==In Latvian mythology==
...e trinity of faith goddesses that was comparable to the Norse Norns or the Greek Moirae. Among the three, Laima is the most popular because she makes the fi
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In Greek mythology, '''Scylla''', or '''Skylla''' (Greek Σκύλλα) is a horribly grotesque female sea monster.
Several Greek words are associated with her name: hermit crab (Greek skyllaros), dog and dog-shark (skylax), and to rend (skyllô).
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"There is also a story related in a poem by Aristeas son of Kaüstrobios [Greek poet C7th B.C.], a man of Prokonnesos. This Aristeas, possessed by Phoibos
...een griffons and warriors in Scythian tunics and leggings were a theme for Greek vase-painters. Spiritual descendants of the one-eyed Arimaspians of Inner A
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...mythology|Gaulish]] and (later) [[Roman mythology|Roman]] and Gallo-Roman mythology, '''Epona''' was the goddess of horses, donkeys, mules.
...is derived from ''epos'', horse or ''epa'', mare (compare Latin ''equus'', Greek ''hippos'') together with the ''-on-'' frequently, but not exclusively, fo
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'''Pan''' (Greek Πάν, genitive Πανός) is the Greek god who watches over shepherds and their flocks. He has the hindquarters,
...onus]]/[[Phanes]]. If reduced to the purely symbological, Pan would be the Greek form of an ancient, possibly pre- or proto-Indo-European, horned-man deity,
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...sed Typhon [Set], and was the last divine king of Egypt. Osiris is, in the Greek language, Dionysos." - Herodotus, Histories 2.144.1
*Homer, The Iliad - Greek Epic C9th-8th BC
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...l Celts, '''Dusios''' was a kind of faun similar to the god Pan of ancient Greek religion and with the gods Faunus, Inuus, Silvanus, and Incubus of ancient
...at the word is a nominalization of the Gaulish prefix ''dus-'', "bad" (cf. Greek dys-).
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...that was fathered by Poseidon with Medusa. When her head was cut of by the Greek hero Perseus, the horse sprang forth from her pregnant body. His galloping
In Greek and Roman mythology Pegasus sprang from the blood of the Gorgon Medusa when the hero Perseus be
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...ae'''; also equivalent to the Germanic mythology '''Norns''' or the Baltic mythology Goddess '''Laima''' and her sisters.
===The Fates in Roman Mythology===
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..., as well as wife and sister of [[Zeus]]. Many of the older temples in the Greek world belonged to her.
...ivinities of the Minoan civilization pantheon, or of some unidentified pre-Greek Pelasgian people.
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...reme boundary of India to the East, near the source of the Ganges, he [the Greek historian Megasthenes C4th B.C.] puts the Astomi tribe, that has no mouth a
[[Category: Hindu mythology]]
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...he middle of his forehead. The plural is '''Cyclopes''' or '''Kyklopes''' (Greek]] ''Κύκλωπες'').
...When Polyphemus asked for Odysseus' name, he told him that it was 'Outis', Greek for 'no man' or 'nobody'. Once the giant fell asleep drunk, Odysseus and h
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...rne the Hunter]], the Hindu [[Pashupati]], the [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek]] [[Pan]] and the [[satyr]]s, and even the Paleolithic cave painting "the S
...nted manifestations of a single Horned God, and that [[:Category:Christian mythology|Christianity]] had attempted to suppress his worship by associating him wit
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In [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]], the '''Nereids''' (NEER-ee-eds) are blue-haired sea [[nymph]]s, daughter
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. C19th Classics Encyclopedia.
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'''Chiron''' or '''Cheiron''' (Greek: KHEIRON ) was the eldest, wisest and kindest of the [[Centaur]]s, a tribe
...ulate that Chiron was originally a Thessalian god, later subsumed into the Greek pantheon as a centaur.
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...a lake and its surroundings were haunted by a monster that looked like the Greek minotaur.
[[Category: Slavic mythology]]
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...ppears to be a corrupted form of the Greek word abyssos ("the abyss"), the Greek itself was borrowed from Assyrian Apsu or Sumerian Abzu, the undifferentiat
...he name of Abyzou appear frequently in charms in languages such as ancient Greek, Hebrew, and Romanian.
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...saras''' is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist mythology.
.... They may also, in their "Nature" capacity, be rendered comparable to the Greek nymphs, dryads, naiads, etc.
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Her name comes from the ''gullet'' (Greek: Laimos), since she devoured human children.
...ld-murdering daemon. In later writings she is pluralized into many lamiae (Greek lamiai). Similar in type to other female monsters from Greco-Roman myth, su
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'''Ægir''' is a giant and a king of the sea in Norse mythology.
[[Image:Daugthers of Ægir and Rán.jpg|thumb|250px|In Norse Mythology, Ægir and his daughters brew ale in a large pot.]]
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...mythology, he has to be listed in the demons index as well as the index of mythology / tibet.
*'''Mythology''': Which culture of origin - cross folklore/mythology index
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In the study of [[mythology]] and religion, the '''underworld''' is a generic term approximately equiva
===[[Akkadian mythology]]===
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The name is a derivation from the Greek words eris, -idos meaning "troubles" and chdonios - born from the earth, wh
[[Category: Greek mythology]]
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...a''' (Pāli यक्ष) are nature-spirits who appear in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist mythology. Usually benevolent, they are caretakers of the natural treasures hidden in
[[Image:AmaravatiScroll.JPG|thumb|200px|Greek scroll supported by Indian Yaksha, Amaravati, 3rd century CE, Tokyo Nationa
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*Geller, M.J. "West Meets East: Early Greek and Babylonian Diagnosis." In ''Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Easte
[[Category: Babylonian mythology]]
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'''Centaurs''' are human-horse hybrids in Greek mythology and the followers of the wine god Dionysus.
The Greek word ''kentauros'' could be etymologized as ''ken - tauros'' = "piercing bu
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A '''pricolici''' (same form in plural) is a [[werewolf]] in '''Romanian mythology'''. Similar to a [[varcolac]], although the latter sometimes symbolises a g
...pricoloci” is not certain, though ''–lici'' has been related to the modern Greek term standing for “wolf”.
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'''Telosians''' is a legendary race in Amerindian mythology.
The name 'Telos' is a Greek work meaning 'uttermost' or 'purpose', yet some of the inhabitants refer to
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...spelling seen today probably originates in the confusion made between the Greek letters Sigma and Xi in the Latin transliteration.
...d that his name contained great mysteries, as it was composed of the seven Greek letters that formed the number 365, which is also number of days in a year.
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Abaddon has also been considered the Hebrew name for the Greek god [[Apollyon]].
...scords, war and devastations, whose prince in the Revelations is called in Greek Apollyon, in Hebrew Abaddon, that is destroying and wasting'', "Occult Phil
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From the Greek οὐραῖος, from Egyptian jʿr.t (iaret) ''rearing cobra''.
...arth and the spittle of the then current sun deity. In this version of the mythology, the uraeus was the instrument with which Isis gained the throne of Egypt f
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In Egyptian mythology, '''Apis''' or '''Hapis''' (alternatively spelt Hapi-ankh), was a bull-deit
...theless, the Greeks had little respect for animal-headed figures, and so a Greek statue was chosen as the idol, and proclaimed as anthropomorphic equivalent
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...d his personality is similar to that of the devil in [[:Category:Christian mythology|Christianity]].
...es of Arabia during Muhammad's time are likely to have known the word from Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible and the Gospels. Muslim scholars, on the o
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...r its prey like a wheel, thus looking somewhat like the ouroboros of Greek mythology, or [[Tsuchinoko]] in Japan.
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In Greek mythology, '''Cacus''' was a fire-breathing monster and the son of Vulcan. It lived i
In ancient Roman mythology, Cacus ("bad") was a fire god. He was later demoted to the giant described
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...own from parent to child. As a genius, or spirit of the household in Roman mythology, he incited people to murder and other sins. The name became a generic term
[[Category:Greek mythology]]
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[[Image:minotaur15.jpg|thumb|Greek vase decoration ]]
In [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]], the Minotaur (Greek: Μινόταυρος, Minótauros) is a monstrous double, sometimes with t
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'''Eurynome''' is a lunar Goddess of ancient Greek religion and a demon in modern demonology.
...ome. The root of –nome is Proto-Indo-European *nem-, distribute, as in the Greek infinitive, nemein, “to distribute.” Words derived from *nem- had a lar
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In Babylonian mythology, '''Tiamat''' is a sea goddess, and a monstrous embodiment of primordial ch
...ction to Tethys. The later form thalatth he finds to be clearly related to Greek thalassa, "sea".
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In Greek mythology, the white-robed '''Moirae''' or '''Moerae''' were the personifications of
...who assigns to every man his fate or his share," or the Fates. (in Ancient Greek '''Μοῖραι''' — the "'''apportioners'''", often called the '''F
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In Greek mythology, the '''Gorgons''' ("terrible" or, according to some, "loud-roaring") were
In Greek myth, only Perseus and Zeus (through Athena) own the gorgoneion. The two mu
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...a cave, who mothered with her mate [[Typhon]] every major monster in the Greek mythos.
'''Echidna''' from Greek ''ekhis'' means "she viper"
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...rcolac'' is a loan from Slavic (Bulgarian ''varkolak'', and ''vulkodlak'', Greek [[vrykolakas]]), meaning "werewolf" (etymologically "Wolf's Fur").
[[Category:Romanian mythology]] [[Category:Vampires]] [[Category:Shapeshifters]] [[Category:Werewolves]]
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The '''Calydonian Boar''' is one of a genre of chthonic monsters in Greek mythology, each set in a specific locale, which must be overcome by heroes of the Ol
...ollowing generation, the Calydonian Hunt is one of the nodes in which much Greek myth comes together.
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...alphabetically all articles that contain the <tt><nowiki>[[Category:Greek Mythology]]</nowiki></tt> link. The appeal of categories is that unlike lists, they
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...of death (Roman equivalent: [[Mors]]), as well as a minor figure in Greek mythology.
According to mythology, Thanatos could occasionally be outwitted, a feat that [[Sisyphus]] twice a
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[[Category: Greek mythology]]
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...oto-Indo-European religion and was closely linked to Latvian [[Auseklis]], Greek Eos, Roman Aurora, and Vedic Ushas. As the Christianization spread out in L
*Greimas, Algirdas Julien (1992). Of Gods and Men. Studies in Lithuanian Mythology. Indiana University Press. p. 77. ISBN 0-253-32652-4.
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[[Image:Hades (Greek Mythology).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Hades, Greek god of the underworld, enthroned, with his bird-headed staff, on a red-figu
...''[[Sheol]]'', also literally meant "unseen") refers to both the ancient [[Greek Underworld]] and the God of the Dead. The word originally referred to just
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...d near Algeria. In his book, On the Nature of Animals (second century CE), Greek military writer Aelian reported that these sea serpents were known to beach
[[Category: Vietnamese mythology]]
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In Greek mythology, Zeus is the God of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods.
Greek author Homer pictures Zeus in two separate ways:
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...Second Dynasty. The centre of her cult was in Per-Bast ('''Bubastis''' in Greek), which was named after her. Bast was also associated with the 'eye of Re',
..., gaining her the titles '''Lady of Flame''' and '''Eye of Ra'''. In Greek mythology, Bast is also known as Aelurus. Bast was originally a goddess of the sun, b
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'''Tálos''' was a giant creature made of bronze in Greek mythology, that some writers say was the last survivor from the Bronze Age of man.
From Greek λως; Lat. Talus
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...hariot.]]In Greek mythology, the '''Keres''' (singular: '''Ker''' from the Greek Kêr) were female death-spirits and sources of evils. In some texts, '''Ke
...re abstraction," Jane Ellen Harrison warned (''Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion'', "The Ker as Evil Sprite" p 170. See also Harrison's section "Th
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...μαιρα'' (Chímaira); Latin ''Chimaera'') is the monstrous creature of Greek mythology classicaly fought by the hero Bellerophon. Its name can also refer to any m
* In an episode of ''The Godzilla Power Hour'' an ancient Greek island re-appears in the Earth dimension after 1,000 years, the crew open t
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In Greek mythology, '''Geryon''' ('''Geryones''', '''Geyron'''), son of Chrysaor and [[Callirr
[[Image:Geryon herakles vase.jpg|thumb|Heracles fighting with Geryon. Greek krater, 6th century BC]]
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The word is taken from Latin cynocephalus ''dog-head'', which derives from Greek: ''κῠνοκέφᾰλοι''. In Anglo-Saxon England, the Old English word
...s can also be traced back to Greek antiquity. In the fifth century BC, the Greek physician Ctesias wrote a detailed report on the existence of cynocephali i
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In Greek mythology, the '''Lernaean Hydra''' was an ancient serpent-like chthonic water beast
The Greek word for ''arrow'', which is ''toxon'', is closely related to the Greek word for ''poison'', which is ''toxis'', thus the poison arrows that Heracl
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...ngs, derived from one of the most famed example: the ''gigantes'' of Greek mythology.
* Gigantes (Greek)
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...g them or placing them within a heated bronze statue of the god comes from Greek accounts and is not historically verifiable as no archaeological proof of s
[[Category:Assyrian mythology]]
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...on''' (Greek: Ὠρίων or Ωαρίων, Latin: Orion) was a giant huntsman in Greek mythology whom Zeus placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion.
..., each through his own interpretation of Greek prehistory and of how Greek mythology represents it. There are some points of general agreement between them: for
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‘’’Harpyiae’’’ (Harpuiai), means "the swift robbers," in Greek and are, in the Homeric poems, nothing but personified storm winds. (Od. xx
In earlier versions of Greek myth (Hesiod in ''Theogony'' calls them two "lovely-haired" creatures), Ha
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...es, while in other accounts it has only one, like the [[Cyclops]] of Greek mythology. Some tell of a gaping, stinking mouth in the monster’s belly through whi
[[Category: Amazonian mythology]]
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In Maya mythology, '''Camazotz''' (/kɑːməˈsɒts/ from Mayan /kämäˈsots/) (alternate sp
...% of the population of Guatemala. They have a rich history steeped in Maya mythology, and they were one of the most powerful states in the area in the pre-Conqu
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...t. His appearance is sometimes described as similar to the satyrs of Greek mythology (of which Pan is one), the Devil.
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In [[Philippine mythology]], a '''diwata''' or '''encantada''' is a mythological figure similar to fa
In the Tagbanua mythology, the diwatas are considered equivalent to other creation gods such as, Bath
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...may lure men to drown, akin to the Celtic [[Melusine]] and similar to the Greek [[Siren]].
...from PIE ''*neigw'' (wash). It is related to Sanskrit ''nḗnēkti'' (wash), Greek ''νίζω nízō'' and ''νίπτω níptō'', and Irish ''nigther''
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[[Category:Greek mythology]]
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[[Category: Greek mythology]]
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...or religion (as in ''Greek mythology'', ''Egyptian mythology'' or ''Norse mythology'') or the branch of knowledge dealing with the collection, study and interp
...falsehood — a story which many believe but which is not true. The field of mythology does not use this definition.
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...vented by the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom, before being imported in Greek mythology.
[[Image:sphinx.gif|thumb|Theban or Greek sphinx]]
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...led Operative Spirits and Spirits of Divination. The word derives from the Greek νεκρός ''nekrós'' "dead" and μαντεία ''manteía'' "divination
[[Norse mythology]] also contains examples of necromancy (Ruickbie, 2004:48), such as the sce
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...term for any number of [[legendary creature]]s that frequently appear in [[mythology]], [[legend]], and [[horror fiction]]. The word originates from the Old Fre
===Religion and mythology===
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...und 730 AD, but a number of translations were made over the centuries. The Greek translation, which gave the book its most famous title, was made by a (fict
...ion to the ''Necronomicon'', it was banned by Pope Gregory IX in 1232. The Greek translation, printed in Italy between 1500 and 1550, was probably lost when
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[[Image:Hécate - Mallarmé.png|thumb|right|Hecate, Greek goddess of the crossroads; drawing by Stephane Mallarmé in ''Les Dieux Ant
...", Hecate is also known as ''Queen of the Dead'' or '''Queen of Ghosts'''. Greek goddess of the dark moon, crossroads, magic, wealth, wisdom, victory and na
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The name may instead stem from the Greek word for ''hail'', χάλαζα (pronounced /'xalaza/; transliterated chala
..., like ale, led hail clouds over crops to ruin them, and uprooted trees. A Greek female demon [[Lamia]] might also have contributed in the development of th
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...fair-haired, dwelt in a number of places in Wales as genii loci similar to Greek nymphs, Norse norns or Irish sidhe. Such places included the lake Llyn y Fa
*MacKillop, James (1998). ''Dictionary of Celtic Mythology''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 368. ISBN 0192801201.
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...once been believed to be the beings who preceded the gods, similar to the Greek [[Titans]].
...more elaborate story, reminiscent the story of Zeus and Cronus from Greek mythology. Balor, who had been given a prophecy that he would be killed by his own gr
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...''Διόνυσος'' also known as '''Bacchus''' in both Greek Mythology and Roman mythology and associated with the Italic '''Liber'''), the Thracian God of wine, repr
...e Greek pantheon and was often associated with orgiastic rites. Throughout mythology he also became known as a cultivator of the soil, a lawgiver, a peacemaker,
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...lance used at the Crucifixion in [[Christian]] belief. For the elaborate [[mythology]] surrounding this relic and modern legend, see [[Spear of Destiny]]''.
In Christian mythology the '''Holy Lance''' is the lance used at the Crucifixion, which was later
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The name ouroboros (or, in Latinized form, uroborus) from the Greek 'ουροβóρος' meaning "tail-devourer".
...ings perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end (See Phoenix (mythology)). It can also represent the idea of primordial unity. The Jungian psycholo
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...necropolis in Carthage). The written form ????? Moloch (in the Septuagint Greek translation of the Old Testament), or Molech (Hebrew), is the word Melech o
===Classical Greek and Roman accounts===
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[[Category:Greek mythology]]
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from Greek mythology. Hellhounds are famous for
appearing in Northern European folklore and mythology
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'''Apep''' (also spelled Apepi, and Aapep, or Apophis in Greek) was an evil demon, the deification of darkness and chaos (isfet in Egyptia
...ide to fighting Apep, referred to as The Books of Overthrowing Apep or (in Greek) the Book of Apophis. The chapters described a gradual process of dismember
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In [[Category:Greek mythology]] the '''Sirens''' or '''Seirenes''' were [[Naiad]] (sea [[nymph]]s) approa
In early Greek art the Sirens were represented as birds with the heads, and sometimes ches
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The word has a Greek origin and means ''owl'', with which bird it is usually identified.
...rliest recorded tale of the strix is from the lost ''Ornithologia'' of the Greek author '''Boio''', which is partially preserved in Antoninus Liberalis's ''
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Cerberus was the guardian hound of [[Hades]], the Greek [[Underworld]], and a faithful servant of Hades (the god who ruled that glo
*In Roman mythology, [[Aeneas]] lulled Cerberus to sleep with drugged honeycakes.
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...m "manticore" was borrowed from Latin ''mantichora'', itself borrowed from Greek ''mantikhoras'' - an erroneous pronunciation of the original Persian name.
...urth century BCE, in his notes on India ("Indika"), which circulated among Greek writers on natural history, but have not survived.
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...refigured the ram of ''Banebdjed'', worshipped in the city of Mendes, the Greek name of ancient Djedet in Egypt, as a he-goat, imagined as “copulator in
...identified Baphomet with [[Harpocrates]] (the [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek]] version of the child-form of the Egyptian god [[Horus]]) and also with wh
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...istian context: examples of such [[:Category:Christian mythology|Christian mythology]] are the themes woven round [[Saint George]] or [[Saint Christopher]]. In
...partly represented by the familiar designation ''[[Aesopica]]'': "Ancient Greek and Roman literature contains rich troves of folklore and popular beliefs,
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'''Cernunnos''' in [[:Category:Celtic mythology|Celtic mythology]] is the deified [[spirit]] of horned male animals, especially of stags, a
...It depicts Cernunnos and other Celtic deities alongside [[:Category:Roman mythology|Roman divinities]] such as [[Jupiter]], [[Vulcan]], [[Castor]], and [[Pollu
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...ology or as a [[spirituality|spiritual]] concept. The word is derived from Greek ''therion'' (Θηριον), meaning "wild animal" or "beast", and ''anthrō
In [[folklore]], mythology and [[anthropology]], therianthropy can be used to describe a character tha
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...ek name for the ancient [[god]] in [[:Category:Egyptian mythology|Egyptian mythology]] whose hieroglyphic is more accurately spelt '''Anpu''' (also '''Anup''',
...ons were similar, Anubis was identified as the [[:Category:Greek mythology|Greek]] god [[Hermes]], becoming [[Hermanubis]].
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Jacob Grimm believed that Gothic ''skōhsl'', used to translate ''Koine'' Greek δαιμόνιον (daimonion), "demon", in the New Testament, was related
[[Category: Germanic mythology]]
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...hoenician author Sanchuniathon also says Dagon means siton, that being the Greek word for grain. Sanchuniathon further explains: "And Dagon, after he discov
...se, in the tale depicting the origin of the constellation Capricornus, the Greek god of nature Pan became a fish from the waist down when he jumped into the
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...u''' was the first living being and the creator of the universe in Chinese mythology.
...le that the figure Sui-Jen has been derived from the same prototype as the Greek Prometheus."
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The [[Siren]]s of Greek mythology are sometimes portrayed in later [[folklore]]; in fact in some languages th
Other related types of [[mythology|myth]]ical or [[legend]]ary creature are [[water fairies]] (e.g. various [[
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...mani 'Faunum' dicunt'' — "[[Satyr]]s are they who are called Pans in Greek, [[Incubus (demon)]] in Latin, these daemons the Galls call Dusi. What vulg
...ten applied to beings that seem more human than ape, or that have strong [[mythology|mythological]] or supernatural overtones.
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...nt or other reptile, with [[magic]]al or [[Spirit|spiritual]] qualities. [[Mythology|Mythological]] creatures possessing some or most of the characteristics typ
...rse exceptions to these rules). Malevolent dragons also occur in [[Persian mythology]] and other cultures.
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