De Orig. Gent. Rom., Lausus fell at a later time, during the siege of Lavinium, by the hand of Ascanius. 2. A son of Numitor and brother of Ilia, was fraudulently killed by Amulius. Greek |
Goddess name "Leucothea" | Greek | Leukothea. [White Goddess]. So Ino was called after she became a sea nymph. Her son Pal?mon, called by the Romans Portunus, or Portumnus, was the protecting genius of harbours. Greek |