Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Aequitas aka Aecetia" | Roman | Was the goddess of fair trade and honest merchants. Like Abundantia, she is depicted with a cornucopia, representing wealth from commerce. Roman |
"Aesacus" | Greek | A son of Priam and Arisbe, the daughter of Merops, from whom Aesacus learned the art of interpreting dreams. |
Demon name "Aesma" | Persian | An outrageous and åśśaulting demon, whose name has been thought to be reflected as Asmodaeus in the Book of Tobit. Persian |
Nymph name "Aetna" | Roman | A Sicilian nymph, and according to Alcimus, a daughter of Uråñuś and Gaea, or of Briareus. Simonides said that she had acted as arbitrator between Hephaestus and Demeter respecting the possession of Sicily. |
God name "Agdistis" | Phrygian | A mythical being connected with the Phrygian worship of Attes or Atys. Pausanias relates the following story about Agdistis. On one occasion Zeus unwittingly begot by the earth a superhuman being which was at once man and woman, and was called Agdistis. The gods dreaded it and unmanned it, and from its severed genitalia there grew up an almond-tree. |
Goddess name "Agischanak" | Tlingit | The kindly goddess of the Tlingit people of Alaska. A powerful goddess capable of supporting the pillar on which the earth rests. |
"Agla" | Hebrew | An acronymic, representing the Hebrew phrase: "Ateh Gibor le-Olam Adonai", ie. "Thou art mighty forever,O Lord". Often found in magical or Qabalistic texts. |
Deity name "Aglibol" | Roman / Syria / Greek / Palmaryia | A lunar deity in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. His name means "Calf of Bel" ("Calf of the Lord"). He is depicted with a Lunar disk decorating his head, and sometimes his shoulders. Roman / Syria / Greek / Palmaryia |
God name "Aglibol" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | moon god. Known from Palmyra and linked with the Sun god Yarhibol. The cult continued into Hellenic times and was later extended to Rome. Attributes include a sickle moon.... |
Spirit name "Agloolik" | Inuit | Good spirit that lived under the ice and helped with hunting and fishing. Inuit |
God name "Agreus" | Phonecian | Lesser God of hunting. Brother of Halieus. Phonecian |
God name "Agrotes" | Phonecian | Lesser God of the earth, horses, hunting, and wanderers. Appears as a charioteer, sometimes accompanied by packs of dogs. Phonecian |
Deities name "Ah Cancun" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Hunting god. One of a number of deities in Mayan religion identified with the hunt and the protection of animals. Also Acanum.... |
God name "Ah Mun" | Mayan | God responsible for protecting the green maize Mayan |
God name "Ah Muun" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Maize god. The deity responsible for protecting the unripe maize.... |
Deities name "Ah Muuzencab" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Bee gods. The patron deities of apiarists still invoked in parts of the Yucatan. They are thought to be represented iconographically on the tops and bottoms of stone columns at the site of Chichen Itza as aged men with long beards and upraised arms. They wear loin cloths with distinctive cross hatching.... |
Deities name "Ah Patnar Uinicob (owners of the jars men)" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Attendant water gods. Four huge deities who pour water on to the earth from jars. The end of the dry season is marked on May 3, completing an eight day Rain ceremony.... |
God name "Ah Tabai" | Mayan | God of hunting Mayan |