| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| King name "Nibelung" | Norway | A mythical king of Norway, whose subjects are called Nibelungers and territory the Nibelungenland. There were two contemporary kings in this realm, against whom Siegfried. Prince of the Netherlands, fought. He slew the twelve giants who formed their paladins with 700 of their chiefs, and made their country tributary. The word is from nebcl (darkness), and means the children of mist or darkness. Volsunga Saga |
| King name "Nibelungen Hoard" | German | A mythical måśś of gold and precious stones, which Siegfried obtained from the Nibelungs, and gave to his wife Kriemhild as her marriage portion. It was guarded by Albric the dwarf. After the murder of Siegfried, his widow removed the hoard to Worms; here Hagan seized it, and buried it secretly beneath "the Rhine at Lochham," intending at a future time to enjoy it, "but that was ne'er to be." Kriemhild married Etzel with the view of avenging her wrongs. In time Gunther, with Hagan and a host of Burgundians, went to visit king Etzel, and Kriemhild stirred up a great broil, at the end of which a most terrible slaughter ensued. Volsunga Saga |
"Nicor" | Scandinavian | A sea-devil, in Scandinavian mythology, who eats sailors. It was three fathoms long, with the body of a bison-bull, and the head of a cat, the beard of a man, and tusks an ell long, lying down on its breast. |
| Goddess name "Ninkurra" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor mother goddess. Ninkurra is linked briefly as consort to Enlil (her grandfather), by whom after nine days of gestation she gave birth to the goddess Uttu. In alternative mythology she was the mother of Nin-imma, the deification of female sex organs.... |
| Goddess name "Ninsikil" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | The goddess of Dilmun. The patron deity of the mythical Paradise land of Dilmun which seems to have been perceived as somewhere off the coast of the Persian Gulf but firmly beyond the frontiers of Sumer. It is Ninsikil who pleads with Enki to provide the earth with the boon of fresh water in the sacred rivers Tigris and Euphrates.... |
| Spirit name "O'Meal Na'kwaxdax" | BC Canada | A tribal spirit, the chief of the anciects who's siblings are the myth people |
| Spirit name "O'meai" | Na'kwaxdax Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Tribal spirit. The chief of the ancients who lives in Narrow Entrance at Open Plain and whose siblings are the myth people.... |
| God name "O-Kuni-Nushi-No-Mikoto" | Shinto / Japan | Creator god. The great organizer and consolidator of the earth in the creation mythology of Shintoism. He took up his duties after IZANAGI and IZANAMI had created the land. Tradition has it that he first underwent a series of ordeals and then reigned over the world. He has many consorts and innumerable offspring.... |
| God name "Oceåñuś" | Greek | The god of the river Oceåñuś, by which, according to the most ancient notions of the Greeks, the whole earth was surrounded. An account of this river belongs to mythical geography, and we shall here confine ourselves to describing the place which Oceåñuś holds in the ancient cosmogony. Greek |
"Ocypete" | Greek | The name of two mythical beings, one a Danaid, and the other a Harpy. Greek |
"Odites" | Greek | The name of two mythical beings, one a centaur, and the other an Ethiopian, who was slain by Clymenus at the wedding of Perseus. Greek |
| King name "Og" | Hebrew | king of Bashan, according to Rabbinical mythology, was an antediluvian giant, saved from the flood by climbing on the roof of the ark. After the påśśage of the Red Sea, Moses first conquered Sihon, and then advanced against the giant Og (whose bedstead, made of iron, was above 15 feet long and nearly 7 feet broad, Deut. iii. 11). The Rabbins say that Og plucked up a mountain to hurl at the Israelites, but he got so entangled with his burden, that Moses was able to kill him without much difficulty. |
| Monster name "Ogres" | Europe | Of nursery mythology are giants of very malignant dispositions, who live on human flesh. It is an Eastern invention, and the word is derived from the Ogurs, a desperately savage horde of Asia, who overran part of Europe in the fifth century. Others derived it from Orcus, the ugly, cruel man-eating monster so familiar to readers of Bojardo and Ariosto. The female is Ogress. |
| Demon name "Old Scratch" | Scandinavian | The devil; so called from Schratz or Skratti, a demon of Scandinavian mythology. |
"Olen" | Greek | A mythical personage, who is represented as the earliest Greek lyric poet, and the first author of sacred hymns in hexameter verse. He is closely connected with the worship of Apollo, of whom, in one legend, he was made the prophet. Greek |
| Supreme god name "Ollathair aka Dagda" | Irish | The supreme god in Irish mythology. |
| Deity name "Oraios (wealth)" | Gnostic Christian | Primordial deity. One of the androgynous elements born to YALDABAOTH, the prime parent, and ruler of the seven heavens of chaos in Gnostic mythology.... |
| Demon name "Ordog" | Christian | A demonic creature from Hungarian mythology. It personifies the dark aspects of the world. Later it is identified with the Christian devil. |
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