| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Arvernus" | Celtic / Gallic | Local tribal deity. God of the Arverni.... |
| God name "As" | Egypt | Local fertility god. Egypt |
| God name "As" | Egypt / western Sahara | Local fertility god. Known from the Early Dynastic Period. By inference a benign god of oases and other fertile areas of the desert. Epithets include lord of Libya. Depicted anthropomorphically, occasionally hawk-headed.... |
"Asa-Loke" | Norse | Asa-Loki. Loke, so called to distinguish him from Utgard-Loke, who is a giant. Norse. |
"Asbolus" | Greek | A centaur, whom Hesiod ( Shield Of Heracles) calls a Diviner, probably from his skill in observing or prophesying from the flight of birds. Greek |
| God name "Asclepius" | Greek | Or Aesculapius, the god of the medical art. In the Homeric poems Aesculapius does not appear to be considered as a divinity, but merely as a human being. No allusion is made to his descent, and he is merely mentioned as the the father of Machaon and Podaleirius. |
| Goddess name "Asertu aka Ashera" | Canaan | Asherah, Goddess of fertility. Generally taken as identical with the Ugaritic goddess Athirat Hittite / Canaan |
| God name "Asira" | Arabian | Pre-Islamic north Arabian local god. |
| God name "Asira" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Local god. Mentioned only in name by the Babylonian king Nabonidus, worshiped at Taima and influenced strongly by Egyptian culture.See also SALM.... |
| God name "Asokottamasri (the great beauty of Asoka)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Physician god. Accounted among one of a series of Medicine buddhas or SMAN-BLA in Lamaism. Typically depicted with stretched earlobes. Color: red.... |
| God name "Asopos" | Greek | A local river god |
| God name "Asopos" | Greek / Beotian | Local river god. Known only from regions of central Greece as one of the sons of POSEIDON.... |
| King name "Assaracus" | Greek | A son of Tros and Calirrhoe, the daughter of Scamander. He was king of Troy, and husband of Hieromneme, by whom he became the father of Capys, the father of Anchises. |
| Demon name "Astaroth aka Ashtaroth" | Semitic | Astarot, a Grand Duke of Hell; his main åśśistants are four demons called Aamon, Pruslas, Barbatos and Rashaverak. Semitic |
| God name "Asterion" | Crete | Or Asterius, 1. A son of Teutamus, and king of the Cretans, who married Europa after she had been carried to Crete by Zeus. He also brought up the three sons, Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys whom she had by the father of the gods. (Apollodorus i) 2. A son of Cometes, Pyremus, or Priscus, by Antigone, the daughter of Pheres. He is mentioned as one of the Argonauts. (Argonautica) There are two more mythical personages of this name, one a river-god [Acraea], and the second a son of Minos, who was slain by Theseus. |
"Asteropeia" | Greek | Two mythical personages, one a daughter of Pelias, who in conjunction with her sisters murdered her father and the second a daughter of Deion and Diomede. Greek |
"Astraeus" | Greek | A Titan and son of Crius and Eurybia. By Eos he became the father of the winds Zephyrus, Boreas, and Notus, Eosphorus (the morning star), and all the stars of heaven. (Theogony 376) Ovid ( Metamorphoses xiv) calls the winds fratres Astraei, which does not mean that they were brothers of Astraeus, but brothers through Astraeus, their common father. |
| Goddess name "Aspalis" | Western Semitic | Hunting goddess. There is scant mention of Aspalis from Melite in Phthia and she is probably a local version of ARTEMIS. As in certain Artemis mythology, she hanged herself and her body disappeared.... |
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