| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Amotken" | Salish | Creator god of the Salish, a kind, elderly man who lives alone in heaven. He created five women from five hairs from his head and asked them what they wanted to be. Each gave him a different answer: wickedness and cruelty, goodness, mother of the earth, fire, water. Amotken did as they asked and declared that wickedness would rule earth for a time, but goodness would win in the end. |
"Amphiaraus" | Greek | A son of Oicles and Hypermnestra, the daughter of Thestius. On his father's side he was descended from the famous seer Melampus. |
| King name "Amphictyon" | Greek | A son of Deucalion and Pyrrha or according to others an autochthon, who after having married Cranae, the daughter of Cranaus, king of Attica, expelled his father-in-law from his kingdom and usurped his throne. He ruled for twelve years, and was then in turn expelled by Erichthomus. |
"Amphidamas" | Greek | A son of Lycurgus and Cleophile, and father of Antimache, who married Eurystheus. (Apollodorus iii) According to Pausanias and Apollonius Rhodius (Argonautica) he was a son of Aleus, and consequently a brother of Lycurgus, Cepheus, and Auge, and took part in the expedition of the Argonauts. |
"Amphilochus" | Greek | A son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and brother of Alcmaeon. (Apollodorus iii) When his father went against Thebes, Amphiloehus was, according to Pausanias, yet an infant, although ten years afterwards he is mentioned as one of the Epigoni, and according to some traditions åśśisted his brother in the murder of his mother. |
"Amphion" | Greek | A son of Zeus and Antiope, the daughter of Nycteus of Thebes, and twin-brother of Zethus. |
| God name "Amphion" | Greek | God. Theban variant on the god POLYDEUKES.... |
"Amphistratus" | Greek | With his brother Rhecas were the charioteers of the Dioscuri. Greek |
| Goddess name "Amphitrite" | Greek | According to Hesiod (Theogony) and Apollodorus a Nereid, though in other places Apollodorus calls her an Oceanid. She is represented as the wife of Poseidon and the goddess of the sea (the Mediterranean), and she is therefore a kind of female Poseidon. |
| Goddess name "Amphitrite" | Greek | Sea goddess. According to Theogony (Hesiod), one of the fifty daughters of NEREUS and DORIS. Considered to calm stormy seas, traveling in a boat made of mussels. She was among those present at the birth of APOLLO.... |
| King name "Amphitryon" | Greek | Or Amphitruo a son of Alcaeus, king of Troezen, by Hipponome, the daughter of Menoeceus. Pausanias calls his mother Laonome. |
| Goddess name "Amponyinamoa" | Ghana | Creator goddess of Ghana. She carries a head and a bråśś pan. |
| Nymph name "Ampulus" | Greek | A Hamadryad nymph of the Vine tree. |
"Amrita" | Hindu | The elixir of immortality, made by churning the milk-sea. Hindu |
| Angel name "Amsox" | Enochian | A minor angel. Enochian |
| God name "Amsu" | Egypt | God of fertility. Egypt |
| God name "Amu" | Egypt | Dawn God. Egypt |
| God name "Amun" | Egyptian | An Egyptian deity who combined with the Sun god to become Amun-Re, Amun was paramount in the Egyptian pantheon during the height of the pharaonic empire. |
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