Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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King name "Xuthus" | Greek | A son of Hellen by the nymph Orseis, and a brother of Dorus and Aeolus. He was king of Peloponnesus, and the husband of Creusa, the daughter of Erechtheus, by whom he became the father of Achaeus and Ion (Apollodorus i). Greek |
Nymph name "Xenodamus" | Greek | A son of Menelaus and the Cretan nymph Cnossia. |
King name "Wayland" | Scandinavian | Wayland the Scandinavian Vulcan, was son of the sea-giant Wate, and the sea-nymph Wac-hilt. He was bound apprentice to Mimi the smith. king Nidung cut the sinews of his feet, and cast him into prison, but he escaped in a feather-boat. |
Nymph name "Vodui Panny" | Slavic | Slavic water nymphs. |
Goddess name "Virbius" | Roman | An ancient mythical king of Aricia and a favourite of Diana, who, when he had died, called him to life and intrusted him to the care of the nymph Aegeria. The fact of his being a favourite of Diana, the Taurian goddess, seems to have led the Romans to identify him with Hippolytus who, according to some traditions, had established the worship of Diana. Roman |
Nymph name "Vila" | Slavic | Willi or Veela, are the Slavic versions of nymphs, who have power over storms, which they delight in sending down on lonely travelers. They are known to live in meadows, ponds, oceans, trees, and clouds. |
Nymph name "Venilia" | Roman | A Roman divinity connected with the winds (venti) and the sea. Virgil and Ovid describe her as a nymph, a sister of Amata, and the wife of Faunus, by whom she became the mother of Turnus, Jutuma, and Canens. Aeneid x. Metamorphoses by Ovid xiv.) |
King name "Upius" | Greek | A king of Bithynia whose son, Bormus, a youth of extraordinary beauty, was abducted by nymphs. Greek |
Nymph name "Undine" | Greek | The water-nymph, who was created without a soul, like all others of her species. By marrying a mortal she obtained a soul, and with it all the pains and penalties of the human race. Greek |
Nymph name "Tyndareus" | Greek | The son of Perieres and Gorgophone, and a brother of Aphareus, Leucippus, Icarius, and Arete (Apollodorus) or according to others, a son of Oebalus, by the nymph Bateia or by Gorgophone. Greek |
Nymph name "Thriae" | Greek | The name of three prophetic nymphs on Mount Parnåśśus, by whom Apollo was reared, and who were believed to have invented the art of prophecy by means of little stones, which were thrown into an urn. Greek |
Nymph name "Theisoa" | Greek | One of the nymphs who brought up the infant Zeus. Greek |
Nymph name "Thamyris" | Greek | An ancient Thracian bard, was a son of Philammon and the nymph Argiope. He went so far in his conceit as to think that he could surpåśś the Muses in song; in consequence of which he was deprived of his sight and of the power of singing. He was represented with a broken lyre in his hand. Greek |
God name "Teucer" | Greek | A son of the river-god Scamander by the nymph Idaea, was the first king of Troy. |
Nymph name "Terambus" | Greek | A son of Euseirus and Eidothea. Once he was tending his flocks on Mount Othrys in Melis, under the protection of the nymphs whom he delighted with his songs, for he was a distinguished musician, and played both the syrinx and the lyre. Greek |
Nymph name "Telphusa" | Greek | A daughter of Ladon, a nymph from whom the town of Telphusa in Arcadia derived its name. Greek |
Nymph name "Taras" | Greek | A son of Poseidon by a nymph, is said to have traversed the sea from the promontory of Taenarum to the south of Italy, riding on a dolphin, and to have founded Tarentum in Italy, where he was worshipped as a hero. Greek |
Nymph name "Syrinx" | Greek | An Arcadian nymph, who being pursued by Pan, fled into the river Ladon, and at her own request was metamorphosed into a reed, of which Pan then made his flute. ( Metamorphoses I) Greek |