| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Komodia" | Greek | Goddess of happiness and amu√åǧïñåt Greek |
| Goddess name "Kore (tbe girl)" | Greek | Youthful goddess of the corn. The more generic name for the goddess PERSEPHONE. Identified as the daughter of DEMETER. She is the spirit of the corn as distinct from her mother who is the giver of the corn. Depicted on coinage as a woman's head adorned with ears of corn. She is integral to the Eleusinian Mysteries in which she is abducted to Hades, resulting in the distress of her mother and the blighting of nature. At Samaria-Sebaste in Syrio-Palestine, Kore was the only deity worshiped, apart from the emperor.... |
| Goddess name "Kore/ Core" | Greek | A goddess of springtime |
| Goddess name "Koros" | Greek | Goddess of extravagant joy and exuberance Greek |
| Goddess name "Kostroma" | Russian | Benevolent and malevolent fertility goddess; like the Greeks' Persephone, she is a dying and reborn daughter. Russian |
| Spirit name "Kouretes" | Greek | Rustic spirits appointed by Rhea to guard the infant god Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida. Greek |
| Goddess name "Kourothropis" | Greek | A really obscure goddess, who wet nursed, this goddess is known only from ritual texts |
| Goddess name "Kourotrophos" | Greek | Obscure wet-nurse goddess. Known only from ritual texts.... |
| Goddess name "Kratesis" | Greek | Goddess of victory Greek |
| God name "Kratos" | Greek | God of strength Greek |
| Goddess name "Kratos" | Greek | God of strength. One of the sons of the goddess STYX and brother of BIA (force).... |
| God name "Kronos" | Pre-Greek | A fertility god celebrated by of harvest festival of Kronia |
| Supreme god name "Kronos" | Pre - Greek | Archetypal fertility god. He is of unknown origin but is the son of the earth mother GAIA and the sky god OURANOS, whom he usurped after castrating him. His consort is RHEA. So as not to suffer a similar fate to his father he swallowed all his children except ZEUS who was kept from him by a ruse. Zeus eventually hurled Kronos into Tartaros, the abyss in which all the TITANS were confined. He was celebrated in the Greek harvest festival of kronia which equalled the Roman saturnalia. During Hellenic times he was the supreme god at Byblos [Syria]. He is depicted on coinage of Antiochus IV (175-164 BC) nude, leaning on a scepter, with three pairs of wings, two spread and one folded.... |
| Goddess name "Lachesis" | Pre - Homeric Greek | Goddess of lot-casting. According to Hesiod one of the daughters of ZEUS and THEMIS. One of an ancient trio of MOIRAI with KLOTHO and ATROPOS, she sustains the thread of life and is depicted carrying a scroll.... |
| Goddess name "Lactura" | Greek | A grain goddess |
| God name "Laodameia" | Greek | A daughter of Acastus, and wife of Protesilaus. As the latter, shortly after his marriage, joined the Greeks in their expedition against Troy, and was the first that was killed there, Laodameia sued for the favour of the gods to be allowed to converse with him only for three hours. The request was granted: Hermes led Protesilaus back to the upper world, and when Protesilaus died a second time, Laodameia died with him. Greek |
| Goddess name "Latona" | Greek | The Roman name of the Greek goddess Leto. One of the Titans - the first generation of Greek gods, she was the daughter of the Titan Coeus and Phoebe and mother to the twin gods, Apollo and Artemis, whose father was Zeus. Greek |
| Goddess name "Leucothea" | Greek | Leukothea. [White Goddess]. So Ino was called after she became a sea nymph. Her son Pal?mon, called by the Romans Portunus, or Portumnus, was the protecting genius of harbours. Greek |
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