Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deity name "Eros" | Greco Roman | Primordial deity. One of the children of AETHER and Hemera in the pre Homeric cosmos. Listed in Hesiod's Theogony as one of three archetypal beings with chaos and GAIA. Also AMOR (Roman).... |
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.... |
God name "Euros" | East | God of the east winds Roman / Greek |
God name "Euros" | Greco - Roman | God of the east winds. One of the sons of EOS. Particularly known from Sparta and later Romanized as Eurus.... |
God name "Fabulinus" | Roman | The god who taught Roman children to utter their first word. It was the god Vagitåñuś who taught them to utter their first cry. Roman |
God name "Fabulinus" | Roman | Minor god of infants. Responsible for the first words of the child.... |
"Fama" | Roman | The personification of rumour or report. Roman |
"Fascinus" | Roman | An early Latin divinity, and identical with Mutinus or Tutinus. He was worshipped as the protector from sorcery, witchcraft, and evil daemons and represented in the form of a phallus, the genuine Latin for which iafascimtm, this symbol being believed to be most efficient in averting all evil influences. He was especially invoked to protect women in childbed and their offspring. |
Goddess name "Fate" | Roman | A goddess of fate |
Goddess name "Fatua" | Roman | A Roman goddess identified with Gaea. Known as the kind goddess because of her benevolence towards all creatures. |
Goddess name "Faun" | Roman | Place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus. However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. Both have horns and both resemble goats below the waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns goatlike hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and a goddess Fauna, who, like the fauns, were goat-people. Roman |
Goddess name "Fauna" | Roman | Minor vegetation goddess. Consort of FAUNUS with guardianship of woods and plants.... |
King name "Faunus" | Roman | The son of Picus and father of Latinus, was the third in the series of the kings of the Laurentes. In his reign Faunus, like his two predecessors, Picus and Saturn, had promoted Agriculture and the breeding of cattle among his subjects, and also distinguished himself as a hunter. Roman |
God name "Faunus" | Roman | Minor vegetation god. Consort of FAUNA with guardianship of woods and plants. He was given many of the attributes of the Greek god PAN including horns and legs of a goat.... |
"Faustulus" | Roman | The royal shepherd of Amulius and husband of Acca Laurentia. He found Romulus and Remus as they were nursed by the she-wolf. Roman |
"Faustus" | Roman | A son of Saturn and Entoria. and the brother of Jåñuś, Hymnus and Felix. Roman. |
Goddess name "Febris" | Roman | The goddess of fever, or rather the averter of fever. Roman |
"Februus" | Roman | An ancient Italian divinity, to whom the month of February was sacred, for in the latter half of that month great and general purifications and lustrations were celebrated, which were at the same time considered to produce fertility among men as well as beasts. Roman |