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List of Gods : "Greek" - 1801 records

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Goddess name
"Pleiades"
Greek Goddesses of the Pleiades Greek

"Pleiades"
Greek Called daughters of Atlas by Pleione or by the Oceanid Aethra, of Erechtheus, of Cadmus or of the queen of the Amazons. Greek
God name
"Pleione"
Greek A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and mother of the Pleiades by Atlas. Her name means "to increase in number" and her grandson, Hermes, was the god of animal husbandry. Greek

"Pleisthenes"
Greek A son of Atreus, and husband of Aerope or Eriphyle, the daughter of Catreus, by whom he became the father of Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia. Greek

"Pluto"
Greek 1. A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and one of the playmates of Persephone.
God name
"Pluto"
Roman God of the underworld. Derived from the Greek model of HADES, he abducted the daughter of CERES, PROSERPINA, to reign as his queen. The three-headed dog Cerberus was set to guard the gate of Hades and through the kingdom flowed the two rivers of death, the Cocytus and the Acheron which could be crossed only by the ferryman Charon. According to Roman tradition, the entrance to the underworld was at Avernus in Rome where the Christian church of St. Maria del Inferno was built.See also HADES....
God name
"Pluton"
Greek The giver of wealth, at first a surname of Hades, the god of the lower world. Greek
God name
"Plutos"
Greek He is a minor god of riches
Goddess name
"Plutos"
Greek Minor god of riches. A son of DEMETER who was abandoned in childhood and reared by the goddess of peace, EIRENE, who is sometimes depicted holding him in her lap. Plutos was blinded by ZEUS because of his discrimination in favor of the righteous....

"Plutus"
Greek Sometimes also called Pluton, the personification of wealth, is described as a son of Iasion and Demeter. Greek

"Podaleirius"
Greek A son of Asclepius and Epione or Arsinoe, and a brother of Machaon, along with whom he led the Thessalians of Tricca against Troy (Apollodorus iii). He was, like his brother, skilled in the medical art. Greek

"Podarca"
Greek wife of ?neus.

"Poemander"
Greek A son of Chaeresilaus and Stratonice, was the husband of Tanagra, a daughter of Aeolus or Aesopus, by whom he became the father of Ephippus and Leucippus. He was the reputed founder of the town of Tanagra in Boeotia which was hence called Poemandria. When Poemander inadvertently had killed his own son, he was purified by Elephenor. Greek

"Poena"
Greek A personification of retaliation, is sometimes mentioned as one being, and sometimes in the plural. They belonged to the train of Dice, and are akin to the Erinnyes. Greek

"Polel"
Polish One of the Divine twins who, along with Lel, equates to the Greek Pollux. Polish

"Pollux"
Roman One of the Dioscuri. Castor was famous for his skill in taming and managing horses, and Pollux for his skill in boxing. Both had disappeared from the earth before the Greeks went against Troy. Roman
God name
"Polybotes"
Greek One of the giants who fought against the gods. The sea-god pursued him to the island of Cos, and, tearing away part of the island, throw it on him and buried him beneath the måśś. Greek
Goddess name
"Polyboulus"
Greek A goddess of wisdom
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