Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Larunda" | Sabine | Chthonic goddess. An early Italic earth mother who, in Roman times, according to some traditions, became the mother of the LARES. Also Lara (Roman).... |
Ghost name "Larvae" | Roman | Mischievous spectres. The larva or ghost of Caligula was often seen, according to Suetonius, in his palace. Roman |
Demon name "Laume" | Lithuania / Prussia | This entity is usually naked, enjoyshelping people & protects orphans, she became demonized |
Goddess name "Laverna" | Italy | Chthonic underworld goddess. Italy |
Goddess name "Laverna" | Italic | Chthonic underworld goddess. Propitiated by libations poured with the left hand.... |
"Lavinia" | Greek | The daughter of Titus Andronicus, bride of Båśśiåñuś, brother of the Emperor of Rome. Being grossly abused by Chiron and Demetrius, sons of Tamora, queen of the Goths, the savage wantons cut off her hands and pluck out her tongue, that she may not reveal their names Lavinia, guiding a stick with her stumps, makes her tale known to her father and brothers; whereupon Titus murders the two Moorish princes and serves their heads in a pasty to their mother, whom he afterwards slays, together with the Emperor Saturninus her husband. Greek |
"Legor" | Basque | The personification of sterility. Basque |
Goddess name "Leiwani" | Hittite / Hurrian | Chthonic underworld goddess. Associated with charnel houses and probably modeled on the Sumerian ERES KIGAL.... |
King name "Lelex" | Greek | One of the original inhabitants of Laconia which was called after him, its first king, Lelegia. He was married to the Naiad Cleochareia, by whom he became the father of Myles, Polycaon, and Eurotas. Greek |
Goddess name "Lelwani" | Hittite | Chthonic underworld goddess Hittite / Hurrian |
Goddess name "Leshachikha" | Slavonic | Forest Goddess, wife of the Forest god, Leshy and mother of Leshonki. Slavonic |
King name "Lethe" | Greek | The personification of oblivion, is called by Hesiod (Theogony of Hesiod 227) a daughter of Strife. Lethe is one of the rivers of Hades. Drinking from the river Lethe caused complete forgetfulness. Some ancient Greeks believed that souls were made to drink from the river before being reincarnated, so they would not remember their past lives. Greek |
"Leucippus" | Greek | 1. A son of Oenomaus. 2. A son of Perieres and Gorgophone, and brother of Aphareus. He was the father of Arsinoe, Phoebe, and Hilaeira, and prince of the Messenians. He is mentioned among the Calydonian hunters, and the Boeotian town of Leuctra is said to have derived its name from him. Greek |
God name "Liber" | Italy | Chthonic god of fertility with a festival, the Liberalia, on March 17th Italy |
Goddess name "Liber" | Italic | Chthonic fertility god. Originally åśśociated with husbandry and crops but then åśśimilated with DIONYSOS. The consort of CERES and father of the goddess LIBERA. His festival, the Liberalia, was on March 17 when young men celebrated the arrival of manhood.... |
Goddess name "Libera" | Italic | Chthonic goddess. The daughter of LIBER and CERES.... |
"Libertas" | Roman | The personification of Liberty, was worshipped at Rome as a divinity. Roman |
Goddess name "Lilith" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Goddess of desolation. She is perceived as a demonic figure who, in the epic legend of Gilgames and the Huluppu Tree takes up residence in INANA'S holy tree growing on the banks of the Euphrates in Unug. When the hero Gilgames attacks Lilith she escapes into the desert wastes.... |