| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Lifthraser" | Norse | Lif. The two persons preserved in Hodmimer's grove during Surt's conflagration in Ragnarok; the last beings in the old and the first in the new world. Norse |
| Angel name "Ligdisa" | Enochian | A sub-angelic Watchtower leader in the North. Enochian |
| Nymph name "Ligeia" | Greek | I. e. the shrill sounding, occurs as the name of a seiren and of a nymph. Greek |
"Ligyron" | Greek | I. e. the whining, is said to have been the original name of Achilles, and to have been changed into Achilles by Cheiron. Greek |
| Demon name "Lilith" | Jewish | A rather startling young lady started out as a wife & became a demoness |
| Demon name "Lilith" | Jewish | Rather startling young lady started out as adam's first wife and became a demoness Jewish |
| 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.... |
"Lilith or Lilis" | Christian | The Talmudists say that Adam had a wife before Eve, whose name was Lilis. Refusing to submit to Adam, she left Paradise for a region of the air. She still haunts the night as a spectre, and is especially hostile to new-born infants. Some superstitious Jews still put in the chamber occupied by their wife four coins, with labels on which the names of Adam and Eve are inscribed, with the words, "Avaunt thee, Lilith!" Rabbinical mythology |
| Demon name "Lilitu" | Babylon | Nocturnal demones who lingers on as the Jewish Lilith Babylon |
| Goddess name "Liluri" | Syria | Goddess of mountainses who accepted a bull for a sacrifice Syria |
| Goddess name "Liluri" | Western Semitic / Syrian | mountain goddess. The consort of the weather god Manuzi, her sacred animal is the bull.... |
"Limbus Fatuorum" | s | The Limbus of Fools, or Fool's Paradise. As fools are not responsible for their works, they are not punished in Purgatory, but cannot be received into heaven; so they go to a place called the Paradise of Fools. |
| Ghost name "Limbus Patrum" | Roman | The half-way house between earth and heaven, where the patriarchs and prophets, after death, await the coming of Messiah. According to the Roman Catholic notion, this is the "hell," or hades, into which Jesus Christ descended after He gave up the ghost on the cross. |
"Limbus Puerorum" | s | The Child's Paradise, for children who die before they are responsible for their actions. |
| Monster name "Limits" | Greek | The Latin Fames, or personification of hunger. Hesiod describes hunger as the offspring of Eris or Discord. A poetical description of Fames occurs in Ovid and Virgil places it along with other monsters, at the entrance of Orcus. Greek |
| Goddess name "Limnades" | Greek | A goddesses of lakes, marshes, swamps |
| Nymph name "Limnaea" | Greek | Limnetes, Limnades, Limnegenes, i. e. inhabiting or born in a lake or marsh, is a surname of several divinities who were believed either to have sprung from a lake, or had their temples near a lake. Instances are, Dionysus at Athens, and Artemis at Sicyon, near Epidaurus, on the frontiers between Laconia and Messenia, near Calamae, at Tegea, Patrae; it is also used as a surname of nymphs that dwell in lakes or marshes. Greek |
| Goddess name "Lina" | Greek | Goddess of spring. Greek |
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