Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Theandrios" | Arabic | Part of the Nabataen trinity. Arabic |
God name "Theandros" | N Arabia | A god known only from Greek & Roman inscriptions |
God name "Theandros" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | God. Known only from Greek and Roman inscriptions.... |
"Theano" | Greek | One of the Danaides. Greek |
God name "Theban Triad" | Egypt | The three Egyptian gods that were the most powerful in the area of Thebes, in Egypt. The gods are Amun, his consort Mut and their son Khonsu. |
"Thebe" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Prometheus, from whom the Boeotian Thebes was believed to have derived its name. |
"Thebes" | Greek | An ancient city of Egypt of great renown, once capital of Upper Egypt; covered 10 sq. m. of the valley of the Nile on both sides of the river, 300 m. SE. of Cairo; now represented by imposing ruins of temples, palaces, tombs, and statues of colossal size, amid which the humble dwellings of four villages-Luxor, Karnack, Medinet Habu, and Kurna-have been raised. The period of its greatest flourishing extended from about 1600 to 1100 B.C., but some of its ruins have been dated as far back as 2500 B.C. Greek |
Deity name "Theia" | Greek | Daughter of Uråñuś and Gaia, one of the female Titans, became by Hyperion the mother of Helios, Eos, and Selene, that is, she was regarded as the deity from which all light proceeded. Greek |
King name "Theias" | Greek | A king of the Assyrians, and father of Smyrna, the mother of Adonis. Greek |
King name "Theiodamas" | Greek | The father of Hylas, and king of the Dryopes. Greek |
Nymph name "Theisoa" | Greek | One of the nymphs who brought up the infant Zeus. Greek |
"Theli tali" | Chaldean | The great dragon which symbolically envelops the universe; the mundane serpent. Chaldean |
"Thelxion" | Greek | In conjunction with Telchin, murdered Apis, when he attempted to subjugate Peloponnesus. Greek |
"Themis" | Greek | Daughter of Uråñuś, others say Helios, and Ge, was married to Zeus, by whom she became the mother of the Horae, Eunomia, Dice (Astraea), Eirene, and the Moerae. In the Homeric poems, Themis is the personification of the Greek |
Goddess name "Themis" | Greco - Roman | Goddess of justice and order. A daughter of the sky god OURANOS and earth mother GAIA, though not clåśśed as one of the Titans. A consort of ZEUS and the mother of the Horae and Moires. She is the impartial deity who sits blindfolded in Hades and judges the souls of the dead to determine whether they will påśś to the Elysian fields or to the fires of Tartarus. Attended by three lesser judgment deities, AEACOS, MINOS and RHADAMANTHOS. The guilty are handed over to the Furiesthe Dirae, Erinyes or Eumenides. At Rhamnus in Attica, Themis was accorded a sanctuary built in the sixth century BC beside which that of NEMESIS, goddess of indignation, was built in the fifth century.... |
"Themisto" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Nereus and Doris. |
"Theocritus" | Greek | Bion and Moschus, by Andrew Lang Greek |
"Theophane" | Greek | A daughter of Bisaltes, who, in consequence of her extraordinary beauty, was beleaguered by lovers, but was carried off by Poseidon to the isle of Crinissa. As the lovers followed her even there, Poseidon metamorphosed the maiden into a sheep and himself into a ram, and all the inhabitants of the island into animals. Greek |