Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deity name "Devi" | Hindu | The consort of Siva and daughter of Himavat, the Himalaya mountains. As the female energy of Siva she considered either as a beneficent or as a malignant deity. Hindu |
"Dictaeus" | Greek | A surname of Zeus, derived from mount Dicte in the eastern part of Crete. Greek |
God name "Dievs" | Pre - Christian Latvian | sky god. He is depicted in the guise of a gentleman farmer wearing cap and sword and mounted on a horse, or driving a cart. Tradition has it that he first set free the Sun.... |
"Dindymene" | Greek | The Great Mother of Mount Dindimus. Greek |
"Dirce" | Greek | A daughter of Helios and wife of Lycus. Her body was changed by Dionysus into a well on mount Cithaeron. Greek |
Goddess name "Ebech" | Canaan | Old mountain god who was overcome by Inanna, the goddess of war, love and the planet Venus. Canaan |
Goddess name "Ee loolth" | Duwamish | Goddess of mountains. Duwamish |
God name "Elagabal (lord of the mountain)" | Syrian | Local tutelary god. Probably originating as a mountain deity with strong solar links. His sacred animal is the eagle. His cult was based on the town of Emesa [Homs], where he was worshiped in the form of a dome-shaped, black stone obelisk. His name became Hellenized as Heliogabalos.... |
"Elf" | Anglo-Saxon | Elves, oelf. Properly, a mountain fay, but more loosely applied to those airy creatures that dance on the gråśś or sit in the leaves of trees and delight in the full moon. Anglo-Saxon |
God name "Elgabal" | Syria | Local mountain god with solar links Syria |
God name "Encelados" | Greek | The most powerful of the giants that conspired against Zeus. The king of gods and men cast him down, and threw Mount Etna over him. The poets say that the flames of this volcano arise from the breath of this giant. The battle-field of his contest was Phlegra, in Macedonia. Greek |
God name "Enceladus" | Greek | A son of Tartarus and Ge, and one of the hundred-armed giants who made war upon the gods. He was killed, according to some, by Zeus, by a flash of lightning, and buried under mount Aetna and according to others, he was killed by the chariot of Athena, or by the spear of Seilenus. Greek |
"Ephialtes" | Greek | One of the Aloeidae. When Iphimedeia and her daughter, Pancratis, celebrated the orgies of Dionysus on Mount Drius, they were carried off by Thracian pirates to Naxos or Strongyle; but both were delivered by the Aloadae Otus and Ephialtes. Greek |
Demon name "Erh Lang" | China | God, with a magic dog, who fights the mountain demons. China |
Nymph name "Eurydice" | Greek | A mountain valley nymph with a sad love story[ aren't they all?] |
"Fion" | Gaelic | Son of Comnal, an enormous giant, who could place his feet on two mountains, and then stoop and drink from a stream in the valley between. Gaelic legend |
Goddess name "Frjorgyn" | Germanic | Goddess with no known cult, the name suggests she is a mountain / Forest goddess and possibly revered as a goddess of fertility norse / germanic |
Spirit name "Gans" | Apache | mountain spirits who became distressed by the corruption of people. Apache |