Myths Part 1

*Aa
In Babylonian mythology, Aa is the Great-Mother. The Mother of all things; Goddess of dawn; She Who inspired the invention of letters.
*Abaddon
According to the ancient Hebrews, Abaddon was chief of the demons of the 7th hierarchy.
*Abaris
In Greek mythology Abaris was a priest to the god Apollo. Apollo gave him a golden arrow which rendered him invisible and also cured diseases and gave oracles. Abaris gave the arrow to Pythagoras.
*Abas
Abas was the son of Celeus and Metaneira. He mocked Demeter and was turned into a lizard. By some accounts he was the 12th king of Argolis who owned a magic shield.
*Abdera
Abdera was an ancient Greek city supposedly founded by Hercules in honour of his friend Abderus.
*Abderus
Abderus was a friend of Hercules. Hercules left him to look after the mare of Diomedes, which ate him.
*Abira
In Antioquia mythology, Abira is the creator.
*Abominable snowman
The Abominable snowman is a legendary creature, said to resemble a human, with long arms and a thickset body covered with reddish gray hair. Reports of its existence in the Himalayas have been made since 1832, and they gained substance from a published photograph of a huge footprint in the snow in 1951. No further "evidence" has been found.
*Absyrtus
Absyrtus (Apsyrtus) was a son of Aeetes, King of Colchis and brother of Medea. When Medea fled with Jason she took Absyrtus with her and when her father nearly overtook them she murdered Absyrtus and cut his body into pieces and threw it around the road so that her father would be delayed picking up the pieces of his son.
*Acacetus
Acacetus is a name sometimes given to Hermes because of his eloquence.
*Acamas
Acamas was a son of Theseus and Phaedra. He went to Troy with Diomedes to demand the return of Helen.
*Acastus
Acastus was a son of Pelias. He was one of the argonauts.
*Acestes
In Greek mythology, Acestes was a Sicilian bowman who in a trial of skill discharge an arrow with such force that it ignited.
*Achaeus
In Greek mythology, Achaeus was a son of Xuthus and Creusa. He returned to Thessaly and recovered the dominions of which his father had been deprived.
*Achates
In Greek mythology Achates was a companion of Aeneas in his wanderings subsequent to his flight from Troy. He typified a faithful friend and companion.
*Acheloides
#Sirens
*Achemon
Achemon and his brother Basalas were two Cercopes who were for ever arguing. One day they insulted Hercules, who tied them by their feet to his club and marched off with them like a brace of hares.
*Acheron
Acheron was one of the rivers of Hades.
*Acherusia
In Greek mythology, Acherusia was a cave on the borders of Pontus which led to the infernal regions. It was through this cave that Hercules dragged Cerberus to earth.
*Achilles
In Greek mythology, Achilles was the son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidons in Thessaly, and of the sea nymph Thetis, who rendered him invulnerable, except for the heel by which she held him, by dipping him in the river Styx. Achilles killed Hector at the climax of the Iliad, and according to subsequent Greek legends was himself killed by Paris, who shot a poisoned arrow into Achilles' heel.
*Achiyalatopa
In Zuni mythology, Achiyalatopa is a celestial giant monster with feathers of flint knives.
*Achmon
Achmon is an alternative spelling for Achemon.
*Acis
In Greek mythology, Acis was a son of Faunus and a river nymph. He loved the sea-nymph Galatea and was killed by his jealous rival Polyphemus.
*Acrisius
In Greek mythology, Acrisius was a son of Abas and the twin brother of Proetus with whom he quarrelled even in the womb. He was the father of Danae. When Abas died, Acrisius expelled Proetus from his inheritance, but Proetus returned supported by Iobates and Acrisius was compelled to give him Tiryns while he kept Argos.
*Actaeon
In Greek mythology, Actaeon was a great hunter who was turned into a stag by Artemis for looking on her while she was bathing. He was subsequently torn to pieces by his own dogs.
*Adaro
In the mythology of the Solomon Islands, Adaro is a sea-spirit.
*Addanc
The addanc was a dwarf or marine monster which lived near lake llyon. He  was killed in some accounts by Peredu who obtained a magic stone which made him invisible.
*Adekagagwaa
In Iroquois mythology, Adekagagwaa is the spirit of summer who rests during the winter in the south.
*Adja
#Adjassou-Linguetor
*Adja Bosu
#Adjassou-Linguetor
*Adjassou-Linguetor
In Voodoo, Adjassou-Linguetor (Adja, Adha Bosu) is a loa with protruberant eys and a bad temper who governs spring water.
*Adonis
Adonis was a Phoenician god, adopted by Greek mythology as a mortal favourite of Aphrodite. He was killed by a wild boar and upon finding him Aphrodite caused the plant the anemone to rise from his blood.
*Adrastea
Adrastea was an alternative name for Nemesis.
*Adrastus
Adrastus was the son of Talaus and the king of Argos. He attempted to restore Polynices to his throne at Thebes, he failed but led a second assault leading the Epigoni. He died of grief when he heard that his son had been killed in the Epigoni assault.
*Aegir
In Norse mythology, Aegir was the god of the sea, seashore and ocean and a son of Mistarblindi. He was a personification of the ocean, both good and bad. He caused storms with his anger and the skalds said a ship went into "Aegir's wide jaws" when it wrecked. Aegir was crowned with seaweed and always surrounded by nixies and mermaids while in his hall. Aegir's wife was Ran and they lived under the sea by the island Hlesey. Ran and Aegir had nine daughters who were the waves. Aegir brewed ale for the gods after Thor brought him a big enough kettle. Every winter the gods would drink beer at Aegir's home. He was, therefore, famed for his hospitality. Gold was put onto the floor of the hall to provide light, instead of having a fire. Gold is therefore called Aegir's fire. The cups in Aegir's hall were always full, magically refilling themselves. Aegir had two servants in his hall, Fimafeng and Eldir. Sailors feared Aegir, and thought he would sometimes surface to destroy ships. Early Saxons made human sacrifices to a god of the sea, possibly connected with Aegir.
*Aello
Aello was one of the harpies.
*Aeneas
Aeneas was a Trojan hero. He was the son of Anchises and Aphrodite. He led the survivors of the Trojan war to Italy.
*Aeolus
Aeolus was the son of Hippotes. He lived on a rocky island where the winds were trapped in caves. He let the winds out as commanded by the gods.
*Aesculapius
Aesculapius was the son of Apollo and Coronis. His mother died at his birth, struck by an arrow of Artemis. His father saved him and took him to the physician Chiron who taught Aesculapius about healing, he was the Roman god of medicine, his worship introduced at Rome about 291 BC.
*Aesir
The Aesir were the principal gods in Norse mythology. They lived in Asgard.
*Agamemnon
In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was a Greek hero of the Trojan wars, son of Atreus, king of Mycenae, and brother of Menelaus. He married Clytemnestra, and their children included Electra, Iphigenia, and Orestes. He sacrificed Iphigenia in order to secure favorable winds for the Greek expedition against Troy and after a ten years' siege sacked the city, receiving Priam's daughter Cassandra as a prize. On his return home, he and Cassandra were murdered by Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus. His children Orestes and Electra later killed the guilty couple.
*Agla
An agla is a talisman used by the rabbis to exorcise evil spirits.
*Agni
Agni is the Hindu god of fire, the guardian of homes, and the protector of humans against evil.
*Agwe
In Voodoo, Agwe is the goddess of the sea.
*Ah Kinchil
In Maya mythology, Ah Kinchil is the sun god.
*Ah Puch
In Maya mythology, Ah Puch is the god of death.
*Ahau Chamahez
In Maya mythology, Ahau Chamahez was one of two gods of medicine.
*Ahmakiq
In Maya mythology, Ahmakiq is a god of agriculture. He locks up the wind when it threatens to destroy the crops.
*Ahriman
In Zoroastrianism the Ahriman is the supreme evil spirit, lord of the darkness and death.
*Ahura Mazda
In Zoroastrianism Ahura Mazda is the spirit of supreme good, god of light and life.
*Aida-Wedo
Aida-Wedo is the voodoo rainbow snake loa.
*Airsekui
In Huron mythology, Airsekui is the great spirit. He is invoked at times of great danger.
*Ajax
In Greek mythology, Ajax was son of Telamon, king of Salamis, he was second only to Achilles among the Greek heroes in the Trojan War. According to subsequent Greek legends, Ajax went mad with jealousy when Agamemnon awarded the armor of the dead Achilles to Odysseus. He later committed suicide in shame.
*Akhushtal
In Maya mythology, Akhushtal is the goddess of childbirth.
*Aktunowihio
In Cheyenne mythology, Aktunowihio is the soul of the earth. A subterranean spirit.
*Akycha
In Eskimo mythology, Akycha is the sun spirit.
*Ala
In Ibo mythology, Ala is the Earth Mother, Law-giver, protectress of the harvest. She who receives the dead into her pocket.
*Alaghom-Naom
In Mayan mythology, Alaghom-Naom was goddess of the earth, abundance and wisdom. She who fosters forth conscious awareness and thought.
*Alcaeus
Alcaeus was a son of Perseus and Andromeda.
*Alcestis
Alcestis was the wife of Admetus in Greek mythology. Her husband was ill, and according to an oracle would not recover unless someone vowed to die in his place. Alcestis made the vow and her husband recovered. After she died Hercules brought her back from the infernal regions.
*Alcides
Alcides is an alternative name for Hercules.
*Alcmene
In Greek mythology, Alcmene is the virgin goddess of midwinter, midwinter's moon, the new year, stateliness, beauty and wisdom.
*Alcyone
In Greek mythology, Alcyone is the goddess of the sea, the moon, calm and tranquility; She who brings life to death and death to life.
*Alphito
In Greek mythology, Alphito was a white goddess of barley flour, destiny and the moon. The hag of the mill and the lady of the nine heights.
*Alta
Alta was the giant mother of Heimdall.
*Amaethon
Amaethon was the celtic god of husbandry.
*Amaterasu
In Japanese mythology, Amaterasu is the sun goddess, grandmother of Jimmu Tenno, the first ruler of Japan.
*Amazon
in Greek mythology, the Amazons were a group of female warriors living near the Black Sea, who cut off their right breasts to use the bow more easily. Their queen, Penthesilea, was killed by Achilles at the siege of Troy. The Amazons attacked Theseus and besieged him at Athens, but were defeated, and Theseus took the Amazon Hippolyta captive; she later gave birth to Hippolytus.
*Ambrosia
In Greek mythology, ambrosia was the food of the gods which was supposed to confer eternal life upon all who ate it.
*Amen
Amen is an alternative spelling of Ammon.
*Amitolane
In Zuni mythology, Amitolane is the rainbow spirit.
*Ammon
Ammon was an ancient Egyptian god. He was depicted as a human with a ram's head. He was one of the chief gods, and was adopted by the Greeks as Zeus and the Roman's as Jupiter.
*Amor
Amor was the Roman god of love.
*Amphictyonis
In Greek mythology, Amphictyonis was the goddess of wine and friendship between nations.
*Amphion
In Greek mythology, Amphion was a son of Zeus and Antiope. He was the husband of Niobe. Amphion had great skill in music which he was taught by Hermes. He helped build the walls of Thebes, the stones moving themselves into position at the sound of his lyre.
*Amphitrite
Amphitrite was the Greek goddess of the sea and wife of Poseidon.
*Amphitryon
In Greek mythology, Amphitryon was King of Thebes, son of Alcaeus and husband of Alcmena.
*Amset
In Egyptian mythology, Amset was son of horus; guardian of the south. His canopic jar receives the stomach and large intestines of the dead.
*Amun
Amun is an alternative spelling of Ammon.
*Amymone
Amymone was a daughter of Danaus. She and her sisters were sent to search for water when Poseidon caused a drought in the district of Argos. Whilst searching she threw a spear at a dear, missed it and hit a satyr which pursued her. She called to Poseidon for help. He came, drove off the satyr and produced a perennial spring for her at Lerna, where he met her.
*An
In Sumerian mythology, An was the personification of heaven.
*An tigh geatha
In druidry an tigh geatha refers to the outer order.
*Anadyomene
Anadyomene is a name of Aphrodite when she was represented as rising from the sea.
*Anahita
In Persian mythology, Anahita (Immaculate-one) is a motherly goddess of life waters, weather, fertility, procreation, war and victory.
*Anath
In Syrian mythology, Anath is a goddess of earth, grain, and sacrifice. She is the strength of life, a bloodthirsty maiden and a violent Virgin.
*Andraste
In British mythology, Andraste is a warrior goddess. She was invoked by Queen Boudicca when she revolted against the Roman invaders.
*Androcles
In Roman mythology, Androcles was a Roman slave who fled from a cruel master into the African desert, where he encountered a crippled lion and took a thorn from its paw. The lion later recognized the recaptured slave in the arena and spared his life. The emperor Tiberius was said to have freed them both.
*Andromache
In Greek mythology, Andromache was the wife of Hector.
*Andromeda
Andromeda was a daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopea. Perseus found her bound to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Perseus rescued her after killing the sea monster so that she might become his wife.
*Angatupyry
In Guarani mythology, Angatupyry is the spirit of good. Together with Tau they guide people which road to follow.
*Angpetu Wi
In Dakota mythology, Angpetu Wi is the sun spirit.
*Angrbotha
In Norse mythology, Angrbotha is the prophetic death goddess. The iron wood hag and Ogress of Giantland. A worker of calamity.
*Anguta
In Eskimo mythology, Anguta is a god who lives under the sea and drags down the dead.
*Aningan
In Eskimo mythology, Aningan is the moon spirit.
*Ankh
The Ankh was the ancient Egyptian amulet of life. It was usually employed as a pendant for a necklace.
*Annapurna
In Hindu mythology, Annapurna is a goddess of foodstuff. She who causes the continual transformation of substance into energy.
*Anniu
Anniu was an ancient Egyptian god.
*Annona
In Roman mythology, Annona was the Goddess of the circling year and its harvest produce; Matron of commerce and the market place.
*Annwn
In British mythology, annwn is the otherworld.
*Anpao
In Dakota mythology, Anpao is the spirit of the dawn.
*Antaeus
Antaeus was the giant son of Poseidon and Ge. He was invincible so long as he remained in contact with the earth. Hercules killed him by picking him up so that his feet were off the ground and then stifling him.
*Anteros
In Greek mythology, Anteros was the god of mutual love. He was said to punish those who did not return the love of others.
*Antheia
In Crete, Antheia was the goddess of vegetation, lowlands, marshlands, gardens, blossoms, the budding earth and human love.
*Anthesteria
Anthesteria was a Greek festival held each year in honour of the gods, particularly Bacchus and to celebrate the beginning of spring.
*Antigone
In Greek mythology Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. She was celebrated for her devotion to her father and her brother Polynices.
*Antilochus
In Greek mythology, Antilochus was a son of Nestor. He was a hero of the Trojan war and was renowned for his speed of foot. He was killed by Memnon.
*Antiope
In Greek mythology, Antiope was a daughter of Nycteus, King of Thebes. Zeus was attracted by her beauty and came to her in the guise of a Satyr. Antiope conceived twins by Zeus, and scared of her father's wrath fled to Sicyon where she married King Epopeus. Antiope was the goddess of the new moon, the gad-fly dance and fecundity; Mother of the morning and evening star.
*Anu
In Babylonian mythology, Anu is the god of the sky. He is the son of Anshar and Kishar.
*Anubis
Anubis (Anepo) was an ancient Egyptian god. He was the son of Osiris and Isis. He was depicted as having the head of a jackal. He guided the souls of the dead from this world into the next. He also weighed the actions of the deceased in the presence of Osiris.
*Anulap
In Truk Island mythology, Anulap is the sky god and the husband of Ligougubfanu.
*Apep
Apep is an evil serpant in ancient Egyptian mythology.
*Aphrodisia
Aphrodisia was the festival in celebration of Aphrodite celebrated throughout Greece and Cyprus.
*Aphrodite
Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love. The Romans called her Venus.
*Apis
Apis were bulls symbolic of Osiris in ancient Egyptian culture. When they reached 25 years of age they were secretly killed by the priests and thrown into a sacred well.
*Apollo
Apollo was the Roman name of the Greek god Phoebus.
*Apsu
In Babylonian mythology, Apsu is the sweet-water ocean. It is the union of Apsu with Tiamat which brings forth the first gods.
*Arachne
In Greek mythology, Arachne was a Lydian woman who was so skillful a weaver that she challenged the goddess Athena to a contest. Athena tore Arachne's beautiful tapestries to pieces and Arachne hanged herself. She was transformed into a spider, and her weaving became a cobweb. She was therefore related to the textile industries. The matron of spinning, weaving and dyeing and the weaver of destiny.
*Arasy
In Guarani mythology, Arasy is the wife of Tupa. She lives in the moon.
*Aratron
In magic, Aratron is ruler of the affairs of Saturn. It is a spirit which can be invoked on the 1st hour of saturday.
*Arcadia
Arcadia was a green mountainous isolated region in the centre of Peloponnese inhabited by shepherds and peasants.
*Arduina
In Celtic mythology Arduina is the goddess of woodlands, wild life, the hunt and the moon; Guardian and Eponym of the Ardennes Forest.
*Ares
Ares was the Greek god of storms and tempests. He was a son of Zeus and Hera. He became symbolic with storms and turmoil in human relationships and hence to being the god of war. The Romans called him Mars.
*Arethusa
In Greek mythology, Arethusa was a daughter of Nereus and Doris. She was a nympth changed by Artemis into a fountain to enable her to escape the pursuit of Alpheus.
*Argonauts
In Greek mythology the Argonauts were heroes who made a hazardous voyage to Colchis with Jason in the ship the Argo to get the golden fleece.
*Argus
In Greek mythology the Argus was a beast with a hundred eyes placed by Juno to guard Io.
*Ariadne
In Greek mythology Ariadne was the daughter of King Minos. She helped Theseus out of the labyrinth with a thread. She was abandoned by Theseus on the Isle of Naxos where she subsequently met and married Bacchus.
*Arianrhod
In Welsh Celtic mythology, Arianrhod (Silver-Wheel) was the virgin white goddess of birth, initiation, death and rebirth. She Who turns the circle of heaven.
*Arimaspians
In Greek mythology the Arimaspians were a one-eyed people who conducted a perpetual war against the griffins in an attempt to steal the griffin's gold.
*Aristaeus
In Greek mythology Aristaeus was the son of Apollo and Cyrene. He introduced bee-keeping.
*Artemis
Artemis was a Greek goddess of the moon. The Great Virgin Goddess of fertility, vegetation, the wilderness, wild animal life and the chase.
*Aruru
In Sumerian mythology, Aruru was the almighty gentle mother goddess of the earth and birth. She Who first created humanity from clay.
*Aruspices
The Aruspices (Haruspices) were a class of priests in ancient Rome. Their job was to foretell the future from the entrails of sacrificial victims.
*Ascanius
Ascanius was a son of Aeneas and Creusa. He escaped from Troy with his father.
*Asclepius
Asclepius was a Greek god of healing. He was the son of Apollo and Coronis. He was taught the art of healing by Cheiron. Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt as a punishment for bringing a dead man back to life.
*Asgard
In Norse mythology Asgard was the home of the gods.
*Ashera
Ashera was an ancient Semetic goddess symbolised by the phallus. A bountiful great mother goddess of heaven, the moon and sea. In wisdom, she was the mistress of the Deities.
*Ashnan
In Sumerian mythology, Ashnan was the goddess of grain. She was created by Enlil to provide food and clothes for the gods.
*Ashtaroth
Ashtaroth was a goddess worshipped by the ancient Canaanites. She was regarded as symbolising the productive power of nature.
*Asmodai
In ancient Egyptian mythology Asmodai (Asmodeus) was an evil spirit who killed seven husbands of Sara but was driven away into the uppermost part of Egypt by Tobias. Asmodai is also reprsented as the prince of demons who drove King Solomon from his kingdom.
*Asrael
In Islam, Asrael is the angel of death who takes the soul from the body.
*Astarte
Astarte is a Syrian goddess representing the productive power of nature. She was a moon goddess.
*Astraea
In Greek mythology Astraea was the daughter of Zeus and Themis, the goddess of justice.
*Asynjr
In Norse mythology, Asynjr is the generic term for female giants.
*Ataentsic
In Iroquois mythology, Ataentsic is the goddess of the earth. She was the Woman Who fell from the sky and creatress of the sun and moon. It is she who gives counsel in dreams.
*Atalanta
In Greek mythology Atalanta was a famous huntress of Arcadia. She was to be married only to someone who could outrun her in a race, the consequence of failure being death.
*Atanua
In the mythology of The Marquesas Islands, Atanua is the dawn goddess. She was the wife of Atea, and it was her miscarriage that created the seas.
*Ate
Ate was the goddess of infatuation, mischief and guilt. She would mislead men into actions which would be the ruin of them.
*Atea
In the mythology of the Marquesas Islands, Atea is the god of light and husband of Atanua.
*Ateshga
Ateshga was a sacred site for the Guebres. It was on the peninsular of Apsheron on the west coast of the Caspian sea. Pilgrims would bow before the sacred flames which issued forth from the bituminous soil.
*Athena
Athena (Athene) was the Greek goddess of intellect. She was the daughter of Zeus and Metis.
*Athene
#Athena
*Athor
Athor (Hathor, Hat-Her) was an Egyptian goddess symbolised by a cow with a solar disk on its head and haw-feather plumes.
*Atlantiades
Atlantiades was another name for Hermes.
*Atlantides
Atlantides was name given to the Pleiades who were fabled to be the seven daughters of Atlas.
*Atlantis
In Greek mythology, Atlantis was an island continent, said to have sunk following an earthquake. The Greek philosopher Plato created an imaginary early history for it and described it as a utopia.
*Atlas
Atlas was a giant who had to support the heavens upon his shoulders.
*Atreus
In Greek mythology Atreus was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia. He was King of Mycenae. To seek revenge on his brother Thyestes for seducing his wife, Atreus gave a banquet at which Thyestes dined on the flesh of his own sons.
*Attis
In classical mythology, Attis was a Phrygian god whose death and resurrection symbolized the end of winter and the arrival of spring. He was loved by the goddess Cybele, who drove him mad as a punishment for his infidelity, he castrated himself and bled to death.
*Au
In the mythology of the Gilbert Island, Au is the sun god and lord of the skies.
*Augean stables
in Greek mythology, the Augean stables were the stables of Augeas, king of Elis in southern Greece. One of the labours of Hercules was to clean out the stables, which contained 3,000 cattle and had never been cleaned before. He was given only one day to do the task so he diverted the river Alpheus through their yard.
*Aum
Aum is the sacred mystical syllable representing the Hindu trinity.
*Aurora
Aurora was goddess of the dawn. She was the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and sister of Helios and Selene.
*Autolycus
In Greek mythology, Autolycus was an accomplished thief and trickster. He was a son of the god Hermes, who gave him the power of invisibility.
*Avali
Avali is the plural of Omuli.
*Avalon
Avalon is the place where King Arthur is said to have gone after disappearing. It is a sort of fairy land.
*Avatar
Avatar (Avatara) in Hindu mythology is an incarnation of a deity.
*Awonawilona
In Zuni mythology, Awonawilona was the divine Shehe from Whose being flowed forth the mists of increasing and the streams of growing.
*Ba
In Egyptian mythology, ba was the soul, depicted as a bird or a human-headed bird.
*Ba-Maguje
In Hausa mythology, Ba-Maguje is the spirit of drunkeness.
*Baal
In Canaanite mythology, Baal was the god of fertility. He was the son of El.
*Babamik
In Arapesh mythology, Babamik is a cannibal ogress who is eventually lured to her death and she then becomes a crocodile.
*Bacabs
In Maya mythology, the bacabs are the canopic gods. They stand at the four corners of the world supporting the heavens.
*Bacchanalia
Bacchanalia were feasts held in honour of Bacchus and characterized by licentiousness and revelry.
*Bacchus
Bacchus was another name for Dionysus.
*Badb
In Irish mythology, Badb was one of the giantess forms of Morrigan. She was sufficiently tall to place a foot on either side of a river.
*Balder
In Norse mythology, Balder was the son of Odin and Freya and husband of Nanna, and the best, wisest, and most loved of all the gods. He was killed, at Loki's instigation, by a twig of mistletoe shot by the blind god Hodur.
*Banshee
In Gaelic folklore, a banshee is a female spirit whose wailing outside a house foretells the death of one of its inhabitants.
*Bard
A bard was an order of druid. The bard's office was to supervise, regulate and to lead. His robe was sky blue, symolising justice and truth.
*Barong
In Balinese mythology, Barong is a protective spirit portrayed as a lion or tiger.
*Basalas
#Achemon
*Bast
Bast was an ancient Egyptian goddess. The cat was sacred to her.
*Batara Guru
In Indonesian mythology, Batara Guru is the great god who made the earth.
*Bateia
In Greek mythology, Bateia was a daughter of Teucer. She was married to Dardanus by whom she had two sons, Ilus and Erichthonius.
*Bebhionn
In Celtic mythology, Bebhionm was a giantess from the Maiden's Land far off the West coast of Ireland known for her beauty and seduction.
*Begu
In Batak mythology, begu are ghosts which wander the afterworld formless and starving. They approach humans by way of mediums demanding sacrifices to feed on. They may also steel the soul of a living person for a husband/wife.
*Bel
Bel (Belenos) was the Celtic god of light.
*Belam
In Melanau mythology, Belam are protective spirits who catch the souls of sick people and return them to their bodies thereby curing them.
*Bellerophon
In Greek mythology, Bellerophon was a victim of slander who was sent against the monstrous chimera, which he killed with the help of his winged horse Pegasus. After further trials, he ended his life as a beggar. His story was dramatized by Euripides.
*Bellona
Bellona was the Roman goddess of war.
*Beltaine
Beltaine is the name of the feast of the spring equinox.
*Beltane
Beltane is the Celtic festival of the god of light. It is held on May the 1st, and is the spring equivalent of Hallowe'en. Formerly in England dancing took place to may poles in village greens to celebrate the festival, but this practice subsided during the 1970s and is now almost extinct.
*Berserker
In Norse mythology, a berserker was a warrior whose frenzy in battle transformed him into a wolf or bear howling and foaming at the mouth, and rendered him immune to sword and flame.
*Bertha
In Norse mythology, Bertha is the goddess of spinning.
*Bes
Bes was the Egyptian god of recreation, music and dancing. He was represented as a grotesque dwarf wearing a crown of feathers.
*Bia
In Greek mythology, Bia was a son of Styx and the Titan Pallas. Bia was the personification of might and force.
*Biloko
In Zaire mythology, Biloko are spirits which live in hollow trees in the forest. They dress only in leaves and are devoid of hair, instead grass grows on their body. They have piercing eyes and a snout with a mouth which can open wide enough to swallow a man dead or alive. They have long sharp claws and can put a spell on passers by except those protected by strong counter magic.
*Bladud
In English mythology, Bladud was the father of King Lear, and was said to have founded Bath having been cured by its waters.
*Boan
Boan was another name for Dana. In this version of events, Boan visited a sacred well which, to punish her for breaking the law, rose up and pursued her to the sea and thus became the river Boyne where lived the salmon of knowledge which fed on nuts dropped from the nine hazel trees at the water's edge.
*Boann
In Irish mythology, Boann is the goddess of rivers.
*Bochica
In Chibcha mythology, Bochica was the supreme being.
*Bodhisattva
A Bodhisattva is someone who has transmuted his personal human nature and raised it into impersonality.
*Bokwus
In Kwakiutl mythology, Bokwus is a wild spirit of the woods who draws the spirits of the drowned to his home.
*Bope
In Bororo mythology, Bope are evil spirits who attack the souls of the dead.
*Bor
In Norse mythology, Bor was a son of Buri and married to Bestla, and father of Odin, Vili, and Ve.
*Boraspati ni Tano
In Batak mythology, Boraspati ni Tano is an earth spirit. Sacrifices are made to him when a new house is built.
*Boreas
Boreas was the north wind god. He was the son of Astraeus and Aurora.
*Bragi
In Norse mythology, Bragi is the god of poetry and eloquence. He was married to the goddess Iduna who dwelt in the underworld.
*Brahma
Brahma is the Hindu supreme god and creator of the cosmos.
*Brighid
In Gaelic mythology, Brighid was the goddess of metalwork, poetic inspiration and therapy.
*Bromius
Bromius was another name for Dionysus.
*Brono
In Norse mythology, Brono was the son of Baldr. He was the god of daylight.
*Brownie
The brownie is a spirit popular in Scottish folk-lore. Brownies haunt houses, and if treated well will help with the drudgery of the housework while the occupants sleep.
*Bubastis
In Egyptian mythology, Bubastis was the daughter of Isis. She was represented as having the head of a cat, the animal sacred to her.
*Bucentaur
The bucentaur was a mythical creature, half man and half ox
*Buri
In Norse mythology, Buri was the first god formed by Audumla licking ice. He was the father of Bor.
*Bylgja
In Norse mythology, Bylgja is a daughter of Aegir and Ran.
*Cadmus
Cadmus was the founder of the ancient city of Cadmeia and gave the Greeks an alphabet.
*Caduceus
Caduceus is the winged and serpent twisted staff or wand of Hermes.
*Calliope
Calliope was the muse of heroic poems. She was the chief of the muses.
*Callisto
Callisto was a daughter of Lycaon. She was one of Artemis' huntresses. She bore arcas to Zeus. To conceal their affair, Zeus turned her into a bear.
*Calypso
In Greek mythology, Calypso was a sea nymph who waylaid the homeward-bound Odysseus for seven years.
*Cassandra
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of Priam, King of Troy. Her prophecies were never believed, because she had rejected the love of the god Apollo. She was murdered with Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra, having been awarded as a prize to the Greek hero on his sacking of Troy.
*Castor
Castor was the twin brother of polydeuces. He was a son of Zeus and Leda. He, like his brother was born from an egg after Zeus visited Leda disguised as a swan.
*Cavillaca
In Quecha mythology, Cavillaca was a goddess loved by Coniraya.
*Celaeno
Celaeno was one of the harpies.
*Celeus
In Greek mythology, Celeus was King of Eleusis and the husband of Metaneira.
*Centaur
A centaur was a beast half horse, and with the head, torso and arms of a man.
*Centeotl
In Aztec mythology, Centeotl was the corn god. He was a son of Tlazolteotl and the husband of Xochiquetzal.
*Cepheus
Cepheus was the king of Aethiopia. He displeased Poseidon by having a beautiful daughter, Andromeda. Poseidon then sent floods and a sea monster to terrorise the area until cepheus gave his daughter as a sacrifice to the sea monster.
*Cerberus
Cerberus was a huge and savage dog with 3 heads which guarded the entrance to Hades. He was the offspring of Echidne and Typhon.
*Cercyon
Cercyon was a son of Hephaestus. He was king near Eleusis. He challenged all travellers and wrestled them to death until he challenged and was killed by Theseus.
*Ceres
Ceres was the Roman goddess of agriculture, equivalent to the Greek Demeter.
*Cernunnos
In Celtic mythology, Cernunnos was the god of the underworld and of animals. He is depicted as a man with the antlers of a stag.
*Cerridwen
In Welsh mythology, Cerridwen is the goddess of dark prophetic powers. She is the keeper of the cauldron of the underworld, in which inspiration and divine knowledge are brewed.
*Cestus
In Greek mythology, the cestus was a girdle worn by Aphrodite and which was endowered with the power of exciting love towards the wearer.
*Ch'ang-O
In Chinese mythology, Ch'ang-O is the graceful moth-eyebrowed maiden goddess of the moon and immortality. The dispenser of life magic.
*Chahuru
In Pawnee mythology, Chahuru is the spirit of water.
*Chalchiuhtlicue
In Aztec mythology, Chalchiuhtlicue was the goddess of running water. She was the sister of Tlaloc.
*Chalybes
The Chalybes were mythical inhabitants of north Asia Minor who invented iron working.
*Chantico
In Aztec mythology, Chantico was the goddess of hearth fires and volcanoes.
*Chaos
In Greek mythology, Chaos was the infinite space before Ge (the earth) was created.
*Charites
The Charites were the Greek goddesses of gracefulness and the charms of beauty.
*Charon
Charon was the ferryman who transported the dead across the river Styx to Hades.
*Charybdis
In Greek mythology, the charybdis was a whirlpool formed by a monster of the same name on one side of the narrow straits of Messina, Sicily, opposite the monster Scylla.
*Chaya
In Hindu mythology, Chaya is the goddess of the beneficial effects of muted and dappled sunlight. She is the matron of metal-workers.
*Cheiron
Cheiron was a centaur. He was a son of Cronus and Philyra. He learnt hunting and medicine from Apollo and Artemis.
*Chenoo
In Abnaki mythology, the Chenoo were stone giants versed in hunting who were invoked to assist the hunters.
*Chia
In Chibcha mythology, Chia is the moon-goddess.
*Chibchacum
In Chibcha mythology, Chibchacum was the god of farmers and merchants.
*Chicomecoatl
In Aztec mythology, Chicomecoatl was the goddess of corn and fertility.
*Chimaera
The chimaera was a monster composed of the head of a lion, the body of a goat and a serpant for a tail. Bellerophon was sent to slay it.
*Chipiripa
In Curra mythology, Chipiripa is the rain god.
*Chixu
In Pawnee mythology, Chixu are the spirits of the dead.
*Chryse
In Greek mythology, Chryse was a warlike goddess of the metal gold, in its refinement and all that is regarded as having great value.
*Chun-T'i
In Chinese mythology, Chun-T'i is a goddess of war. She who is capable of miraculous feats and she who excels in the magic arts.
*Cihuacoatl
In Aztec mythology, Cihuacoatl was a goddess whose roaring signalled war.
*Circe
In Greek mythology, Circe was an enchantress living on the island of Aeaea. In Homer's Odyssey, she turned the followers of Odysseus into pigs. Odysseus, bearing the herb moly provided by Hermes to protect him from the same fate, forced her to release his men.
*Cit Bolon Tum
In Maya mythology, Cit Bolon Tum was a god of medicine.
*Clermeil
In Voodoo, Clermeil is a loa in the form of a white-man. When angry he makes rivers overflow.
*Clio
Clio was the muse of history.
*Clytemnestra
In Greek mythology, Clytemnestra was the wife of Agamemnon. With the help of her lover Aegisthus, she murdered her husband and his paramour Cassandra on his return from the Trojan War, and was in turn killed by her son Orestes.
*Cockatrice
The Cockatrice is a fictious creature said to be hatched from a cock's egg by a serpant. It is an ugly creature with a crested head, glittering eyes, a barbed tongue and a serpants tail. Mention is made of the Cockatrice in several passages of the bible. It probably has as its origin the hermaphroditic fowl - a crowing hen - which is known to occur in nature.
*Comus
Comus was a Greek and Roman god of banquets.
*Conchobar
In Celtic mythology, Conchobar was the King of Ulster whose intended bride, Deidre, eloped with Noisi. Conchobar killed Deidre's husband and his brothers and she died of sorrow.
*Congo
In Voodoo, Congo is a handsome but lethargic and slow-witted loa.
*Coniraya
In Quecha mythology, Coniraya is the creator of all things and the founder of agriculture. He came to earth as a beggar, fell in love with the goddess Cavillaca and secretly impregnated her by turning some of his sperm into fruit which she ate. Cavillaca later turned herself and her child into stone at the shame of mothering the child of a beggar.
*Corbenic
Corbenic was the castle in the Arthurian legend in which the Holy Grail was kept.
*Cornucopia
In Greek mythology, the cornucopia was one of the horns of the goat Amaltheia, which was caused by Zeus to refill itself indefinitely with food and drink.
*Cratos
Cratos was a son of Uranus and Gaea. He was very strong.
*Creidhne
In Celtic mythology, Creidhne was the god of metal working.
*Creusa
In Greek mythology, Creusa was the daughter of Erechtheus and wife of Xuthus. She was also loved by Apollo.
*Cronus
Cronus was the son of Uranus. He succeeded to the throne of the gods when Uranus was deposed. He married Rhea. He appears in Greek mythology.
*Cuchulain
Cuchulain was a Celtic hero, the chief figure in a cycle of Irish legends. He is associated with his uncle Conchobar, King of Ulster; his most famous exploits are described in The Cattle Raid of Cuchulain.
*Cuchulinn
In Celtic mythology, Cuchulinn is a hero-king of Ulster and son of Lugh. He is a warlike figure and tales tell of his warlike deeds.
*Cupid
Cupid was another name for Amor.
*Cupido
Cupido is an alternative spelling for Cupid.
*Curetes
In Greek mythology the Curetes were attendants of Rhea. They were supposed to have saved the infant Zeus from his father Cronus and then to have become a sort of bodyguard of the god.
*Cybele
Cybele was the Great Mother Goddess of the Phrygians and later the Greeks and Romans.
*Cyclops
In Greek mythology, the Cyclops wereone of a race of Sicilian giants, who had one eye in the middle of the forehead and lived as shepherds. Odysseus blinded the Cyclops Polyphemus in Homer's Odyssey.
*Daedalus
In Greek mythology, Daedalus was an Athenian artisan supposed to have constructed for King Minos of Crete the labyrinth in which the Minotaur was imprisoned. When Minos became displeased with him, Daedalus fled from Crete with his son Icarus using wings made by them from feathers fastened with wax.
*Daemons
The daemons were an order of invisible beings. Zeus assigned one daemon to each man to attend, protect and guide him.
*Dagda
Dagda was the Celtic equivalent of Cronus. Also called Cian.
*Daghdha
In Irish mythology, Daghdha is the great god. He had a secret affair with Boann which resulted in the birth of Oenghus.
*Dagon
Dagon was the god of the Philistines. He had the upper torso of a man and the tail of a fish.
*Dakaki
In Hausa mythology, the Dakaki is a serpant spirit which causes the evil eye resulting in stomach ulcers.
*Dama
In Huli mythology, dama are invisible deities which control the weather and attack people causing illness, sterility or death. Most of them can also bring good fortune, but a small minority are completely evil.
*Dama dagenda
In Huli mythology, dama dagenda are evil forest-spirits that attack travellers making their noses bleed and giving them sores.
*Damballa
In Voodoo, Damballa is a loa who governs snakes and floods and can cure all illness.
*Danaans
The Danaans were one of the 3 Nemedian families who survived the Fomorian victory. The brought the stone of destiny from Falias.
*Danae
In Greek mythology, Danae was daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos. He shut her up in a bronze tower because of a prophecy that her son would kill his grandfather. Zeus became enamored of her and descended in a shower of gold; she gave birth to Perseus.
*Danhyang Desa
In Java mythology, each village has a Danhyang Desa which is a spirit who lives in a large tree near to or in the village. All blessings emanate from him. Any disasters occuring to the village are seen as a sign that he has been neglected.
*Daphne
Daphne was a daughter of Peneus. She was pursued by Apollo and asked to be turned into a laurel tree to escape him, which she was.
*Daphnis
Daphnis was a son of Hermes and a nymph. He was raised by Sicillian shepherds when his mother abandoned him.
*Dardanus
In Greek mythology, Dardanus was a son of Zeus and Electra. He was originally a king in Arcadia, he migrated to Samothrace and from there to Asia where Teucer gave him the site of his town, Dardania. He married Bateia.
*Datagaliwabe
In Huli mythology, Datagaliwabe is a giant who punishes offences against kinship laws with illness, fatal accidents or death in battle.
*Deianeira
Deianeira was the daughter of Oeonus and the wife of Hercules.
*Deidamia
Deidamia fell in love with Achilles and bore him Neoptolemus.
*Deirdre
In Celtic mythology, Deidre was the beautiful intended bride of Conchobar. She eloped with Noísi, and died of sorrow when Conchobar killed him and his brothers.
*Demeter
Demeter was a Greek goddess of the earth. She is also called Ceres. She was the nourishing mother, bringing forth fruits. She was a daughter of Cronus and Rhea.
*Demigod
A demigod was a Greek hero. They were men who posessed god-like strength and courage and who had performed great tasks in the past.
*Deucalion
In Greek mythology, Deucalion was the son of Prometheus. Warned by his father of a coming flood, Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha built an ark. After the waters had subsided, they were instructed by a god to throw stones over their shoulders which then became men and women.
*Dia
Dia is an alternative name for Hebe.
*Diable Tonnere
In Voodoo, Diable Tonnere is a powerful loa.
*Diablesse
In Voodoo, Diablesses are the spirits of women who died as virgins. They are forced to purge the sin of dieing a virgin by living in the woods for many years before they will be allowed into heaven.
*Diana
Diana was the Roman name for the Greek goddess Artemis.
*Diancecht
In Irish mythology, Diancecht is the god of healing. He destroyed the giant serpent that threatened and destroyed cattle throughout the land.
*Dido
Dido was a Phoenician princess. The legendary founder of Carthage, she committed suicide to avoid marrying a local prince.
*Diejuste
In Voodoo, Diejuste is a benevolant loa.
*Dike
Dike was the attendant of justice to Nemesis.
*Dinditane
In Huli mythology, Dinditane is a fertility god of gardening.
*Dionysus
Dionysus was a Greek god of happiness. He was also called Bacchus and Iacchus.
*Dis
In Roman mythology, Dis was the god of the underworld, also known as Orcus.
*Discordia
Discordia was the Roman goddess of strife.
*Djanggau
In Australian mythology, Djanggau with Her sister Djunkgao, are dual fertility goddess who brought forth all life in the beginning.
*Djunkgao
#Djanggau
*Druantia
In British mythology, Druantia was the druid goddess of birth, wisdom, death and metempsychosis. The mother of the Irish tree-calendar alphabet.
*Druid
The ancient druids were divided into 3 functional orders:primitive druid, bard and ovate. Druidism originated amongst the megalithic ancient British. They taught it to the immigrant celts, and later trained celts from the conntinent.
*Dryades
The dryades were nymphs of the woods and trees.
*Duamutef
In Egyptian mythology, Duamutef was son of Horus and guardian of the East. His canopic jar receives the lungs and heart of the dead.
*Dumuzi
In Sumerian mythology, Dumuzi is the shepherd god.
*Dunawali
In Huli mythology, Dunawali is an evil goddess who lodges herself in a woman's internal organs making the victim the innocent vehicle of the goddesses evil power.
*Duppies
#Duppy
*Duppy
In Jamaican folklore, Duppies are the ghosts of deceased people. An Obeah man will summon a Duppy and plant it in a home to curse the occupants. A sample of the victim's clothing, hair or especially menstrual fluid may be obtained so that a Duppy may rape a femal victim while she sleeps and make her ill.
*Durga
In Bali mythology, Durga is the goddess of death.
*Durga
Durga is a Hindu deity. She is depicted as having ten arms. Her most famous exploit was slaying Mahisha. The festival of Durga puja is celebrated annually in her honour.
*Dyaus
In Hindu mythology, Dyaus is the god of the sky.
*Dzivaguru
In Korekore mythology, Dzivaguru was the great earth goddess. She lived in a valley near Dande, kept cattle and goats and dressed in goatskins. She posessed a long horn which gave he whatever she wished for.
*Ea
In Babylonian mythology, Ea was the god of wisdom and magic.
*Eblis
In Islamic mythology, Eblis is the chief of the evil spirits.
*Echidne
In Libyan mythology, Echidne (She-Viper) is part beauteous woman and part speckled serpent. She is a goddess of death, the underworld and prophesy.
*Echo
Echo was a mountain nymph and a servant of Hecate.
*Edda
In Norse mythology, Edda was the goddess of myth and oral history and the inspiration of poets. From her came those who work the land.
*Egeria
In Roman mythology, Egeria was a goddess of healing springs, wisdom, human laws and death. She was the Oak-Queen and granter of easy deliveries.
*Ehecatl
In Aztec mythology, Ehecatl was the god of wind.
*Eir
In Norse mythology, Eir was a goddess of healing, and considered the best doctor. She taught her art to women who were the only physicians in ancient Scandinavia.
*Eirene
Eirene was the goddess of peace.
*Ekahau
In Maya mythology, Ekahau is the god of travellers and merchants.
*Ekkekko
In Quecha mythology, Ekkekko is the god of good fortune.
*El
In Canaanite mythology, El was the father of the gods.
*Elaine
In Celtic mythology, Elaine (Lily-Maid) was a virgin goddess of beauty and the moon. She was the matron of road-building and a loveable leader of hosts.
*Electra
In Greek mythology, Electra was daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and sister of Orestes and Iphigenia. Her hatred of her mother for murdering her father and her desire for revenge, fulfilled by the return of her brother Orestes, made her the subject of tragedies by the Greek dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
*Electryon
Electryon was a son of Perseus and Andromeda.
*Elementals
The Elementals are creatures or spirits of the elements. They are the forces of nature.
*Eloko
In Zaire mythology, the Eloko are dwarves who live in the densest and darkest parts of the forest guarding their treasure, which is the fruits and animals of the forest.
*Elysium
In Greek mythology, Elysium was originally another name for the Islands of the Blessed, to which favored heroes were sent by the gods to enjoy a life after death. It was later a region in Hades.
*Endymion
In Greek mythology, Endymion was a beautiful young man loved by Selene, the Moon goddess. He was granted eternal sleep in order to remain forever young.
*Enki
Enki was the Sumerian water god. Enki supplied clear drinking water to the town of Dilmun at the request of Ninhursag.
*Enkidu
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu is the wild man created by the goddess Aruru who becomes a companion to Gilgamesh. After Gilgamesh has provoked the anger of the goddess Ishtar, Enkidu sickens and dies.
*Enkimdu
In Sumerian mythology, Enkimdu was the farmer god.
*Enlil
In Sumerian mythology, Enlil was the son of Ki and An. He was the god of the sky and separated the earth from the heaven.
*Enyo
Enyo was the Greek goddess of war.
*Eos
Eos was the goddess of dawn. She was the daughter of Hyperion and Thia, and sister of Helios and Selene.
*Epaphus
In Greek mythology, Epaphus was a son of zeus and Io who was born on the River Nile. He became King of Egypt and married Memphis, or by some accounts Cassiopeia. he had a daughter, Libya, who gave her name to the African country of Libya.
*Epigoni
The Epigoni were the descendants of the seven against Thebes who attacked the city ten years after their fathers had done so. They were organised by Adrastus.
*Epimetheus
Epimetheus was the brother of Prometheus.
*Epona
In Celtic mythology, Epona was the goddess of horses.
*Erato
Erato was the muse of love and marriage songs.
*Erebus
Erebus was the Greek god of darkness.
*Erechtheus
In Greek mythology, Erechtheus (Erichthonius) was an Attic hero, said to have been the son of Hephaestus and Atthis. He was brought up by Athena.
*Ereshkigal
In Sumerian mythology, Ereshkigal was a compassionless and violent goddess of gloom, death and the dead. She who is full of rage.
*Erichthonius
#Erechtheus
*Eridanus
Eridanus was a Greek river god known as the king of rivers. He was a son of Oceanus and Tethys.
*Erigone
In Greek mythology, Erigone was the goddess of death, trees and fertility and associated with wine and a pastoral economy.
*Erinys
Erinys was the attendant of vengeance to Nemesis.
*Eris
Eris was the Greek goddess of strife, deceit, discord and disputation. The provoker of rivalry, contention, murder and wars.
*Eriu
In Irish Celtic mythology, Eriu was a shapeshifting goddess of fate. The bestower of sovereignty.
*Eros
Eros was the Greek god of love. He was the son of Aphropdite.
*Erzilie
In Voodoo, Erzilie is the goddess of sexual love.
*Etain
In Celtic mythology, Etain (Shining-One) was the triple goddess of the sun, water, horses, fragrance, beauty, music and the transmigration of souls.
*Eteocles
In Greek mythology, Eteocles was a son of the incestuous union of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of Polynices. He denied his brother a share in the kingship of Thebes, thus provoking the expedition of the Seven against Thebes, in which he and his brother died by each other's hands.
*Europa
Europa was the daughter of Agenor. She was carried off by Zeus who had transformed himself into a great white bull.
*Eurus
Eurus was the east wind god.
*Euryale
Euryale was one of the gorgons.
*Eurydice
In Greek mythology, Eurydice was the wife of Orpheus. She was a dryad, or forest nymph, and died from a snake bite. Orpheus attempted unsuccessfully to fetch her back from the realm of the dead.
*Euterpe
Euterpe was the muse of music.
*Eve
In Syrian mythology, Eve is a life-giving goddess. The creatrix of all manifested forms, the mother womb and instructress of humanity.
*Fama
Fama was an alternative name for the Roman goddess Pheme. In this form she was the mighty goddess of the word of mouth and human gossip. She Who initiates and furthers communication.
*Farbanti
In Norse mythology Farbanti was a giant who ferried the dead over the waters to the underworld. He was the father of Loki.
*Fata-Morgana
In Irish Celtic mytholgy, Fata-Morgana is the goddess of the sea, visual illusions, enchantment, fate and death. She is the Queen of the Fortunate Isles.
*Fate
In Greek and Roman mythology, the Fates was goddesses who decreed what would happen to both men and gods.
*Fatima
In Syrian Arab mythology, Fatima is the great goddess of the moon and fate. The source of the Sun and the virgin Queen of Heaven. She is represented as the Tree of Paradise.
*Fauna
In Roman mythology, Fauna was the mother goddess of earth, rural life, fields, cattle and wild creatures. She was a protectress of women.
*Faunus
Faunus was a Roman god similar to Pan.
*Februata
In Roman mythology, Februata was the oracular goddess of love's passion. She who calls forth animals from their winter hibernation.
*Felicitas
In Roman mythology, Felicitas was the goddess of joyous events, laughter, happiness and contentment. She who suckles the young.
*Fenris
In Norse mythology, Fenris was the monstrous wolf of the god Loki. Fenris swallowed the god Odin but was stabbed to death by Odin's son, Vidar.
*Finweigh
In Bilan mythology, Finweigh was the god who with Melu made man.
*Flora
Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers, youth, and spring.
*Fornax
In Roman mythology, Fornax was the goddess of the mysteries of bread-baking and the embryo's development.
*Forseti
In Norse mythology, Forseti is a god of justice. He is the son of Balder and Nanna and lives at Glitnir.
*Forso
In Gururumba mythology, the forso are ghosts of the dead. They are tiresome attracting attention and causing accidents and illness.
*Fortuna
Fortuna was the Roman goddess of luck.
*Freya
In Norse mythology, Freya is the goddess of love, fertility, war, and wealth. Originally one of the Vanir. She was the daughter of Njord, and the sister of Frey. She lived in Folkvang and each day chose half of the slain warriors to split with Odin.
*Freyr
In Norse mythology, Freyr was Odin in another form as the god of rain, sunshine and fruits. He married Gredr.
*Frigg
In Norse mythology, Frigg is the goddess of marriage. She is the wife of Odin, and lives at Fensalir. She weaved the clouds.
*Fuji
In Japanese mythology, Fuji is the goddess of Mount Fuji and its rocks. She is the one to whose peak pilgrims climb to worship the rising sun.
*Fulla
In Norse mythology, Fulla was attendant to Frigg taking care of the goddess's shoes. She also, sometimes, functions as Frigg's messenger.
*Fura-Chogue
In Colombian mythology, Fura-Chogue is the first mother. The Spirit of the waters and goddess of vegetation and harvest. She is the teacher of order and peace.
*Furiae
The Furiae were attendants of Hades and Persephone.
*Ga-oh
In Iroquois mythology, Ga-oh is the wind-giant. His house is guarded by a bear, whose prowling brings the north wind; a panther whose whining brings the westerly wind; a moose whose breathing brings the wet east wind and a fawn whose returning to its mother brings the gentle south wind.
*Gaea
Gaea was a Greek goddess of the earth.
*Gahonga
In Iroquois mythology, the Gahonga are the jogah of rocks and rivers.
*Galatea
In Greek mythology, Galatea was the daughter of Nereus and Doris. She rejected the advances of the Cyclops Polyphemus and instead gave herself to the Sicilian shepherd Acis. Polyphemus crushed Acis beneath a rock.
*Gandayah
In Iroquois mythology, the Gandayah are the jogah who tend the earth's fertility.
*Ganesa
Ganesa is an elephant headed Hindu god. He is the son of Siva and Parvati.
*Gangan
In Voodoo, a gangan is an inferior shaman unable to reach hougan.
*Gans
In Apache mythology, the Gans were mountain spirits sent to teach the Apache the arts of civilisation. But they went away because they were distressed by the corruption of people.
*Ganymeda
Ganymeda is an alternative name for Hebe.
*Ganymedes
Ganymedes was a son of the Trojan king Tros. He was carried off by Zeus and became the cup-bearer of the gods.
*Garm
In Norse mythology, Garm is a hound which stands in front of Hel's home and snarls with jaws dripping blood at the pilgrims from the upper world.
*Gefjon
In Norse mythology, Gefjon is a prophetic virgin goddess and a member of the Aesir and Vanir. All women who die virgins go to her hall. She was also a fertility goddess. In one myth, Gylfi, king of Sweden, tells Gefjon, who was disguised as a beggar, that she could have as much of Sweden as she could plough with four oxen in one day. She traveled to Jotunheim and found her four oxen sons whom she had by a giant. She returned to Sweden in Midgard with her sons and ploughed all of the land now known as Zealand so it became part of Denmark, thereby tricking Gylfi.
*Genii
Genii is an alternative name for the daemons.
*Geofon
In British mythology, Geofon was the ocean goddess.
*Gerd
In Norse mythology, Gerd is a giant goddess of light. She is the most beautiful of all creatures.
*Geyaguga
In Cherokee mythology, Geyaguga is the moon spirit.
*Gikuyu
Gikuyu and Mumbi were the spiritual ancestors of all the Kikuyu people. They had 9 daughters. For the daughters, Gikuyu found 9 husbands beneath a large fig tree at Murang'a for the daughters. These husbands then became the ancestors of the 9 Kikuyu clans.
*Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh was a hero of Sumerian, Hittite, Akkadian and Assyrian legend. He was one-third mortal and two-thirds divine. Gilgamesh was Lord of the Sumerian city of Uruk.
*Ginnunggap
In Norse mythology, Ginnunggap was the Yawning Void.
*Gioll
In Norse mythology, Gioll was a river which surrounded the underworld, Hel.
*Gladsheim
In Norse mythology, Gladsheim was the mansion in Asgard where the gods lived.
*Gleipnir
In Norse mythology, Gleipnir is the chain which bounds Fenris. It is made from the footfalls of cats, the beards of women, the roots of mountains and the breath of fish.
*Gna
In Norse mythology, Gna was a handmaiden of Frigg who sent her on errands.
*Gnomes
The Gnomes are elementals evolved in the realm of Earth.
*Gohone
In Iroquois mythology, Gohone is the spirit of winter.
*Goibhniu
In Celtic mythology, Goibhniu was the smith god.
*Gold-comb
In Norse mythology, Gold-comb is the cock who shall crow when ragnarok comes.
*Golden fleece
The golden fleece was the fleece of the ram on which Phrixus had escaped and was given to aetes the king of colchis. It hung from an oak tree in the grove of Ares where a dragon guarded it.
*Gordian Knot
In Greek mythology, the Gordian Knot was tied by King Gordius, and could only br unravelled by a future conquerer of Asia. Alexander cut it with his sword in 334BC.
*Gorgons
The gorgons were three daughters of Phorcys and Ceto.
*Gotterdammerung
In Norse mythology, Gotterdammerung is the end of the world.
*Graces
Graces is an alternative name for the Charites.
*Graeae
The Graeae were three daughters of Phorcys and Ceto. They had only one eye and one tooth between them which they shared. Perseus forced them to tell him where he could find Medusa by stealing their solitary eye and tooth.
*Grand Bois
In Voodoo, Grand Bois is the loa of the forces of nature.
*Griffin
The griffin was a mythical monster, the supposed guardian of hidden treasure, with the body, tail, and hind legs of a lion, and the head, forelegs, and wings of an eagle.
*Guanyin
In Chinese mythology, Guanyin is the goddess of mercy.
*Guatrigakwitl
In Wishok mythology, Guatrigakwitl is the creator who made all things.
*Guebres
The Guebres were Persian fire worshippers.
*Guedes
In Voodoo, guedes are the spirits of the dead.
*Gulltopr
In Norse mythology, Gulltopr was the horse of Heimdall.
*Gullveig
In Norse mythology, Gullveig was the thrice-born and thrice-burnt virgin. The Aesir's attempt to kill her brought about the first war in the world (the Vanir against the Aesir) which the Vanir won.
*Gungnir
In Norse mythology, Gungnir is Odin's spear, obtained from the Dwarves by Loki for Odin.
*Gunlad
In Norse mythology, Gunlad was the giant mother of poetry.
*Gwyn ap Nudd
In Celtic mythology, Gwyn ap Nudd is the lord of the underworld and master of the wild hunt. He lives at Glastonbury Tor.
*Ha Wen Neyu
In Iroquois mythology, Ha Wen Neyu is the great spirit.
*Hadad
In Canaanite mythology, Hadad was the god of thunder and lightning.
*Hades
Hades was the Greek god of the underworld. He was a son of Cronus.
*Haemus
In Greek mythology, Haemus was a son of Boreas and Oreithyia. He married Rhodope and by her had a son, Hebrus. He and his wife presumed to assume the names of Zeus and Hera and were turned into mountains for their insolence.
*Hafoza
In Jate mythology, Hafoza is the god of thunder and lightning.
*Hanghepi
In Dakota mythology, Hanghepi is the spirit of the night moon.
*Hanuman
In Hindu mythology, Hanuman is the monkey god and King of Hindustan. He assisted Rama in the recovery of his wife, Sita, from Ravana of Lanka.
*Hapi
In Egyptian mythology, Hapi was the personification of the Nile. He was son of Horus and guardian of the North. His canopic jar receives the small intestines of the dead.
*Harmonia
Harmonia was the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. She married Cadmus. At the wedding she was given a necklace made by Hephaestus which confered irresistible beauty upon the wearer.
*Harpies
The harpies were employed by the gods to carryout the punishment of crime.
*Harpocrates
Harpocrates was the Egyptian god of silence.
*Hastsehogan
In Navajo mythology, Hastsehogan is the god of houses.
*Hastseltsi
In Navajo mythology, Hastseltsi is the god of racing.
*Hastsezini
In Navajo mythology, Hastsezini is the fire-god.
*Hat-Her
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*Hathor
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*Haumea
In Hawaiin mythology, Haumea is the goddess of procreation and childbirth.
*Heammawihio
In Cheyenne mythology, Heammawihio is the great spirit.
*Hebe
Hebe was the goddess of youth. She was the daughter of Zeus and Hera.
*Hebrus
In Greek mythology, Hebrus was a river god. He was the son of Haemus and Rhodope.
*Hecate
Hecate was a Greek goddess of the moon and spirits. Dogs were sacred to her.
*Hector
In Greek mythology, Hector was a Trojan prince, son of King Priam and husband of Andromache, who, in the siege of Troy, was the foremost warrior on the Trojan side until he was killed by Achilles.
*Heimdall
In Norse mythology, Heimdall was the watchman of the bridge, Bifrost, which led to the underworld.
He watches for the coming of the frost giants at the Ragnarok, at which time he will sound his horn Gjallar.