Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Esu" | Edo / Benin / Nigeria, West Africa | God of påśśage. A fearsome deity who stands at the gates of the home of the gods holding a set of keys. He is known for his trickery.... |
God name "Esu Edo" | Benin / Yoruba | A god of påśśage that stands at the gates of home of the gods |
God name "Esus" | Celtic / Continental / European | God of war. Mentioned by the Roman writer Lucan but otherwise virtually unknown. He may have originated as a tree god. One carving [Trier] identifies Esus felling a tree with birds in the branches (see also INANA). Elsewhere he is åśśociated with three cranes and a bull.... |
Goddess name "Esmun" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | God of healing. Known first from the Iron Age levels at Sidon, his cult spread as far as Carthage, Cyprus and Sardinia. Possibly became syncretized with the god MELQART and, in Hellenic times, with the physician god ASKLEPIOS. His name further became linked with the mother goddess CAELESTIS.... |
Goddess name "Etain" | Ireland | Goddess of war Ireland |
Goddess name "Ethausva" | Etruscan | An Etruscan Goddess of Childbirth and Midwifery. |
God name "Euboea" | Greek | A daughter of the river-god Asterion near Mycenae, who together with her sisters Acraea and Prosymna acted as nurses to Hera. Greek |
God name "Eueucoyotl" | Aztec | God of fertility, sex, pleasure, sorrow and spontaneity. Aztec |
Goddess name "Eumenides" | Grek | Eumenides [the good-tempered goddesses ]. A name given by the Greeks to the Furies, as it would have been ominous and bad policy to call them by their right name, Erinnyes. |
Goddess name "Eunomia" | Greek | One of the Horae and goddess of order and lawful conduct. Greek |
Goddess name "Eunomia" | Greek | Goddess of order. One of the children of ZEUS and THEMIS, her siblings include the Horae, DIKE and EIRENE.See also HOURS.... |
Goddess name "Euphrosyne" | Greek | One of the three Charites or Graces. The cheerful one, or life lived in exuberance and joy, the Goddess of mirth, and the incarnation of grace and beauty. A daughter of Zeus and Eurynome, or of Dionysus and Aphrodite. Greek |
God name "Euros" | Greco - Roman | God of the east winds. One of the sons of EOS. Particularly known from Sparta and later Romanized as Eurus.... |
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 "Eurynome" | Greek | Sea goddess. The daughter of Nisos and mother of the Graces. Also the mother of Bellepheron, fathered by POSEIDON, though she is accounted as the consort of GLAUKOS. Little else is known, but her cult center was apparently at Phigaleia (Arcadia).... |
Goddess name "Evaki" | Bakairi | Goddess of the night and day who places the Sun in a pot every night and moves the Sun back to its starting point in the east every day. Bakairi |
Goddess name "Fachea" | Ireland | Goddess of poetry and patron of bards. Ireland |
God name "Faivarongo" | Polynesia | Grandsire of the Ocean and the god of sailors. Polynesia |