Erinyes

/ɪˈɹɪniˌiːz/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐρῑνύες (Erīnúes, literally “Avengers”).

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In six of the twelve Homeric passages in which Erinys or the Erinyes are mentioned, the common denominator is a crime or insult that occurs between blood kin: The Erinyes take action when a son steals his father's concubine, a son kills his father and marries his mother, two brothers argue, a son angers his mother, a man kills his mother's brother, or a son chases his mother out of her home.

1999, Sarah Iles Johnston, Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece, University of California Press, page 252:

2018, Stephen Rendall (translator), Jacques Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, [2008, Jacques Jouanna, Sophocle], Princeton University Press, page 393,
First, he now envisages several Erinyes: then he designates, using a poetic metaphor already employed by Aeschylus in The Libation Bearers,¹⁵⁴ that of hunting hounds pursuing game that cannot escape them.

Apollo's help and defence of Orestes is taken by the Erinyes as a threat to their own honour and to the perpetuation of their ancient privilege to pursue murderers (169–74).

2020, Bridget Martin, Harmful Interaction between the Living and the Dead in Greek Tragedy, Liverpool University Press, page 161:

(Greek mythology) The Furies; the goddesses of vengeance against serious moral offence (such as oath-breaking), latterly known as protectors of Athens, of pre-Olympian origin and variously described as having sprung from the spilled blood of Uranus or as daughters of Nyx; identified with the Roman Dirae.

Érinyes

Greek goddesses of vengeance — see also Furies


Dirae

(Roman mythology) The goddesses of vengeance; they were also known to accompany Invidia. They are the Roman counterparts of the Furies/Erinyes.


Oneiroi

From the Ancient Greek Ὄνειροι (Óneiroi, “Dreams”).

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(Greek mythology) The gods and personifications of dreams; the sons of Hypnos and Pasithea, or Nyx and Erebus.


Somnus

(Roman mythology) The god and personification of sleep; the Roman counterpart of Hypnos.


Pasithea

(Greek mythology) One of the Charites. She is the wife of Hypnos.


Aglaea

From Ancient Greek Ἀγλαΐα (Aglaḯa, literally “Splendour, Glory, Glow”).

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Aglaia (alternative)
Aglaïa (alternative)

(Greek mythology) One of the Charites (the youngest, although Homer names another younger).

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Asclepius and goddess/personification of good health and the glow of health.

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Mantineus, founder of Mantinea, the wife of Abas and mother of the twins Acrisius and Proetus; also known as Ocalea.

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Thespius and Megamede who bore Heracles a son, Antiades.

(Greek mythology) A nymph who was mother of Nireus by Charopus, king of Syme.

(Greek mythology) The wife of Amythaon and mother of Melampus and Bias.


Antheia

From Ancient Greek Ἄνθεια (Ántheia, literally “flowers and flowery wreaths”).

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(Greek mythology) One of the Charites worshipped in Athens.


Auxo

From Ancient Greek Αὔξω (Aúxō), related to αὐξάνω (auxánō, “to increase”).

(Greek mythology) One of the Horae, and the goddess and personification of the season of Summer; she is the protector of vegetation and plants, and growth and fertility.


Charis

From Ancient Greek Χάρις (Kháris, literally “beauty, elegance, charm, grace”).

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(Greek mythology) Aglaea, one of the Charites.


Cleta

From Ancient Greek Κλήτα (Klḗta, literally “fame and glory”).

(Greek mythology) One of the Charites worshiped in Sparta along with Phaenna.


Eudaimonia

/ˌjuːdɪˈməʊnɪə/

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek εὐδαιμονίᾱ (eudaimoníā, literally “happiness, well-being”).


Hegemone

From Ancient Greek Ἡγεμόνη (Hēgemónē, literally “Mastery”).

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(Greek mythology) One of the Charites and a goddess of flowers and fruit, worshipped at Athens along with Auxo and Damia.


Paidia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παιδιά (paidiá, “childish play, amusement”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”).


Pandaisia

From Ancient Greek Πανδαισία (Pandaisía, literally “Banquet”).


Pannychis

From Ancient Greek Παννυχίς (Pannukhís, literally “Festivities and Parties”).


Phaenna

From Ancient Greek φαεινος (phaeinos, literally “benevolence and gratitude”).

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(Greek mythology) One of the Charites worshipped in Sparta along with Cleta.


Forseti

(Norse mythology) The Æsir god of justice


Phantasos

From the Ancient Greek Φάντασος (Phántasos, “Apparition”).

(Greek mythology) The god and personification of inanimate objects in prophetic dreams; the son of Hypnos and Pasithea, or Nyx and Erebus.


Peitho

From Ancient Greek Πειθώ (Peithṓ, “Charming Speech, Persuasion”).

(Greek mythology) One of the Charites and a consort of Hermes.


Orphne

(Greek mythology) A nymph who, with Acheron, had the child Ascalaphus.


Minthe

From Ancient Greek Μινθη (Minthē, literally “Mint”).

(Greek mythology) A nymph (associated with Mount Minthe in southern Greece) with whom Hades had an affair before the taking of Persephone and she complained in jealousy that she is more nobler in form than Persephone(his wife) and when Demeter(her mother) heard of it, she trampled the nymph under her foot and turned the her into herb mint.


Tisiphone

From Ancient Greek Τῑσιφόνη (Tīsiphónē, literally “Avenging Murder”).

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(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) One of the Erinyes/Dirae (Furies, the goddesses of vengeance), and a companion of Nemesis/Invidia.


Alecto

From Ancient Greek Ἀληκτώ (Alēktṓ, literally “Unceasing (Anger)”).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) One of the Furies.


Alpheus

From Ancient Greek Ἀλφειός (Alpheiós, literally “whitish”).

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Alfeios (alternative)
Alphaeus (alternative)
Alpheius (alternative)

(Greek mythology) The god or personification of the river Alpheus.


Ascalaphus

From Latin Ascalaphus, from Ancient Greek Ἀσκάλαφος (Askálaphos, literally “Screech-owl”).

(Greek mythology) The orchardist of Hades, changed into a screech-owl by Demeter for telling Hades that Persephone had eaten pomegranate seeds


aurorean

en-adj

aurorean (comparative more aurorean, superlative most aurorean)

more aurorean (comparative)
most aurorean (superlative)

/ɔːˈɹɔəɹɪən/

Either the Latin aurōre(us) + the English -an or formed from the two English elements auror(a) + -ean.

(mythology) Of or relating to Aurora, goddess of dawn in Roman mythology.


water carrier

water carriers (plural)
water-carrier (alternative)

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(astrology) Aquarius, or a symbol for it.


Black Turtle

From Mandarin 玄武 (Xuánwǔ, literally “Dark Warrior”) + the primary animal representing it.

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(Chinese culture, Chinese mythology) a symbol of the element of water and direction north, typically depicted as a turtle entwined with a snake


Ananke

From Ancient Greek Ἀνάγκη (Anánkē, “Fate”).

Coordinate term: Necessitas

“‘To tell you that the eternities beget chaos, and that the immensities are at the mercy of the divine ananke. Infinitude crouches before a personality. The mercurial essence is the prime mover in spirituality, and the thinker is powerless before the pulsating inanity. The cosmical procession is terminated only by the unknowable and unpronounceable’——

1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, Cyprian Overbeck Wells. A Literary Mosaic:

(Greek mythology) A Greek goddess, personification of destiny, necessity and fate, depicted as holding a spindle.

Ananké

Greek goddess of destiny, necessity and fate


Alexiares

From Ancient Greek Ἀλεξιάρης (Alexiárēs, literally “Warding-Off-War”), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “I defend (against)”) + Ἄρης (Árēs, “War”).

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(Greek mythology) One of the twin sons of Heracles and Hebe, guardian, along with his twin Anicetus and his father, of the gates of Mount Olympus.


Anicetus

From Ancient Greek Ἀνίκητος (Aníkētos, literally “Unconquerable”).

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(Greek mythology) One of the twin sons of Heracles and Hebe, his twin brother is Alexiares. Along with their father, Anicetus and Alexiares are the guardians and gatekeepers of the gates of Mount Olympus.


Aceso

(Greek mythology) A goddess and personification of the healing process, daughter of Asclepius.


Iaso

From Ancient Greek Ἰᾱσώ (Iāsṓ), from ἴᾱσις (íāsis, “healing, recovering, recuperation”).

(Greek mythology) The goddess and personification of recuperation. She is a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.


Meditrina

From Latin medica (“health, longevity”).

(Roman mythology) The goddess/personification of health and longevity. She is a daughter of Aesculapius and Epione.


Machaon

(Greek mythology) A healer and a son of Asclepius and Epione.


Aratus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄρᾱτος (Árātos, literally “the one prayed for”).

(Greek mythology) A healer and a son of Asclepius and his lover, Aristodama, and the paternal halfbrother of Aceso, Aglaea, Hygieia, Iaso, Meditrina, Panacea, Machaon, Podaleirios, Telesphoros.


Podaleirios

From Ancient Greek Ποδαλείριος (Podaleírios).

Podaleirius (alternative)
Podalirius (alternative)


Telesphoros

From Ancient Greek Τελεσφόρος (Telesphóros, literally “Bringer of Completion”).

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(Greek mythology) A god/personification of recuperation from illness or injury. He is a healer and a son of Asclepius and Epione.


Eirene

From Ancient Greek Εἰρήνη (Eirḗnē, literally “Peace”).

(Greek mythology) The goddess/personification of peace and one of the Horae. She is a daughter of Zeus and Themis, and her sisters are Dike and Eunomia. Her Roman counterpart is Pax.


Thallo

From Ancient Greek Θαλλω (Thallō, literally “New-Shoots, Blooming”).

(Greek mythology) One of the Horae, and the goddess and personification of the season of Spring; she is the protector of new growth.


Carpo

From Ancient Greek Καρπώ (Karpṓ) from καρπόω (karpóō, “bear fruit; reap or enjoy fruit”).

(Greek mythology) One of the Horae, goddess/personification of Autumn and of harvest time.


Core

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “maiden”).

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(Greek mythology) The birth name of Persephone/Proserpina, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and of vegetation. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and the wife of Hades.


Justitia

Translingual: Justitia

From Latin iustitia (“Justice”). Doublet of justice.

(Roman mythology) One of the Horae, she is the goddess of justice. She is the daughter of Jupiter and Themis; her sisters are Pax and Eunomia. She is the Roman counterpart of Dike.


Stymphalus

From Latin Stymphālus, from Ancient Greek Στύμφᾱλος (Stúmphālos).

(Greek mythology) Any of various mythological figures.


Stymphalian bird

en-noun

Stymphalian bird (plural Stymphalian birds)

(Greek mythology) A man-eating bird with a bronze beak and sharp metallic feathers it could launch at its victims, which infested Stymphalus. They were slain by Herakles as part of his sixth Labour, who took advantage of their sensitive sense of hearing.


Erymanthian Boar

(Greek mythology) a giant boar that ravaged the area round Mount Erymanthos; captured by Heracles


Augeas

/ɔːˈd͡ʒiːəs/

From Latin Augēās, from Ancient Greek Αὐγείᾱς (Augeíās).

(Greek mythology) A king of Elis, best known for his stables, the Augean stables.


Antigone

From Latin Antigonē, from Ancient Greek Ἀντιγόνη (Antigónē).

(Greek mythology) the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta in fiction and mythology


Ascanius

From Latin Ascanius, from Ancient Greek Ἀσκάνιος (Askánios).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) A legendary king of Alba Longa, and the son of the Trojan hero Aeneas.


lunar mansion

(astronomy, astrology) a segment of the ecliptic (often called a station or house) through which the moon moves in its orbit around the earth, often used by ancient cultures as part of their calendar system.

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a segment of the eliptic through which the moon moves


Hecuba

From Latin Hecuba, from Ancient Greek Ἑκάβη (Hekábē).

Hecabe (alternative)
Hekabe (alternative)

(Greek mythology) the wife of King Priam of Troy, the mother of Hector, Paris and Cassandra


Helenus

From Latin Helenus, from Ancient Greek Ἕλενος (Hélenos).

(Greek mythology) the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, the twin brother of the prophetess Cassandra.


Haemus

Borrowed from Latin Haemus, from Ancient Greek Αἷμος (Haîmos).

(Greek mythology) a king of Thrace, the son of Boreas, who was vain and haughty and compared himself and his wife to Zeus and Hera


Menelaus

From Latin Menelāus, from Ancient Greek Μενέλαος (Menélaos).

(Greek mythology) the king of Mycenaean Sparta, the husband of Helen of Troy, the brother of Agamemnon, the leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the Trojan War


Hesperia

From Latin Hesperia, from Ancient Greek Ἑσπερία (Hespería).

(Greek mythology) One of the Hesperides.


Hesperides

From Latin Hesperides, from Ancient Greek Ἑσπερίδες (Hesperídes).

(Greek mythology) A group of nymphs who tend a blissful garden filled with trees that grew golden apples in a far western corner of the world, located in Libya or the Atlas Mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus; they are said to be the daughters of Hesperus.

(Greek mythology) The garden of the Hesperides.


Hesperid

(Greek mythology) any one of the Hesperides

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any one of the Hesperide — see also Hesperides


Gordias

Borrowed from Latin Gordiās, from Ancient Greek Γορδίας (Gordías).

(Greek mythology) The name of at least two members of the royal house of Phrygia, the best-known of which was reputedly the founder of the Phrygian capital city Gordium, the maker of the legendary Gordian knot, and the father of the legendary king Midas.


Keres

From Ancient Greek Κῆρες (Kêres, literally “Death Spirits, Doom, Heart”).

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(Greek mythology) The goddesses of death, specifically cruel and violent deaths, including death in battle, by accident, murder or ravaging disease. They numbered in the thousands and were the daughters of Nyx and Erebus, and the sisters of Thanatos and Hypnos. Their Roman counterparts were the Letum or the Tenebrae.


Afrasiab

Afrasiyab (alternative)
Afrasyab (alternative)

(Iranian mythology) A mythical king and hero of Turan.

[Book Pahlavi needed] (plʾsy̲d̲ʾp̄' /frāsiyāb/)


Chloris

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χλωρίς (Khlōrís, literally “Greenfinch”), from χλωρός (khlōrós, “greenish-yellow, pale green”).

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(Greek mythology) A nymph and the goddess of flowers and spring. She is a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of Zephyrus, and mother of Karpos. Her Roman counterpart is Flora.


Karpos

From Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, literally “Fruit”).

(Greek mythology) A god/personification of fruit.


Favonius

(Roman mythology) The god of the west wind. He is also the husband of Flora and the father of Karpos. He is the Roman counterpart of Zephyrus.


Alala

From Ancient Greek Ἀλαλά (Alalá), from Ancient Greek ἀλαλή (alalḗ, literally “loud cry, war cry”).

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(Greek mythology) A goddess, personification of the war cry/battle cry


Glaucus

From Ancient Greek Γλαῦκος (Glaûkos, from γλαυκός (glaukós, literally “greyish-blue, bluish-green, glimmering”)).

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(Greek mythology) A Greek prophetic sea-god, born mortal and turned immortal upon eating a magical herb. It was believed that he commonly came to the rescue of sailors and fishermen in storms, having once been one himself.

(Greek mythology) A mythical Lycian soldier and captain in the Trojan War.

(Greek mythology) Son of Sisyphus, and a mythical Corinthian king.

(Greek mythology) one of the sons of Priam.

(Greek mythology) One of the twelve younger Panes.


Taurine

Although it would seem that later Hindu Zodiacs began with the Ram also, established perhaps through Greek influence, yet early astromers testify to an ancient order in which Aquarius, on the banks of the Ganges, as in China, marked the Winter Solstice, an arrangement which as we have seen in our study of the "Yellow Way", would correspond to the Taurine Era of the Vernal Equinox.

1913, Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, Popular Astronomy, volume 21, page 158:

Just as the world recently moved from a "Taurine Age" to a "Piscean Age," we are now in that hazy astrological area where the "Piscean Age" is ending and an "Aquarian Age" is beginning.

1990, Joyce Wilson, Canadian Book Review Annual, page 94:

Even within the code of such worship, the choice of a calf, redolent of the former zodiacal Taurine age, is an offensive and retardataire sign in the age of Ares and suggests spiritual and social reaction and cowardice.

1996, Trustees of Boston College, Religion and the Arts: A Journal from Boston College, volume 1, page 68:

(astrology) Of or pertaining to the zodiacal sign Taurus.


Meleagrian

en-adj

Meleagrian (comparative more Meleagrian, superlative most Meleagrian)

more Meleagrian (comparative)
most Meleagrian (superlative)

(Ancient Greek mythology) Of or relating to Meleager.


Vígríðr

(Norse mythology) A plain that will be the site of a battle between the gods and Surtur during Ragnarok.


Wigrid

(Norse mythology, archaic) Vígríðr (plain that will be the site of a battle during Ragnarok)


Titanean

For Lightning she'd have strook: or by some Spell / The bold Titanean Brethren rais'd from Hell

1702, Edward Sherburne, The Tragedies of L. Annaeus Seneca the Philosopher:

[The sandstone] is broken into immense angular fragments forty feet and less, in diameter, which lie about like the work of Titanean quarrymen.

1861, First biennial report of the progress of the geological survey of Michigan:

(mythology) Of the Titans, literally or figuratively.


Zagreus

(Greek mythology) An obscure figure in Greek mythology who, according to Orphic tradition, was the son of Zeus and Persephone who was destroyed by the Titans but reborn through the intervention of Zeus as Dionysus.


Myrrha

From Latin Myrrha, from Ancient Greek Μύρρα (Múrrha).

Byblis lies motionless in mute desperation and her transformation is told only briefly, whereas Myrrha herself asks for her metamorphosis, gives a speech (10.483-7), and Ovid leads us step by step through her transformation (10.489-502).

1975, Karl Galinsky, Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction to the Basic Aspects, page 89:

The resemblance between this Myrrhina and the Myrrha who seduces her father is all the greater in that in one of the versions of the myth of Adonis, his mother is transformed by metamorphosis into not a myrrh tree but a sprig of myrtle.

1977, Marcel Detienne, The Gardens of Adonis: Spices in Greek Mythology, page 63:

In the succeeding book, Ovid depicts another woman tortured by abnormal but not impossible passion: Myrrha, in love with her father, Cinyras.

2006, David M. Robinson, Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature: Classical, Early Modern, Eighteenth-Century, page 175:

(Greek mythology) The daughter of Cinyras, king of Cyprus, who tricks her father into having sexual intercourse with her and escapes the king's wrath by being transformed into a myrrh tree, later giving birth to Adonis.

Smyrna

daughter of Cinyras and mother of Adonis


Lupercus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin Lupercus.

Πὰν Λυκαῖος
Πὰν Λυκαῖος#Ancient_Greek

(Roman mythology) A god who protected flocks, in some sources identified with Faunus in the aspect of Innus, and by extension as the equivalent of the Greek Πὰν Λυκαῖος (Pàn Lukaîos, “Lycaean Pan”).


Balder

Baldr (alternative)
Baldur (alternative)

Among the Norse, the god Balder is the most closely associated with the solstices. In a myth that explains the actions of the midsummer and midwinter Sun, Balder, the son of the god Odin, was said to die at the hands of his evil brother, who wielded a mistletoe stake each summer solstice. He was reborn at the winter solstice, or what is still known in Germany as Mother Night (the 'mother' in question being the goddess who brings the new born Sun back into existence).

2005, A. Bhatnagar, William Charles Livingston, Fundamentals of Solar Astronomy, page 3:

It is difficult to understand how the author of The Traditions of the God Balder (Die Uberlieferungen vom Gone Balder) from 1920 in which he compared the Balder cult with earlier Mediterranean beliefs could come out so strongly in favor of Kossinna's ex Septentrione lux scarcely a decade later.

2008, Bernard Thomas Mees, The Science of the Swastika, page 175:

What he does not mention is that Balder is the Norse counterpart of Helios (the Greek forerunner of Sol); he was the god of light, son of Odin and Frigg, as Helios was the son of Hyperion and Theia.

2008, Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis, unnumbered page:

Balder, the radiant god of sunshine, reminds us not only of Apollo and Orpheus, but of all the other heroes of sun myths.

2010, H. A. Guerber, Hammer of Thor: Norse Mythology and Legends, page 246:

(Norse mythology) The Norse god of light and purity, a son of Odin and Frigg, known for his beauty and near-invulnerability.


Astrape

From Ancient Greek ἀστραπή (astrapḗ, literally “lightning”).

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(Greek mythology) The goddess/personification of lightning, sister of Bronte, and an attendant of Zeus. Her Roman counterpart is Fulgora.


Bronte

From Ancient Greek βροντή (brontḗ, “thunder”) or Βρόντης (Bróntēs, “Thunderer, name of one of the cyclops”).

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(Greek mythology) One of the Cyclops, who forged Zeus's thunderbolts.

(Greek mythology) The goddess personifying thunder.


Fulgora

(Roman mythology) The Roman goddess/personification of lightning. She is the Roman counterpart of Astrape.


Thunor

Learned borrowing from Old English Þunor. Doublet of thunder.

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The attributes of the most important deities of our distant ancestors, Tiw, Woden, and Thunor, whose names are perpetuated in those of three of our weekdays, are by no means clearly defined. It is not to be assumed that Woden and Thunor were identical with the Norse Odin and Thor, about whom more is known.

1962, John Godfrey, The Church in Anglo-Saxon England, page 63:

Thunor still survives in properly edited texts of Beowulf; on funeral stones, to ensure that the dead can rest in peace; on jewels and amulets as a charm; and he can even be spotted on a holy font 'perpetually preaching that the Christian soldier should FIGHT AS LEAST AS BRAVELY against Baseness as ever did the Hammer-wielder'.

2000, Andrew Wawn, The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain, page 232:

Many people consider Thunor to be the most approachable of the Saxon gods.

2009, Alaric Albertsson, Travels Through Middle Earth: The Path of a Saxon Pagan, page 27:

(mythology) An Old English deity identified with Thor and associated with Jupiter.


antigod

(mythology) A preternatural being opposed to the gods.


Cybele

From Latin Cybelē, from Ancient Greek Κυβέλη (Kubélē).

(Greek mythology) A mother goddess of the ancient peoples of Asia Minor.


Embla

(Norse mythology) The first female human in the Edda.


Fudō Myōō

(Japanese mythology) a guardian deity primarily revered in Vajrayana Buddhism as the principal of the Five Wisdom Kings, also known as Acala.


subtle body

Translation of सूक्ष्म शरीर (sūkṣma-śarīra) or सूक्ष्म देह (sūkṣma-deha).

(occult, parapsychology) The embodiment of the soul or mind; part of the bodymind of the human being in syncretic, esoteric philosophy.

(occult, theosophy) Those parts of the septenary, the 'seven principles of man' which constitute each human being, contrasted with the gross body, the physical human body.


protogenos

From Ancient Greek πρωτόγονος (prōtógonos, “first-born”).

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(Greek mythology) Any of the first order of deities to come into existence, according to Greek cosmogony.


Eisa

(Norse mythology) A minor goddess, a daughter of Logi.


Ōkuninushi-no-mikoto

Borrowed from Japanese 大国主命 (Ōkuninushi-no-mikoto).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese god of nation-building, farming, business, and medicine, as well as love and good matches.


Toshigami

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The god of the coming year, celebrated at New Years.


Sanbō Kōjin

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese god of fire, the hearth, and the kitchen.


kodama

(Japanese mythology) A type of Japanese tree spirit.


Ōkuninushi

Borrowed from Japanese 大国主 (Ōkuninushi).

(Japanese mythology, Shinto) The Japanese god of nation-building, farming, business, and medicine, as well as love and good love matches.


Helheim

(Norse mythology) The realm of the dead, (also known as Hel), the domain of the goddess Hel. Located beyond Niflheim, (one of the Nine Realms).


Ersa

From Ancient Greek Ἕρσα (Hérsa, literally “Dew”).

(Greek mythology) The goddess/personification of the dew.


Argiope

(Greek mythology) Any one of several figures of Greek mythology.

A naiad, daughter of the river god Nilus, wife of Agenor and mother of Europa, Cadmus, Phoenix and Cilix.

In classical Greek mythology, Argiope was a NYMPH of Mount Parnassos in Phokis, central Greece. By the bard Philammon, she gave birth to an even greater musician, her son Thamyris.

2013, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology, McFarland, page 34:

A naiad, mother of Thamyris by Philammon and possibly daughter of the river god Cephissus.

A naiad of the town of Eleusis, mother of Cercyon by Branchus; sometimes identified with the above daughter of Cephissus.

A daughter of Teuthras, king of Teuthrania, who married Telephus, son of Heracles.


Bebhionn

From Irish Bébinn, seemingly from bean (“woman”) + binn (“melodious”). More at Bébinn.

(Irish mythology) A goddess of birth in Irish mythology.


Adrastea

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀδράστεια (Adrásteia, literally “inescapable”).

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(Greek mythology) The goddess of divine retribution


Thebe

(Greek mythology) One of daughters of Zeus.


Himalia

(Greek mythology) A nymph, a mistress of Zeus.


Euporie

(Greek mythology) A Greek goddess of abundance.


Euanthe

From Ancient Greek Εὐάνθη (Euánthē, from εὐ- (eu-, “good-, well-”) + άνθη (ánthē, “blossoms”)). Cognate with Evanthia.

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(Greek mythology) A goddess sometimes listed as the mother of the Graces.


Helike

(Greek mythology) A nymph who took care of Zeus in his infancy on Crete.


Praxidike

(Greek mythology) The goddess of judicial punishment and the exactor of vengeance.


Hermippe

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Boeotus. She was married to Orchomenus but had a son with Poseidon.


Thyone

(Greek mythology) Semele, mother of Dionysus.


Taygete

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ταϋγέτη (Taügétē).

bor+

(Greek mythology) One of the Pleiades (daughters of Atlas and Pleione).


Eurydome

(Greek mythology) The mother of the Graces by Zeus.


Pasithee

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Pasithea


Sinope

From Latin Sinope, from Ancient Greek Σινώπη (Sinṓpē), from Hittite 𒅆𒉡𒉿 (Šinuwa).


Kiviuq

(mythology) A legendary hero in Inuit epics.


Ijiraq

(mythology) A monster in Inuit mythology.


Bergelmir

From the Old Norse name; the second element means "yeller," from the verb *gallmr, from Proto-Germanic *galmaz (“echo”). The first element has been variously interpreted as berg (“mountain”), berr (“bare”), and a variant of bjǫrn (“bear”).

(Norse mythology) A frost giant in Norse mythology.


Hati

(Norse mythology, patronymised Hróðvitnisson) The vargr (giant wolf) who chases Máni (the Moon) across the night sky until Ragnarök, when he will swallow Máni; son of Fenrir and brother of Sköll.


Surtur

From Old Norse Surtr (“the swarthy one”).

(Muspelheim, we suppose, with its numerous fiery inhabitants, and their mighty chief Surtur, the dark, the incomprehensible, the great evil principle, had no beginning; or if it had, the Odinian theologians were unacquainted with it.)

1839, Samuel Astley Dunham, History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, volume 2, page 44:

1847 [1770], Paul Henri Mallet, Thomas Percy (translator), I. A. Blackwell, Walter Scott (editors), Northern Antiquities, [1756, Paul Henri Mallet, Monuments de la mythologie et de la poesie des Celtes, et particulierement des anciens Scandinaves], page 496,
We must also remark, that in the Eddaic Poems there is no mention made of Surtur and the Elves of Light existing in Muspellheim previous to the formation of Ymir, […] .

In Journey into Mystery #97 (1963), writer/editor Stan Lee and artist/cc-plotter Jack Kirby introduced their version of Surtur, one of the greatest enemies of the gods in Norse mythology.

2006, Gina Renée Misiroglu, Michael Eury, The Supervillain Book: The Evil Side of Comics and Hollywood, page not identified:

(Norse mythology) A very powerful jotun (giant) and chief of Muspellheim, described in the Eddas as wielding a flaming (or shining) sword and as battling the gods and killing Freyr during Ragnarok.


Ymir

(Norse mythology) The first creature to come into being and the ancestor of all jötnar. Upon his death, the gods fashioned the world from his body.


Galatea

74 Galatea
Acis and Galatea (mythology)
Galatea
Galatea, New Zealand
Leucippus (daughter of Galatea)

/ˌɡæləˈtiːə/

(Greek mythology) Galatea; a woman who prayed for her daughter to be turned into a son, Leucippus.

(Greek mythology) Galatea; a sea-nymph in Ovid's story of Acis and Galatea.

(Greek mythology) Galatea; name given in the 18th century to the animated statue sculpted by Pygmalion.


Neso

(Greek mythology) Any of various figures in Greek mythology. See Neso (mythology).


Drighten

(historical, mythology) Alternative form of drighten.


kourotrophic

(Greek mythology) Relating to the goddess Kourotrophos.


ageless sleep

She is, indeed, most wondrous fair: Gold of sunshine in her hair. Lips that shame the red, red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by, but a hundred years, to a steadfast heart, are but a day.

1959, Erdman Penner, Sleeping Beauty (film)

(mythology, fiction, fantasy) A magical state of suspended animation, where-in the recipient is placed in a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess Sleeping Beauty.


eternal sleep

She is, indeed, most wondrous fair: Gold of sunshine in her hair. Lips that shame the red red rose. In ageless sleep, she finds repose. The years roll by, but a hundred years, to a steadfast heart, are but a day.

1959, Erdmann Penner, Sleeping Beauty (film)

(mythology, fiction, fantasy) A magical state of suspended animation, a state of ageless, deathless, everlasting sleep. Well-known examples are Endymion (the lover of the Greek moon goddess, Selene), and the princess Sleeping Beauty.


Aetna

From the Latin Aetna, from either Ancient Greek Αἴτνη (Aítnē, “Aetna”) or αἴθω (aíthō, “I burn”), or from a Sicanian dialect Italic base *aith-na (“fiery one”), all from Proto-Indo-European *ai-dh, from *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”). Doublet of Etna.

(Greek mythology and Roman mythology) A nymph in Sicily who, according to legend, gave her name to the volcanic Mount Etna.


Phaedra

Euripides
Hippolytus (play)
Jean Racine
Phaedra (Seneca)
Phaedra (mythology)
Phèdre
Seneca the Younger

From Latin Phaedra, from Ancient Greek Φαίδρᾱ (Phaídrā).
The myth has been retold several times, in plays (in classical times in Euripides's Hippolytus and Seneca the Younger's Phaedra, later in Racine's Phèdre), and more recently in other media.

We notice that Racine's Phaedra, like Euripides', displays high moral dignity because she considers her passion for Hippolytus to be abominable.

1981, Normand Berlin, The Secret Cause: A Discussion of Tragedy, page 46:

Why did Seneca decide to postpone his own Phaedra’s suicide until after Hippolytus' death? The question is by no means as futile as it may sound.

1993, Albert S. Gérard, The Phaedra Syndrome: Of Shame and Guilt in Drama, page 20:

I may add that the notion that Aphrodite is especially cruel because she destroyed Phaedra, who was an innocent victim, since she had no choice, is not a perception that would have been shared by the ancient audience. Not only is it at the very least arguable—in fact likely—that in ancient eyes Phaedra did have a choice,¹⁶⁶ but also the very notions "innocent victim since she had no choice" and "cruel because destroying an innocent victim" are unstable cultural concepts.

2003, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, Tragedy and Athenian Religion, page 331:

(Greek mythology) The wife of Theseus, who falls in love with but is spurned by her stepson Hippolytus, then commits suicide, but is the cause of his later death (details vary between versions).


Asclepiades

From Ancient Greek Ἀσκληπιάδης (Asklēpiádēs).

(Greek mythology) A child of Asclepius and Epione (or Aristodama).


Aegle

From Ancient Greek Αἴγλη (Aíglē, literally “brightness, gleam, glow, radiance, splendour—usually referring to the past”).

lbor

(Greek mythology) The goddess/personification of good health and the glow of health, one of the daughters of Asclepius.


egregore

egregores (plural)
egregor (alternative)

From French égrégore (“spirit of a group”), from the Ancient Greek substantive of ἐγρήγορος (egrḗgoros, “wakeful”) meaning watcher, angel in the Book of Enoch.

In magical esoteric circles an egregore is commonly understood to be a magical psychic entity consciously or unconsciously created by a couple or a group as an encapsulation and merger of their collective aspirations and ideals.

2013, Anaiya Sophia, Sacred Sexual Union: The Alchemy of Love, Power, and Wisdom:

(occult) An autonomous psychic entity that is composed of, and influences, the thoughts of a group of people.


dahu

Perhaps still sore at being called crétins des Alpes by lowlanders, the Savoyards, in the early days of mass tourism, would sometimes take gullible visitors on dahu hunts. These entailed all-night vigils out in the open, where the would-be trophy hunter had to crouch and hide so as not to be seen by the sharp-eyed dahu.

2017, Stephen O'Shea, The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:

(mythology) A legendary goat-like animal reputed to live in the mountains of France, Switzerland, and Italy.


Fomorian

Probably Old Irish fo- (“under”) + mor, mur (“ocean”).

(Irish mythology, mythology) A member of the semi-divine race that were said to have inhabited Ireland in ancient times.


Fomorian

(Irish mythology) Of or relating to the race of semi-divine creatures said to have inhabited Ireland in ancient times.


Fuxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the modern Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 伏羲 (Fúxī), variously understood and treated as a solar god, protoplast, culture hero, legendary emperor, and protohistorical tribal chief or as an imperial or prehistoric dynasty (氏, shì) in China before the Xia. The two characters may be phonetic but have the meaning "concealed from", "submitting to", or "prostrate before" 羲 (xī), a character that also appears in the name of the early solar goddess 羲和 (“Xīhé”), q.v.

Fu Xi (alternative)
Fu Hsi (alternative)
Fu-hsi (alternative)
Fo Hi (alternative)
Fo-hi (alternative)
Fo-Hi (alternative)
Fo-Hsi (alternative)
Fo-hsi (alternative)
Fou Hi (alternative)
Fou-hi (alternative)

The Chineſe ſay that Fo-hi, the Founder of their Monarchy, fix’d his Court in this Province; and began his Reign about the Year 2952, according to ſome Authors, whoſe Opinion if true confirms the Chronology of the Septuagint.

[1738, J. B. Du Halde, “PROVINCE VII. HO-NAN.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, page 102:

(Chinese mythology) A legendary ancient Chinese ruler and culture hero, typically the brother of Nüwa.


The Fish

(astronomy, astrology) Synonym of Pisces


Ophiotaurus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀφιόταυρος (Ophiótauros, “cow-serpent”).

bor

(Greek mythology) A mythical creature, part bull and part serpent.


Ianthe

From Ancient Greek Ἰάνθη (Iánthē, literally “purple/violet flower”).

der

(Greek mythology) One of the 3,000 Oceanids, the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.

(Greek mythology) The Cretan girl who married Iphis after Isis turned Iphis from a woman into a man.


Arethusa

/ˌæɹɪˈθjuːzə/

From Ancient Greek Ἀρέθουσα (Aréthousa, literally “The Waterer”).

uder

(Greek mythology) A nereid nymph, who became a fountain.

(Greek mythology) One of the Hesperides nymphs.


Antiope

90 Antiope
Antiope (Amazon)
Antiope (mother of Amphion)

(Greek mythology) An Amazon, daughter of Ares and sister to Melanippe and Hippolyte, (and possibly Orithyia), queens of the Amazons,. She was the wife of Theseus, and the only Amazon known to have married.

(Greek mythology) The daughter of the Boeotian river god Asopus, according to Homer.

Antíope

the daughter of the Boeotian river god Asopus


Thisbe

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) One of a pair of ill-fated lovers, whose story forms part of Ovid's Metamorphoses.


Klytia

(Greek mythology) An Oceanid, who was known for her unrequited love for Helios.


Feronia

(Roman mythology) A Roman goddess of wildlife, fertility, health and abundance.


Panopaea

(Greek mythology) two of the Nereids. Panope is also the name of one of the daughters of Thespius and Megamede and mother of Heracles' son, Threpsippas.


Danae

(Greek mythology) The mother of Perseus by Zeus.


Elpis

From Ancient Greek Ἐλπίς (Elpís, literally “Hope”).

(Greek mythology) The goddess and personification of hope.


Concordia

58 Concordia
Concordia
Concordia (mythology)

(Roman mythology) The goddess of harmony and concord. She is the Roman equivalent to Harmonia.


Melete

Translingual: Melete

From Latin Melete, from Ancient Greek Μελέτη (Melétē).

(Greek mythology) The Muse of meditation, one of the three original Boeotian muses.


Nysa

(Greek mythology) A mythical land in Greek Mythology.


Pales

(Roman mythology) The deity of shepherds, flocks and livestock in Roman mythology.


Mellona

(Roman mythology) The goddess of bees, and honey.


Aristaeus

/æɹɪˈsteɪəs/

/æɹɪˈstiːəs/

/əˈɹiːstɪəs/

From Ancient Greek Ἀρισταῖος (Aristaîos, literally “Most Excellent, Most Useful”).

bor

Aristæus (alternative)
Aristaios (alternative)
Aristeus (alternative)

(Greek mythology) A minor god of rustic, rural arts such as beekeeping, herding and hunting.


Tyche

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τύχη (Túkhē), from τύχη (túkhē, “fortune”). Compare Latin Tychō.

The goddess Tyche was a very important deity in the Hellenistic world.¹⁵ "She was not blind chance, but some order of affairs that men could not comprehend."¹⁹ Tyche played her part in great events and in small ones[…].

1933, Richard Mansfield Haywood, Studies on Scipio Africanus, Johns Hopkins Press, page 12:

2000, Terence L. Donaldson (editor), Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, page 113,
At Caesarea, several gems depicting a Tyche, as well as a possible statue of Tyche found at Caesarea, show attributes of Isis.

(Greek mythology, in the singular) The goddess of luck/fortune; counterpart of the Roman Fortuna.


Stheno

Ancient Greek Σθενώ (Sthenṓ, literally “forceful”).

uder

(Greek mythology) The eldest and most ferocious of the gorgons.


Pistis

From Ancient Greek Πίστις (Pístis) from Ancient Greek πίστις (pístis, “faith, trust”).

(Greek mythology) A goddess personifying trust, faith and trustworthiness, corresponding to Roman Fides.


Dies

(Roman mythology) One of the Protogenoi, the Protogenos personification of day. She is the daughter of fellow Protogenoi, Nox/Nyx (Night) and Erebus (Darkness), and sister-wife of Aether. She is the Roman counterpart of Hemera.


demihuman

No wonder Columbus was dubious. Though perfectly charming, in a Droopy-esque way. it would take a lot of imagination (or desperation) to convert this into a demihuman sex siren.

1986, BBC Wildlife, volumes 4-5, page 393:

Halflings look upon other demihuman and humanoid races as stock for the stew pot.

1991, Roger E. Moore, Dragon Magazine, TSR, →ISBN:

In the AD&D game, humans are more motivated by ambition and the desire for power than the demihuman races are. Thus, humans advance further and more quickly. Demihumans can attain significant levels in certain classes, but they do not ...

1995, David Zeb Cook, Jean Rabe, Warren Spector, Steven E. Schend, Dungeon master guide for the AD&D game, TSR:

In one version we learn that the people who built Nan Madol settled at the site because they were "constantly afraid of the people of the center of Pohnpei," both the various demihuman, cannibalistic creatures and "real people" who resided ...

1995, Isla: A Journal of Micronesian Studies:

... fact from the moment he first lays eyes on the demihuman M'ling, before he has any notion of Moreau or his surgical feats. "I had never beheld such a repulsive and extraordinary face before, and yet — if the contradiction is credible — I ...

2002, Gary Westfahl, George Edgar Slusser, No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy, →ISBN:

We can watch this happen, on page and screen, in werewolves. We can safely say that the werewolf is a widespread figure, not exclusive to European mythology. But it is also not a generic manifestation of the global demihuman.

2009, S. K. Robisch, Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN, page 207:

features of a thousand faces upon that awful head: human faces, demihuman, reptilian, serpentine, batrachian, vulpine. […]and many others for which I have no ready descriptive terms.

2009, Brian Stableford, The Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 89:

Demihumans, like . . . yourself . . . the vampires . . . orcs, dwarves, trolls, demons, pixies, all of them have a stake in the fate of humanity . . .”

2010, Marc Mattaliano, The Demihuman Archives, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 120:

(fantasy, mythology) A member of a human-like race; in fantasy, sometimes distinguished from the more bestial humanoid races.


Erebos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔρεβος (Érebos).

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of Erebus


Eumolpus

Translingual: Eumolpus

(Greek mythology) The son of Poseidon and Chione, who became one of the first priests of Demeter and one of the founders of the Eleusinian Mysteries.


skinwalking

(folklore, mythology) In certain Native American mythologies, the ability to transform into any animal when wearing its pelt.


Fames

(Roman mythology) A goddess who is a personification of famine and hunger. She is the Roman counterpart of Limos.


world egg

2009, David A. Leeming, Kathryn Madden, Stanton Marlan, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: L-Z, page 183:

With this shaping of chaos into a world-egg, or earth-sphere, arises then, according to the representation of these cosmogonies, the first being, the 'first-born,' or the first man.
In Africa a Dogon myth says that in the beginning, a world egg divided into two birth sacs, containing sets of twins fathered by the creator god, Amma, on the maternal egg.

1868, Johann Peter Lange, Genesis, Or, the First Book of Moses, page 181:

The Mande people say that in the beginning the creator placed various kinds of seed in the world egg.

2010, David Adams Leeming, Creation Myths of the World: Parts I-II, page 313:

(mythology) A mythological motif, found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations, of an egg from which the universe or some primordial being is "hatched".


ayanamsa

ayanamsas (plural)
ayanamsha (alternative)

(Vedic astrology) The amount of precession.


Xuthus

(Greek mythology) A son of Hellen and Orseis, and founder (through his sons) of the Achaean and Ionian nations.


Óðr

From Proto-Germanic *wōþuz (“rage, manic inspiration, furor poeticus”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet-. Cognate with Old English wod and German Wut.

der

(Norse mythology) In Norse mythology, the husband of Freya and father of Hnoss and Gersemi.


Ullr

2013, Samantha-Rae Tuthill, Where Did Old Man Winter, Jack Frost Come From?. Accuweather.com.
"For the Norse mythologies, Ullr was the god of winter. Son of a frost giant, he would rule Asgard in Odin's absence in the winter."

2014, Norse Mythology for Smart People, Ullr
"...Ullr is an excellent archer, hunter, skater, and skier, handsome, warlike, and an especially apt deity to invoke before a duel."

"Ullr is a very old god of the northern lands, so old that by the time the Iron Age Norse myths were written down, not much more was known about him except that he was a god of archery, hunting, and the winter."

2014, Raven Kaldera, Ullr Lord of Winter:

(Norse mythology) An Áss associated with archery and skiing; the stepson of Thor.


sciapod

To the modern viewer, though, it is the weirdness that most enthrals: the rich, demonic and comical features, like the sciapod – a man deploying his single swollen foot to shield himself from the sun.

2012, Simon Garfield, On the Map, Profile Books, page 48:

(Greek mythology) A member of a mythical race of humans living in Africa, who have one single, large foot which they use to shade themselves from the rays of the sun.

ciápode

a member of a mythical African race, who have a single, large foot


Seshat

From the Ancient Egyptian šsꜣ "scribe" + feminine determinative t; šsꜣ.t "female scribe".

Safkhet (alternative)
Sesat (alternative)
Seshata (alternative)
Seshet (alternative)
Sesheta (alternative)

Seshat represents the organizational capacity of keeping records—knowledge, information, etc.
Seshat is depicted carrying the reed pen and palette, and records deeds in eternity/space, i.e. memory. As such, Seshat is referred to as: The Enumerator, Lady of Writing(s), Scribe, Head of the House of the Divine Books (Archives), Lady of Builders...

2001, Moustafa Gadalla, Egyptian Divinities: The All Who Are the One, page 50:

The link between the measurement of space and measurement of time is also clear from early periods in the activities of the goddess Seshat, the goddess associated with the foundation ceremony, during which the orientation of buildings was established.

2010, Kate Spence, “Establishing direction in early Egyptian burials and monumental architecture”, in Iain Morley, Colin Renfrew, editors, The Archaeology of Measurement: Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies, page 176:

At least eight separate Egyptologists, in addition to myself, have suggested that the ancient Egyptians directly identified Seshat as a form or aspect of Nebt-het (101).

2010, Tamara L. Siuda, Nebt-het: Lady of the House, 2nd edition, page 14:

The most important of these scenes shows the king leaving his palace with the goddess of writing, Seshat, in order to lay out the foundations for the temple.

2010, Zahi A. Hawass, Wonders of the Horus Temple: The Sound and Light of Edfu, page 8:

(Egyptian mythology) The Egyptian goddess of writing and wisdom, often depicted as a scribe or recordkeeper.


Sokar

Seker (alternative)
Socharis (alternative)
Sokaris (alternative)

(Egyptian mythology) An Ancient Egyptian hawk god of the Memphite necropolis.


Vertumnus

Vertimnus (alternative)
Vortumnus (alternative)

(Roman mythology) The Ancient Roman god of seasons, change, and plant growth, capable of changing his form at will.


Agartha

(mythology) A legendary city said to be located in the Earth's core.


smallfolk

(fantasy, mythology) Small humanoid creatures, such as gnomes and halflings.


Hawaiki

Borrowed from Maori Hawaiki, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *Sawaiki, Doublet of Hawaii and Savai'i.

(mythology) The original home of the Māori, before they travelled across the sea to New Zealand. It also features as the underworld in many Māori stories.


Midgardian

(Norse mythology) an inhabitant of Midgard


Midgardian

en-adj

Midgardian (comparative more Midgardian, superlative most Midgardian)

more Midgardian (comparative)
most Midgardian (superlative)


Asgardian

(Norse mythology) an inhabitant of Asgard


Asgardian

Asgardian (comparative more Asgardian, superlative most Asgardian)

more Asgardian (comparative)
most Asgardian (superlative)


Alectryon

And there he lingered till the crowing cock, / The Alectryon of the farmyard and the flock, / Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear, / To tell the sleeping world that dawn was near.

1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] The Student’s Tale. Emma and Eginhard.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 27:

(Greek mythology) A youth charged by Ares to stand guard outside his door while the god indulged in illicit love with Aphrodite. He fell asleep and was transformed into a rooster as punishment.


Eumenides

From Ancient Greek Εὐμενίδες (Eumenídes, “gracious ones”).


Philomela

From Latin Philomela, from Ancient Greek Φιλομήλη (Philomḗlē), from φίλος (phílos, “love”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; fruit; sheep”), but folk-etymologized since at least Ovid's time as "lover of song".

affix

(Greek mythology) the sister of Procne who is raped and mutilated by her brother-in-law Tereus and supposedly transformed into a bird by the gods.


Mímir

From Old Norse Mímir, meaning “the rememberer” or “the wise one”.

(Norse mythology) A figure in Norse mythology renowned for his knowledge and wisdom, beheaded during the Æsir-Vanir War, after which Odin receives secret knowledge and counsel from the severed head.


Agarthan

en-adj

Agarthan (comparative more Agarthan, superlative most Agarthan)

more Agarthan (comparative)
most Agarthan (superlative)

(mythology) Of or relating to the legendary city of Agartha.


Agarthan

(mythology) A native or inhabitant of Agartha.


Laelaps

(Greek mythology) A dog who never failed to catch what he was hunting.


Levana

(Roman mythology) An Ancient Roman goddess involved in rituals relating to childbirth.


Endymion

Endymion
Endymion (poem)
John Keats
Sebastiano Ricci

The heavenly bodies may keep their secrets two or three thousand years yet; but one or other of them will betray them to some wakeful favorite, some Endymion beyond Latmos, perhaps in regions undiscovered, certainly in uncalculated times.

a. 1864, Walter Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, published 1905, page 82:

(Greek mythology) A man described variously as a handsome Aeolian shepherd, hunter, or king, who was loved by Selene or Artemis (the two being often conflated) and was said to rule and live at Olympia in Elis, as well as venerated and said to reside in Caria, southwest Asia Minor, on Mount Latmus.


Aramaneak

Transliteration of Old Armenian Արամանեակ (Aramaneak).

translit

Armenak (alternative)
Aramanyak (alternative)

(Armenian mythology) A legendary patriarch of the Armenian nation, the eldest son of Hayk.


cowalker

(mythology) A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.


cosmic egg

Some say that Amma was the cosmic egg and fertilized himself.


thread of life

threads of life (plural)
lifethread (alternative)
life thread (alternative)

(Greek mythology) A metaphor for a person’s lifespan, as generated by Clotho, measured out by Lachesis, and terminated by Atropos.

livstråd

metaphor for the lifespan of an individual


serpopard

(Egyptian mythology, Mesopotamian mythology) A mythical animal resembling a serpent-necked leopard, known from Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian depictions.


Nephthys

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νέφθυς (Néphthus), from Egyptian nbt-ḥwt, O9 t:H8

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Set and sister of Isis, Osiris, and Set, worshiped as a protective goddess and nurse of the pharaoh and associated with funerary rites and the transition from life to death.

Νέφθυς

ancient Egyptian funerary and protective goddess


adlet

Adlets are wont to hunt on all fours, and so were born stories of giant black dogs that accost travelers.

2006, Aaron Rosenberg, Various, Chosen RPG, Impressions, →ISBN:

An adlet is part-human and part-canine, […]. They can be cannibals, eating other dogs. When they first hunt prey they go for the victim's throat and drink the fresh blood.

2012, Lisa Regan, Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies, Amber Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 71:

... that one of their ancestors has been married to a dog and that they have canine blood in their veins. This does not mean, of course, that they can transform themselves into an Adlet or that they enjoy any special protection from its attentions.

2016, Dr. Bob Curran, Andy Paciorek, The Carnival Of Dark Dreams, →ISBN, page 56:

"We could mate with humans, but then we'd have to expose our existence, and there's no guarantee that the baby will be an adlet." She cleared her throat. "Of course, I'd love a human baby just as much as an adlet, but we need more halflings […]"
[…]
The dogs mated with other dogs and stayed in their canine form, but the halflings mated with both humans and dogs and so the adlets continued to spread across the land, always evolving. Some adlet families are more human than dog, ...

2019, Laura Greenwood, Skye MacKinnon, Under the Ice, Peryton Press:

(cryptozoology, mythology) A cryptid in Inuit mythology and folklore in Canada and Greenland, a tall, dog-legged humanoid (sometimes identified with inland Native Americans).


lares and penates

A calque of Latin lares et penates. See lar and penates.

The particular gods of the household were its lares and penates.

1995, Antony Kamm, The Romans: An Introduction, page 87:

(Roman mythology) The household deities of ancient Rome, respectively overseeing the family and its house and storerooms.


Danaus

From Latin Danaus, from Ancient Greek Δᾰνᾰός (Dănăós).

(Greek mythology) a mythical king who founded Argos


Icarus

From Latin Īcarus, from Ancient Greek Ἴκαρος (Íkaros).

(Greek mythology) A Greek mythological figure, son of Daedalus, who escaped from the Cretan labyrinth of Knossos by flying with wings made from feathers and wax, but flew too near to the sun, which melted the wax in the wings, so he fell down and drowned in the Aegean Sea.


vimana

(mythology) A mythological flying palace or chariot described in Hindu texts and Sanskrit epics.


Nausicaa

/nɔːˈsɪkeɪə/

From Latin Nausicaa, from Ancient Greek Ναυσικάα (Nausikáa).

Nausicäa (alternative)
Nausicaä (alternative)

But no catastrophe occurred. I lived to watch on a strange shore a black and youthful Nausicaa, with a joyous train of attendant maidens, carrying baskets of linen to a clear stream overhung by the heads of slender palm-trees.

1904–1906, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXXIX, in The Mirror of the Sea, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published October 1906, →OCLC:

(Greek mythology) A princess who aids Odysseus.


Zalmoxis

(mythology) A divinity among the Getae, an ancient people of the lower Danube.


billow maiden

(mythology) Any of the nine daughters of the sea-god Ran in Norse mythology.


Warharmi

From the figure's name in Yuman languages (Yuma, Kumeyaay, etc).

(mythology) An ambiguously gendered figure in Yuman (Kumeyaay, Yuma, etc) mythology who brought the Yumans seeds, the techniques of agriculture, and the tradition of painting oneself before war.


Ctimene

(Ancient Greek mythology) The younger sister of Odysseus, the legendary king of Ithaca.


Chelone

From Ancient Greek χελώνη (khelṓnē, “tortoise”).

uder

(Greek mythology) A woman who became the tortoise as punishment for disobeying a summons from the gods.


Fintan

(Irish mythology) In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, the father of Cethern.


Danu

Learned borrowing from Old Irish, from a reconstructed nominative form of the genitive Danann (also spelled Donand or Danand).
In particular, Danann is attested in the term Tuatha Dé Danann, which is typically translated "tribe of Danu" but used as the collective name for certain Irish gods (or, more prosaically, the people of a particular wave of immigration to Ireland, in the traditional history).
The etymology is controversial and has been debated since the 19th century. Some scholars identify Danu with the goddess Anu, perhaps as a contraction of día Anu ("goddess Anu").

This [battle] appears in Celtic history as that in which the Tuatha dè Danann, the tribes of the goddess Danu fought and conquered the Fir Bolg on Midsummer's Day.

1897, The Westminster Review, Volume 148: July-December 1897, page 17:

The old poets thought that the tribes of the goddess Danu were of a perfect beauty, and the creators of beautiful people and beautiful arts.

1897, W. B. Yeats, “The Tribes of Danu”, in The New Review, Volume 17: July-December 1897, William Heinemann, page 550:

1987, Peter Alderson Smith, W. B. Yeats and the Tribes of Danu: Three Views of Ireland's Fairies, C. Smythe, page 52,
She may be the same as Danu, or she may be the same as the Morrigu.

(Irish mythology) A hypothesised goddess of Irish mythology.


werejaguar

The rain god appears as a werejaguar, part human, part snarling beast.

A pottery figure of a Mexican god who was thought to assume the shapes of many animals. Here he is shown as a werejaguar.

1973, Nancy Garden, Werewolves, Lippincott (1973), page 115 (image caption)

Before your eyes, the shaman has transformed himself into a werejaguar!

2008, Buried Treasures: Young Explorers' Guide, QA International, →ISBN, page 33:

(fiction, mythology) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a jaguar.


Grendel

(mythology) A monster or giant slain by Beowulf in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem.


Autolycus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αὐτόλυκος (Autólukos).

(Greek mythology) In Ancient Greek mythology, a son of Hermes and Chione. A successful robber, he was capable of changing his own form and that of the goods he stole.


Clytemnestra

From Latin Clytaemnēstra, Ancient Greek Κλυταιμνήστρα (Klutaimnḗstra).

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Κλυταιμνήστρα

(Greek mythology) wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed after the Trojan War, whereupon was killed herself by their son Orestes


Bubastis

Borrowed from Latin Bubastis, from Βούβαστις (Boúbastis), from pr (“house”) + bꜣstt (“Bastet”).

1861, Bubastis, entry in W. Smith (editor), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Volume 1, John Murray, page 515,
But it seems more natural to suppose here, as in other instances of Egyptian religion, that the worship of Bubastis was originally the worship of the cat itself, which was subsequently refined into a mere symbol of the goddess. The fact that the ancients identify Bubastis with Artemis or Diana is to us a point of great difficulty, since the information we possess respecting the Egyptian goddess presents little or no resemblance between the two divinities.

(Egyptian mythology) The goddess Bastet.


Thyonian

en-adj

Thyonian (comparative more Thyonian, superlative most Thyonian)

more Thyonian (comparative)
most Thyonian (superlative)

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Thyone.


Fama

(Roman mythology) The Roman equivalent of the Greek Pheme, a personification of fame and renown.


gytrash

gytrashes (plural)
guytrash (alternative)

(mythology) A legendary black dog (or sometimes a horse or mule) said to haunt lonely roads in northern England and lead people astray.


Ixtab

(mythology) The Yucatec Mayan goddess of suicide, represented as a dead woman with a rope around her neck.


Typhonomachy

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τῡφωνομᾰχία (Tūphōnomăkhía), from Τῡφῶν (Tūphôn) + μάχη (mákhē, “battle, fight”).

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(Greek mythology) The battle between Zeus and the fearsome monster Typhon


Eurybia

(Greek mythology) A sea goddess in Ancient Greek mythology.


Harpocrates

From Ancient Greek Ἁρποκράτης (Harpokrátēs), from Egyptian ḥr-pꜣ-ẖrd, from ḥr (“Horus”) + pꜣ (“the”) + ẖrd (“child”).

(Greek mythology) The god of silence, secrets and confidentiality.

Roman goddess of trust and confidentiality


hexadecile

From hexa- + decile or hexadeca- + -ile.

But becauſe ſome Aſpects are more Effectual than others, therefore they are (reſpectu graduum, Scientiæ and Congruentiæ, necnon Efficacitatus) thus to be Diſposed: viz. ☌. ☍. ◻. △. ⚹. SS. Q. Bq. Vc. Dec. Td. Sq. SSq. whereunto are added (as in the laſt and loweſt degree of Dignity and Efficacy) the Quindecile, Hexadecile, Vigintile, and the Icoſiteſſeragonall, (or figure of 24 ſides), which are only considered in Venus and Mercury with the Sun.

1683, George Wharton, “Of the Planetary Aspects, both Old and New, their Characters, and Æquations”, in John Gadbury, editor, The Works of that Late Most Excellent Philosopher and Astronomer, Sir George Wharton, Bar[onet]. Collected into One Entire Volume, London: Printed by H. H. for John Leigh, at Stationers Hall, →OCLC, page 92:

(astrology, obsolete) The aspect or position of any two celestial bodies separated by 22.5° (that is, 360° divided by 16) as they appear to an observer on earth.


hexadecile

(astrology, obsolete) Of or denoting a hexadecile aspect.


Aidos

(Greek mythology) The goddess or personification of humility, modesty.


caladrius

From Medieval Latin caladrius, from Byzantine Greek χαλαδριός (khaladriós), from Ancient Greek χαραδριός (kharadriós).

(mythology) A mythical bird that had healing powers.


Akashic Records

(esoterism, occult) Mythological records or archives, in a spiritual plane, containing information about everything that ever happened.

Arquivos Acásicos

spiritual records about everything that ever happened


Ephialtes

From Ancient Greek Ἐφιάλτης (Ephiáltēs).

Éphialtès

either the ancient Greek statesman or a mythological Giant


Acoetes

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) One of several mythological characters.

One of several mythological characters.
An attendant of Bacchus.

One of several mythological characters.
The father of Laocoön.

A Theban character in Statius’s Thebaid.


Tiki

(mythology) The first human, in Polynesian mythology.


Sutekh

From Egyptian sw-W-t:x-A40 (swtḫ), a New Kingdom variant of s-t:X (stẖ).

Seth (alternative)
Set (alternative)
Setekh (alternative)
Suty (alternative)

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian god, variously described as the god of chaos, the god of thunder and storms, or the god of destruction.


Pazuzu

Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒉺𒍪𒍪 (Pazūzu).

lbor

Fazuzu (alternative)
Pazuza (alternative)

(mythology) In Assyrian and Babylonian mythology, the king of the demons of the wind, often depicted as a combination of diverse animal and human parts.


Magonia

(mythology) A cloud realm from which felonious aerial sailors were said to come in flying ships, according to an ancient treatise against weather magic by the Carolingian bishop Agobard of Lyon.


Nüwa

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女媧／女娲 (Nǚwā)

The first sovereign was Fuxi, the heavenly sovereign, and first ancestor of 100 emperors. His marriage to his sister, Nüwa, balanced yin and yang.

2008, Essential Visual History Of World Mythology, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, page 334:

(Chinese mythology) a goddess who repaired heaven and created the Earth


lilith

[A] Mandaic specimen from Kutha (BM 91715) which contains two independent incantations separated by a line: a historiola relating the expulsion of a particular lilith and the report of a dream purportedly dreamt by the client[.]

2004, The Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, volume 29, page 31:

It describes the liliths who are divorced with these words: “naked are you sent forth, nor are you clad, with your hair disheveled and let fly behind your backs.” And indeed, the drawing of the lilith depicts her as naked[.]

2013, Practicing Gnosis: Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy, page 384:

A drawing and a few inscriptions indicate the appearance of a lilith, as a young naked woman with long dishevelled hair and prominent breasts and genitals […].

2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 68:

(mythology) A type of female Mesopotamian demon, typically seen as coming to men in dreams and as endangering women during pregnancy or childbirth.


Rhene

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ῥήνη (Rhḗnē).

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the paramour of King Oïleus of Locris and the mother of either or neither of his sons Medon and Ajax.

Rene

nymph, paramour of Locrian king Oïleus, disputed mother by him of Medon or Ajax

an oread of Mount Cyllene, lover of Hermes and the mother by him of Saon of Samothrace.

Rene

oread of Mouth Cyllene, lover of Hermes, mother by him of Samothracian Saon


fastwalker

From fast + walker, from the notion that UFOs travel fast. Originally a code word created by NORAD.


Orthrus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὄρθρος (Órthros).

(Greek mythology) A two-headed dog who guarded Geryon's cattle and was killed by Heracles.


Skuld

From Old Norse Skuld, from Proto-Indo-European *skel- (“to be obligated”). See English should.

der

(Norse mythology) the Norn of the future


Hypsipyle

From Latin Hypsipylē and its etymon, the Ancient Greek Ῠ̔ψῐπῠ́λη (Hŭpsĭpŭ́lē).

(Greek mythology) The daughter of Thoas and Myrina, queen of Lemnos at the time of the curse by Aphrodite, the island’s subsequent androcide, and the Argonauts’ two-year sojourn on the island, during which time she bore Jason twin sons.


Siege Perilous

(mythology) In Arthurian legend, a vacant seat at the Round Table, reserved by Merlin for the knight who would one day be successful in the quest for the Holy Grail.


midsphere

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This celestial river (Nadī) transforms into [the] terrestrial one (sindhu) after falling from heaven (midsphere) in the form of rain-drops.

2003, Ravi Prakash Arya, New discoveries about Vedic Sarasvatī, page 22:

The smoke emitted by a burnt solid being vikāra of gaseous water, experiences upward acceleration to join the midsphere water.

2005, Vishveshvaranand Indological Journal, volumes 43-44, page 48:

The whole universe of these deities in divided in three spheres— earth, midsphere and sky.

2009, Śaśi Tivārī, Alka B. Bakre, editors, Contemporary world order: a Vedic perspective, World Association for Vedic Studies, India Conference, page 173:

(religion, Vedic mythology, uncountable) A supposed realm between earth and heaven.


Brynhild

(mythology) Alternative form of Brunhild


man in black

Coordinate term: black helicopter

Ever since the cessation of activity by Albert Bender in 1954, and followed closely by a few others, whose disappear[a]nce though less spectacular, from this field of work, caused a stir among the then active workers; the words he used in reference to his case "that he had been visited by three men in black, who demanded that he cease his investigations" left many to conjecture as to who they were, and what was their reason and who they represented.

1958, The Australian Saucer Record, volume 4, number 4, page 1:

Often they arrive at the scene of a UFO landing before those involves have had a chance to tell their story to the authorities, indicating that these Men-in-Black can read – as well as CONTROL – minds.

1991 March 26, John A. Keel, “Who are the UFO silencers?”, in Weekly World News, volume 12, number 25, page 8:

In many UFO sightings in which evidence of the sighting is claimed to exist, government "men in black" are reported to appear at the witnesses' doors demanding the evidence and threatening witnesses in the event they divulge any information regarding their sighting.

1995, James L. Thompson, Alien encounters: the deception menace, Cedar Fort, page 52:

Stories of “men-in-black,” who confront those who have witnessed a UFO with the intention of persuading them to keep their knowledge of space creatures a secret, are also amenable to folkloristic analysis.

1995, John A. Saliba, “UFO Contactee Phenomena from a Sociopsychological Perspective: A Review”, in The Gods have landed: new religions from other worlds, SUNY Press, page 218:

(ufology) A covert government operative, wearing a black suit and black aviator sunglasses, believed by conspiracy theorists to cover up UFO incidents.


Aatxe

Borrowed from Basque Aatxe (“young bull”).

(mythology) A spirit in Basque mythology, a cave-dwelling shapeshifter usually taking the form of a young bull. Arising from his lair at night, more so in stormy weather, Aatxe attacks malevolent people such as criminals and, in addition, safeguards people by keeping them at home when danger is nearby.


duergar

Borrowed from Old Norse dvergr; cf. Icelandic dvergar. Doublet of dwarf.

(mythology) One of a race of ugly dwarfs, particularly associated with the Simonside Hills of Northumberland in northern England.


Gogmagog

Goemagot (alternative)
Goemot (alternative)

Often connected to the Biblical characters Gog and Magog. However, Manley Pope, author of an 1862 English translation of the Welsh chronicle Brut y Brenhinedd, argued that it was a corruption of Welsh Gawr Madoc (Madoc the Giant).

It’s funny enough now, but it wasn’t funny then, for I got in such a state that I believed, actually believed, that Fauns lived in a certain double hedgerow near the Gog Magogs, and one evening I walked a mile sooner than go through it alone.

1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, VII [Uniform ed., p. 86]

(mythology) A legendary giant in Welsh and later English folklore, said to have been a giant inhabitant of Albion who was thrown off a cliff during a wrestling match with Corineus, a companion of Brutus of Troy.


Empusa

From Ancient Greek Ἔμπουσα (Émpousa, “species of monster of Greek mythology”).

Hobbes compares this hybrid school divinity to Empusa, a female specter in ancient Greek mythology who was supposed to have been sent by the goddess Hecate[…].

1999, Douglas M. Jesseph, Squaring the Circle, University of Chicago Press, page 311:

The Empusa was a female vampire from Greek mythology that feasted on the blood of men.

2014, Barbara Cox, Scott Forbes, Haunted Homes, Gareth Stevens Publishing, page 20:

(Greek mythology) A monster sent by (and sometimes the progeny of) the goddess Hecate; when imagined as the first or only empusa, or as a species of monster.


empusa

empusas (plural)
empusae (plural)
empousa (alternative)
empuse (alternative)

1858, "Empūsa", entry in William Smith, A Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography, John Murray, page 240,
The Lamiae and Mormolyceia, who assumed the form of handsome women for the purpose of attracting young men, and then sucked their blood like vampyrs and ate their flesh, were reckoned among the Empusae.

The empusae of Greek mythology demonstrate physical animal traits of the donkey and the female dog in order to emphasize certain negative characteristics associated with these animals in mythology that can also be applied to human beings.

2016, Heide Crawford, The Origins of the Literary Vampire, Rowman & Littlefield, page 41:

(Greek mythology) In Ancient Greek mythology, a kind of spectre sent by Hecate to guard roads and devour travellers.


empousa

(Greek mythology) Alternative form of empusa


jann

en-noun

jann (plural janns or jinnan or jawan or jinn or jinnah)

janns (plural)
jinnan (plural)
jawan (plural)
jinn (plural)
jinnah (plural)

(rare, mythology) One of the jinn; a genie.


Shawalo

(mythology) In Kalash myth, the meadow where Mahandeu cheated Balimain from superiority, when all the gods had slept together.


water nymph

From Middle English water-nymph, equivalent to water + nymph.

(mythology) A female spirit presiding over fountains, wells, streams, etc.


edimmu

(mythology) In Sumerian religion, a class of utukku or spirits, envisioned as the ghosts of those who did not receive a proper burial.


utukku

(mythology) In Sumerian religion, a class of spirits who had escaped the underworld, either by their own power or by being summoned forth by a priest.


Pania

(mythology) A beautiful maiden in Maori mythology, and symbol of the New Zealand city of Napier.


Telamon

From Ancient Greek Τελαμών (Telamṓn, literally “the bearer”).

der

(Greek mythology) Father of Ajax, brother of Peleus.


Cap

Caps are also naturally inclined towards stability and security—they're totally different from noncommittal Sagittarius men. If you're looking for someone who's ready to commit rather than stay in a situationship, odds are that he might be a Capricorn.

2022 December 8, Jake Register, “Everything You Need to Know About Dating a Capricorn Man”, in Cosmopolitan:

(astrology, informal) Clipping of Capricorn.


Aegisthus

/ɪˈd͡ʒɪsθəs/

From Latin Aegisthus, from Ancient Greek Αἴγισθος (Aígisthos).

(Greek mythology) The murderer of Agamemnon and lover of his wife Clytemnestra.


Phaëthontiad

Borrowed from Latin Phaëthontias (stem: Phaëthontiad-).

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(Greek mythology) Each of the sisters of Phaëthon.


Juturna

(Roman mythology) A goddess of fountains, wells and springs, and the mother of Fontus by Janus.


erotes

Regretfully, the shaft of the stele is lost, and only the central part of its gable is preserved, featuring a bust of the goddess, flanked by two Erotes.

1999, Yulia Ustinova, The Supreme Gods of the Bosporan Kingdom, BRILL, page 49:

There is also a parallel if less common iconography of the standing Narcissus (both alone with erotes—for example, from IX.3.5/24[…]—and with Echo and erotes—for example, Naples Museum[…].

2007, Jaś Elsner, Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text, Princeton University Press, unnumbered page:

The relative scarcity of children's sarcophagi (i.e. of child-sized sarcophagi) and specifically child-related iconographies. The Attic sarcophagi with Erotes are an exception to this.

2018, B. C. Ewald, “Attic Sarcophagi”, in Lucy Gaynor Audley-Miller, Beate Dignas, editors, Wandering Myths, De Gruyter, page 239:

(Greek mythology, often capitalised) Collectively, a group of winged gods attendant to Aphrodite, of whom Eros is the best known.


time twin

(astrology) Either of two people born at the same time on the same day and thus supposed to have similar traits or life events.


Rem

(Egyptian mythology) An Egyptian fish god who fertilized the land with his tears.


Huginn

(Norse mythology) one of a pair of ravens, the other being Muninn, who fly throughout the world and report any unusual events back to Odin. They are essentially Odin's messengers


Achaeus

(Greek mythology) A male given name from Ancient Greek.


Telemachian

en-adj

Telemachian (comparative more Telemachian, superlative most Telemachian)

more Telemachian (comparative)
most Telemachian (superlative)

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Telemachus.


ice maiden

(mythology, fantasy) A woman who comes from a frozen climate.


Hippolyta

(Greek mythology) An Amazonian queen who possessed a magic girdle given to her by her father, Ares.


Pyramus

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) a Babylonian lover in the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe


Thisby

(mythology, archaic) a comically incorrect spelling of Thisbe used in A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare


Perigenia

(Greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of Sinis


Cephalus

From the Ancient Greek κέφᾰλος (képhălos, “a species of mullet”).

der

(Greek mythology) An ancient Greek lover of Procris who accidentally slew her as she spied upon him.


Thyia

Ancient Greek, from θύω (thúō, “celebrate”)

(Greek mythology) the naiad of a spring on Mount Parnassos where the Thyiades of Dionysus gathered to revel


tarrasque

In the fantasy sense, introduced in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, derived from tarasque (“mythical European dragon”).


Verdandi

From Old Norse Verðandi, from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, wind”).

(Norse mythology) the Norn of the present


Teucer

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τεῦκρος (Teûkros).

Teucris (alternative)
Teucros (alternative)
Teucrus (alternative)

(Greek mythology) The son of King Telamon and Hesione, who fought in the Trojan War and was renowned for his skill in archery.


Chaon

Andromache informs Aeneas that Helenus named the region Chaonia after the Trojan Chaon (334-5).

1997, Michael Paschalis, Virgil's Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 132:

(Greek mythology) A character in Virgil's Aeneid: a Trojan hero, a companion or perhaps brother of Helenus, and the eponym of Chaonia and the Chaonians.


Nut

Borrowed from Egyptian nwt (“Nut, sky”).

Not (alternative)
Nunut (alternative)
Nenet (alternative)
Nuit (alternative)

(Egyptian mythology) The goddess who serves as the personification of the sky.


Chironic

en-adj

Chironic (comparative more Chironic, superlative most Chironic)

more Chironic (comparative)
most Chironic (superlative)

(astrology) Pertaining to Chiron, an asteroid-comet Centaur


Chironian

(Greek mythology, astronomy) Pertaining to Chiron.


Epona

Ultimately from a suffixed form of Gaulish epos (“horse”), from Proto-Celtic *ekʷos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos.

(mythology) In Gallo-Roman religion, a goddess of fertility and protector of horses, ponies, donkeys, and mules.


Ino

(Greek mythology) A queen of Boeotia who, after her death and transfiguration, was worshipped as a goddess under the epithet Leucothea.


Palatua

(Roman mythology) The tutelary goddess of the Palatine.


Vestal

(mythology) Alternative form of vestal (Pertaining to the goddess Vesta)


Pyrrha

(Greek mythology) The wife of Deucalion.


Creon

Creone (alternative)
Kreon (alternative)

It has often been observed that Creon imputes corrupt motives (here and to Teiresias), because this was a level of motivation within his comprehension.

1980, R. P. Winnington-Ingram, Sophocles: An Interpretation, →ISBN, page 126:

Above all -- and this is of central importance in connection with the legal implications -- it is essential to understand that Creon must emerge as an appropriate counterweight to the obsessive energy of Antigone: that "Antigone's fate provides the foil for Creon and, in turn, Creon's fate becomes evident only against the background of Antigone's desitiny.

2003, Theodore Ziolkowski, The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises, →ISBN, page 152:

Perhaps more than any other figure in the Oedipus Trilogy, Creon, Oedipus' brother-in-law, seems to be a very different character in each of the plays.

2011, Regina Higgins, Charles Higgins, Cliffs Notes on Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy, →ISBN, page 81:

(Greek mythology) King of Thebes, noted primarily in the stories of Antigone and Oedipus.


Ogygia

/əʊˈdʒɪdʒiə/

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὠγυγία (Ōgugía).

(Greek mythology) The island home of the nymph Calypso, where she entertained Odysseus for seven years.


Valgrind

From Old Norse Valgrind, from valr (“dead warrior”) + grind (“gate”).

(Norse mythology) The main entrance to Valhalla in Norse mythology.


Gello

From Ancient Greek Γελλώ (Gellṓ), perhaps from Akkadian; see Γελλώ (Gellṓ) for more.

spontaneous abortion
spontaneous abortion

(Greek mythology) A female demon or revenant who threatens the reproductive cycle by causing infertility, spontaneous abortion, and infant mortality.


Thyestes

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Θυέστης (Thuéstēs).

(Greek mythology) A king of Olympia; the son of Pelops and Hippodamia; and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus. He and his brother Atreus were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother Chrysippus.


Ladon

(Greek mythology) A serpent-like dragon that twined around the tree in the Garden of the Hesperides and guarded the golden apples.


Byblis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βυβλίς (Bublís).

(Greek mythology) A daughter of Miletus who fell in love with Caunus, her twin brother.


Thalestris

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Θάληστρις (Thálēstris).

Victory must now have fallen to the side of the travellers (for the bravest troops must yield to numbers) had not Susan the chambermaid come luckily to support her mistress. This Susan was as two-handed a wench (according to the phrase) as any in the country, and would, I believe, have beat the famed Thalestris herself, or any of her subject Amazons; for her form was robust and man-like, and every way made for such encounters.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

(Greek mythology) The queen of the Amazons, said to have brought 300 women to Alexander the Great, hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he.


Tian

The pinyin romanization of Mandarin 天 (Tiān).

...‘Heaven’ as we use it throughout the book is only a convenient but inaccurate translation of the Chinese character tian. Heaven in Chinese religions as well as in the Confucian tradition has multidimensional implications... In its metaphysical and physical connotation, Heaven... refers to... Nature. Applied in the spiritual realm, it signifies an anthropomorphic Lord or a Supreme Being who presides in Heaven, and rules over or governs directly the spiritual and material worlds.

2000, Yao Xinzhong, An Introduction to Confucianism, page 142:

Supreme being in Chinese philosophy and religion. He rules over lesser gods, humankind, and controls the cosmos. The word Tian may also refer to Heaven. As a god, Tian is often seen as an impersonal power...

2003, Constance Victoria Briggs, The Encyclopedia of God, s.v. "Tian"::

It was not just the sky, but a god with wills and intentions, seen as sovereign of all... In fact, "Tian" was another reverent term to address the supreme god: "Heaven, for the help of the inferior people, made for them rulers, and made for them instructors" ("Great Declaration I" in the Book of History)...

2018, Zhuo Xinping, Religious Faith of the Chinese, page 58:

(Chinese mythology) Synonym of Heaven: simultaneously conceived as the Heavens, Nature, and an anthropomorphic supreme God.


Patroclus

From Latin Patroclus, from Ancient Greek Πάτροκλος (Pátroklos).

(Greek mythology) A character in the Iliad, known for his close relationship to Achilles.


Victory

en-proper noun

Victory (countable and uncountable, plural Victorys or Victories)

Victorys (plural)
Victories (plural)
victory (alternative)

All along the Champs Elysées were […] statues of plaster representing nymphs, triumphs, victories, and other female personages painted in oil so as to represent marble; real marble could have had no better effect, and the appearance of the whole was lively and picturesque in the extreme.

1841, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Mr. Titmarsh to Miss Smith on the Second Funeral of Napoleon. Letter III. The Funeral Ceremony.”, in The Second Funeral of Napoleon: […] And The Chronicle of the Drum. […], London: Hugh Cunningham, […], →OCLC, page 63:

The two reverse groupings which originate on sestertii of Hadrian (BMCCRE III, pl. 79, 7), continue through the coinage of Caracalla, and show Victory floating or standing to the left or right with a standard or trophy held crosswise and extended in the hands are nothing more than the translations of similarly arranged Victoriae from the spandrels of triumphal arches to coin reverses.

1953, Gnomon: Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft, pages 475–476:

Behind Roma seated with Victoriola on the exten ded^([sic]) hand a full-sized Victory approaches from the right with crown and palm.

1974, The Goddess Roma in the Art of the Roman Empire, page 44:

We know from Dio that, when the Curia Iulia, begun by Caesar in 44 B.C., was finally dedicated in 29 B.C., Octavian set up a statue of Victory beside the altar of Victoria which he also dedicated there (51, 22, 2).[…]The type, which inspired innumerable copies, appears on coins by 31 B.C., if not earlier, and shows such a Victory holding in the right hand a wreath and in the left a palm branch, occasionally other attributes. Four years later, when Augustus received the clupeus virtutis, this was placed near the statue of Victory in the Curia Iulia.[…]The fact that there are two Victories at Lugdunum raises a different question, however.

1993, Duncan Fishwick, “The Twin Victories”, in The Imperial Cult in the Latin West, 2nd edition, volume I,1, E.J. Brill, →ISBN, book I, chapter “Roma et Augustus”, subchapter “The Altar of the Three Gauls”, pages 111–112:

(uncountable, Roman mythology) Synonym of Victoria (“the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike”); also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman.


Shu

Borrowed from Egyptian šw (“Shu”, literally “Emptiness”), a derivative of the verb šwj (“to be empty, devoid of”).

bor

(Egyptian mythology) A god personifying the air and atmosphere.


Wayland

From Old English Wēland, related to Old Norse Vǫlundr, Old High German Wiolant (German Wieland). Cf. English wile.

(mythology) A legendary blacksmith in Germanic mythology.


Tien

(Chinese mythology) Alternative form of Tian: Heaven, simultaneously conceived as the Heavens, Nature, and an anthropomorphic supreme God.


Carmean

(mythology) Of or relating to the consort of Zeus Carme in Greek mythology.


Senectus

(Roman mythology) A son of Nox and the spirit of old age. He is the Roman equivalent of Geras.


Tmolus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τμῶλος (Tmôlos).

(Greek mythology) A king of Lydia and husband to Omphale.

The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.

a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169:

(mythology) A mountain, Mount Tmolus, the modern Bozdağ.


shikigami

(Japanese mythology) A kind of ghost or spirit in Japanese folklore.


skymaiden

(mythology) A young woman who comes from the sky.


Atum

Borrowed from Coptic ⲁⲧⲟⲩⲙ (atoum, “Atum”), from Egyptian tm (“Atum”).

(Egyptian mythology) The creator god of Heliopolis, the original source of all matter, associated with the evening sun.


Geb

Borrowed from Egyptian gbb (“Geb, earth”).

(Egyptian mythology) The god who serves as the personification of the earth.


Mirkwood

From Old Norse Myrkviðr (“murky wood; dark wood; black forest”), as anglicised by William Morris and later adopted by J. R. R. Tolkien. Direct derivatives of the name occur as place names in Sweden and Norway.

cal

(mythology) Any of several European forests in Germanic mythology.


Kipper

en-noun

Kipper (countable and uncountable, plural Kippers)

(cartomancy) A type of fortune-telling cards.


Hippodamia

/ˌhɪpɒdəˈmaɪə/

From Ancient Greek Ἱπποδάμεια (Hippodámeia).

Hippodamea (alternative)
Hippodameia (alternative)

Restored to life, Pelops competes for Hippodamia against her father Oenomaus, who dies cursing Pelops' family.

2007, Marianthe Colakis, Mary Joan Masello, Classical Mythology & More: A Reader Workbook, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, →ISBN, page 207:

(Greek mythology) Various female Ancient Greek mythological figures, especially the queen of Pisa as the wife of Pelops.


Shem HaMephorash

From Hebrew הַשֵּׁם הַמְפוֹרָשׁ (haššēm hamp̄ōrāš, literally “the explicit name”).

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הַשֵּׁם הַמְפוֹרָשׁ

Neither the divine name composed of twelve letters, nor the one of forty-two letters, ever obtained the title of Shem HaMephorash—this being the designation of the particular name, or the Tetragrammaton, as we have already propounded.

1865, Christian David Ginsburg, The Kabbalah: Its Doctrines, Development, and Literature, page 100:

The death penalty was inflicted only upon the blasphemer who used the Ineffable Name, the Shem HaMephorash, YHWH, or its equivalent Adonai (“Our Lord”).

1963, George Horowitz, The Spirit of Jewish Law:

And one time only he disobeyed the Rabbi Low, and Rabbi Low erased the Shem HaMephorash from the golem's forehead and the golem fell down like a dead one.

2014, Avram Davidson, The Avram Davidson Treasury, →ISBN:

Shaah - To lay waste, devastate; 28th name of Shem HaMephorash

2017, Brian Pivik, Gematria and the Tanakh, →ISBN, page 244:

(Judaism, mysticism) One of the esoteric names of God within Kabballah, corresponding to the Tetragrammaton, often referring to a 72-worded variant in particular.


Chryseis

(Greek mythology) A character in the Iliad.


Briseis

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Βρισηΐς (Brisēḯs, “daughter of Briseus/Brises”).

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Briseida (alternative)
Briseide (alternative)
Briseïs (alternative)

So Akhilleus calls an assembly — any oddness in his doing so at this juncture is mitigated by Thetis' instructions (34–6) — and much of the Book is occupied with the speeches of reconciliation and the handing over of Briseis and Agamemnon's gifts.

1991, Mark W. Edwards, The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume V, books 17–20, Cambridge University Press, published 1995, page 234:

1993 [Random House (Knopf)], Tim Parks (translator), Roberto Calasso, The Marriage Of Cadmus And Harmony, 1994, Random House (Vintage), page 90,
And the Iliad was founded on a play of words, the substitution of a couple of letters in a name. Briseis, Chryseis. The bone of contention that triggers the poem is Briseis kallipárēos, Briseis “of the lovely cheeks”: Agamemnon wants her exchanged with, or substituted for, Chryseis kallipárēos, Chryseis “of the lovely cheeks." In Greek only two letters separate the two girls.

The character of Briseis and the story of her relationship with Achilles stand in the background of the entire Iliad: the poem opens, literally, with Achilles' anger, which at 1.298–9 turns out to be caused by Briseis’ abduction on Agamemnon's order, and ends shortly after Achilles sleeps with her once again in his tent (24.675-6).

2012, Marco Fantuzzi, Achilles in Love: Intertextual Studies, Oxford University Press, page 99:

(Greek mythology) A legendary figure who features in the Iliad; a princess granted as concubine to Achilles after the sacking of her city, Lyrnessus, before the beginning of the story.


Bifrost

Yet Asgard is always prey to attacks, so Bifrost is guarded by Heimdall, the most astounding of sentries.

2001, Raymond L. Lee, Alistair B. Fraser, The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science, →ISBN, page 33:

The Younger Edda tells us that Asgard is an island surrounded by ocean that lies west of Europe and which is accessed by means of the rainbow bridge, Bifrost. Hence Asgard, like Atlantis, represents the North American ice sheet. Like Atlantis, Asgard has outlying colonies that lie "along the outer strand of that sea." The Bifrost bridge most likely signifies the ice sheet bridge that spanned Baffin Bay and the North Sea to connect the North American and Greenland ice sheets with the European ice sheet.

2005, Paul A. LaViolette, Earth Under Fire: Humanity's Survival of the Ice Age, →ISBN, page 250:

The only member of the Æsir not permitted to cross on Bifrost was Thor, the son of Odin and Jordr. Everyone feared Bifrost would bend and break under the weight of the mighty thundergod.

2010, Heilan Yvette Grimes, The Norse Myths, →ISBN, page 16:

In W. Petrie's book "The Story of the Aurora Borealis” (1963) it reads the following: “One can produce arguments that suggest Bifrost was the aurora."

2012, A. Brekke, A. Egeland, The Northern Light: From Mythology to Space Research, →ISBN, page 18:

(Norse mythology) The rainbow bridge that connects Asgard with Midgard.


Ennead

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐννεάς (Enneás), itself a calque of Egyptian psḏt (“nine, nineness, ennead”), from psḏw (“nine”).

calque

(Egyptian mythology) The collection of nine gods worshipped at Heliopolis and taking part in the Heliopolitan creation myth, together representing the sum of all the elements of the created world: Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Nut, Geb, Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys.


Tefnut

Borrowed from Egyptian tfnwt, tfnt (“Tefnut”).

(Egyptian mythology) A goddess of the Heliopolitan Ennead, commonly taken to be a personification of moisture


muhurtam

muhurtams (plural)
muhurtham (alternative)

Borrowed from Sanskrit मुहूर्तम् (muhūrtam).

(India, Hinduism, astrology) An auspicious day on which an important event, usually a wedding, can be held.


glawackus

(New England, mythology) A mythical monster resembling a mixture of a bear, panther, and lion, and having a fearsome screech.


werewoman

(mythology) A woman who takes the form of an animal through a process of lycanthropy.


Arimaspi

(mythology) A legendary tribe of one-eyed people of northern Scythia, described by Herodotus.


pixiu

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 貔貅 (píxiū).

(Chinese mythology) A mythical Chinese creature resembling a winged lion, supposed to bring wealth.


Aristaean

en-adj

Aristaean (comparative more Aristaean, superlative most Aristaean)

more Aristaean (comparative)
most Aristaean (superlative)

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Aristaeus.


Venti

1858, John Brougham, Neptune’s Defeat, New York: Sameuel French, Act I, Scene 3, p. 15,
Boreas, old buster, go unlock the cave
of Æolus, and let the Venti rave.

(Roman mythology) The four Roman gods of the winds (Aquilo, Favonius, Auster, and Eurus, who were each ascribed a cardinal direction from which their respective winds came), considered collectively.


Red Jews

(mythology) A legendary Jewish nation mentioned in vernacular sources from medieval Germany. They were said to be an epochal threat to Christendom, who would invade Europe during the tribulations leading to the end of the world.


diwata

Borrowed from Cebuano diwata, from Proto-Visayan *diwata, from Malay dewata, from Sanskrit देवता (devatā, “god, deity”).

(mythology, folklore) In Filipino folklore, a fairy, spirit, usually a lesser god or goddess, believed to guard natural features such as forests.


Sobek

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(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian deity associated with the crocodile.


cold iron

(mythology) a (possibly fictional) substance harmful to fairies; depending on the story, ordinary iron or iron treated in some way


Xiangyao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 相繇 (Xiāngyáo).

(Chinese mythology) Synonym of Xiangliu, a monster.


Xiangliu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 相柳 (Xiāngliǔ).

(Chinese mythology) A hydra-like monster which terrorized the world in prehistory.


Kanghui

(Chinese mythology) Personal name of Gonggong, a monster.


Gonggong

/ˈɡɔŋ(ˈ)ɡɔŋ/

225088 Gonggong
Cambridge University Press
Gonggong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 共工 (Gònggōng) (or 龔工／龚工 (Gōnggōng)), the name of the mythological figure.

Gong Gong (alternative)
Gong-Gong (alternative)
Gong-gong (alternative)

(Chinese mythology) A water god or monster who terrorized prehistoric China


Meleager

From Ancient Greek Μελέαγρος (Meléagros).

(Ancient Greek mythology) A hero venerated in his temenos at Calydon in Aetolia, famed as the host of the Calydonian boar hunt, and mentioned as one of the Argonauts.


Kumari Kandam

From Tamil குமரிக்கண்டம் (kumarikkaṇṭam).

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குமரிக்கண்டம்

(mythology) A mythical lost continent in the Indian Ocean, home to an ancient Tamil civilisation.


Utgard

Learned borrowing from Old Norse Útgarðar (“Outer Holds”). Compare to Norwegian Nynorsk utgard (“outer yard, forest space”)

cog

(Norse mythology) The abode of the giant Utgard-Loki, on the other side of the great sea that surrounds Midgard.


goblette

"I am Gwendolyn Goblin, soon to be chief on Goblin Mountain. Now get out of the way before I move you out."
"Ho, ho, ho. It is to laugh. You can't move me out, you skirted goblette. You must pay"
..
"So you're stuck, goblette," Hugh Mongous said. "Pay."
"This is outrageous!" Gwenndy said, stamping her little foot.
..
“Cups, glasses, containers, bottles, mugs—”
“Goblets?”
"Whatever."
“Nothing interesting,” Gwenny said, hoping the demoness would go away. There was no point in correcting her about the distinction between a goblet and a goblette, or in reminding her that there was only one goblin in this party. They had enough problems without having them complicated by a supernatural creature. Demonesses were supposed to be less worse than demons, being mischievous rather than mean, but their mischief could be formidable.

1992 "The Color of Her Panties" book 15 in Piers Anthony's Xanth series page 29

A girl Goblin. Happy Halloween to all you Goblins and Goblettes!

My dear, dear goblette, there is really nothing to it.

2015 "Goblin" The Adventures of Puss in Boots (Puss speaking to Cleevil)

I decided a "Goblette" was a shortstacked android goblin girl.


hircocervus

From Latin hircus (“goat”) + cervus (“stag”).

A legendary creature described as being a stag and goat hybrid, the hircocervus (“he-goat stag”) is said to have appeared in medieval bestiaries but there are no specific legends about them.

2016, Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, page 158:

(mythology) A mythical creature, half goat, half stag.


Momus

From Ancient Greek Μῶμος (Mômos), whose name is related to μομφή (momphḗ, “blame, reproach”).

The extraordinary section of the poem that here follows is based on the mythological story of Momus, expanded by the fancy of the modern poet. The story ran that Momus, "the jester", was hurled off Olympus by the other gods, who could not endure his satirical criticism. When Zeus gave the "fatal kick" that sent Momus off Olympus, it was fatal not so much to Momus as to the mountain of the gods, although apparently Olympus still aspired to heaven, while Momus went limping, crippled by his fall. But the gods, lacking the criticism of his Comic Spirit, rapidly degenerated, and soon fell to earth.

1912 G. M. TREVELYAN (in notes to The Poetical Works of George Meredith)

(Greek mythology) The personification of satire and mockery.


piskie

The farmer slunk away unperceived, and went to bed, where he lay a long while awake, thinking in what way he could best shew his gratitude to the piskie for such an important Service.

1865, Popular Romances of the West of England:

The piskie was in the shape of a man — very dark, black-haired, and cross-eyed.

1906, J. Henry Harris, Cornish Saints & Sinners:

Glister was determined to prove the wizened piskie wrong, but its taunts were well founded.

(mythology, fantasy literature, fairy tales) Alternative form of pixie (supernatural being): A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.


Demetrian

en-adj

Demetrian (comparative more Demetrian, superlative most Demetrian)

more Demetrian (comparative)
most Demetrian (superlative)

(Greek mythology) Of or relating to Demeter.


grundylow

(UK, folklore, mythology) Alternative form of grindylow


grindylow

grindylows (plural)
grundylow (alternative)

Possibly connected to Grendel, the monster from the epic Beowulf.

(UK, folklore, mythology) A folkloric creature, said to inhabit water and to grab children with its long sinewy arms and drown them.


Twilight of the Gods

From German Götterdämmerung (“twilight of the gods”); by erroneously translating Old Norse ragnarǫk (“fate of the gods”), misconstrued as ragnarøkkr (“twilight of the gods”).


Mezentius

(Roman mythology) The king of Caere and ally of Turnus.