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List of Gods : "Roman" - 751 records

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Name ▲▼Origin ▲▼Description ▲▼
Goddess name
"Iuturna"
Roman Goddess of springs and wells. Invoked particularly in times of drought....
God name
"Jana"
Roman Two faced god of beginnings, arches, doors, entrances and gates. Roman
God name
"Jåñuś"
Roman Two faced god of beginnings, arches, doors, entrances and gates Roman

"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
Goddess name
"Juno"
Roman A Roman goddess of marriage and the long-suffering wife of Jupiter. Like her Greek equivalent, Hera, she was the protector of women, in particular married women. A festival took place in her honour on the calends (first) of March. Roman
Goddess name
"Juno Caelestis"
Carthage The tutelary goddess of Roman Carthage
Goddess name
"Juno Lucina"
Roman The goddess of childbirth. Roman
Planet name
"Jupiter"
Roman Jupiter is, properly speaking, a derivation of Jove and pater (Latin for father) The name of the god was also adopted as the name of the planet Jupiter, and was the original namesake of the weekday that would come to be known in English as Thursday (the etymological root can be seen in French jeudi, from Jovis Dies). The Indo-European deity who also evolved into the Germanic Tiwaz (after whom Tuesday was named), the Greek Zeus, and Dyaus Pita of the Vedic religion. Jove is a vocative form of the name, evolved from Dyeus. Roman
Goddess name
"Juterna/ Juturna"
Roman A goddess of healing & springs invoked during drought
Nymph name
"Juturna"
Roman Juterna, the nymph of a well in Latium, famous for its excellent healing qualities. She is said to have been beloved by Jupiter, who rewarded her with immortality and the rule over the waters. Arnobius calls her the wife of Jåñuś and mother of Fontus, but in the Aeneid she appears as the affectionate sister of Turnus. Roman

"Juventas"
Roman The personification of youth. Roman.
Goddess name
"Jvvritas"
Roman Goddess of youth. Modeled on the Greek goddess HEBE....
Goddess name
"Khons(u) (wanderer)"
Egypt / Upper moon god. Recognized from at least 2500 BC but best known during the New kingdom (mid-sixteenth century BC). A significant deity at Thebes, where he is described as an offspring of AMUN and MUT. His sacred animal is the baboon. There is a Khonsu precinct as part of the Temple of Amun in the Karnak complex. From the Greco-Roman period there exists a sanctuary of Kom-ombo where Khonsu is seen as the offspring of the crocodile god SOBEK and the mother goddess HATHOR. Depicted anthropomorphically or with a falcon's head, but in either case enveloped in a close-fitting robe. He wears a crown consisting of a crescent moon subtending a full moon orb....
God name
"Kloanthes Hellenized/ Roman"
Egypt A youthful god of Panoplois
Supreme god name
"Kronos"
Pre - Greek Archetypal fertility god. He is of unknown origin but is the son of the earth mother GAIA and the sky god OURANOS, whom he usurped after castrating him. His consort is RHEA. So as not to suffer a similar fate to his father he swallowed all his children except ZEUS who was kept from him by a ruse. Zeus eventually hurled Kronos into Tartaros, the abyss in which all the TITANS were confined. He was celebrated in the Greek harvest festival of kronia which equalled the Roman saturnalia. During Hellenic times he was the supreme god at Byblos [Syria]. He is depicted on coinage of Antiochus IV (175-164 BC) nude, leaning on a scepter, with three pairs of wings, two spread and one folded....
God name
"LENUS"
Celtic / Continental / European God of healing. A god of healing worshiped by the Celtic tribe of Treveri but later adopted by the Romans. The Trier sanctuary was a place of pilgrimage where large numbers of offerings were deposited, and carvings suggest that child patients were often present. Lenus's sanctuaries were usually åśśociated with springs and some, if not all, had an abaton or room for recuperation....
Goddess name
"LIbitina"
Roman Chthonic goddess of death. Associated with funerals and interment....

"Lactåñuś"
Greek Lactans, Lacturnus, and Lacturcia, Lactura, Roman divinities, who were believed to protect the young fruits of the field. Some believe that Lactans and Lacturcia are mere surnames of Ops, and that Lacturnus is a surname of Saturnus. Greek
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