Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Amor" | Roman | God of love. Developed from the Greek god Eros. Depicted as a winged youth. According to tradition he awoke the goddess Psyche with a kiss. Attributes include arrows, bow and torch. The popular epithet Cupid was only applied by poets.... |
Goddess name "Anieros" | Phrygian | Early earth goddess, who with her daughter Axiocersa, personified the earth in spring and in autumn Roman / Phrygian |
God name "Anteros" | Greek | The god of returned love |
God name "Cupid" | Greek | Eros, Amor, the god of love, viewed as a chubby little boy, armed with bow and arrows, and often with eyes bandaged. Greek |
God name "Eros" | Greek | In Latin, Amor or Cupido, the god of love. In the sense in which he is usually conceived, Eros is the creature of the later Greek poets; and in order to understand the ancients properly we must distinguish three Erotes: viz. the Eros of the ancient cosmogonies, the Eros of the philosophers and mysteries, who bears great resemblance to the first, and the Eros whom we meet with in the epigrammatic and erotic poets, whose witty and playful descriptions of the god, however, can scarcely be considered as a part of the ancient religious belief of the Greeks. Greek |
God name "Heros" | Thrace | underworld god who is also a horseman Thrace |
God name "Heros" | Thracian | Chthonic underworld god. Depicted as a horseman. His image regularly appears on funerary stelae.... |
Goddess name "Hesperos" | Greek | The goddess of evening |
God name "Himerus or Phanes" | Greek | A mystic divinity in the system of the Orphics, is also called Eros, Ericapaeus, Himerus Metis, and Protogonus. He is said to have sprung from the mystic mundane egg, and to have been the father of all gods, and the creator of men. Phanes means "Manifestor" or "Revealer," and is related to the Greek words "light" and "to shine forth." Greek |
Goddess name "Lakshmi" | India | The goddess of prosperity, wealth, purity, generosity, and the embodiment of beauty, grace and charm. India |
Goddess name "Liberalitas" | Roman | Goddess of generosity Roman |
Spirit name "Liberalitas" | Roman | Minor god. spirit of generosity, employed as a propaganda vehicle by the emperors. Worshiped particularly from the second century BC.... |
God name "Phanes" | Greek | A mystic divinity in the system of the Orphics, is also called Eros, Ericapaeus, Himerus Metis, and Protogonus. He is said to have sprung from the mystic mundane egg, and to have been the father of all gods, and the creator of men. Phanes means "Manifestor" or "Revealer," and is related to the Greek words "light" and "to shine forth." Phanes, or the personification of longing love, is first mentioned by Hesiod (Theogony 201), where he and Eros appear as the companions of Aphrodite. Greek |
Angel name "Pronoia" | Greek | Eros appeared, being androgynous. His masculinity is Himeros, being fire from light. His femininity, innate to him as well, is the soul of blood, the solution of the Pronoia... He is very lovely in his beauty, having charm beyond all the creatures of chaos. Then all the gods and their angels, when they beheld Eros, became enamored. And appearing in all of them Eros set them ablaze. Gaian creation myth |
Goddess name "Thallath" | Berosus | The sea, personified as a goddess. Berosus |
Goddess name "Upakesini" | Buddhist | Minor goddess of cultivation accomplished through the merits of generosity. Buddhist |