Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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King name "Theias" | Greek | A king of the Assyrians, and father of Smyrna, the mother of Adonis. Greek |
King name "Theiodamas" | Greek | The father of Hylas, and king of the Dryopes. Greek |
Nymph name "Theisoa" | Greek | One of the nymphs who brought up the infant Zeus. Greek |
"Theli tali" | Chaldean | The great dragon which symbolically envelops the universe; the mundane serpent. Chaldean |
"Thelxion" | Greek | In conjunction with Telchin, murdered Apis, when he attempted to subjugate Peloponnesus. Greek |
"Themis" | Greek | Daughter of Uråñuś, others say Helios, and Ge, was married to Zeus, by whom she became the mother of the Horae, Eunomia, Dice (Astraea), Eirene, and the Moerae. In the Homeric poems, Themis is the personification of the Greek |
Goddess name "Themis" | Greco - Roman | Goddess of justice and order. A daughter of the sky god OURANOS and earth mother GAIA, though not clåśśed as one of the Titans. A consort of ZEUS and the mother of the Horae and Moires. She is the impartial deity who sits blindfolded in Hades and judges the souls of the dead to determine whether they will påśś to the Elysian fields or to the fires of Tartarus. Attended by three lesser judgment deities, AEACOS, MINOS and RHADAMANTHOS. The guilty are handed over to the Furiesthe Dirae, Erinyes or Eumenides. At Rhamnus in Attica, Themis was accorded a sanctuary built in the sixth century BC beside which that of NEMESIS, goddess of indignation, was built in the fifth century.... |
"Themisto" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Nereus and Doris. |
"Theocritus" | Greek | Bion and Moschus, by Andrew Lang Greek |
"Theophane" | Greek | A daughter of Bisaltes, who, in consequence of her extraordinary beauty, was beleaguered by lovers, but was carried off by Poseidon to the isle of Crinissa. As the lovers followed her even there, Poseidon metamorphosed the maiden into a sheep and himself into a ram, and all the inhabitants of the island into animals. Greek |
"Therapne" | Greek | A daughter of Lelex and Peridia, from which the town of Therapne in Laconia derived its name. Greek |
"Theras" | Greek | A son of Autesion, grandson of Tisamenus, who led Lacedaemonians and Minyans of Lemnos (i. e. descendants of the Argonauts by Lemnian women) from Sparta to the island of Thera, which had before been called Callisto, but was now named after him Thera. Greek |
Goddess name "Thermaia" | Roman | A goddess of healing springs |
Goddess name "Thermalia" | Roman | Goddess of healing springs. Roman |
Goddess name "Thermuthis" | Egyptian | Egyptian fertility and harvest goddess. |
God name "Thero" | Sparta | 1. The nurse of Ares, from whom he was believed to have received the surname of Thereitas, though Pausanias thinks that this name arose from the fierceness of the god. A sanctuary of Ares Thereitas stood on the road from Sparta to Therapne, with a statue which the Dioscuri were said to have brought from Colchis. |
Goddess name "Thesan" | Etruscan | Goddess of the dawn. Also invoked at childbirth, since she brings new life into the world each day with her light.... |
Hero name "Theseus" | Greek | The great legendary hero of Attica, is one of those mythological personages whose legends it is by no means easy to disentangle, and represent in their original shape. Greek |