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
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- Labe. The Circe of the Arabians, who, by her enchantments,
transformed men into horses and other brute beasts. She is
introduced into the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, where
Beder, Prince of Persia, marries her, defeats her plots against
him, and turns her into a mare. Being restored to her proper
shape by her mother, she turns Beder into an owl; but the prince
ultimately regains his own proper form.
- Lacedaemon, a son of Zeus by
Taygete, was married to Sparta, the daughter of Eurotas, by whom
he became the father of Amyclas, Eurydice, and Asine. He was king
of the country which he called after his own name, Lacedaemon,
while he gave to his capital the name of his wife, Sparta.
- Lachesis, One of the fates.
Greek
- Lactanus, Lactans, Lacturnus, and Lacturcia, Lactura, Roman
divinities, who were believed to protect the young fruits of the
field. Some believe that Lactans and Lacturcia are mere surnames
of Ops, and that Lacturnus is a surname of Saturnus. Greek
- Lada, Goddess of happiness and love. Slavic
- Ladon A river god of Arcadia, is
described as a son of Oceanus and Thetys, and as the husband of
Stymplialis, by whom he became the father of Daphne and Metope.
Greek
- Ladogenes or Ladonis, a name by which the poets sometimes
designated Daphne, the daughter of
Ladon. Greek
- Ladon. The dragon who was believed to
guard the apples of the Hesperides. He is said to have been able
to assume various tones of voice, and to have been the offspring
of Typhon and Echidna but he is also called a son of Ge, or of
Phorcys and Ceto. He had been appointed to watch in the gardens
of the Hesperides by Juno, and never slept; but he was slain by
Heracles and the image of the fight was placed by Zeus among the
stars. Greek
- Lady of the Lake. Vivien, mistress of Merlin, the enchanter, who lived
in the midst of an imaginary lake, surrounded by knights and
damsels. Tennyson, in the Idylls of the King, tells the
story of Vivien and Merlin. Britain
- Laeding. One of the fetters with which the Fenris-wolf was
bound. Norse
- Laerad. A tree near Valhal. Norse
- Lælaps. A very powerful dog given by Diana to Procris;
Procris gave it to Cephalos. While pursuing a wild boar it was
metamorphosed into a stone. Greek
- Lahama, "Go! Take the lahama-sea monsters
Let them bring the Boat of Heaven back to Eridu!"
Sumeria
- Lahamu. In the Babylonian story of creation, Lahama is the
daughter of the primordial goddess Tiamat. She guards the gate to
the sea; the sea is her dominion. She holds an overflowing vase;
she contains, bestows the waters of life. The Seven
Tablets of Creation
- Lahar, cattle-god sent by Enlil and Enki from heaven to earth
in order to make abundant its cattle. He is the brother of
Ashnan. Lahar, along with his sister, were created in the
creation chamber of the gods so the Annunnaki might have food and
clothes. Sumeria
- Lahe. Goddess of health. Basque
- Lahmu, first-born son of Apsu and Tiamat. He and his sister
Lahamu were the parents of Anshar and Kishar, the sky father and
earth mother, who begat the first gods. Lahmu was sometimes
depicted as a snake, and sometimes as a bearded man with a red
sash and six curls on his head. Akkadia
- Lahurati, a solar deity. Appears to have been the counterpart
of the Akkadian god Ninurta. Elamite/Iran
- Lai Cho, Agriculture god. Not part of the locust cult.
China
- Laima, and her sisters, Karta and Dekla, were a trinity of
fate deities, part of a widespread European and Aegean conception
of Destiny in the hands of three ageless ancient women.
Latvia
- Lairz. A minor angel. Enochian
- Lais. A courtesan or Greek Hetaira. There were two of the
name; the elder was the most beautiful woman of Corinth, and
lived at the time of the Peloponnesian War. The beauty of the
latter excited the jealousy of the Thessalonian women, who
pricked her to death with their bodkins. She was contemporary
with Phryne, her rival, and sat to Apelles as a model.
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- Laka, goddess of the wild plants which grow in the forest.
Very fond of singing and dancing. Hawaii
- Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity, wealth, purity,
generosity, and the embodiment of beauty, grace and charm.
India
- Laksmana, the promoter of fortune, was ever deeply attached
from his infancy to his eldest brother, Sri Rama, the delight of
the world. Hindu
- Laksmi, Goddess of agriculture, love, beauty, prosperity,
Lotus flowers, wealth, and pleasure Hindu/Puranic/India/Epic
- Lalbai, Goddess of healing. India
- Lalita, has three aspects as virgin (Bala), mother
(Tripurasundari) and crone (Tripura Bhairavi) and is the waxing
Moon as Kali is the waning Moon. She represents love and
sexuality while Kali represents death. India
- Lama, Feminine benevolent protective demon who later became
the half man and half bull guardian of palace entrances
Acadia
- Lama, Goddess of intercession. Middle East
- Lamaria, goddess of the fertility of the land, of childbirth
and the protection of women. She is also goddess of the hearth.
Svan
- Lamaria an archangel who is friends with St. Mary.
Mingrelian
- Lamatsu, demon of the South-west wind bringing droughts,
famines and locusts. Akkadia
- Lamia.A daughter of Poseidon, became
by Zeus the mother of the Sibyl Herophile. Greek<.li>.
- Lamia A female phantom, by which
children were frightened. According to tradition, she was
originally a Libyan queen, of great beauty and a daughter of
Belus. She was beloved by Zeus, and Hera in her
jealousy robbed her of her children. Lamia, from revenge and
despair, robbed others of their children, and murdered them; and
the savage cruelty in which she now indulged rendered her ugly,
and her face became fearfully distorted. Zeus gave her the power
of taking her eyes out of her head, and putting them in again.
Greek
- Lamia by John Keats, A son of
Apollo and Phthia, a brother of Dorus and Polypoethes, in
Curetis, was killed by Aetolus. Greek<.li>
- Lamia. A son of Bias and Pero, and a
brother of Talaus, took part in the expedition of the Argonauts,
and in that of the Seven against Thebes. Greek
- Lamia. A son of Antenor. Greek
- Lamia The friend and charioteer of
Antilochus. Greek
- Lamin, a spirit of human form, generally female, with the
feet of an animal. Basque
- Lamminin, Lamkin, Linkin or Bold Rakin. A scottish ogre,
represented in the ballad as a bloodthirsty mason; the terror of
the Scots nursery.
- Lamp of Phoebus. The sun. Phoebus
is the mythological personification of the sun. Greek
- Lamps. The seven lamps of sleep. In the mansion of the Knight
of the Black Castle were seven lamps, which could be quenched
only with water from an enchanted fountain. So long as these
lamps kept burning, everyone within the room fell into a deep
sleep, from which nothing could rouse them till the lamps were
extinguished. Christendom
- Lampos and Phaeton. The two steeds of Aurora. One of
Actæon's dogs was called Lampos. Greek
- Lan Caihe, One of the eight immortals, sometimes a boy,
sometimes a girl China
- Land of Beulah. In Pilgrim's Progress it is that land of
heavenly joy where the pilgrims tarry till they are summoned to
enter the cerestial City; the Paradise before the
resurrection.
- Land o'the Leal. The Scottish Dixey Land. An hypothetical
land of happiness, loyalty, and virtue. Caroline Oliphant,
Baroness Nairne, meant heaven in her exquisite song so called,
and this is now its accepted meaning. Leal = faithful, and
“Land of the Leal” means the Land of the
faithful.
- Landvide. A mountain range overgrown with trees. Vidar's
abode. The primeval forests. Norse
- Lan Kai-He, Immortal being China/Taoist
- Lanabes. A magic piano. Basque
- Lang. The order of ministering angels. Enochian
- Lao Lang, God of actors. China
- Laoaxrp. A sub-angelic Watchtower leader in the North.
Enochian
- Laocoon. A Trojan hero, who plays
a prominent part in the post-Homeric legends about Troy: a son of
Priam, famous for the tragic fate of himself and his two sons,
who were crushed to death by serpents. Greek
- Laocoosa. The wife of Aphareus, and mother of Idas. Greek
- Laodamas 1. A son of Aleinous,
king of the Phaeacians, and Arete, was
the favourite of his father.
- Laodamas 2. A son of Antenor, was slain at Troy by the Telamonian
Ajax.
- Laodamas 3. A son of Eteocles, and king of Thebes: in his youth he
had been under the guardianship of Creon.
- Laodice, a Hyperborean maiden,
who, together with Hyperbche, and five companions, was sent from
the country of the Hyperboreans to carry sacrifices to the island
of Delos. Greek
- Lao-Tze, in
his Tao-tê ching, The Canon of Reason and Virtue (at first
entitled simply Lao Tzu(), gave to the then existing scattered
sporadic conceptions of the universe a literary form. His tao, or
‘Way,’ is the originator of Heaven and earth, it is
“the mother of all things.” China
- Laodocus, a son of Apollo and
Phthia, a brother of Dorus and Polypoethes, in Curetis, was
killed by Aetolus. Greek
- Laodameia. A daughter of
Bellerophontes, became by
Zeus the mother of Sarpedon, and was killed by Artemis while she was engaged in weaving.
Greek
- Laodameia. A daughter of
Acastus, and wife of Protesilaus. As the latter, shortly after
his marriage, joined the Greeks in their expedition against Troy,
and was the first that was killed there, Laodameia sued for the
favour of the gods to be allowed to converse with him only for
three hours. The request was granted: Hermes led Protesilaus back to the upper world,
and when Protesilaus died a second time, Laodameia died with him.
Greek
- Laodamia by
Wordsworth
- Lampus. One of the sons of
Aegyptus. Greek
- Lampus. A son of Laomedon, and
father of Dolops, was one of the Trojan elders. Greek
- Lampus. The name of two horses, one
belonging to Eos, the other to Hector. Greek
- Lapithes, a son of Apollo and
Stilbe, the brother of Centaurus, and husband of Orsinome, the
daughter of Eurynomus, by whom he became the father of Phorbas,
Triopas, and Periphas. He was regarded as the ancestor of the
Lapithae in the mountains of Thessaly. Greek
- Laputa. The flying island inhabited by scientific quacks, and
visited by Gulliver in his “travels.” These dreamy
philosophers were so absorbed in their speculations that they
employed attendants called “flappers,” to flap them
on the mouth and ears with a blown bladder when their attention
was to be called off from “high things” to vulgar
mundane matters. Swift
- Laran, God of war Etruscan
- Lares, either domestic or public. Domestic lares were the
souls of virtuous ancestors exalted to the rank of protectors.
Public lares were the protectors of roads and streets. Domestic
lares were images, like dogs, set behind the hall door, or in the
lararium or shrine. Wicked souls became lemures or ghosts that made night hideous.
Penates were the natural powers personified, and their office was
to bring wealth and plenty, rather than to protect and avert
danger. Roman
- Lars Familiarus, the spirit of the founder of the house,
which never left it, but accompanied his descendants in all their
changes. Roman
- Larunda, Chthonic and earth mother goddess Sabine
- Larvae. Mischievous spectres. The larva or ghost of Caligula
was often seen, according to Suetonius, in his palace. Roman
- Larz. A minor angel. Enochian
- Lasas. An Etruscan goddess, one of the Lasas
- Lasas, Female godlike beings of the pantheon, they may be
winged or unwinged and some names are known Etruscan
- Lasghusyamala, Minor goddess Hindu/Puranic
- Laskowice, Satyr-type forest spirits with a close
relationship with the Wolf Slavic
- Lassair, Goddess of midsummer. Ireland
- Lasya. Graceful Mother of the world. Buddhist
- Lat. A female idol made of stone, and said to be inspired
with life; the chief object of adoration by the Arabs before
their conversion.
- Latiaran, Youngest of the three sisters who made up a triune
goddess and a goddess of autumn and fire.
- Latinus, a king of Latium, is
described in the common tradition as a son of Faunus and the
nymph Marica, as a brother of Lavinius, and the husband of Amata,
by whom he became the father of Lavinia, whom he gave in marriage
to Aeneas. Greek
- Latipan, Creator god. Canaan
- Latis, Lake goddess who later became a goddess of ale and
meade British
- Latmikaik, Goddess of the sea, with her husband Tpereakla,
co-creator and co-ruler of the world Tpereakl lived in the sky,
while his wife had her residence under the sea. Pelew Is.
- Latona, the Roman name of the Greek
goddess Leto. One of the Titans - the first generation of Greek
gods, she was the daughter of the Titan Coeus and Phoebe and
mother to the twin gods, Apollo and Artemis, whose father was
Zeus. Greek
- Latpon. God of wisdom and magic. Middle East
- Latsari. Name given to the lamias
and other beings that wash clothes during the night. Basque
- Latur Dano, Counterpart of their supreme god which causes
sickness, death and bad weather Indonesia/Nias Is.
- Lau, Spirit beings who are created when an islander dies
Andaman Is.
- Laufey. Leafy island. Loke's mother. Norse
- Laughing Buddha. Popular Buddhist deity; god of happiness and
wealth. China
- Lauka Mate, Laukamat, Goddess of agriculture Latvia
- Laukika-Devatas, Generic name for gods known from local
folklore Hindu
- Laukosargas, God of grain and the fields Prussia
- Laume, the Fey Women who protects widows and orphans.
Slavic
- Lausus, 1. A son of Mezentius, who
was slain while defending his father against Aeneas. (The Aeneid
Book VII) According to the author of the De Orig. Gent. Rom.,
Lausus fell at a later time, during the siege of Lavinium, by the
hand of Ascanius. 2. A son of Numitor and brother of Ilia, was
fraudulently killed by Amulius. Greek
- Lavavoth. The angelic king of the South-Southwest.
Enochian
- Laverna, Chthonic underworld goddess. Italy
- Lavinia, a daughter of Latinus and
Amata, and the wife of Aeneas, by whom she became the mother of
Ascanius or Silvius. Greek
- Lavinia. The daughter of Titus Andronicus, bride of
Bassianus, brother of the Emperor of Rome. Being grossly
abused by Chiron and Demetrius, sons of Tamora, Queen of the
Goths, the savage wantons cut off her hands and pluck out her
tongue, that she may not reveal their names Lavinia, guiding a
stick with her stumps, makes her tale known to her father and
brothers; whereupon Titus murders the two Moorish princes and
serves their heads in a pasty to their mother, whom he afterwards
slays, together with the Emperor Saturninus her husband.
Greek
- Lawrence. Patron saint of curriers, because his skin was
broiled on a gridiron. Christian
- Le Fay, Goddess of the sea and of the Isle of Avalon
Welsh
- Lazdona. Goddess of trees. Very fond of Hazelnuts.
Slavic
- Le Tkakawash, Goddess of birds Klamath
- Leaneira, the daughter of
Amyclas and by Arcas the mother of Elatus and Apheidas.
- Leaoc. A minor angel. Enochian
- Lear. A legendary king of Britain, who in his old age divided
his kingdom between Goneril and Regan, two of his daughters, who
professed great love for him. These two daughters drove the old
man mad by their unnatural conduct.
- Lebien-Poghl Yukaghir, Animistic owner god and chief
protector of the earth Siberia
- Leda, a daughter of Thestius, whence
she is called Thestias but others call her a daughter of
Thespius, Thyestes, or Glaucus, by Laophonte, Deidamia, Leucippe,
Eurythemis, or Paneidyia. She was the wife of Tyndareus, by whom
she became the mother of Timandra, Clytaemnestra, and Philonoe.
Greek
- Left unlucky, Right lucky. The augur among the Romans having
taken his stand on the Capitoline Hill, and marked out with his
wand the space of the heavens to be the field of observation,
divided the space into two from top to bottom. If the birds
appeared on the left side of the division, the augury was
unlucky, but if the birds appeared on the right side the augury
was pronounced to be favourable.
- Legba, God of the sun and war Haiti
- Legba Fon, God of fate Benin
- Legor. The personification of sterility. Basque
- Leherenn. 'He Who Strikes'. Pyrenean war god.
- Lei Gong, God of thunder. China
- Lei Tsu, God of innkeepers China
- Lei-zi, Goddess of thunder who also originated silk worm
breeding. China
- Lelex, one of the original
inhabitants of Laconia which was called after him, its first
king, Lelegia. He was married to the Naiad Cleochareia, by whom
he became the father of Myles, Polycaon, and Eurotas. Greek
- Lelwani, Chthonic underworld goddess Hittite/Hurrian
- Lemnos. The island where Vulcan
fell when Jupiter flung him out of
heaven. Probably it was at one time volcanic, though not so now.
Roman
- Lempo, God of frenzied love Finnish
- Lemures, spectres or spirits of
the dead, which were believed by the Romans to return to the
upper world and injure the living. Some writers describe Lemures
as the common name for all the spirits of the dead and divide all
Lemures into two classes; viz. the souls of those who have been
good men are said to become Lares, while those of the wicked
become Larvae. Greek
- Lendix-Teux Chilcotin, Tutelary god who educates the human
race BC Canada
- Lennaxidaq, Goddess of wealth and luck Kwakiutl
- Lenus, God of healing Celtic
- Leoc. A minor angel. Enochian
- Lepracaun. The fairy shoemaker. Irish leith—bhrogan,
from leith—brog, one—shoe maker, so called because he
is always seen working at a single shoe.
- Lesa, Creator god Africa(south)
- Leshachikha, forest Goddess, wife of the forest god, Leshy
and mother of Leshonki. Slavonic
- Lerna. A Lerna of ills (malorum Lerna). A very great evil.
Lake Lerna is where Hercules
destroyed the hydra which did incalculable evil to Argos.
Greek
- Lestrigons. A race of giants who lived in Sicily. Ulysses
sent two of his men to request that he and his crew might land,
but the king of the place ate one for dinner and the other fled.
The Lestrigons assembled on the coast and threw stones against
Ulysses and his crew. Greek
- Letfeti. Light-foot. One of the horses of the gods.
Norse
- Lethe, the personification of
oblivion, is called by Hesiod (Theogony of Hesiod 227) a daughter of
Strife. Lethe is one of the rivers of Hades. Drinking from the
river Lethe caused complete forgetfulness. Some ancient Greeks
believed that souls were made to drink from the river before
being reincarnated, so they would not remember their past lives.
Greek
- Lethean Dew. Dreamy forgetfulness; a brown study. Lethe is the river of forgetfulness. Sometimes
incorrectly called Lethean. Greek
- Leto, in Latin Latona, according to
Hesiod (Theogony of Hesiod), a
daughter of the Titan Coeus and Phoebe,
a sister of Asteria, and the mother of
Apollo and Artemis by Zeus, to
whom, she was married before Hera.
Greek
- Leucetios, Thunder and storm god. Celtic
- Leucippe, 1. One of the nymphs
who was with Persephone at the time she was carried off. 2. The
wife of Ilus, and mother of Laomedon. 3. A daughter of Thestor.
4. The wife of Thestius. 5. A daughter of Minyas of Orchomenos.
Greek
- Leucippus, 1. A son of Oenomaus.
2. A son of Perieres and Gorgophone, and brother of Aphareus. He
was the father of Arsinoe, Phoebe, and Hilaeira, and prince of
the Messenians. He is mentioned among the Calydonian hunters, and
the Boeotian town of Leuctra is said to have derived its name
from him. Greek
- Leucothea, Leukothea. [White Goddess]. So Ino was called after she became a sea nymph. Her son Palæmon, called by the Romans Portunus, or Portumnus, was the protecting
genius of harbours. Greek
- Leuh. The register of the Recording Angel, in which he
ènters all the acts of the member of the human race.
Koran
- Levanael. The angel of Luna. Enochian
- Levarcham, Goddess of physical prowess Ireland
- Leviathan. The crocodile, or some extinct sea monster,
described in the Book of Job. It sometimes in Scripture
designates Pharaoh, King of Egypt, where the word is translated
“dragon.”
- Leza Bantu, Creator god Zimbabwe
- Lha, Generic term for the deity Buddhist/Tibet
- Lha Mo. Afemale demon who converted to a goddess of
Lamaism.
- Lhamo, Goddess of the Bon pantheon Buddhist/Tibet
- Li, hornless dragon, lesser dragon of the seas. China
- Li, Divine lord of fire China
- Li Lao chun, God of farriers and of leather workers
China
- Li No Cha, a monstrous Immortal with three heads, eight arms
and nine eyes was sent down to Earth by the Jade Emperor to
defeat a plague of demons. China
- Li Thieh-Kuai, Immortal being China/Taoist
- Lia Fail. The Fatalé Marmor or Stone of Destiny. On,
this stone the ancient Irish kings sat at their coronation, and
according to tradition, wherever that stone might be the people
there would be dominant. It was removed to Scone; and Edward
removed it from Scone Abbey to London. It is kept in Westminster
Abbey under who royal throne, on which the English sovereigns sit
at their coronation. Celtic
- Lianja Nkundo, God Zaire
- Liath, the Grey Man of the Cairngorm Mountains. A Scottish
Yeti
- Liban, Goddess of lakes Ireland
- Libanza Upotos, Creator god Zaire
- Liber, Chthonic god of fertility with a festival, the
Liberalia, on March 17th Italy
- Libera, Goddess of spring Italy
- Liberalitas, Goddess of generosity Roman
- Libertas, the personification of Liberty, was worshipped at
Rome as a divinity. Roman
- Libethrides or nymphae Libethrides, a name of the Muses,
which they derived from the well Libethra in Thrace. Greece
- Libra, the balance. One of the twelve signs of the Zodiac
(September 22 to October 22), when day and night being weighed
would be found equal.
- Libya, 1. A daughter of Epaphus and
Memphis, from whom Libya (Africa) is said to have derived its
name. By Poseidon she is said to have been the mother of Agenor,
Belus and Lelex. 2. A daughter of Palamedes, and by Hermes the
mother of Libys. 3. A sister of Asia. Greek
- Libitina. The goddess who, at Rome, presided over funerals.
Roman
- Libitina, an ancient Italian divinity, who was identified by
the later Romans sometimes with Persephone on account of her connection
with the dead and their burial, and sometimes with Aphrodite.
- Libys, the name of two mythical personages, one a son of
Libya, and the other one of the Tyrrhenian pirates whom Bacchus
changed into dolphins. Greek
- Libystnus, that is, the Libyan, a surname under which Apollo
was worshipped by the Sicilians, because he was believed to have
destroyed by a pestilence a Libyan fleet which sailed against
Sicily. Greek
- Lichas, an attendant of Heracles. He brought to his master
the deadly garment, and as a punishment, was thrown by him into
the sea, where the Lichadian islands, between Euboea and the
coast of Locris, were believed to have derived their name from
him. Greek
- Lidskialfa, the terror of nations. The throne of Alfader,
whence he can view the whole universe. Scandinavian
- Lietna'irgin Chukchee, Spirit of the dawn
Siberia(East)
- Lifthraser, Lif. The two persons preserved in Hodmimer's
grove during Surt's conflagration in Ragnarok; the last
beings in the old and the first in the new world. Norse
- Ligdisa . A sub-angelic Watchtower leader in the North.
Enochian
- Ligeia, i. e. the shrill sounding,
occurs as the name of a seiren and of a nymph. Greek
- Ligyron, i. e. the whining, is said
to have been the original name of Achilles, and to have been
changed into Achilles by Cheiron. Greek
- Lilith, Rather startling young lady started out as adam's
first wife and became a demoness Jewish
- Lilith or Lilis. The Talmudists say that Adam had a wife
before Eve, whose name was Lilis. Refusing to submit to Adam, she
left Paradise for a region of the air. She still haunts the night
as a spectre, and is especially hostile to new—born
infants. Some superstitious Jews still put in the chamber
occupied by their wife four coins, with labels on which the names
of Adam and Eve are inscribed, with the words, “Avaunt
thee, Lilith!” Rabbinical mythology
- Lilitu, Nocturnal demones who lingers on as the Jewish Lilith
Babylon
- Liluri, Goddess of mountainses who accepted a bull for a
sacrifice Syria
- Limbo. In Catholic theology unbaptised infants and good
heathens go to Limbo.
- Limbus Fatuorum. The Limbus of Fools, or Fool's Paradise.
As fools are not responsible for their works, they are not
punished in Purgatory, but cannot be received into Heaven; so
they go to a place called the Paradise of Fools.
- Limbus Patrum. The half—way house between earth and
heaven, where the patriarchs and prophets, after death, await the
coming of Messiah. According to the Roman Catholic notion, this
is the “hell,” or hades, into which Jesus Christ
descended after He gave up the ghost on the cross.
- Limbus Puerorum. The Child's Paradise, for children who
die before they are responsible for their actions.
- Limits, the Latin Fames, or personification of hunger. Hesiod
describes hunger as the offspring of Eris or Discord. A poetical
description of Fames occurs in Ovid and Virgil places it along
with other monsters, at the entrance of Orcus. Greek
- Limnaea, Limnetes, Limnades,
Limnegenes, i. e. inhabiting or born in a lake or marsh, is a
surname of several divinities who were believed either to have
sprung from a lake, or had their temples near a lake. Instances
are, Dionysus at Athens, and Artemis at Sicyon, near Epidaurus,
on the frontiers between Laconia and Messenia, near Calamae, at
Tegea, Patrae; it is also used as a surname of nymphs that dwell
in lakes or marshes. Greek
- Lina. Goddess of spring. Greek
- Lina. The Goddess of Flax. Norse
- Linden Tree. Baucis was converted
into a linden tree. Philemon and
Baucis were poor cottagers of Phrygia, who entertained
Jupiter so hospitably that he promised to grant them whatever
request they made. They asked that both might die together, and
it was so. At death Philemon became an oak and Baucis a linden
tree. Their branches intertwined at the top. Greek
- Lindia, a surname of Athena, derived from the town of Lindus,
in the island of Rhodus, where she had a celebrated temple.
Greek
- Linga, a symbol of divine generative energy, especially a
phallus or phallic object worshiped as a symbol of Shiva.
Hindu
- Linksmine. Goddess of Good Cheer, invoked at feasts and
banquets. Slavonic
- Linus, the personification of a dirge or lamentation, and
therefore described as a son of Apollo by a Muse. Greek
- Liosalfar. The light Alfs who dwell in the city
Alf—heim. They are whiter than the sun. Scandinavian
- Lipse, Wind goddess Greek
- Lir, God of the ocean. Ireland
- Lir. Father of Fionmala. On the death of Fingula, the mother
of his daughter, he married the wicked Aoife, who, through spite,
transformed the children of Lir into swans, doomed to float on
the water till they heard the first mass—bell ring.
Ireland
- Liris. A proud but lovely daughter of the race of man,
beloved by Rubi, first of the angel host. Her passion was the
love of knowledge, and she was captivated by all her lover told
her of heaven and the works of God. At last she requested Rubi to
appear before her in all his glory, and as she fell into his
embrace was burnt to ashes by the rays which issued from him.
Hebrew
- Lisa Fon, God of the sun Africa
- Litae, a personification of the prayers offered up in
repentance. They are described as the daughters of Zeus, and as
following closely behind crime, and endeavouring to make amends
for what has been done but whoever disdains to receive them, has
himself to atone for the crime that has been committed.
Greek
- Litavis, God of the forge. Breton
- Liter. A dwarf that Thor kicked into Balder's funeral
pile. Norse
- Little—Endians. The two great empires of Lilliput and
Blefuscu waged a destructive war against each other, exhausted
their treasures, and decimated their subjects on their different
views of interpreting this vital direction contained in the 54th
chapter of the Blun—decral: “All true believers break
their eggs at the convenient end.” The godfather of Calin
Deffar Plane, the reigning emperor of Lilliput, happened to cut
his finger while breaking his egg at the big end, and very
royally published a decree commanding all his liege and faithful
subjects, on pains and penalties of great severity, to break
their eggs in future at the small end. The orthodox Blefuscudians
deemed it their duty to resent this innovation, and declared a
war of extermination against the heretical Lilliputians.
Swift
- Lityerses, lived in Phrygia, engaged in rural pursuits, and
hospitably received all strangers that passed his house, but he
then compelled them to assist him in the harvest, and whenever
they allowed themselves to be surpassed by him in their work, he
cut off their heads in the evening, and concealed their bodies in
the sheaves, accompanying his deed with songs. Heracles, however, slew him, and threw his
body into the Maeander. Greek
- Liu Meng, Agriculture god China
- Liu Pei, God of basket makers China
- Lizard Islands. Fabulous islands where damsels outcast from
the rest of the world are received. Torquemada
- Ljubi, Demoness who could cause drought on less a virgin was
sacrificed to her Albania
- Llasar Llaesgyfnewid, Battle god. Welsh
- Llevelys, the ruler of Brittany who got the dragon drunk on
Meade. Brittany
- Llew Llaw Gyffes, his mother would not name him; cursed him
never to marry; and that he could only be killed a certain,
secret way. The Celts equated the name with a spirit essence and
true being. Llew turned into an eagle and flew away. Welsh
- Llorna, Female spirit luring people to them, normally
drowning in bogs, swamps, etc. Spain
- Llud, a death God. Welsh
- Llyr, God of the sea and water Ireland/Welsh
- Lmag. A minor angel. Enochian
- Lmmag. A minor angel. Enochian
- Lo Shen, Goddess of rivers China
- Lo Tsu Ta Hsien, God of barbers and beggars China
- Lo Yu, God of tea China
- Loa, Spirit beings who were imported by Africa slaves
Haiti/Puerto Rico
- Loathly Lady. A lady so hideous that no one would marry her
except Sir Gawain; and immediately after the marriage her
ugliness — the effect of enchantment — disappeared,
and she became a model of beauty. Love beautifies. France
- Loba Duala, God of the sun Africa/Cameroon
- Locana, Goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
- Loco, patron of healers and plants, especially trees.
Haiti/Vodun
- Locrin. or Locrine. Father of Sabrina, and eldest son of the
mythical Brutus, King of ancient Britain. On the death of his
father he became king of Loegria.
- Locrus, 1. A son of Physcius and
grandson of Amphictyon, became by Cabya the father of Locrus, the
mythical ancestor of the Ozolian Locrians. According to some the
wife of the former Locrus was called Cambyse or Protogeneia. 2. A
son of Zeus and Maera, the daughter of the Argive king Proetus
arid Antaia. Greek
- Loder. To flame. One of the three gods (Odin, Haener and
Loder) who create Ask and Embla, the first man and woman. He is
identical with Loke. Norse
- Lodfafner. A protege of Odin. Norse
- Lodur, Creator god mentioned in the creation myth.
germanic
- Lofn, Goddess of illicit unions norse
- Lofn, Goddess of love norse
- Logia, Goddess of the Lagan River Ireland
- Logistilla. The good fairy, and sister of Alcina the
sorceress. She teaches Ruggiero to manage the hippogriff, and
gives Astolpho a magic book and horn. The impersonation of
reason. Orlando
Furioso
- Logos, Principle embodied in the flesh by Jesus the Christ
Christian
- Logos, Word coming from the mind of their god
Christian/Gnostic
- Logos, Primordial spirit of reason Greek
- Loha, Beneficent goddess portrayed as a beautiful woman
Klamath
- Lohasur Devi, Goddess of the forging of iron India
- Lokapala, Gods Hindu
- Lokesvara, Generic name for a group of deities such as Siva
and Visnu Buddhist
- Loki, Loki. To end, finish; Loke is the end and consummation
of divinity. The evil giant-god of the Norse mythology. He steers
the ship Naglfar in Ragnarok. He borrows Freyja's
feather-garb and accompanies Thor to the giant Thrym, who has
stolen Thor's hammer. He is the father of Sleipner; also of
the Midgard serpent, of the Fenris-wolf and of Hel. He causes
Balder's death, abuses the gods in Æger's feast,
but is captured in Fraanangerforce and is bound by the gods.
Norse
- Loko, God of trees. Fon Benin
- Lomo Ngbandi, Goddess of peace, invoked at sunrise every day.
Zaire
- Long Mu. Mother of Dragons was a Chinese woman who was
deified as a goddess after raising five infant dragons.
- Longatis, a surname of Athena derived from her being
worshipped in a Boeotian district called Longas. Greek
- Longius. The Roman soldier who smote Jesus with his spear. In
the romance of King Arthur, this spear was brought by Joseph of
Arimathea to Listenise, when he visited King Pellam, “who
was nigh of Joseph's kin.” Sir Balim the Savage, being
in want of a weapon, seized this spear, with which he wounded
King Pellam. “Three whole countries were destoyed” by
that one stroke, and Sir Balim saw “the people thereof
lying dead on all sides.”
- Longmen, the dragon gate where a carp can transform into a
dragon. China
- Lono, Primordial god of agriculture, peace, rain, clouds and
the sky Hawaii
- Loo Wit Klickitat, Goddess of fire, volcanoes PNW
- Lopemat, Goddess who created cattle Latvia
- Lopter. The aerial. Another name of Loke. Norse
- Lorbrulgrud. The capital of Brobdingnag. The word is
humorously said to mean “Pride of the Universe.”
Swift
- Lord of Creation. Man. “Replenish the earth, and subdue
it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl
of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the
earth. Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed ... and
every tree ”— Genesis. i. 28, 29.
- Lot, Hideous Formorian war goddess and goddess of physical
prowess and strength Ireland
- Lothur, God of physical senses norse/Icelandic
- Lotis, a nymph, who in her escape
from the embraces of Priapus was metamorphosed into a tree,
called after her Lotis. Greek
- Lotus The Egyptians pictured God sitting on a
lote—tree, above the watery mud. Jamblichus says the leaves
and fruit of the lote—tree being round represent “the
motion of intellect;” its towering up through mud
symbolises the eminency of divine intellect over matter; and the
Deity sitting on the lote—tree implies His intellectual
sovereignty. Egypt
- Lotus. Mahomet says that a lote—tree stands in the
seventh heaven, on the right hand of the throne of God. Dryope of
OEchalia was one day carrying her infant son, when she plucked a
lotus flower for his amusement, and was instantaneously
transformed into a lotus. Hindu
- Lotus—eaters or Lotophagi, in Homeric legend, are a
people who ate of the lotus—tree, the effect of which was
to make them forget their friends and homes, and to lose all
desire of returning to their native land, their only wish being
to live in idleness in Lotus—land. Greek
- Loxias. A surname of Apollo, which is derived from his intricate and
ambiguous oracles and describes the god as the prophet or
interpreter of Zeus. Greek
- Louhi, Goddess of the ocean and winter Finnish
- Lover's Leap. The promontory from which Sappho threw herself into the sea;
now called Santa Maura. Greece
- Lowalangi, God of the world above and source of anything good
Indonesia/Nais Is.
- Loxias, a surname of Apollo, which is derived by some from
his intricate and ambiguous oracles and describes the god as the
prophet or interpreter of Zeus. Greek
- Loxo, a daughter of Boreas, one of the Hyperborean maidens, who
brought the worship of Artemis to
Delos, whence it is also used as a surname of Artemis herself.
Greek
- Lsraphm. A sub-angelic Watchtower leader in the North.
Enochian
- Lu Dongbin. One of the Eight Immortals. China
- Lu Hsing, God of employees, justice and salaries and another
of the three gods who were known as Fu Shou Lu. China
- Lu pan, God of carpenters. China
- Lu Tong-Pin, Immortal being, he is Tutelary god of barbers.
China/Taoist
- Lua, also called Lua mater or Lua
Saturni, one of the early Italian divinities, whose worship was
forgotten in later times. Roman
- Luaths Lurgann "the speedy-footed one" Warrior
Goddess who was known the fastest runner in Ireland.
- Luamerava, Goddess of sexual desire. Africa
- Luandinha, Goddess of water pictured as a snake. Brazil
- Luaths Lurgann, Warrior goddess. Celtic
- Luaths Lurgann, Goddess of midwives. Ireland
- Lubanga Buynyopro, God of health. Uganda
- Lubangala Bakongo, God of the rainbow Zaire
- Lubberkin or Lubrican. (Irish, Lobaircin or Leprechaun. ) A
fairy resembling an old man, by profession a maker of brogues,
who resorts to out—of—the—way places, where he
is discovered by the noise of his hammer. He is rich, and while
anyone keeps his eye fixed upon him cannot escape, but the moment
the eye is withdrawn he vanishes. Irish
- Lubins. A species of goblins in Normandy that take the form
of wolves, and frequent churchyards. They are very timorous, and
take flight at the slightest noise.
- Lucerius aka Luceria, Lucetius and Lucetia, that is, the
giver of light, occur as surnames of Jupiter and Juno.
- Luchtain, Minor god of war and death. Ireland
- Luchtar Lud, Chief god Ireland/Welsh
- Lucifer. The morning star. Venus is both an evening and a
morning star: When she follows the sun, and is an evening star,
she is called Hesperus; when she precedes the sun, and appears
before sunrise, she is called Lucifer, the light—bringer.
Gnostic
- Lucifer. Very haughty and overbearing. Lucifer is the name
given by Isaiah to Nebuchadnezzar, the proud but ruined king of
Babylon: “Take up this proverb against the King of Babylon,
and say, ... How art thou fallen, from heaven, O Lucifer, son of
the morning!” (Isa. XIV. 4, 12). The poets feign that
Satan, before he was driven out of heaven for his pride, was
called Lucifer. Milton, in his Paradise Lost, gives this name to
the demon of “Sinful Pride.” Christian/Gnostic
- Lucifera. Pride lived in a splendid palace, only its
foundation was of sand. The door stood always open, and the queen
gave welcome to every comer. Her six privy ministers are
Idleness, Gluttony, Lechery, Avarice, Envy, and Revenge. These
six, with Pride herself, are the seven deadly sins. Her carriage
was drawn by six different animals— viz. an ass, swine,
goat, camel, wolf, and lion, on each of which rode one of her
privy councillors, Satan himself being coachman. While here the
Red—Cross Knight was attacked by Sansjoy, who would have
been slain if Duessa had not rescued him. Fairy Tale
- Lucian of Samosata Works,
- The Vision
- The Dependent Scholar
- Life Of Demonax
- Slander, a Warning
- Trips to the Moon by
Lucian
- Lucina. The goddess of light, or
rather the goddess that brings to light, and hence the goddess
that presides over the birth of children; it was therefore used
as a surname of Juno and Diana. Roman
- Lucy. Patron saint for those afflicted in the eyes. It is
said that a nobleman wanted to marry her for the beauty of her
eyes; so she tore them out and gave them to him saying,
“Now let me live to God.” The story says that her
eyesight was restored; but the rejected lover accused her of
“faith in Christ,” and she was martyred by a sword
thrust into her neck. Christian
- lû' dja
låko, Lu Dja Lako, a monster bull
turtle. Southeastern Indians
- Lud, Chief god Ireland/Welsh
- Lud, London; so called from Lud, a mythical king of Britain.
Ludgate is, by a similar tradition, said to be the gate where Lud
was buried. Celtic/British
- Ludd, God of the ocean, war and light. Celtic/British
- Luduan, a beast which could detect truth. China
- Lug, God of commerce, magic and war. Ireland
- Lugal-Irra, Chthonic underworld god
Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia/Sumeria
- Lugeilan, God of knowledge, strange but knowledge Caroline
Is.
- Luggie. The warlock who, when storms prevented him from going
to sea, used to sit on “Luggie's Knoll.” and fish
up dressed food.
- Luggnagg. An island mentioned in Gulliver's Travels,
where people live for ever. Swift shows the evil of such a
destiny, unless accompanied with eternal youth.
- Lugh, "The Shining One", "Sun God",
"Many Skilled", "Fair-Haired One",
"White or Shining". A hero and god of War.
Pan-Celtic
- Lulal, the younger son of Inanna. He was the patron deity of
Bad-tibira while his older brother, Shara was located at
neighboring Umma. Sumeria
- Lulong, Goddess of love Borneo
- Lumauwig, Lumawig The supreme god and creator of all things.
Philippines
- Luna, the moon. The sun and the moon
were worshipped both by Greeks and Romans, and among the latter
the worship of Luna is said to have been introduced by the Sabine
T. Tatius, in the time of Romulus. But, however this may be, it
is certain, notwithstanding the assertion of Varro, that Sol and
Luna were reckoned among the great gods, that their worship never
occupied any prominent place in the religion of the Romans, for
the two divinities had between them only a small chapel in the
Via Sacra. Greek
- Lunang Kafir, Patron goddess of the Prasun river
Afghanistan
- Lung Yen, God of the liver China
- Luonnotar, Goddess of the ocean Finnish
- Luot Hozjit, Goddess of summer Saami/Lappland
- Luperca, or Lupa, an ancient Italian divinity, the wife of
Lupercus, who, in the shape of a she-wolf, performed the office
of nurse to Romulus and Remus.
Roman
- Lupercal, the place where Romulus and Remus were suckled by
the wolf (lupus). A yearly festival was held on this spot on Feb.
15, in honour of Lupercus, the god of fertility. On one of these
festivals Antony thrice offered to Julius Cæsar a kingly
crown, but seeing the people were only half—hearted,
Cæsar put it aside, saying, “Jupiter alone is king of
Rome.” Roman
- Lupercus, an ancient Italian divinity, who was worshipped by
shepherds as the protector of their flocks against wolves, and at
the same time as the promoter of the fertility among sheep,
whence he was called Inuus. Roman
- Lupi, God of the sun whose wife is the moon. Aymara
- Lur, Lurbira. Earth mother of the Sun and of the Moon. One of
the main spirits of the beliefs and mythical traditions of the
Basques.
- Lutinus, God of fertility Roman
- Luz or Luez .The indestructible bone; the nucleus of the
resurrection body. Daft
- Lybie and Lamia, Lybie was the
mother of Lamia by Poseidon and as there are virtually no
references to Lybie in classical literature it seem likely that
Lamia, Lybie and the Lamiae are all variations of the same myth
concerning the beautiful queen of Libya, daughter of Belus and
Libya. Lamia, in Greek mythology, queen of Libya. She was beloved
by Zeus, and when Hera robbed her of her children out of
jealousy, she killed every child she could get into her power.
Hence Lamia came to mean a female bogey or demon, whose name was
used by Greek mothers to frighten their children; from the Greek
she passed into Roman demonology. Greek
- Lycabas, the name of three fictitious personages mentioned by
Ovid Metamorphoses. (iii, v, xii.) Greek
- Lycaon, a son of Pelasgus by
Meliboea, the daughter of Oceanus, and king of Arcadia. Others
call him a son of Pelasgus by Cyllene , and Dionysius of
Halicarnassus distinguishes between an elder and a younger
Lycaon, the former of whom is called a son of Aezeus and father
of Deianeira, by whom Pelasgus became the father of the younger
Lycaon. Greek
- Lycisca, half—wolf, half—dog. One of the dogs of
Actæon. In Latin it is a common
term for a sheperd's dog, and is so used by Virgil.
Greek
- Lynceus, a son of Aegyptus and
Argyphia, and husband of the Danaid Hypermnestra, by whom he
became the father of Abas. He was king of Argos, whence that city
is called Abas. Greek
- Lycomedes, a king of the
Dolopians, in the island of Scyros, near Euboea, father of
Deidameia, and grandfather of Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus. Once when
Theseus came to him, Lycomedes, dreading the influence of the
stranger upon his own subjects, thrust him down a rock. Some
related that the cause of this violence was that Lycomedes would
not give up the estates which Theseus had in Scyros, or the
circumstance that Lycomedes wanted to gain the favour of
Menestheus. Greek
- Lycoreus or Lycoris. 1. A surname
of Apollo on Mount Parnassus.
- Lycoreus or Lycoris. 2 A son of
Apollo and the nymph Corycia, from whom
Lycoreia, in the neighbourhood of Delphi, was believed to have
derived its name. There are two other mythical personages of this
name.
- Lycurgus. A son of Dryas, and king of
the Edones in Thrace. He is famous for his persecution of
Dionysus and his worship on the
sacred mountain of Nyseion in Thrace. The god himself leaped into
the sea, where he was kindly received by Thetis. Zeus thereupon
blinded the impious king, who died soon after, for he was hated
by the immortal gods. Greek
- Lycus, 1. One of the sons of
Aegyptus. 2. A son of Poseidon and Celaeno, who was transferred
by his father to the islands of the blessed. 3. A son of Hyrieus,
and husband of Dirce, one of the mythical kings of Thebes. 4. A
tyrant of Thebes, is likewise called by some a son of Poseidon,
though Euripides calls him a son of Lycus. Greek
- Lydia, daughter of the King of Lydia, was sought in marriage
by Alcestes, a Thracian knight; his suit was refused, and he
repaired to the King of Armenia, who gave him an army, with which
he laid siege to Lydia. He was persuaded by Lydia to raise the
siege. The King of Armenia would not give up the project, and
Alcestes slew him. Lydia now set him all sorts of dangerous tasks
to “prove the ardour of his love,” all of which he
surmounted. Lastly, she induced him to kill all his allies, and
when she had thus cut off the claws of this love—sick lion
she mocked him. Alcestes pined and died, and Lydia was doomed to
endless torment in hell, where Astolpho saw her, to whom she told
her story. Greek
- Lympha, Goddess of healing waters. Roman
- Lyr, LLyr, a god of the sea. Welsh
- Lyre, a lyre is a stringed musical
instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity. The
recitations of the Ancient Greeks were accompanied by it.
According to ancient Greek mythology, the young god Hermes
created the lyre from the body of a large tortoise shell (khelus)
which he covered with animal hide and antelope horns. Lyres were
associated with Apollonian virtues of moderation and equilibrium,
contrasting the Dionysian pipes which represented ecstasy and
celebration. Greek
- Lyrus, a son of Anchises and Aphrodite and brother of Aeneas Greek
- Lysithea, a daughter of Oceanus
by Tethys and one of Zeus' lovers. Greek
- Lysius, i. e. the Deliverer, a surname of Dionysus, under
which he was worshipped at Corinth, where there was a carved
image of the god, the whole figure of which was gilt, while the
face was painted red. Greek
- Lysizona, i. e. the goddess who loosens the girdle, is a
surname of Artemis and Eileithyia,
who were worshipped under this name at Athens. Greek
- Lyssa, the personification of rage,
particularly martial rage, fury, raging madness, frenzy, and, in
animals, the madness of rabies. Greek
- Lyterius, i. e. the Deliverer, a surname of Pan, under which
he had a sanctuary at Troezene, because he was believed during a
plague to have revealed in dreams the proper remedy against the
disease. Roman
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