Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Monster name "Empusa" | Greek | A monstrous spectre, which was believed to devour human beings. It could åśśume different forms, and was sent out by Hecate to frighten travellers. It was believed usually to appear with one leg of bråśś and the other of an åśś. Whenever a traveller addressed the monster with insulting words, it used to flee and utter a shrill sound. The Lamiae and Mormolyceia, who åśśumed the fonm of handsome women for the purpose of attracting young men, and then sucked their blood like vampyrs and ate their flesh, were reckoned among the Empusae. Greek |
Deity name "Empyrean" | Greek | There are five heavens, the last of which is pure elemental fire and the seat of deity; this fifth heaven is called the empyrean. Greek |
God name "Encelados" | Greek | The most powerful of the giants that conspired against Zeus. The king of gods and men cast him down, and threw Mount Etna over him. The poets say that the flames of this volcano arise from the breath of this giant. The battle-field of his contest was Phlegra, in Macedonia. Greek |
God name "Enceladus" | Greek | A son of Tartarus and Ge, and one of the hundred-armed giants who made war upon the gods. He was killed, according to some, by Zeus, by a flash of lightning, and buried under mount Aetna and according to others, he was killed by the chariot of Athena, or by the spear of Seilenus. Greek |
"Endymion" | Greek | A youth distinguished for his beauty, and renowned in ancient story by the perpetual sleep in which he spent his life. Greek |
Angel name "Enejie" | Greek | The angel called up to grant wishes. |
God name "Enipeus" | Greek | A river-god in Thessaly, who was beloved by Tyro, the daughter of Salmoneus. Poseidon, who was in love with her, åśśumed the appearance of Enipeus, and thus visited her, and she became by him the mother of twins, Pelias and Neleus. Greek |
Goddess name "Enodia" | Greek | Goddess of crossroads and gates. Greek |
"Enorches" | Greek | A son of Thyestes by his sister Daeta, was born out of an egg, and built a temple to Dionysus. Greek |
"Enyalius" | Greek | The warlike, frequently occurs in the Iliad (never in the Odyssey) as an epithet of Ares. Greek |
Goddess name "Enyo" | Greek | The goddess of war, who delights in bloodshed and the destruction of towns, and accompanies Mars in battles. Greek |
Goddess name "Eos" | Greek | In Latin Aurora, the goddess of the morning red, who brings up the light of day from the east. She was a daughter of Hyperion and Theia or Euryphåśśa, and a sister of Helios and Selene. Greek |
God name "Epactaeus or Epactius" | Greek | The god worshipped on the coast and used as a surname of Poseidon in Samoa. Greek |
Goddess name "Epaine" | Greek | The fearful, a surname of Persephone. Plutarch suggests, that it might also be understood in a euphemistic sense as the praised goddess. Greek |
"Epaphos" | Greek | The progenitor of the Egyptians |
"Epaphos aka Epaphus" | Greek | A son of Zeus and Io, who was born on the river Nile, after the long wanderings of his mother. He was then concealed by the Curetes, by the request of Hera, but Io sought and afterwards found him in Syria. Greek |
King name "Epaphus" | Greek | A son of Zeus and was concealed by the Curetes, by the request of Hera. He subsequently became king of Egypt and built the city of Memphis. Greek |
God name "Ephesus" | Greek | A son of the river-god Caystrus, who was said, conjointly with Cresus, to have built the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and to have called the town after himself. Greek |