Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Gaea/ Gaia/ Ge" | Greek | The earth goddess & first born of chaos |
"Gaia aka Gaea" | Greek | Ge, the Protogenos and the personification of the earth. Mother earth emerged at the beginning of creation to form the foundation of the universe. Greek |
Nymph name "Galatea" | Greek | A sea-nymph, beloved by Polypheme, but herself in love with Acis. Acis was crushed under a huge rock by the jealous giant, and Galatea threw herself into the sea, where she joined her sister nymphs. Greek |
"Galathe" | Greek | Hector's horse. Greek |
"Galligantus" | Greek | A giant who lived with Hocus-Pocus in an enchanted castle. By his magic he changed men and women into dumb animals, amongst which was a duke's daughter, changed into a roe. Jack the Giant Killer, arrayed in his cap, which rendered him invisible, went to the castle and read the inscription: "Whoever can this trumpet blow, will cause the giant's overthrow." He seized the trumpet, blew a loud blast, the castle fell down, Jack slew the giant, and was married soon after to the duke's daughter. Fairy tale |
"Gamelii" | Greek | The divinities protecting and presiding over marriage. Plutarch says, that those who married required the protection of five divinities: Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Peitho, and Artemis. Greek |
God name "Ganymede" | Greek | A mortal boy that was given immortality & the job of cup bearer to the gods |
God name "Ganymedes" | Greek | According to Homer and others, he was a son of Tros by Calirrhoe, and a brother of Ilus and Assaracus. Being the most beautiful of all mortals, he was carried off by the gods that he might fill the cup of Zeus, and live among the eternal gods. Greek |
"Garåñuś" | Italy | A shepherd of gigantic bodily strength, who is said to have come from Greece into Italy in the reign of Evander, and slew Cacus. Aurelius Victor calls him Recaråñuś, but both writers agree in identifying him with the Greek Heracles. Italy |
"Gargittios" | Greek | One of the dogs that guarded the herds and flocks of Geryon, and which Hercules killed. The other was the two-headed dog, named Orthos, or Orthros. |
"Gartiae" | Greek | Roman version of the Greek graces Roman |
"Ge" | Greek | A shortened form of Gaea. Greek |
King name "Geleon" | Greek | A son of Ion, a king of Athens between the reigns of Erechtheus and Cecrops |
Goddess name "Geras" | Greek | God of old age. A son of Nyx and Erebus, he was depicted as a tiny shrivelled up old man. Geras' opposite was Hebe the goddess of youth. Greek |
Angel name "Germael" | Greek | The angel sent by God to create Adam from dust. moon lore |
King name "Geryones Geryon" | Greek | A son of Chrysaor and Calirrhoe, a fabulous king of Hesperia, who is described as a being with three heads, and possessing magnificent oxen in the island of Erytheia. He acts a prominent part in the stories of Heracles. Greek |
Angel name "Gethel" | Greek | An angel set over hidden things. |
"Gethsemane" | Greek | The Orchis maculata, supposed in legendary story to be spotted by the blood of Christ. |