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"Eriphyle" | Greek | A daughter of Talaus and Lysimache, and the wife of Amphiaraus, whom she betrayed for the sake of the necklace of Harmonia. Greek |
Goddess name "Eris" | Greek | Born of Ate and Zeus, or, according to Homer, Hera and Zeus (Iliad IV), she is the goddess who calls forth war and discord. According to the Iliad, she wanders about, at first small and insignificant, but she soon raises her head up to heaven (IV). Greek |
Goddess name "Eris" | Greek | Goddess of dissent or strife. The consort of ARES, the god of war, and the mother of HORKOS (oath). She is depicted throwing the apple of discord among guests at a wedding, offering it to the fairest to provoke argument. In Roman mythology she becomes DISCORDIA.... |
Goddess name "Erishkigal" | Sumeria | A goddess of the underworld |
"Eriskegal" | Allatu / Babylon | She is one of the divinities who ruled the netherworld |
Demon name "Eriskegal aka Erishkigal" | Babylon / Allatu | demon queen of Seduction and Undeath, Mistress of Succubi. Babylon / Allatu |
Goddess name "Eriu" | Ireland | One of the three queens of the Tuatha De Danann and Goddess of fertility. Ireland |
Goddess name "Eriu" | Celtic / Irish | Fertility goddess. An aspect of the MORRIGAN. One of the deities who were known as the Sovereignty of Ireland and wedded sym bolically to a mortal king. Also a warrior goddess, capable of changing shape from girl to hag, and into birds and animals. She is patroness of the royal seat of Uisnech in County Meath. Eire and Erin are corruptions of her name. See also BADB.... |
Goddess name "Eriu/ Erin/ Eire" | Irish | One of the three queens of the Tuatha De Danann & a fertility goddess |
"Erix" | Greek | Son of Goliath and grandson of Atlas. He invented legerdemain. Greek |
God name "Erkilek" | Inuit | Malevolent hunting god. Inuit |
God name "Erkilek" | Inuit / North America | Hunting god. A malev olent deity with the head and nose of a dog and the body of a man. He carries a bow, with arrows contained in a quiver, and is an expert archer.... |
God name "Erlik Samoyed" | Finnish | God of the netherworld Finnish |
King name "Erlking" | German | king of the elves, who prepares mischief for children, and even deceives men with his seductions. He is said to haunt the Black Forest. German |
Goddess name "Ermutu" | Egypt | Goddess of childbirth and midwives. Egypt |
Demon name "Ern" | Enochian | A cacodemon. Enochian |
God name "Eros" | Greek | In Latin, Amor or Cupido, the god of love. In the sense in which he is usually conceived, Eros is the creature of the later Greek poets; and in order to understand the ancients properly we must distinguish three Erotes: viz. the Eros of the ancient cosmogonies, the Eros of the philosophers and mysteries, who bears great resemblance to the first, and the Eros whom we meet with in the epigrammatic and erotic poets, whose witty and playful descriptions of the god, however, can scarcely be considered as a part of the ancient religious belief of the Greeks. Greek |
Deity name "Eros" | Greco Roman | Primordial deity. One of the children of AETHER and Hemera in the pre Homeric cosmos. Listed in Hesiod's Theogony as one of three archetypal beings with chaos and GAIA. Also AMOR (Roman).... |