Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Therapne" | Greek | A daughter of Lelex and Peridia, from which the town of Therapne in Laconia derived its name. Greek |
"Theras" | Greek | A son of Autesion, grandson of Tisamenus, who led Lacedaemonians and Minyans of Lemnos (i. e. descendants of the Argonauts by Lemnian women) from Sparta to the island of Thera, which had before been called Callisto, but was now named after him Thera. Greek |
Goddess name "Thermaia" | Roman | A goddess of healing springs |
Goddess name "Thermalia" | Roman | Goddess of healing springs. Roman |
Goddess name "Thermuthis" | Egyptian | Egyptian fertility and harvest goddess. |
God name "Thero" | Sparta | 1. The nurse of Ares, from whom he was believed to have received the surname of Thereitas, though Pausanias thinks that this name arose from the fierceness of the god. A sanctuary of Ares Thereitas stood on the road from Sparta to Therapne, with a statue which the Dioscuri were said to have brought from Colchis. |
Goddess name "Thesan" | Etruscan | Goddess of the dawn. Also invoked at childbirth, since she brings new life into the world each day with her light.... |
Hero name "Theseus" | Greek | The great legendary hero of Attica, is one of those mythological personages whose legends it is by no means easy to disentangle, and represent in their original shape. Greek |
"Thessalus" | Greek | 1. A son of Haemon, from whom Thessaly was believed to have received its name. |
"Thessaly" | Greek | Is one of the 13 peripheries of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 prefectures. The capital of the periphery is Larissa. The prefecture lies in central Greece and borders Macedonia on the north, Epirus on the west, Sterea Hellas or Central Greece on the south and the Aegean Sea on the east. Greek |
Demon name "Thestius" | Greek | A son of Ares and demonice or Androdice, and, according to others, a son of Agenor and a grandson of Pleuron, the king of Aetolia. Greek |
"Thestor" | Greek | Son of Idmon and Laothoe, though some ancients declare that Idmon (the knowing) was only a surname of Thestor. He was the father of Calchas, Theoclymenus, Leucippe, and Theonoe. Greek |
"Thetis" | Greek | One of the daughters of Nereus and Doris, was the wife of Peleus, by whom she became the mother of Achilles. Later writers describe her as a daughter of Cheiron. Greek |
Goddess name "Thetis" | Greek | Goddess of rivers and oceans. One of the daughters of NEREUS, Thetis takes responsibility, with OKEANOS, for the oceans and rivers. She is among the lesser known deities; according to mythology she is a mermaid, but she is particularly significant as the mother of Achilles by an unnamed mortal. According to legend she attempted to render him immortal by immersing him in the waters of the Styx. She failed because the heel by which she held him had remained dry. His education she entrusted to the centaur Chiron. She was surrounded by attendant sea creatures known as Nereids and after Achilles's death she returned to the ocean depths.... |
Planet name "Thiel" | Nazorean | An angel who is the ruling prince of Wednesday and the planet Venus. Early Nazorean |
Goddess name "Thmei" | Egypt | The goddess of truth. Egypt |
King name "Thoas" | Greek | 1. A son of Andraemon and Gorge, was king of Calydor and Pleuron, in Aetolia, and went with forty ships against Troy. |
Goddess name "Thoeris" | Egypt | Goddess and protectress of women in childbirth. Egypt |