| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Neptunus - Neptune" | Roman | The chief marine divinity of the Romans. His name is probably connected with the verb valu or nato, and a contraction of namtunus. As the early Romans were not a maritime people, and had not much to do with the sea, the marine divinities are not often mentioned, and we scarcely know with any certainty what day in the year was set apart as the festival of Neptunus, though it seems to have been the 23rd of July. Roman |
| Nymph name "Nereid" | Greek | Any one of the of the fifty sea nymphs |
| Nymph name "Nereides" | Greek | Or Nereides or Nerine, is a patronymic from Nereus, and applied to his daughters by Doris, who were regarded by the ancients as marine nymphs of the Mediterranean, in contra-distinction from the Naiades, or the nymphs of fresh water, and the Oceanides, or the nymphs of the great ocea. Greek |
| Spirit name "Nereides" | Greco - Roman | Animistic spirits of the sea. Female personalities, the best known of whom is AMPHITRITE, åśśigned the guardianship of the oceans by the great gods and invoked by seafarers. Also attendants of the god POSEIDON.... |
| Goddess name "Neret" | Egypt | Vulture goddess of strength, fear, and theft. Egypt |
"Nereus" | Greek | A son of Pontus and Gaea, and husband of Doris, by whom he became the father of the 50 Nereides. He is described as the wise and unerring old man of the sea, at the bottom of which he dwelt. Greek |
| God name "Nereus" | Greek | Minor sea god. The son of PONTOS and GAIA, and the father of the NEREIDES.See also PROTEUS.... |
| Goddess name "Nergal" | Assyrian / Babylonian | One of the divinities who ruled the netherworld, a goddess of war & death |
| Goddess name "Nergal" | Babylon | One of the divinities who ruled the netherworld, amorality personified, and a goddess of war and death. Babylon |
| God name "Nergal" | Mesopotamia | God of plague, and a chthonic underworld god Mesopotamia |
| Goddess name "Nerrivik" | Inuit | Goddess of the sea Inuit |
| Goddess name "Nerrivik" | Inuit | Sea goddess. The mother of all sea creatures, invoked by fishermen and seal hunters.See also SEDNA.... |
| Goddess name "Nerrivik/ Sedena" | Inuit | The sea goddess |
| Goddess name "Nerthus" | Danish | Goddess of fertility who, bless her heart, was åśśociated with a piece Danish |
"Nesaru" | Arikara | Power Above Arikara |
"Neso" | Greek | A child of Nereus and Doris, one of the Nereides (Theogony of Hesiod 261); but Lycophron (1468) mentions one Neso as the mother of the Cúɱaean sibyl. Greek |
"Nesr" | Arabic | An idol of the ancient Arabs. It was in the form of a vulture, and was worshipped by the tribe of Hemyer. |
"Nesrem" | Arabia | A statute some fifty cubits high, in the form of an old woman. It was hollow within for the sake of giving secret oracles. Arabia |
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