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List of Gods : "King Math" - 6 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
King name "Dactyloi"	Greek	Ancient smiths and healing magicians. In some myths, they are in Hephaestus' employ, and they taught metalworking, mathematics, and the alphabet to humans. Greek
Goddess name "Gilfaethwy"	Celtic	A son of the goddess Don and brother of Gwydion and Arianrhod in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi. His uncle Math ap Mathonwy, king of Gwynedd, must keep his feet in the lap of a young virgin at all times unless he is going to war. Celtic
King name "Longius"	Roman	The Roman soldier who smote Jesus with his spear. In the romance of king Arthur, this spear was brought by Joseph of Arimathea to Listenise, when he visited king Pellam, "who was nigh of Joseph's kin." Sir Balim the Savage, being in want of a weapon, seized this spear, with which he wounded king Pellam. "Three whole countries were destoyed" by that one stroke, and Sir Balim saw "the people thereof lying dead on all sides."
King name "Math fab Mathonwy"	Welsh	A king of Gwynedd who needed to rest his feet in the lap of a virgin unless he was at war, or he would die. Welsh
King name "Matholwch"	Ireland	A king of Ireland, is a character in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi
King name "Peleus"	Greek	A son of Aeacus and Endeis, was king of the Myrmidons at Phthia in Thessaly. He was a brother of Telamon and step-brother of Phocus, the son of Aeacus, by the Nereid Psamathe. Greek

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