Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Acchupta" | Jain | One of the sixteen Mahavidyas in the Jaina pantheon. Jain |
Goddess name "Acchupta (untouched)" | Jain / India | Goddess of learning. One of sixteen VIDYADEVI headed by the goddess SARASVATI.... |
Goddess name "Aclla" | Inca / Quechua | Goddesses of war and virgins comparable to the Roman Vestal Virgins. Inca / Quechua |
Deity name "Ah Chun Caan" | Mexico | be deity though of the city of Merida |
God name "Ah Chun Caan (he of the base of the sky)" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Local god. The tutelary deity of the city of Merida. Mentioned in the Vienna Dictionary.... |
God name "Ah Chuy Kak" | Mayan | God of war Mayan |
God name "Airavat" | Hindu | An elephant produced at the churning of the ocean and appropriated by the god Indra. Hindu |
Demon name "Alcmaeon" | Greek | A son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and brother of Amphilochus, Eurydice, and demonåśśa. (Apollodorus iii) His mother was induced by the necklace of Harmonia, which she received from Polyneices, to persuade her husband Amphiaraus to take part in the expedition against Thebes. |
"Amphilochus" | Greek | A son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and brother of Alcmaeon. (Apollodorus iii) When his father went against Thebes, Amphiloehus was, according to Pausanias, yet an infant, although ten years afterwards he is mentioned as one of the Epigoni, and according to some traditions åśśisted his brother in the murder of his mother. |
"Amrita" | Hindu | The elixir of immortality, made by churning the milk-sea. Hindu |
"Amymone" | Greek | One of the daughters of Danaus and Elephantis. When Danaus arrived in Argos, the country, according to the wish of Poseidon, who was indignant at Inachus, was suffering from a drought, and Danaus sent out Amymone to fetch water. |
Goddess name "Anat / Athene" | Greek | Anat and Athene In a Cyprian inscription the Greek goddess Athêna Sôteira Nikê is equated with Anat. Anat is also presumably the goddess whom Sanchuniathon calls Athene, a daughter of El, mother unnamed, who with Hermes (that is Anubis) councelled El on the making of a sickle and a spear of iron, presumably to use against his father Uråñuś. However, in the Baal cycle, that rôle is åśśigned to Asherah / Elat and Anat is there called the "Virgin." |
"Antimachus" | Greek | A Trojan, who, when Menelaus and Odysseus came to Troy to ask for the surrender of Helen, advised his countrymen to put the ambåśśadors to death. It was Antimachus who principally insisted upon Helen not being restored to the Greeks. He had three sons, and when two of them, Peisander and Hippolochus, fell into the hands of Menelaus, they were both put to death. |
God name "Ataguchu" | Peruvian | A Peruvian god who helped Apocatequil. |
"Athamas" | Greek | A son of Aeolus and Enarete, the daughter of Deimachus. He was thus a brother of Cretheus, Sisyphus, Salmoneus, etc. (Apollodorus i) |
God name "BACCHUS" | Roman | God of wine and intoxication. Bacchus is modeled closely on the Greek god DIONYSOS. In Roman mythology his parents are JUPITER and SEMELE, the daughter of Kadmos, who became deified only after her death by fire on Olympus.... |
Nymph name "Bacche" | Greek | One of the Nysaian nymphs who, along with Macris, Erato, Bromie and Nysa hid Bacchus in their cave and nurtured him. |
God name "Bacchus" | Greek | The youthful, beautiful, but effeminate god of wine. He is also called both by Greeks and Romans Dionysus. |