| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Diti" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Goddess. The daughter of DAKSA, a consort of ADITI (in the Rg Veda) or KASYAPA and the mother of a race of demons. Attributes: blue lotus, child and fruit.See also Aditi.... |
| Goddess name "Doris" | Greek | Sea goddess. Daughter of OKEANOS and TETHYS and consort of NEREUS. In Hesiod's Theogony her children include AMPHITRITE and THETIS among many minor figures.... |
| God name "Dumu-zi" | Babylonian | Child of life. A god of the Sun. Babylonian |
| God name "Ebisu" | Japan | God of fishermen, good luck, and workingmen, as well as the guardian of the health of small children. Japan |
| God name "Edusa" | Roman | Minor god of infants. Responsible for the proper nourishment of the child.... |
| King name "Edusa aka Edulica" | Cuba | A Roman divinity, who was worshipped as the protectress of children, and was believed to bless their food, just as Potina and Cuba blessed their drinking and their sleep. |
| Goddess name "Egeria" | Roman | Goddess of childbirth of midwives, fountains and justice. Roman |
| Goddess name "Ekastaka" | India | Goddess of healthy children India |
| Goddess name "Eleithyia" | Greek | A goddess of childbirth & midwives |
| Goddess name "Elpis" | Greek | The personification of hope, perhaps a child of Nyx and mother of Pheme, the goddess of rumour. Greek |
| Goddess name "Emanjah" | Trinidad | Goddess of rivers and teacher of children. Trinidad |
| Goddess name "Eos" | Hellenized Indo - European | sky goddess. The spirit of the dawn. She is the daughter of HYPERION and THEA, and the sister of HELIOS (sun) and SELENE (moon). The consort of AEOLOS, the storm god son of POSEIDON, she bore six children who represent the various winds. Hesiod accounts her as the consort of Astraeos. In separate tradition she is the mother of Memnon who was slain at Troy, and her tears are the morning dew. See also AURORA.... |
| Goddess name "Epet" | Egypt | Goddess of healing, childbirth, children Egypt |
"Erathipa" | Australian | A huge boulder in the shape of a pregnant woman. It is said that the souls of dead children reside within it, and that if a woman of child-bearing age walks by a soul slips from the boulder and into her womb to be reborn. Australian |
| King name "Erh Lang (master)" | Chinese | Tutelary deity. Associated with a celestial dog, Erh Lang was once honored with a sanctuary in Beijing (Peking). According to tradition he and the dog saved the city from flooding. His attributes include a bow which he is depicted drawing, and arrows. The dog may be replaced by a rat, in which case the arrows are not included. The rat is a sign of impending wealth and therefore the drawing of an empty bow at the rat is a sign which invokes wealth of children.... |
| King name "Erlking" | German | king of the elves, who prepares mischief for children, and even deceives men with his seductions. He is said to haunt the Black Forest. German |
| Goddess name "Ermutu" | Egypt | Goddess of childbirth and midwives. Egypt |
| 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).... |
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