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The name is derived from two Hebrew words: רָפָא (rafa'), meaning "to heal," and אֵל ('el), meaning "God". He was first mentioned in the Book of Tobit and in 1 Enoch. He is mentioned throughout various traditions from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. People would pray to Raphael for healing and guidance.
The name "Carcinos" is a transliteration of the Ancient Greek word Καρκίνος, [5] which literally means "crab". [6] This is why, according to the version and translation of the myth, the character is not referred to by his original name but only as a giant crab, the Crab or Cancer.
Medusa, a mortal woman transformed into a hideous gorgon by Athena; Niobe, a daughter of Tantalus who declared herself to be superior to Leto, causing Artemis and Apollo to kill her fourteen children; Pandora, the first woman; Penelope, loyal wife of Odysseus; Phaedra, daughter of Minos and wife of Theseus
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Toggle Greek mythology subsection. 21.1 Cappadocian. 21.2 Cretan. 21.3 Minoan. 21.4 Mycenaean. ... (Changing Woman, Turquoise Woman); Yoołgai Asdzą́ą́ (White ...
Empusa (or empousa, pl. empousai) – A shape-shifting being with a copper leg in Greek mythology. Elf – Supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore. Erinyes – Greek female chthonic deities of vengeance. Fairy – Mythical spirits or legendary creatures in European folklore, also known as fae or fair folk among many other names ...
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.
In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the fallen") is one of a host of female figures who decide who will die in battle. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to the goddess Freyja 's afterlife field Fólkvangr ), the valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain ...