Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Discordia" | Roman | Minor goddess of dissent. Modeled on the Greek deity ERIS.... |
Goddess name "Doris" | Greek | Sea goddess. Daughter of OKEANOS and TETHYS and consort of NEREUS. In Hesiod's Theogony her children include AMPHITRITE and THETIS among many minor figures.... |
Goddess name "Dryope" | Greek | A goddess of water |
God name "Dryops" | Greek | A son of the river-god Spercheius, by the Danaid Polydora or, according to others, a son of Lycaon (probably a mistake for Apollo) by Dia, the daughter of Lycaon, who concealed her new-born infant in a hollow oak tree. |
God name "Dynamis" | Greek | One of the aeons - the first created entities - thought to be Divine emanations from God. The male personification of power. |
Goddess name "Ececheira" | Greek | Goddess of armistices and peace Greek |
Goddess name "Eileithyia" | Greek | Also called Eleithyia, Eilethyia, or Eleutho. The ancients derive her name from the coming or helping goddess. She was the goddess of birth, who came to the åśśistance of women in labour; and when she was kindly disposed, she furthered the birth, but when she was angry, she protracted the labour and delayed the birth. Greek |
Goddess name "Eirene" | Greek | Goddess of peace and one of the Horae Greek |
Goddess name "Eirene" | Greek | Goddess of peace. The daughter of ZEUS and THEMIS and the sister of Horae, DIKE and EUNOMIA. See also HOURS.... |
God name "Elagabul" | Greek | The God of Emesa[Syria] |
Goddess name "Elara" | Greek | A daughter of Orchomenus or Minyas, who became by Zeus the mother of the giant Tityus and Zeus, from fear of Hera, concealed her under the earth. (Apollodorus i. Argonautica) This was where she gave birth to Tityas, who some traditions state to be the son of Elara and Gaia, the earth goddess. Greek |
Goddess name "Elasii" | Greek | Goddesses of healing and epilepsy Greek |
Goddess name "Electryone" | Greek | Goddess of the moon Greek |
Goddess name "Eleithyia" | Greek | A goddess of childbirth & midwives |
Goddess name "Eleos" | Greek | Goddess of peace and mercy Greek |
God name "Eleuther" | Greek | A son of Apollo and Aethusa, the daughter of Poseidon, was regarded as the founder of Eleutherae in Boeotia. He was the grandfather of Jasius and Poemander, the founder of Tanagra. He is said to have been the first that erected a statue of Dionysus, and spread the worship of the god. Greek |
Goddess name "Elpis" | Greek | The personification of hope, perhaps a child of Nyx and mother of Pheme, the goddess of rumour. Greek |
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 |