Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Eos" | Greek | In Latin Aurora, the goddess of the morning red, who brings up the light of day from the east. She was a daughter of Hyperion and Theia or Euryphåśśa, and a sister of Helios and Selene. Greek |
Goddess name "Eos" | Hellenized Indo - European | sky goddess. The spirit of the dawn. She is the daughter of HYPERION and THEA, and the sister of HELIOS (sun) and SELENE (moon). The consort of AEOLOS, the storm god son of POSEIDON, she bore six children who represent the various winds. Hesiod accounts her as the consort of Astraeos. In separate tradition she is the mother of Memnon who was slain at Troy, and her tears are the morning dew. See also AURORA.... |
Goddess name "Eostre" | Celtic | A Goddess of animal reproduction. Easter is derived from her name. Celtic |
Goddess name "Eostre" | Anglo - Saxon | Fertility goddess of spring. The derivation of Easter. Probably a number of the obscure folk customs surrounding Easter and still practiced in England trace back to her worship.... |
God name "Epactaeus or Epactius" | Greek | The god worshipped on the coast and used as a surname of Poseidon in Samoa. Greek |
Goddess name "Epaine" | Greek | The fearful, a surname of Persephone. Plutarch suggests, that it might also be understood in a euphemistic sense as the praised goddess. Greek |
Goddess name "Epet" | Egypt | Goddess of healing, childbirth, children Egypt |
God name "Ephesus" | Greek | A son of the river-god Caystrus, who was said, conjointly with Cresus, to have built the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and to have called the town after himself. Greek |
God name "Ephialtes" | Greek | One of the giants, who in the war against the gods was deprived of his left eye by Apollo, and of the right by Heracles. Greek |
God name "Epidotes" | Greek | A divinity who was worshipped at Lacedaemon, and averted the anger of Zeus Hicesius for the crime committed by Pausanias. Epidotes, which means the "liberal giver," occurs also as a surname of other divinities, such as Zeus at Mantineia and Sparta, of the god of sleep at Sicyon. Greek |
Spirit name "Epimetheus" | Greek / Roman | Minor creator god. One of the four sons of IAPETOS and Klymene (Titan), and the brother of PROMETHEUS. Jointly responsible for the creation of mankind. Epimetheus' strongest claim to fame lies in his liaison with the first mortal woman, Pandora, whom the gods had cautioned him to avoid. Her curiosity caused her to open the box belonging to JUPITER in which he had placed all the vices, diseases and sufferings of humanity, but which also included the benevolent spirit of hope.... |
Goddess name "Epona" | Celtic | Divine horse. Mother Goddess and goddess of horses. Celtic |
God name "Epos Olloatir" | Celtic | horse God often seen as either a male or male representation and masculine aspect of Epona. Celtic |
God name "Epos/ Olloatir" | Britain | A god often seen as a male form of Epona |
Goddess name "Erce" | Anglo-Saxon | A triple goddess; a youthful maiden during the spring, maturing into a mother during the Summer, then aging into a crone at Winter-time. Anglo-Saxon |
Goddess name "Erda" | Germanic | Very old and wise goddess of the earth germanic |
God name "Erebus" | Greek | A primordial god, the personification of darkness. Greek |
Goddess name "Ereshkigal" | Akkadia / Hittite | This goddess is the mother of the storm god as well as an underworld goddess |