Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Emes" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | vegetation god. Emes was created at the wish of ENLIL to take responsibility on earth for woods, fields, sheep folds and stables. He is identified with the abundance of the earth and with summer. An unidentified deity who is depicted iconographically with a plough may well be Emes.... |
God name "Emma O" | Buddhist / Japan | God of death and lord of hell. Buddhist / Japan |
God name "Enbilulu" | Sumerian | A river god in charge of the sacred rivers Tigris and Euphrates. He was also the deity of canals, irrigation and farming. Sumerian |
God name "Enbilulu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | River god. In creation mythology he is placed in charge of the sacred rivers Tigris and Euphrates by the god ENKI. He is also god of canals, irrigation and farming. In Babylonian times he becomes the son of EA and is syncretized with ADAD.... |
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 |
God name "Endouellicus" | RomanoIberian | Chthonic oracular and healing god. Known from the Portuguese region. Probably the recipient of pig sacrifice.... |
Goddess name "Enekpe" | Africa | Goddess of the family and guardian of destiny Africa |
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 |
God name "Enkimdu" | Sumeria | God of canals, ditches, irrigation and sedentary farming. Sumeria |
God name "Enlil" | Sumeria | God of air and weather. One of four Sumerian creating gods. Sumeria |
Deities name "Ennead" | Egypt / Lower | The Heliopolis pantheon. The nine major deities enumerated and given their genealogy by the priesthood of Heliopolis, the center of the Sun-worshiping cult in Lower Egypt. Comprising the Sun god ATUM (or Atum-Re) and his offspring, S U, TEFNUT, GEB, NUT, OSIRIS, ISIS, SETH and NEPHTHYS. Other Egyptian cult centers possessed similar pantheons though not necessarily including the same list of deities. Thus, for example, the god PTAH presided at Thebes.... |
God name "Ennugi" | Sumeria | Attendant and throne bearer god. A younger brother of Sin, he was also the god of Irrigation and a canal inspector. Sumeria |
God name "Ennugi" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / BabylonianAkkadian | God. The attendant and throne-bearer of ENLIL (ELLIL).... |
Goddess name "Enodia" | Greek | Goddess of crossroads and gates. Greek |
God name "Enten" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Fertility god. Created by ENLIL as a guardian deity of farmers alongside the minor god EMES , Enten was given specific responsibility for the fertility of ewes, goats, cows, donkeys, birds and other animals. He is identified with the abundance of the earth and with the Winter period.... |
God name "Enudu Gisha" | Uganda | God of plague, specifically smallpox Uganda |
God name "Enundu" | Gishu / Uganda, East Africa | Plague god. A god identified with smallpox and propitiated with the sacrifice of a goat.... |