Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "ADONIS (lord)" | Lebanon / Syria | Fertility and vegetation god. Adonis is modeled on the Mesopotamian dying vegetation god DUMUZI (Hebrew: Tammuz). He appears as a youthful deity. The river Adonis [Nahr Ibrahim] is sacred to him largely because its waters flow red after heavy Winter Rains, having become saturated with ferrous oxide. In Hellenic tradition he is the son of the mythical Cyprian king Cinyras and his mother is MYRRHA. According to Hesiod he is also the son of Phoenix and Alphesiboea. He is the consort of APHRODITE. Tradition has it that he was killed by a boar during a hunting expedition and is condemned to the underworld for six months of each year, during which the earth's vegetation parches and dies under the summer Sun and drought. He was honored in a spring festival when priests in effeminate costume gashed themselves with knives. Frequently depicted nude and sometimes carrying a lyre. Also ATTIS (Phrygian); ATUNIS (Etruscan).... |
Goddess name "Aasith" | Egypt | Goddess of the hunt, war, and the desert Egypt / Syria |
Goddess name "Abnoba" | Celtic | Goddess of the hunt, similar to the Roman Diana. Celtic |
"Actaeon" | Greek | Son of Aristaeus and Autonoe, a daughter of Cadmus. He was trained in the art of hunting by the centaur Cheiron, and was afterwards torn to pieces by his own 50 hounds on mount Cithaeron. The names of these hounds are given by Ovid (Metamorphoses III) and Hyginus. |
"Actor" | Greek | Son of Aristaeus and Autonoe, a daughter of Cadmus. He was trained in the art of hunting by the centaur Cheiron, and was afterwards torn to pieces by his own 50 hounds on mount Cithaeron. The names of these hounds are given by Ovid (Metamorphoses III) and Hyginus. |
"Ag'o" | Dahomean | Worshipped by hunters. Dahomean |
God name "Age" | Africa | God of animals. Revered by hunters in the savannah regions. Benin, West Africa |
God name "Age" | Fon / Benin, West Africa | God of animals. Revered by hunters in the savannah regions.... |
God name "Age Fon" | Benin / W Africa | Revered by hunters he is the god of animals |
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 |
"Agrotera" | Greek | The huntress, a surname of Artemis. At Agrae on the Ilissus, where she was believed to have first hunted after her arrival from Delos, Artemis Agrotera had a temple with a statue carrying a bow. Greek |
God name "Agrotes" | Phonecian | Lesser God of the earth, horses, hunting, and wanderers. Appears as a charioteer, sometimes accompanied by packs of dogs. Phonecian |
God name "Ah Can Čú𝔪" | Mayan | Hunter god; protector of the animals Mayan |
God name "Ah Can Čú𝔪/ Acaum" | Maya | A hunter & protector of the animals god |
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 Tabai" | Mayan | God of hunting Mayan |
Deities name "Ah Tabai" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Hunting god. One of a number of deities in Mayan religion identified with the hunt and the protec tion of animals.... |