| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Eckhardt" | German | In German legends, appears on the evening of Maundy Thursday to warn all persons to go home, that they may not be injured by the headless bodies and two-legged horses which traverse the streets on that night. |
| Goddess name "Edinkira" | Africa | Tree goddess Africa |
| Goddess name "Egeria" | Roman | Fertility goddess. deity of oak trees whose priestess enacted an annual sacred marriage with the king of Rome, who took the part of JUPITER. The festival is a variation of that celebrating the marriage of ZEUS and HERA which took place in Athens. A number of springs and lakes were sacred to her.... |
"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 |
| Spirit name "Elle Woman" | Danish | The spirit of the elder tree. Danish |
| God name "Embla" | Norse | The first woman. The gods found two lifeless trees, the ask (ash) and the embla; of the ash they made man, of the embla, woman. Norse |
| God name "Esus" | Celtic | The war god that may have been a tree god |
| God name "Esus" | Celtic / Continental / European | God of war. Mentioned by the Roman writer Lucan but otherwise virtually unknown. He may have originated as a tree god. One carving [Trier] identifies Esus felling a tree with birds in the branches (see also INANA). Elsewhere he is åśśociated with three cranes and a bull.... |
| God name "Esus aka Essus" | Gaul | God of boatmen, fond of cutting branches from trees with his axe. Gaul |
| God name "Fagus" | Gaul / Pyrenean | God of beech trees. Gaul / Pyrenean |
| God name "Faraguvol" | Puerto Rico / Haiti | Votive god. The deified trunk of a tree which is carried to a tribal chief and presented. The being represented, clåśśed as a ZEMI, is considered to wander about and can escape from a closed bag or sack.... |
| God name "Gaganaganja (treasury of ether)" | Buddhist | God. One of a group of BODHISATTVAS (buddha-designates). Color: yellow, red or gold. Attributes: blue lotus, Book, jewel, lotus and wishing tree in a vase.... |
| God name "Gibini" | Gishu / Uganda, East Africa | Plague god. Associated with the smallpox god ENUNDU, he is propitiated with offerings of vegetables and is symbolized by special trees planted near the house.... |
| Goddess name "Gish" | Kafir / Afghanistan | God of war. Known chiefly among the Kati people in the southern Hindukush. Gish seems partly modeled on the Aryan (Vedic) god INDRA (see also INDR). One of the offspring of the creator god IMRA, his mother is named as Utr; she carried him for eighteen months before he wrenched himself from her belly, stitching her up with a needle. His consort is the goddess SANJU. He slaughters with great efficiency but is considered lacking in graces and intellect, emerging in a generally boorish light (see also THOR). His home is a fortress of steel atop a mythical walnut tree propped up by his mother which provides nourishment and strength for his warriors. The Rainbow is a sling with which he carries his quiver. Gish is åśśociated chiefly with the villages of Kamdesh and Shtiwe but has been worshiped throughout the Kafir region with the sacrifice of hornless oxen, particularly prior to combat. A feast was given in his honor if the outcome was successful. Also Giwish.... |
"Giszida" | Mesopotamia | Lord of the Tree of Truth, Mesopotamia |
| Nymph name "Hamadryad" | Greek | A wood-nymph. Each tree has its own wood-nymph, who dies when the tree dies. Greek |
| Spirit name "Hamadryades" | Greek / Roman | Tree spirits whose existence is restricted to the tree that the guard when it dies they die |
| Spirit name "Hamadryades" | Greco - Roman | Animistic tree spirits. Vaguely defined female beings whose existence is restricted to the individual trees of which they are guardians.... |
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