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Other theories include derivation from a Greek root meaning "smoke" (consistent with Typhon's identification with volcanoes), [127] from an Indo-European root (*dhuH-) meaning "abyss" (making Typhon a "Serpent of the Deep"), [128] [129] and from Sapõn the Phoenician name for the Ugaritic god Baal's holy mountain Jebel Aqra (the classical Mount ...
In Greek mythology, the Keres (/ˈkɪriːz/; Ancient Greek: Κῆρες) were female death-spirits. They were the goddesses who personified violent death and who were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields. [citation needed] Although they were present during death and dying, they did not have the power to kill. All they could do was wait and ...
God who reared the young goddess Despoina, the daughter of Demeter. Ἀστερία (Astería) Asteria: Goddess of nocturnal oracles and falling stars. Ἀστραῖος (Astraîos) Astraeus: God of dusk, stars, and planets, and the art of astrology. Ἄτλας (Átlas) Atlas: God forced to carry the heavens upon his shoulders by Zeus.
(Greek mythology) Girdle of Hippolyta, a girdle that was a symbol of Hippolyta's power over the Amazons, and given to her by Ares. Heracles' 9th Labor was to retrieve it. (Greek mythology) Tyet, the ancient Egyptian symbol of the goddess Isis. It seems to be called "the Knot of Isis" because it resembles a knot used to secure the garments that ...
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
Owuo, Akan God of Death and Destruction, and the Personification of death. Name means death in the Akan language. Asase Yaa, one half of an Akan Goddess of the barren places on Earth, Truth and is Mother of the Dead; Amokye, Psychopomp in Akan religion who fishes the souls of the dead from the river leading to Asamando, the Akan underworld
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BCE) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...
Serapis was a Greco-Egyptian god who combined aspects of Egyptian and Hellenistic religions. He was a composite of the Egyptian gods Osiris and Apis, and the Greek god Zeus. Serapis was associated with many other gods, including Asklepios, Dionysos, and Hades. Sidero: Σιδηρώ stepmother of Tyro Socus: Σῶκος