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"Aesacus" | Greek | A son of Priam and Arisbe, the daughter of Merops, from whom Aesacus learned the art of interpreting dreams. |
| Goddess name "Brizo" | Greek | A prophetic goddess of the island of Delos, who sent dreams and revealed their meaning to man. Her name is connected to falling asleep. Greek |
| God name "Chang Hsien" | China | God of dreams and of pregnancy. China |
| Spirit name "Gaila" | Lithuanian | A spirit of night, which obsessed people and animals in dreams. Lithuanian |
| Goddess name "Gestinanna" | Sumerian | An oracular Goddess and an interpreter of dreams. Also fond of sheep. Sumerian |
| God name "Inguma" | Basque | The god of dreams. He was regarded as a malevolent force who entered houses at night and plagued the residents with nightmares. Basque |
"Lyterius" | Roman | I. e. the Deliverer, a surname of Pan, under which he had a sanctuary at Troezene, because he was believed during a plague to have revealed in dreams the proper remedy against the disease. Roman |
"Mab" | Celtic | A miniature creature who drives her chariot across the faces of sleeping people and compels them to dream dreams of wish-fulfillment. Celtic Fairy tale |
"Mab" | Welsh | The "fairies' midwife" i.e. employed by the fairies as midwife of dreams to deliver man's brain of dreams. Welsh |
| God name "Morpheus" | Greek | The son of Sleep, and the god of dreams. The name signifies the fashioner or moulder, because he shaped or formed the dreams which appeared to the sleeper. Greek |
| God name "Morpheus" | Greek | Minor god of dreams. The son of HYPNOS, there is no record of worship of this deity.... |
| Goddess name "Nanse" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Goddess of justice. A daughter of ENKI (or EA), she is linked with the interpretation of dreams. Mentioned sporadically in texts and most closely identified with the city of Lagas with a cult center at Sirara, but also the subject of a highly ethical hymn from Nippur. Also Nas, Nina.... |
| Demon name "Neuralger" | Discworld | A female demon which comes to men in their dreams and has a headache. They are usually summoned by mistake, by demonologists who were expecting a succubus. Discworld |
"Oewiros" | Greek | A personification of dream, and in the plural of dreams. According to Homer Dreams dwell on the dark spéñïśs of the western Oceåñuś, and the deceitful dreams come through an ivory gate, while the true ones issue from a gate made of horn. Hesiod (Theogony. 212) calls dreams the children of night, and Ovid, who calls them children of Sleep, mentions three of them by name, viz. Morpheus, Icelus or Phobetor, and Phantasus. Euripides called them sons of Gaea, and conceived them as genii with black wings. Greek |
| God name "Phantasos" | Greek | God of dreams by inanimate objects Greek |
| God name "Phobetus" | Greek | God of dreams by animals Greek |
| Goddess name "Somius" | Roman | Minor god of sleep. He equates with the Greek god HYPNOS. According to legend he is one of the two sons of NYX, goddess of night, and lives in a remote cave beside the Lethe river. He is depicted by Ovid dressed in black but with his robe scattered with stars, wearing a crown of poppies and holding a goblet of opium juice. His attendant is MORPHEUS and he oversees the spirits of dreams and nightmares. Particularly noted from the art of the Lacedaemonians who placed statues of Somnus and MORS side by side.... |
| God name "Valtam" | Nordic / Icelandic | God. According to the Poetic Edda (Balder's Dreams) Valtam is the father of OTHIN.... |
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