| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Neptune's Horse" | Roman | Hippocampos; it had but two legs, the hinder part of the body being that of a fish. Roman |
| God name "Neptune/ Neptunus" | Italy / Roman | A god of irrigation |
| Planet name "Neptunus" | Italic / Roman | God of irrigation. Identified with the planet Neptune, but thought to have originated as an agricultural deity concerned with watering. He was celebrated in the festival of Neptunalia on July 23. Also the patron deity of horseracing. He became syncretized with the Greek god POSEIDON, but Neptune's modern åśśociation with the sea is a misrepresentation.... |
"Neptunus - Neptune" | Roman | The chief marine divinity of the Romans. His name is probably connected with the verb valu or nato, and a contraction of namtunus. As the early Romans were not a maritime people, and had not much to do with the sea, the marine divinities are not often mentioned, and we scarcely know with any certainty what day in the year was set apart as the festival of Neptunus, though it seems to have been the 23rd of July. Roman |
| Spirit name "Nereides" | Greco - Roman | Animistic spirits of the sea. Female personalities, the best known of whom is AMPHITRITE, åśśigned the guardianship of the oceans by the great gods and invoked by seafarers. Also attendants of the god POSEIDON.... |
| God name "Nethu s" | Etruscan | God of fresh water. Identified with wells and springs and depicted as a naked bearded figure. He is probably to be equated with the Roman god NEPTUNUS.... |
| God name "Nethuns" | Etruscan | God of wells and of all water, including the sea. He was the same as the Greek Poseidon and Roman Neptune. Etruscan |
| Goddess name "Nice" | Roman | The goddess of victory, or, as the Romans called her, Victoria |
| Goddess name "Nicevenn" | Roman | A Scottish Witch Goddess from the Middle Ages who rides through the night with her followers on Samhain. Her name can be translated as "Divine" or "Brilliant." She is equated with the Roman goddess Diana. |
| Goddess name "Nike" | Greco - Roman | Goddess of victory. Depicted as a winged messenger bringing the laurel wreath to the victor of battle. Though of Greek origin, appearing in the Theogony of Hesiod, she was adopted by the Romans and worshiped extensively throughout Asia Minor, including Sardis. In some depictions the goddess ATHENA carries NIKE as a small winged figure. Also VICTORIA (Roman).... |
"Nixi Dii" | Roman | A general term, which seems to have been applied by the Romans to those divinities who were believed to åśśist women at the time when they were giving birth to a child. Before the cella of Minerva, on the Capitol, there were three statues, which were designated as Dii Nixi. Roman |
"Nodotus" | Roman | A divinity presiding over the knots in the stem of plants producing grain but it seems more probable that originally it was only a surname of Saturnus. Roman |
| Goddess name "Nona" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth Roman |
| Goddess name "Nona" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. Responsible for the ninth month of gestation, she is often linked with the goddess DECIMA. In later Roman times she becomes one of a trio of goddesses of fate, with Decima and MORTA, the goddess of death, collectively known as the PARCAE.... |
| God name "Notus" | Roman | God of the southwest wind Roman |
| God name "Notus" | Roman | God of the southwest winds. Derived from a Greek model. Also Auster.... |
| God name "Notus/ Auster" | Roman | A god of the southwest wind |
| Goddess name "Numeria" | Roman | A goddess of childbirth |
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