A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Gods, Goddesses, Ghosts, Ghoulies,
Heroes, Villains and Things That Go Bump In The Night
- Sources
E
- E. An agricultural divinity and the patron of maize and maize
produce. Mayan
- E Alom, Primeval creator goddessess, literally, those who
conceive and give birth Mayan
- Ea. As a member of the supreme trinity he was god of the
waters, giver of arts and sciences and the healer of the sick.
Babylon/Mesopotamia
- Ea, God of wisdom, spells and incantations.
Sumerian/Babylon/Mesopotamia
- Eabani. The companion of Gilgamesh, the first primaeval man
who was turning his rugged face towards civilization through the
love of a woman. He takes part in the wanderings of Gilgamesh,
and fights with him against Ishtar and the heavenly bull sent by
Anu to avenge the insulted goddess. Apparently wounded in this
struggle Eabani dies. Armenian
Mythology
- Eac. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Eacus aka Aeacus, a son of Zeus and Aegina. He was born in the island of
Oenone or Oenopia, whither Aegina had been carried by Zeus to
secure her from the anger of her parents. Greek
- Eadon, Goddess of poetry. Ireland
- Easal, God of abundance and prosperity. He gave the sons of
Tuirrean seven magic pigs, which reappeared the day after they
were eaten. Ireland/Manx
- Easter aka Eastre. a putative goddess of the
Anglo-Saxons
- Eate, God of fire and storms. Basque
- Ebech, Old mountain god who was overcome by Inanna, the
goddess of war, love and the planet Venus. Canaan
- Ebhlinne, Goddess of Munster and midsummer, once a sun or
fire Goddess. Ireland
- Ehlose. The guardian spirit which may take many forms, and
warns of approaching dangers. Zulu
- Ebisu, God of fishermen, good luck, and workingmen, as well
as the guardian of the health of small children. Japan
- Eblis aka Iblis, Chief of the evil spirits, a Jinn made of
smokeless fire. In an outburst rooted in envy, Eblis disobeyed
Allah and was expelled from the grace of Allah. Islam
- Ebore, Sky god. Nigeria and Benin
- Eboza. A minor angel. Enochian
- Ecaop. A minor angel. Enochian
- Ecop. A minor angel. Enochian
- Echeclus, a son of Agenor, who was
slain by Achilles. A Trojan of the
same name occurs in the Iliad. Greece
- Ececheira, Goddess of armistices and peace Greek
- Echephron. A son of Heracles and
Psophis, the daughter of Xanthus or
Eryx. He was twin-brother of Promachus.
- Echephron. A son of Nestor by
Eurydice or Anaxibia. Grrek
- Echetlaeus, a mysterious being who during the battle of
Marathon appeared among the Greeks a man, who resembled a rustic,
and slew many of the barbarians with his plough. After the
battle, when he was searched for, he was not to be found
anywhere, and when the Athenians consulted the oracle, they were
commanded to worship the hero Echetlaeus. Greek
- Echidna,
a daughter of Tartarus and Ge, or of Chrysaor
and Callirrhoe and according to
others again, of Peiras and Styx.
Half—woman, half—serpent. She was mother of the
Chimæra, the many—headed dog Orthos, the
hundred—headed dragon of the Hesperides, the Colchian
dragon, the Sphinx, Cerberus,
Scylla, the Gorgons, the Lernæan
hydra, the vulture that gnawed away the liver of Prometheus, and the Nemean lion. Greek
- Echinades. One of the five surviving Spartae that had grown up from the dragon's
teeth, which Cadmus had sown.
Greek
- Echo,
an Oreade, who when Zeus was playing with
the nymphs, used to keep Hera at a distance by incessantly talking to her.
In this manner Hera was not able to detect her faithless husband,
and the nymphs had time to escape. Greek
- Echo, a nymph in love with Narcissus, but her love not being returned,
she pined away till only her voice remained. Roman
- Echraidhe. Celtic Horse Goddess
- Echtghe, Believed to be another form of Dana, the first Great
Mother Goddess of Ireland.
- Eckhardt, in German legends, appears on the evening of Maundy
Thursday to warn all persons to go home, that they may not be
injured by the headless bodies and two—legged horses which
traverse the streets on that night.
- Ecstatici. A class of diviners among the ancient Greeks, who
used to lie in trances, and when they came to themselves gave
strange accounts of what they had seen while they were “out
of the body.”
- Edda.
The literal meaning of the word is great-grandmother, but the
term is usually applied to the mythological collection of poems
discovered by Brynjolf Sveinsson in the year 1643. In the Rigsmal
(Lay of Rig) Edda is the progenitrix of the race of thralls.
Norse
- Edeke. God of calamity and disasters. Uganda
- Edinkira, Tree goddess Africa
- Edo See Ogun|Nago
- Edusa aka Edulica, a Roman divinity, who was worshipped as
the protectress of children, and was believed to bless their
food, just as Potina and Cuba blessed their drinking and their
sleep.
- Ee loolth, Goddess of mountains. Duwamish
- Eetion,
a king of the Placian Thebe in Cilicia, and father of Andromache
and Podes. Greek
- Egata, a God who warns of approaching fire and windstorms.
Basque
- Egeria, Goddess of childbirth of midwives, fountains and
justice. Roman
- Egeria. The nymph who instructed Numa in his wise
legislation. Numa used to meet her in a grove near Aricia.
Greek
- Egil. Brother of Weland, the Vulcan of Northern mythology.
Egil was a great archer, and his tale is the exact counterpart of
the famous fable about William Tell.
- Egill. The father of Thjalfe; a giant dwelling near the sea.
Thor left his goats with him when on his way to the giant Hymer
to get a vessel in which to brew ale. Norse
- Egoir aka Egder. An eagle that appears at Ragnarok.
Norse
- Egres, Fertility god in charge of the the turnip crop
Finnish
- Egungun oya, Form of the Yoruba goddess of divination
Africa
- Eguzk See Ekhi
- Ehacatl, God of education and the wind Aztec
- Eheres. The angel invoked to remove earwax.
- Ehi See Ihi
- Eiael. A minor god of the occult sciences and longevity.
Christian
- Eibhir, Goddess of the sun, described as being a
yellow-haired "stranger from another land."
Ireland/Manx
- First wife of Ossian who is She is
most likely a forgotten Sun Goddess.
- Eidothea,
a daughter of the aged Proteus, who instructed Menelaus, in the
island of Pharos at the mouth of the river Aegyptus, in what
manner he might secure her father and compel him to say in what
way he should return home. Greek
- Eikthyrnir aka Eikthyrner. A hart that stands over Odin's
hall (Valhal). From his antlers drops water from which rivers
flow. Norse
- Eileithyia,
also called Eleithyia, Eilethyia, or Eleutho. The ancients derive
her name from the coming or helping goddess. She was the goddess
of birth, who came to the assistance of women in labour; and when
she was kindly disposed, she furthered the birth, but when she
was angry, she protracted the labour and delayed the birth.
Greek
- Eingana, the world-creator, the birth mother, maker of all
water, land, animals, and kangaroos. This huge snake goddess
still lives in the Dreamtime. Australian
- Einheri, plural Einherjar. The only or great champions; the
heroes who have fallen in battle and been admitted into Valhal.
Einherje. Norse
- Eir. An attendant of Menglod, and the most skillful of all in
the healing art. The word signifies peace, clemency. Norse
- Eirek. Whilst ourneying toward Paradise he came to a stone
bridge guarded by a dragon and, on entering its mouth, found that
he had arrived in a world of bliss. Scandinavian
- Eirene, Goddess of peace and one of the Horae Greek
- Eirnilus. The angel in charge of fruit. Hebrew
- Eistibus. A minor god of divination. Hebrew
- Eistla. One of Heimdal's nine mothers. Norse
- Eithne, Old goddess who lived off nothing but the milk of a
sacred Indian cow and was protected by a spirit who chased away
all would-be suitors. Ireland
- Eithinoha. A female spirit associated with fertility.
Haudenosaunee
- Eji Ogbe, God who is king of the pantheon
Africa(west)/Nigeria/Yoruba
- Ek, Babob Mayan
- Ek Chuah, God of war and commerce Mayan
- Ek Yakimtolsil Bella Coola See Qamai'ts
- Eka Abassi, Creator of life Africa
- Ekadasaruda, Collective name for the group of gods (11) they
are forms of the god Rudra Hindu
- Ekahau, God of commerce Aztec
- Ekahau, God of travelers and merchants Mayan
- Ekajata, Goddess of happiness Buddhist
- Ekarudra, Minor deity, another aspect of Siva
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Ekastaka, Goddess of healthy children India
- Ek Chua. God of merchants and cacao growers. Black faced with
a huge nose.Mayan
- Ekchuah, an agricultural divinity who is the Patron of cacao
and cacao products. He also has associations with travelers and
journeys. Mayan
- Ekhi. Personification of the sun Basque
- Ekimmu. Demons that infest the graves. Babylonian
- Ekineba, Goddess of teaching Africa
- Ekkekko, God of good fortune Quechua
- El aka Ymvh, the supreme god, the father of mankind and all
creatures, the husband of the Goddess Asherah. He also doubles as
a storm god. Hebrew/Phoenicia/Canaan/Levant
- El Auria. Angel of flame, similar to Uriel. Wicca
- El El. One of the angels who guards the north wind.
Semitic
- El Dorado. Golden illusion, a land or means of unbounded
wealth. Peru
- El'eb, Primordial god Canaan
- Eligos aka Abigor, a great duke of hell who appears in the
form of a goodly Knight, carrying a Lance, an Ensign, and a
Serpent.
- El Khidr. One of the good angels, according to the
Koran.
- Elagabalus. A Syro—Phænician sun—god,
represented under the form of a huge conical stone.
- Elaine, Maiden aspect of the goddess British/Welsh
- Elais, One of the Oenotropae. Greek
- Elara,
a daughter of Orchomenus or Minyas, who became by Zeus the mother
of the giant Tityus and Zeus, from fear of Hera, concealed her
under the earth. (Apollodorus i. Argonautica) This was where she
gave birth to Tityas, who some traditions state to be the son of
Elara and Gaia, the earth goddess. Greek
- Elasii, Goddesses of healing and epilepsy Greek
- Elathan. A king of the Fomors, father of Bress. Celtic
- Elatus,
a son of Ares by Leaneira, Metaneira, or by the nymph
Chrysopeleia. He was a brother of Azan and Apheidas, and king of
Arcadia. By his wife Laodice he had four sons, Stymphalus,
Aepytus, Cyllen, and Pereus. Greek
- Elben, Nature spirits. German
- Elberich. The most famous dwarf of German romance. He aided
the Emperor Otnit (who ruled over Lombardy) to gain for wife the
Soldan's daughter.
- Eldhrimner. The kettle in which the boar Saehrimner is cooked
in Valhal. Norse
- Eldir. The fire-producer; a servant of Æger. Elder.
Norse
-
Electra by Euripides, i. e. the bright or brilliant one.
- Electra,
1. A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and the wife of Thaumas, by
whom she became the mother of Iris and the Harpies, Aello and
Ocypete.
- Electra,
2. A daughter of Atlas and Pleione, was one of the seven
Pleiades, and became by Zeus the mother of Jasion and
Dardanus.
- Electryone, Goddess of the moon Greek
- Elel Puelche, Malevolent demonic being. Argentina
- Elimiel. A minor angel in charge of the moon. Jewish
- Elemii See Olodumare
- Elementals. Nature spirits of land, water, fire, etc.,
personifications of natural phenomena. General
- Elena, Goddess of fire Russia
- Eleos, Goddess of peace and mercy Greek
- Eleusinian Mysteries. The religious rites in honour of
Demeter or Ceres, performed at Eleusis, in Attica.
- Eleuther,
a son of Apollo and Aethusa, the daughter of Poseidon, was
regarded as the founder of Eleutherae in Boeotia. He was the
grandfather of Jasius and Poemander, the founder of Tanagra. He
is said to have been the first that erected a statue of Dionysus,
and spread the worship of the god. Greek
- Elf, Elves, oelf. Properly, a mountain fay, but more loosely
applied to those airy creatures that dance on the grass or sit in
the leaves of trees and delight in the full moon.
Anglo—Saxon
- Elf—fire. The ignis—fatuus. The name of this elf
is Will o' the Wisp, Jack o' lanthorn,
Peg—a—lantern, or Kit o' the canstick.
- Elf—land. The realm ruled over by Oberon, King of
Faëry.
- Elfin. The first fairy king. He ruled over India and America.
Middle Age Romance
- Elidure. A legendary king of Britain, advanced to the throne
in place of his elder brother, Arthgallo, supposed by him to be
dead. Arthgallo, after a long exile, returned to his country, and
Elidure resigned to him the throne.
- Elgabal, Local mountain god with solar links Syria
- Elihino, Goddess of the earth Cherokee
- Elim, Collective term for god's the lower order of the
gods from the great deities, the Elohim Judaic
- Elivager. A cold venomous stream which issued from Niflheim,
and in the abyss called the Ginnunga Gap, hardening into layer
upon layer of ice. Scandinavian
- Eljon, Old syrian diety who was incorporated into El as
El-Eljon, an epithet of Yahweh.
- Elkunirsha. Creator Of The Earth. Hittite
- Elkunisra, Creator god. Canaan
- Ellaman, Goddess of passage, an astral deity
Hindu/Dravidian/Tamil
- Ellefolk. Danish elves
- Elle Woman. The spirit of the elder tree. Danish
- Ellel, God Hittite
- Elli, Goddess of wrestling norse
- Ellil, Creator and air god Babylon/Akkadia
- Ellilus See Ellel
- Ellyllon. The souls of the ancient Druids, which, being too
good for hell, and not good enough for heaven, are permitted to
wander upon earth till the judgment day, when they will be
admitted to a higher state of being. Welsh
- Eloa. A female angel that was born from the tears that Jesus
wept. Christian
- Eloai, primordial being, one of the seven planetary spirits
of the Egyptians
- Elohim. The genus of which ghosts, Chemosh, Dagon, Baal,
Jahveh, etc., were species. The ghost or spectre which appeared
to Saul is called Elohim. Semitic
- Elohim. In theology, Elohim (the plural of Eloah) means the
“Lord of Hosts,” or Lord of all power and might.
Jehovah signifies rather the God of mercy and forgiveness. Hence,
Elohim is used to express the God of creation, but Jehovah the
God of the covenant of mercy. Semitic
- Eloi. Patron saint of artists and smiths.
- Elphame aka Elphlane, Elphane, Goddess of death and disease.
Scotland
- Elpenor, one of the companions of Odysseus, who were
metamorphosed by Circe into swine, and afterwards back into men.
Greek
- Elpis, the personification of hope, perhaps a child of
Nyx and mother of Pheme, the goddess of rumour. Greek
- Elvidna. The hall of the goddess Hel. Norse
- Elyll. A hairy, clumsy creature, the same as a brownie.
Welsh
- Elyon. The most high god. Hebrew
- Elysion,
a section of the Underworld (the spelling Elysium is a
Latinization of the Greek word Elysion). Elysium is an obscure
and mysterious name that evolved from a designation of a place or
person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios. Greek
- Elysium, Elysian Fields. The
Paradise or Happy Land of the Greek poets.
- Embla. The first woman. The gods found two lifeless trees,
the ask (ash) and the embla; of the ash they made man, of the
embla, woman. Norse
- Emanjah, Goddess of rivers and teacher of children.
Trinidad
- Eme'mqut, Animistic spirit with cannibalistic tendencies.
Koryak
- Emeli, Creator god and generic term meaning Lord,
Sudan/Tuareg
- Emer, Goddess of wisdom Celtic
- Emes, God of vegetation. Sumeria
- Emma O, God of death and lord of hell. Buddhist/Japan
- Empung Lumimuut, Goddess who gave birth to God of the sun.
Sulawesi
- Empusa, a monstrous spectre, which was believed to devour
human beings. It could assume different forms, and was sent out
by Hecate to frighten travellers. It was believed usually to
appear with one leg of brass and the other of an ass. Whenever a
traveller addressed the monster with insulting words, it used to
flee and utter a shrill sound. The Lamiae and Mormolyceia, who
assumed the fonm 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. Greek
- Empyrean, there are five heavens, the last of which is pure
elemental fire and the seat of deity; this fifth heaven is called
the empyrean. Greek
- Enbilulu, a river god in charge of the sacred rivers Tigris
and Euphrates. He was also the deity of canals, irrigation and
farming. Sumerian
- Enceladus,
a son of Tartarus and Ge, and one of the hundred-armed giants who
made war upon the gods. He was killed, according to some, by
Zeus, by a flash of lightning, and buried under mount Aetna and
according to others, he was killed by the chariot of Athena, or
by the spear of Seilenus. Greek
- Encelados. The most powerful of the giants that conspired
against Zeus. The king of gods and men
cast him down, and threw Mount Etna over him. The poets say that
the flames of this volcano arise from the breath of this giant.
The battle—field of his contest was Phlegra, in Macedonia.
Greek
- End of the World. According to rabbinical mythology, the
world is to last six thousand years. The reasons assigned
are
(1) because the name Jehova contains six letters;
(2) because the Hebrew letter m occurs six times in the book of
Genesis;
(3) because the patriarch Enoch, who was taken to heaven without
dying, was the sixth generation from Adam (Seth, Enos, Cainan,
Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch);
(4) because God created the world in six days;
(5) because six contains three binaries — the first 2000
years were for the law of nature, the next 2000 years the written
law, and the last 2000 the law of grace.
Seven would suit this fancy quite as well: there are seven days
in a week; Jehovah contains seven letters; and Enoch was the
seventh generation of the race of man; and the first two binaries
were not equal periods.
- Endouellicus, God of healing Roman/Iberia
- Endukugga, God of the Underworld Sumeria
- Endursaga, Herald god Mesopotamia/Sumeria
- Endymion,
a youth distinguished for his beauty, and renowned in
ancient story by the perpetual sleep in which he spent his life.
Greek
- Enejie. The angel called up to grant wishes.
- Enekpe, Goddess of the family and guardian of destiny
Africa
- Enipeus,
an Oceanid and a son of Oceanus and Tethys. Greek
- Enipeus, a river-god in Thessaly, who was beloved by Tyro,
the daughter of Salmoneus. Poseidon, who was in love with her,
assumed the appearance of Enipeus, and thus visited her, and she
became by him the mother of twins, Pelias and Neleus. Greek
- Enki aka Ea, a deity later known as Ea in Babylonian
mythology, originally chief God of the city of Eridu.
Mesopotamia/Sumeria
- Enkimdu, God of canals, ditches, irrigation and sedentary
farming. Sumeria
- Enlil, God of air and weather. One of four Sumerian creating
gods. Sumeria
- En-lil. The name of Bel in the oldest inscriptions Bel.
Babylon
- Enmesharra, a god of the underworld who often worked with
Enbilulu to bring water to the surface of the Earth.
Sumerian
- The Ennead. consists of a grouping of nine deities, most
often appearing in the context of Egyptian mythology. As a three
of threes, the number nine became associated with great carnal
power, and ancient peoples considered groupings of nine Gods very
important.
The Ancient Egyptians set up multiple Enneads; the Great Ennead,
the Lesser Ennead, the Dual Ennead, plural Enneads, and the Seven
Enneads.
- Ennugi, Attendant and throne bearer god. A younger brother of
Sin, he was also the god of Irrigation and a canal inspector.
Sumeria
- Enorches, a son of Thyestes by
his sister Daeta, was born out of an egg, and built a temple to
Dionysus. Greek
- Enodia, Goddess of crossroads and gates. Greek
- Entelechy. The kingdom of Queen Quintessence in the History
of Gargantua
and Pantagruel' (NOT for the easily offended). Pantagruel
and his companions went thither in search of the Holy Bottle. It
may be called the city of speculative science. Rabelais
- Enten, Fertility god who doubled as Guardian deity of farmers
Mesopotamia/Sumeria
- Entoria, wife of Saturn, mother to
Janus, Hymnus,
Faustus, and Felix. Roman.
- Enudu Gisha, God of plague, specifically smallpox Uganda
- Enyo,
the goddess of war, who delights in bloodshed and the destruction
of towns, and accompanies Mars in battles. Greek
- Enyalius, The warlike, frequently
occurs in the Iliad (never in the
Odyssey) as
an epithet of Ares. Greek
- Enzu, God who was named appears to be a corrupted form of
Suen Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia
- Eochaidh See Dagda
- Eolus. God of the winds. Roman
- Eos,
in Latin Aurora, the goddess of the morning red, who brings up
the light of day from the east. She was a daughter of Hyperion
and Theia or Euryphassa, and a sister of Helios and Selene.
Greek
- Eostre, a Goddess of animal reproduction. Easter is derived
from her name. Celtic
- Epactaeus or Epactius, the god worshipped on the coast and
used as a surname of Poseidon in
Samoa. Greek
- Epaphos
aka Epaphus, a son of Zeus and Io, who was born on the river
Nile, after the long wanderings of his mother. He was then
concealed by the Curetes, by the request of Hera, but Io sought
and afterwards found him in Syria. Greek
- Epaine, the fearful, a surname of Persephone. Plutarch suggests, that it
might also be understood in a euphemistic sense as the praised
goddess. Greek
- Epaphus, a son of Zeus and was
concealed by the Curetes, by the request of Hera. He subsequently became king of Egypt and
built the city of Memphis. Greek
- Epet, Goddess of healing, childbirth, children Egypt
- Ephialtes,
One of the giants, who in the war against the gods was deprived
of his left eye by Apollo, and of the right by Heracles.
Greek
- Ephialtes.
One of the Aloeidae. When Iphimedeia and her daughter, Pancratis,
celebrated the orgies of Dionysus on Mount Drius, they were
carried off by Thracian pirates to Naxos or Strongyle; but both
were delivered by the Aloadae Otus and Ephialtes. Greek
- Ephesus, a son of the river-god Caystrus, who was said,
conjointly with Cresus, to have built the temple of Artemis at
Ephesus, and to have called the town after himself. Greek
- Ephialtes. The personification of the nightmare which results
from indigestion. Greek
- Epiales. The personification of the cold shivering fit which
precedes an attack of fever. Greek
- Ephra. A minor angel. Enochian
- Epidaurus,
the mythical founder of Epidaurus, a son of Argos and Evadne, but
according to Argive legends a son of Pelops, and according to
those of Elis a son of Apollo. Greek
- Epidotes, a divinity who was worshipped at Lacedaemon, and
averted the anger of Zeus Hicesius for the crime committed by
Pausanias. Epidotes, which means the "liberal giver,"
occurs also as a surname of other divinities, such as Zeus at
Mantineia and Sparta, of the god of sleep at Sicyon. Greek
- Epigones. One of the sons of the seven heroes who were beaten
before Thebes. Greek
- Epimetheus,
was the brother of Prometheus
("foresight", literally "fore-thought"), a
pair of Titans who "acted as
representatives of mankind". They were the inseparable sons
of Japetus, who in other contexts was
the father of Atlas. Greek
- Epona, "Divine Horse." Mother Goddess and goddess
of horses. Celtic
- Epos Olloatir. Horse God often seen as either a male or male
representation and masculine aspect of Epona. Celtic
- Eranoranhan, Protector of men only Canary Is./Hierro Is.
- Erathipa. A huge boulder in the shape of a pregnant woman. It
is said that the souls of dead children reside within it, and
that if a woman of child-bearing age walks by a soul slips from
the boulder and into her womb to be reborn. Australian
- Erato,
a nymph and the wife of Ares, by whom she became the mother of
Elatus, Apheidas, and Azan. She was said to have been a prophetic
priestess of the Arcadian Pan. Greek
- Erce, a triple goddess; a youthful maiden during the spring,
maturing into a mother during the Summer, then aging into a crone
at Winter-time. Anglo-Saxon
- Erda, Very old and wise goddess of the earth germanic
- Erebus,
a primordial god, the personification of darkness. Greek
- Erechtheus
Erichthonius. There can be little doubt but that the names
Erichthonius and Erechtheus are identical; but whether the two
heroes mentioned by Plato, Hyginus, and Apollodorus, the one of
whom is usually called Erichthonius or Erechtheus I. and the
other Erechtheus II., are likewise one and the same person, as
Muller and others think, is not so certain, though highly
probable. Greek
- Erg. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Erge, Spirit who takes men's lives Basque
- Erh Lang, God, with a magic dog, who fights the mountain
demons. China
- Eri of the Golden Hair, Virgin Goddess of the Tuatha De
Danann. Ireland
- Erigone.
A daughter of Icarius, seduced by
Bacchus, who came into her
father's house.
- Erigone. A daughter of Aegisthus
and Clytaemnestra, and by
Orestes the mother of Penthilus.
Greek
- Erinnyes,
Erinnyes, Eumenides or Erinys (the Romans called them the Furies)
were female personifications of vengeance. When a formulaic oath
in the Iliad invokes "those who beneath the earth punish
whoever has sworn a false oath" — "the Erinyes
are simply an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained in
the oath" Greek
- Eriphila. The personification of avarice, who guards the path
that leads to pleasure, in Orlando Furioso. Greek
- Eriphyle,
a daughter of Talaus and Lysimache, and the wife of Amphiaraus,
whom she betrayed for the sake of the necklace of Harmonia.
Greek
- Eris,
Born of Ate and Zeus, or, according to Homer, Hera and Zeus
(Iliad IV),
she is the goddess who calls forth war and discord. According to
the Iliad,
she wanders about, at first small and insignificant, but she soon
raises her head up to heaven (IV). Greek
- Eriskegal aka Erishkigal. Demon Queen of Seduction and
Undeath, Mistress of Succubi. Babylon/Allatu
- Eriu, One of the three queens of the Tuatha De Danann and
Goddess of fertility. Ireland
- Erix, son of Goliah and grandson of Atlas. He invented legerdemain. Greek
- Erkilek, Malevolent hunting god. Inuit
- Erlik Samoyed, God of the netherworld Finnish
- Erlking. King of the elves, who prepares mischief for
children, and even deceives men with his seductions. He is said
to haunt the Black Forest. German
- Ermutu, Goddess of childbirth and midwives. Egypt
- Ern. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Eros,
in Latin, Amor or Cupido, the god of love. In the sense in which
he is usually conceived, Eros is the creature of the later Greek
poets; and in order to understand the ancients properly we must
distinguish three Erotes: viz. the Eros of the ancient
cosmogonies, the Eros of the philosophers and mysteries, who
bears great resemblance to the first, and the Eros whom we meet
with in the epigrammatic and erotic poets, whose witty and
playful descriptions of the god, however, can scarcely be
considered as a part of the ancient religious belief of the
Greeks. Greek
- Erra, the god of mayhem and pestilence who brought plagues
and other calamities. Akkadian
- Errata. The Goddess of Misunderstandings. This little known
goddess was the cause of the Tsortean Wars; not, as most people
believe, Elenor. Understandably not the most liked goddess,
Errata wasn't invited to many weddings. Discworld
- Ersa
and Pandeia, 1. The wife of Danaus and mother of Hippodice
and Adiante. (Apollod. ii. 1.) 2. A daughter of Cecrops and
sister of Agraulos, Pandrosos, and Erysichthon. She was the
beloved of Hermes, and the mother of Cephalus. Greek
- Erymanthean. A devastating boar which wandered about in
Arcadia. Its capture was one of the labours of Hercules.
Greek
- Erysichthon,
that is, the tearer up of the earth. Greek
- Eryx,
in Apollodorus. ii he is
called a son of Poseidon though
others call him a son of Aphrodite
and Butes of Sicily. Greek
- Erzla. A minor angel. Enochian
- Erzuli, Goddess of justice. Haiti
- Erzulie, Goddess of health, clothes, flowers, jewelry, of
fertility, love, virginity, beauty and sex. Haiti
- Es Ket, Creator god who fashioned humans from clay.
Siberia
- Esceheman, Grandmother earth. Arapaho
- Eschu, the god of mischief, is the son of Lusa and Mahu. He
supported Legba in giving power of the loa to a mortal as a force
of good against the evil unleashed by their brother Sagbata.
Africa/Yoruba
- Eseasar, Goddess of the earth. Africa
- Esenchebis, the Greek name of the goddess Isis. Greek
- Eshara, goddess of productive fields and a war goddess who
represented the armed defense of land and property. Chaldea
- Eshmun, a northwestern Semitic god of healing and the
tutelary god of Sidon.
- Eshmun. Lesser God of health and healing. Phonecian
- Eshshata. The a spirit of fever. Jewish Folklore
- Eshu, Divine messenger. Yoruba/Fon
- Esme. Minor goddess of wealth, also seen as a gracious
protector. Welsh
- Espiacent. Another angel concerned with earwax. Hebrew
- Esprit Follet. The French poltergeist.
- Essus, Harvest God worshipped in Brittany and Gaul by the the
Essuvi.
- Estar, "Queen Of Heaven", the goddess of war, love
and fertility. Akkadian
- Estsanatlehi, vegetative, fertility and creator sky goddess.
Navaho
- Esu, the dark side of God. He is an independent entity and
timeless. Benin/Yoruba
- Esus aka Essus, God of boatmen, fond of cutting branches from
trees with his axe. Gaul
- Etain, Goddess of war Ireland
- Etemmu. The name given to the ghost of a person who had not
been buried and considered potentially harmful. Akkadian
- Eteocles,
1. A son of Andreus and Evippe, or of Cephisus, who was said to
have been the first that offered sacrifices to the Charites at
Orchomenos, in Boeotia.
- Eteocles2.
A son of Oedipus and Jocaste. Greek
- Eternal Jew aka Wandering Jew. The Jew who hurried on Jesus
Christ when he was led to crucifixion. As a punishment, he is
compelled to wander about the world, homeless and restless, till
the Day of Judgment. Christian
- Eth. An angel who carries out time and motion studies.
Wicca
- Ethausva. An Etruscan Goddess of Childbirth and
Midwifery.
- E'thon. The eagle or vulture that gnawed the liver of
Prometheus. greek
- Etugen aka Itugen, Virgin goddess of the earth. Mongol
- Etzel. The second husband of Kriemhild, king of the Huns.
Nibelungenlied
- Euboea.
A daughter of Asopus, from whom the island of Euboea was believed
to have derived its name. Greek
- Euboea.
A daughter of the river-god Asterion near Mycenae, who together
with her sisters Acraea and Prosymna acted as nurses to Hera.
Greek
- Eucharis. A nymph of the goddess Calypso. Greek
- Eucleia, a personification of the glory which the Athenians
had reaped in the battle of Marathon. Greek
- Eucleia, a surname of Artemis. Greek
- Eudora,
a daughter of Nereus and Doris. Greek
- Eueucoyotl, God of fertility, sex, pleasure, sorrow and
spontaneity. Aztec
- Eumenides [the good—tempered goddesses ]. A name given
by the Greeks to the Furies, as it would have been ominous and
bad policy to call them by their right name, Erinnyes.
- Eumenides. Goddesses of justice Greek
- Eumeus. A faithful servant and guardian of the troops of
Ulysses. Greek
- Eumolpus,
that is, " the good singer," a Thracian who is
described as having come to Attica either as a bard, a warrior,
or a priest of Demeter and Dionysus. Greek
- Euneus,
a son of Jason by Hypsipyle, in the island of Lemnos, from whence
he supplied the Greeks during their war against Troy with wine.
Greek
- Eunomia, One of the Horae and goddess of order and lawful
conduct. Greek
- Eunostos, Goddess of flour mills Greek
- Eupatridae. The lords of creation. Attica
- Euphemus,
a son of Poseidon by Europa, the daughter of Tityus, or by
Mecionice or Oris, a daughter of Orion or Eurotas. Greek
- Euphorbus,
a son of Panthous and brother of Hyperenor, was one of the
bravest among the Trojans. He was the first who wounded
Patroclus, but was afterwards slain by Menelaus, who subsequently
dedicated the shield of Euphorbus in the temple of Hera, near
Mycenae. Greek
- Euphrosyne,
One of the three Charites or Graces. The cheerful one, or life
lived in exuberance and joy, the Goddess of mirth, and the
incarnation of grace and beauty. A daughter of Zeus and Eurynome,
or of Dionysus and Aphrodite. Greek
- Eurabatres. An angel from the planet Venus.
- Euronomus. A demon who ate the flesh of corpses. Greek
- Europa,
the daughter of Agenor, King of Phoenicia, or Telephassa, Her
famous brother was Cadmus. She was a beautiful girl who caught
the eye of Zeus one day while on the shore at Sidon (Tyre). He
transformed himself into a snow-white bull with crescent horns
among the herds of Agenor and lay down at her feet as she
gathered flowers in the meadows with her attendants. Greek
- Euros, God of the east winds Roman/Greek
- Eurotas,
a son of Myles and grandson of Lelex. He was the father of
Sparta, the wife of Lacedaemon, and is said to have carried the
waters, stagnating in the plain of Lacedaemon, into the sea by
means of a canal, and to have called the river which arose
therefrom after his own name, Eurotas. Greek
- Eurus. The east wind. Greek
- Euryale,
the name of the three sisters known as the Gorgons; her name
means Wide-Wanderer. Greek
- Eurybates aka Eribotes, the son
of Teleon, was one of the Argonauts,
and appears to have acted as surgeon, as he is represented as
attending on Oileus when he was wounded by one of the Stymphalian birds.. (Argonautica). Greek
- Eurybates. The herald of Odysseus, who followed his master to
Troy. He is humorously described as hump-backed, of a brown
complexion, and witn curly hair; but he was honoured by his
master, since he was kind and obedient. Greek
- Eurybia,
a daughter of Pontus and Ge, who became by Crius the mother of
Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses. Greek
- Euryale,
the name of the three sisters known as the Gorgons; her name
means Wide-Wanderer. Greek
- Eurydamas,
1. A son of Irus and Demonassa, was one of the Argonauts.
Apollonius Rhodius calls him a son of Ctimenus. 2. One of the
suitors of Penelope, who was killed by Odysseus. Greek
- Eurydice,
the most famous was a woman—or a nymph—who was the
wife of Orpheus. While fleeing from Aristaeus, she was bitten by
a serpent and died. Distraught, Orpheus played such sad songs and
sang so mournfully that all the nymphs and gods wept and gave him
advice. Orpheus accomplished something no other person ever has:
he traveled to the underworld and by his music softened the heart
of Hades and Persephone, who allowed Eurydice to return with him
to the world of the living. Greek
- Eurylochus, one of the companions of Odysseus in his wanderings. He was the only
one that escaped from the house of Circe, while his friends were metamorphosed into
swine; and when Odysseus went to the lower world, Eurylochus and
Perimedes performed the prescribed sacrifices. It was on his
advice that the companions of Odysseus carried off some of the
oxen of Helios. Greek
- Eurymedon,
a Cabeirus, a son of Hephaestus and Cabeiro, and a brother of
Alcon. 2. One of the attendants of Nestor. 3. A son of
Ptolemaeus, and charioteer of Agamemnon; his tomb was shown at
Mycenae. Greek
- Eurynome,
a daughter of Oceanus. When Hephaestus was expelled by Hera from
Olympus, Eurynome and Thetis received him in the bosom of the
sea. Greek
- Eurynomus,
a daemon of the lower world, concerning whom there was a
tradition at Delphi, according to which, he devoured the flesh of
dead human bodies, and left nothing but the bones. Greek
- Euterpe, Muse of lyric poetry and
music. Greek
- Eutpa. A minor angel. Enochian
- Eutychia. The goddess of good fortune. Greek
- Euryte, a nymph, the daughter of Hippodamas. She married
Porthaon and produced Licymnius,
Sterope, Agrius and Oeneus. Greek
- Eurytion.
A son of Irus and Demonassa, and a grandson of Actor, is mentioned among the Argonauts.
(Argonautica) According to others
he was a son of Actor, and he is also called Eurytus. (Apollodorus i) When Peleus was
expelled from his dominions, he fled to Eurytion and married his
daughter Antigone but in shooting at the Calydonian boar, Peleus
inadvertently killed his father-in-law, (Apollodorus iii)
- Eurytion.
A centaur who took to flight during the fight of Heracles with the centaurs ; but he was
afterwards killed by Heracles in the dominions of Dexamenus,
whose daughter Eurytion was on the point of making his wife.
(Apollodorus. ii) Greek
- Eurytus,
a son of Melaneus and Stratonice was king of Oechalia, probably
the Thessalian town of this name. He was a skilful archer and
married to Antioche, by whom he became the father of lole,
Iphitus, Molion or Deion, Clytius, and Toxeus. Greek
- Eurypylus,
a son of Euaemon and Ops. He appears in the different traditions
about him, as a hero of Ormenion, or Hyria, or as a king of
Cyrene. Greek
- Evadne,
1. A daughter of Poseidon and Pitane. Immediately after her
birth, she was carried to the Arcadian king Aepytus, who brought
her up. She afterwards became by Apollo the mother of Iamus. 2. A
daughter of Iphis, or Philax. (Apollodorus iii) There are three
other mythical personages of the same name. Greek
- Evaki, Goddess of the night and day who places the sun in a
pot every night and moves the sun back to its starting point in
the east every day. Bakairi
- Evan, an Etruscan Fate-Goddess
- Evangelos, the bearer of good news. Under this name the
shepherd Pixodarus had a sanctuary at Ephesus where he enjoyed
heroic honours, because he had found a quarry of beautiful
marble, of which the Ephesians built a temple. Greek
- Evil Eye. It was anciently believed that the eyes of some
persons darted noxious rays on objects which they glared upon.
The first morning glance of such eyes was certain destruction to
man or beast, but the destruction was not unfrequently the result
of emaciation. Virgil speaks of an evil eye making cattle
lean.
- Exarp. A spirit of the Air. Enochian
- Excalibur. Liberated from the stone. The sword which Arthur
drew out of the stone, whereby he proved himself to be the king.
Britain
- Exr. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Evippe,
the name of five mythological personages, concerning whom nothing
of interest is related. (Apollodorus. ii. Metamorphoses)
Greek
- Ewauna, Creator goddess. Coquille
- Exadius, one of the Lapithae, who
distinguished himself in the contest at the nuptials of
Peirithous. Greek
- Eyrgjafa. One of Heimdal's nine mothers. Norse
- Ezili, the spirit of love, beauty, jewellery, dancing, luxury
and flowers. Haiti/Vodun/West Indies
- Ezgadi. A minor angel in charge of successful journeys.
Christian
- Ezinu, the Sumerian goddess of grain.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
