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God name "Daffodil" | Greek / Roman | Or "Lent Lily," was once white; but Persephone, daughter of Demeter, delighted to wander about the flowery meadows of Sicily. One spring, throwing herself on the gråśś, she fell asleep. The god of the Infernal regions, Pluto, fell in love with the beautiful maid, and carried her off for his bride. His touch turned the white flowers to a golden yellow, and some of them fell in Acheron, where they grew luxuriantly; and ever since the flower has been planted on graves. Greek / Roman |
"Dis" | Roman | Contracted from Dives, a name sometimes given to Pluto, and hence also to the lower world. Roman |
God name "Hades" | Greek | Or Pluton, Pluto, Plouton, Dis (Roman), and Aidoneus, the god of the lower world; Plato observes that people preferred calling him Pluton (the giver of wealth) to pronouncing the dreaded name of Hades or Aides. Hence we find that in ordinary life and in the mysteries the name Pluton became generally established, while the poets preferred the ancient name Aides or the form Pluteus. Greek |
God name "Hades/ Pluto" | Greek | A god of death & one of the Olympian gods |
God name "Isodetes" | Greek | The god who binds all equally, is used as a surname of Pluto, to express his impartiality, and of Apollo. Greek |
Spirit name "Kubera" | India | A chief of the evil beings or spirits living in the shades: a sort of Pluto. India |
"Menoetius 2" | Greek | A son of Ceuthonyraus, a guard of the oxen of Pluto. |
Goddess name "Ninkigal" | Assyrian | the lady of the great region, goddess worshiped in Babylon. The sister of Ishtar and the wife of the Assyrian Pluto. |
God name "Orcus aka Hades or Pluton" | Roman | Orcus aka Hades or Pluton, the god of the lower world. Roman |
"Plotçõçk" | Roman | The old Scottish form of the Roman Pluto, by which Satan is meant. |
"Pluto" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and one of the playmates of Persephone. |
God name "Pluto" | Roman | God of the underworld. Derived from the Greek model of HADES, he abducted the daughter of CERES, PROSERPINA, to reign as his queen. The three-headed dog Cerberus was set to guard the gate of Hades and through the kingdom flowed the two rivers of death, the Cocytus and the Acheron which could be crossed only by the ferryman Charon. According to Roman tradition, the entrance to the underworld was at Avernus in Rome where the Christian church of St. Maria del Inferno was built.See also HADES.... |
God name "Pluton" | Greek | The giver of wealth, at first a surname of Hades, the god of the lower world. Greek |
God name "Plutos" | Greek | He is a minor god of riches |
Goddess name "Plutos" | Greek | Minor god of riches. A son of DEMETER who was abandoned in childhood and reared by the goddess of peace, EIRENE, who is sometimes depicted holding him in her lap. Plutos was blinded by ZEUS because of his discrimination in favor of the righteous.... |
"Plutus" | Greek | Sometimes also called Pluton, the personification of wealth, is described as a son of Iasion and Demeter. Greek |
Goddess name "Proserpina" | Roman but derived from a Greek model | Goddess of death. Abducted by the underworld god PLUTO to reign as his queen (see PERSEPHONE).... |
"Proserpina or Proserpine" | Roman | One day, as she was amusing herself in the meadows of Sicily, Pluto seized her and carried her off in his chariot to the infernal regions for his bride. In her terror she dropped some of the lilies she had been gathering, and they turned to daffodils. Roman |
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