| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Gonaqade't" | Chilkat / American north Pacific coast | Sea god. By tradition he brings power and good fortune to all who see him. He appears in several guises, rising from the water as a gaily painted house inlaid with blue and green Haliotis shell, or as the head of a huge fish, or as a painted war canoe. Generally depicted in art as a large head with arms, paws and fins.... |
| Spirit name "Gonaqadet" | Tlingit | The spirit of the sea. Tlingit |
"Gorge" | Greek | A daughter of Oeneus and Althaea, and the wife of Andraemon. When Artemis metamorphosed her sisters into birds, on account of their unceasing lamentations about their brother Meleager, Gorge and Deianeira alone were spared. Greek |
"Gorgo" | Greek | According to the Odyssey, was one of the frightful phantoms in Hades. In the Iliad the Aegis of Athena contains the head of Gorgo, the terror of her enemies. |
| King name "Gorgophone" | Greek | A daughter of Perseus and Andromeda. Her name means "Gorgon Slayer", a tribute to her father who killed Medusa, the mortal Gorgon. Gorgophone is a central figure in the history of Sparta, having been married to two kings, Oebalus of Sparta (actually Lakonia, Sparta's region) and Perieres of Messenia, the region to the west of Lakonia which Sparta, in the late 8th or early 7th century B.C. enslaved. Greek |
| Goddess name "Govannon" | Welsh | A smith and the son of the goddess Don. He killed his nephew, Dylan Eil Don, not knowing who he was. One of the tasks given to Culhwch if he were to win the hand of Olwen was to get Gofannon to sharpen Amaethon's plough. Welsh |
| Goddess name "Gramadevata" | India | Generic term for a local tutelary deity. Such deities are identified as not being served by Brahman priests. Most are goddesses e.g. CAMUNDA, DURGA and KALI. Generally they are invoked in small villages where they guard boundaries and fields and are represented by a painted stone, but they are also to be found in larger towns and cities.... |
| King name "Grangousier" | Utopia | king of Utopia, who married, in "the vigour of his old age," Gargamelle, daughter of the king of the Parpaillons, and became the father of Gargantua, the giant. He is described as a man in his dotage, whose delight was to draw scratches on the hearth with a burnt stick while watching the broiling of his chestnuts. (Rabelais: Gargantua.) |
| God name "Grannos" | Celtic | A god of healing & springs |
| God name "Grannus" | Roman | A god of healing affiliated with hot springs & mineral waters |
| God name "Grannus" | Roman / Celtic / Continental / Europe | God of healing. The name appears across a wide area generally åśśociated with medicinal springs and hot mineral waters, including sites at Aix-laChapelle, Grand (Vosges), Trier, Brittany, and as far distant as the Danube basin. Grannus became syncretized with the Roman god APOLLO as Apollo Grannus, and baths were sometimes called Aquae Granni.... |
| God name "Grannus aka Grannos" | Celtic | God of healing affiliated with hot springs and mineral waters. Celtic |
| Angel name "Granozin" | Celtic | Another angel of the 2nd hour of the night, this time serving under Farris. |
| Goddess name "Gratiae" | Roman | Goddesses. The counterparts of the Greek Charites. Identified with the arts and generally depicted with long flowing tresses, but otherwise naked.... |
| Goddess name "Great Mother" | Celtic | Represents the female principle of creation. Goddess of fertility, the moon, summer, flowers, love, healing, the seas, water. Celtic |
"Gremory" | Roman | A strong Duke of Hell who tells all things past, present and future, about hidden treasures, and procures the love of women, young and old, but especially maidens. |
"Griffin" | Greek | Griffon or Gryphon, has the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. In heraldry the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature. |
| Angel name "Grigori" | Jewish | A group of fallen angels told of in Biblical apocrypha who mated with mortal women, giving rise to a race of hybrids known as the Nephilim, who are described as giants. Jewish demonology |
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