Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Aloeus" | Greek | 1. A son of Poseidon and Canace. He married Iphimedeia, the daughter of Triops, who was in love with Poseidon, and used to walk by the sea-side, take her hands full of its water, and sprinkle her bosom with it. The two sons whom she had by Poseidon were called Aloeidae. 2. A son of Helios by Circe or Antiope, who received from his father the sovereignty over the district of Asopia. |
Goddess name "Alohura" | Polynesia | The lightning goddess of the beTrobi people. Mentioned in The Colour of Magic. |
Deities name "Alom" | Mayan | sky god and one of the creator deities who participated in the last two attempts at creating humanity. Mayan |
"Alope" | Greek | A daughter of Cercyon, who was beloved by Poseidon on account of her great beauty, and became by him the mother of a son, whom she exposed immediately after his birth. |
Goddess name "Alpanu" | Etruscan | Chthonic underworld goddess. Depicted wearing jewels, a loose cloak and sandals but otherwise naked. Also arguably a goddess of sexual love.... |
Goddess name "Alpanu aka Alpan" | Etruscan | Goddess of love and one of the Lasas, and a ruler of the underworld. Possibly equated with the Greek goddess Persephone. In art, she was usually depicted as a nude or semi-nude winged maiden. Etruscan |
God name "Alpheus" | Greece | Alpheus as man. Hunting in the Forests of Greece, Alpheus saw Artemis and desired her. Alpheus as a river (present Alfeios River) and river-god, thus like most river-gods a son of Oceåñuś and Tethys. |
Goddess name "Alphito" | Greek | the White Goddess, originally the Danaan Barley-goddess of Argos. Greek |
Spirit name "Alpleich or Elfenreigen" | Greek | The weird spirit-song, the music which some hear before death. |
"Alraune" | East | A Kobold who brings gold through the chimneys. East Friesland |
Demon name "Alrinach" | Eastern | The demon who causes shipwrecks and presides over storms, Rain, hail and earthquakes. Appears in the form and dress of a woman. Eastern mythology |
Goddess name "Alruna-wife" | German | The Alrunes were the lares or penates of the ancient Romans. An Alruna-wife was the household goddess of a German family. An Alruna-maiden is a household maiden goddess. |
Goddess name "Altan Telgey" | Mongol | Goddess of the earth Mongol |
Spirit name "Alte" | German | The Old One A field-spirit in human form. German |
King name "Althaea" | Greek | A daughter of the Aetolian king Thestius and Eurythemis, and sister of Lecla, Hypermnestra, Iphiclus, Euippus, etc. She was married to Oeneus, king of Calydon, by whom she became the mother of Troxeus, Thyreus, Clymenus, and Meleager, and of two daughters, Gorge and Deianeira. (Apollodorus i) Apollodorus states, that according to some, Meleager was regarded as the fruit of her intercourse with Ares, and that she was mother of Deianeira by Dionysus. |
Goddess name "Altria" | Etruscan | Ancient goddess of the earth. Etruscan |
Demon name "Alu" | Babylonian | The strong one. A Babylonian demon. |
God name "Aluelp" | Greek | An Indian nymph, who was påśśionately loved by Dionysus, but could not be induced to yield to his wishes, until the god changed himself into a tiger, and thus compelled her by fear to allow him to carry her across the river Sollax, which from this cirçúɱstance received the name of Tigris. Greek |