Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Culsu" | Etruscan | A Goddess of the Gate to the underworld. Etruscan |
Demon name "Demogorgon" | Christian | Often ascribed to Greek mythology, is actually an invention of Christian scholars, imagined as the name of a pagan god or demon, åśśociated with the underworld and envisaged as a powerful primordial being, whose very name had been taboo. |
God name "Dis Pater" | Roman | Chthonic underworld god. Modeled on the Greek god HADES.... |
God name "Dis Pater / Dispater" | Celtic | Dis Pater aka Dispater, was a Roman and Celtic god of the underworld. |
God name "Donn" | Ireland | God of the underworld, the Dark One responsible for the påśśage of the dead to the underworld. Ireland |
God name "Donn" | Celtic / Irish | Chthonic underworld god. According to legend, he lives on an island to the southwest of Munster and is responsible for the påśśage of the dead toward the otherworld.... |
God name "Dumuzi" | Summerian | Summerian form of Tammuz, a god of vegetation, fertility and the underworld. Possibly the husband of Inanna. |
God name "Dur" | Iran | underworld god Iran / Kåśśite |
God name "Dur" | Kassite / Iran | Chthonic underworld god. Equates with the Babylonian-Akkadian god NERGAL.... |
God name "Dur Kåśśite" | Iran | An underworld god |
God name "Endukugga" | Sumeria | God of the underworld Sumeria |
God name "Enmesharra" | Sumerian | A god of the underworld who often worked with Enbilulu to bring water to the surface of the earth. Sumerian |
Goddess name "Ereshkigal" | Akkadia / Hittite | This goddess is the mother of the storm god as well as an underworld goddess |
Goddess name "Eriiys" | Greek | Chthonic goddess of wrath. According to legend she was a consort of POSEIDON by whom she bore the fabulous horse Areon. By implication she may also have been a grim maternal figure who engendered all horses. She may be equated with a wrathful DEMETER who is sometimes given the epithet Erinys. Erinys appears in the collec tive form of three Erinyes, their heads covered with snake locks and bearing torches from the underworld. In the Iliad they are described as those who beneath the earth punish dead men, whoever has sworn a false oath. In Roman mythology they are the Furies.... |
Goddess name "Erishkigal" | Sumeria | A goddess of the underworld |
God name "Eurydice" | Greek | The most famous was a woman-or a nymph-who was the wife of Orpheus. While fleeing from Aristaeus, she was bitten by a serpent and died. Distraught, Orpheus played such sad songs and sang so mournfully that all the nymphs and gods wept and gave him advice. Orpheus accomplished something no other person ever has: he traveled to the underworld and by his music softened the heart of Hades and Persephone, who allowed Eurydice to return with him to the world of the living. Greek |
Goddess name "Feronia" | Etruscan | Goddess of the autumn, fire and volcanoes. She also served as a goddess of travel, fire, and waters. Erilio, the king of Preneste, was her son according to one tradition. According to another tradition her son was the underworld god Herulus. Etruscan |
God name "Galla" | Akkadia | Minor underworld gods Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria |