Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Chinnintamma" | India | Goddess of households. India |
Spirit name "Chlvnik" | Russian | A household spirit who lives in the cattleshed. Russian |
King name "Deion" | Greek | A son of Aeolus and Enarete, was king in Phocis and husband of Diomede, by whom he became the father of Asteropeia, Aenetus, Actor, Phylacus, and Cephalus. After the death of his brother, Salmoneus, he took his daughter Tyro into his house, and gave her in marriage to Cretheus. His name occurs also in the form Deioneus. Greek |
God name "Dii Penates" | Roman | household gods. Roman |
Spirit name "Domovoy" | Slavic | A. Every house has its domovoy, domestic spirit, who lives with his wife and family. Slavic |
Spirit name "Duende" | Spanish | A Spanish house-spirit. |
God name "Dunroamin" | Britain | God of semi-detached houses. Britain |
Spirit name "Dvorvoy" | Russian | A household spirit who lives in the yard. Russian |
"Eurylochus" | Greek | One of the companions of Odysseus in his wanderings. He was the only one that escaped from the house of Circe, while his friends were metamorphosed into swine; and when Odysseus went to the lower world, Eurylochus and Perimedes performed the prescribed sacrifices. It was on his advice that the companions of Odysseus carried off some of the oxen of Helios. Greek |
Spirit name "Fada" | France | A fee or kobold of the south of France, sometimes called "Hada." These house-spirits, of which, strictly speaking, there are but three, bring good luck in their right hand and ill luck in their left. |
Spirit name "Fear Dearg" | Ireland | I.e. Red Man. A house-spirit of Munster. Ireland |
"Ga Oh" | Iroquois | Master of the winds whose house is guarded by a bear. Iroquois |
Goddess name "Gabjauja" | Lithuania | Goddess of grain and a household feminine spirit of stack-yards and grain who made beer and bread for Gabjauja's feast. Lithuania |
Spirit name "Ganiklis" | Lithuania | A household spirit of herds, sheep, and cowboys. Lithuania |
God name "Gerra aka Gibil" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria | God of fire. He lived in the 'House of Awful Radiance,' and taught people to cook food. Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
Goddess name "Gestin-Ana" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Chthonic goddess. The sister of DUMUZI and consort of Ningisida. The so-called heavenly grape-vine, this minor goddess is involved in the account of Dumuzi trying to escape from his fate at the hands of INANA and ERESKIGAL. In her house he is changed into a gazelle before being caught and finally transported to the underworld.... |
God name "Gibil aka Gerra" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria | Girra, God of fire. He lived in the 'House of Awful Radiance,' and taught people to cook food. Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
God name "Gibini" | Gishu / Uganda, East Africa | Plague god. Associated with the smallpox god ENUNDU, he is propitiated with offerings of vegetables and is symbolized by special trees planted near the house.... |