Encyclopedia - Chthonic: Encyclopedia - Chthonic
In mythology chthonic (from Greek χθονιος-pertaining to the earth; earthy) designates, or pertains to, gods or spirits of the unde...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chthonic: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Chthonic
CHTHONIC: of or pertaining to the depths of the Earth. There seem to be rather powerful chthonic magickal or psychic forces tied in wi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chthonic: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Chthonic
Chthonic (Greek. , "under the earth") Technical term describing gods and spirits of the underworld. Also the describes the: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chthonic: Encyclopedia Ii - Chthonic - Chthonian And Olympian
While terms like "Earth deity" have rather sweeping implications in English, the words khthonie and khthonios had a more precise and tech...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geryon: Encyclopedia - Geryon
In Greek mythology, Geryon (Geryones,Geyron), son of Chrysaor and Callirhoe, was a winged giant made from three entire human bodies conjo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chthon: Encyclopedia - Chthon
Chthon may refer to: earth, in the Greek language chthonic, a term in Greek mythology Chthonian planet, a type of planet Chthon may als...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Voltumna: Encyclopedia - Voltumna
In Etruscan mythology, Voltumna was the chthonic (earth) god, later to become the supreme god. He was the patron of the Etruscan race. Hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tityas: Encyclopedia - Tityas
In Greek mythology the minor figure of Tityas (more commonly Tityus), a Titan-like figure of unbridled lust, was the son of Elara, who wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alcimede: Encyclopedia - Alcimede
In Greek mythology, Alcimede ("mighty cunning") was one of the matrilineal Minyan daughters, the daughter of Clymene, Minyas' daughter. S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argus: Encyclopedia - Argus
There are five figures in Greek mythology named Argus: 1. Argus Panoptes, (Argus "all eyes") was a giant with a hundred eyes. He was also...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trophonius: Encyclopedia - Trophonius
Trophonius (the Latinate spelling) or Trophonios (in the transliterated Greek spelling) was a Greek hero or daimon or god - it was never ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sibyl: Encyclopedia - Sibyl
The word sibyl comes (via Latin) from the Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. The earlier oracular seeresses known as the sibyls of a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ares Enyalius: Encyclopedia - Ares Enyalius
Ares Enyalius was sometimes used as an epithet for Ares, though the name probably referred to a separate, Spartan god of war originally. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Basque Mythology: Encyclopedia - Basque Mythology
Ancient Basque mythology is centered around the figure of the goddess Mari, and her consort Sugaar (also called Maju). It is considered a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chthonian Planet: Encyclopedia - Chthonian Planet
A Chthonian planet (sometimes misspelled Cthonian), is a gas giant with its hydrogen and helium atmosphere stripped away due to its close...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aeacus: Encyclopedia - Aeacus
In Greek mythology, Aeacus (Greek: Aiakos, "bewailing" or "earth borne") was king in the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf. He was far...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demigod: Encyclopedia - Demigod
A "demigod", a "half-god," is a modern distinction, often misapplied in Greek mythology. A "demigod" is meant to identify a person whose ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bal-sagoth: Encyclopedia - Bal-sagoth
Bal-Sagoth are a battle metal band from Yorkshire, England. The name 'Bal-Sagoth' is taken from a Robert E. Howard short story "The Gods ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sabazios: Encyclopedia - Sabazios
Sabazios is the nomadic horseman sky and father god of the Phrygians. In Indo-European languages, such as Phrygian, the '-zios' element i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dactyl Mythology: Encyclopedia - Dactyl Mythology
In Greek mythology, the Dactyls (Greek for "fingers") were the archaic race of small phallic male beings associated with the Great Mother...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clarus: Encyclopedia - Clarus
For information about the Apple Computer icon, see dogcow. Clarus (Greek Klaros) in the territory of Colophon in the Ionian coast of Asia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amymone: Encyclopedia - Amymone
In Greek mythology, Amymone (the "blameless" one) was a daughter of Danaus. As the "blameless" Danaid, her name identifies her, perhaps, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wight: Encyclopedia - Wight
Wight is an obsolete word for a human or other intelligent being (cognate to modern German "Wicht", meaning "small person, dwarf", and al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sphinx: Encyclopedia - Sphinx
A Sphinx is an iconic image of a recumbent lion with a human head, invented by the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom, but a cultural import in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hephaestus: Encyclopedia - Hephaestus
Hephaestus (World Book «hih FEHS tuhs») (Greek: Ἡφαιστος Hêphaistos) is the Greek god whose approximate Roman equivalent is V...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Achelous: Encyclopedia - Achelous
In Greek mythology, Achelous (Greek: Αχελώος), was the patron deity of the river by the same name, which is the largest river of G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geryon: Encyclopedia Ii - Geryon - Theft Of The Cattle Of Geryon
Herakles tried to steal the cattle, and killed first Orthrus, then Eurythion. When Geryon arrived, in some versions having been alerted b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Geryon: Encyclopedia Ii - Geryon - Origin
When the sun reaches the constellation of Gemini, it meets the constellation of Auriga. Many ancient beliefs associated the daily path of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trophonius: Encyclopedia Ii - Trophonius - Etymology And Parallel Cults
The name is etymologically derived from trepho, "to nourish". Strabo and several inscriptions refer to him as Zeus Trephonios. Several ot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sphinx: Encyclopedia Ii - Sphinx - Greek Sphinx
There was a single Sphinx in Greek mythology, a unique demon of destruction and bad luck, according to Hesiod a daughter of the Chimaera ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orion Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Orion Mythology - Orion And Merope
When he came ashore, Orion found that he was once again in a place called Hyrai, another bee-swarm, but in the island of Chios. The two H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ganymede: Encyclopedia Ii - Ganymede - Story
Ganymede was kidnapped by Zeus from Mount Ida in Phrygia, the setting for more than one myth-element bearing on the early mythic history ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Relations In The Greek Pantheon
Hecate is a pre-Olympian chthonic goddess. The Greek sources don't offer a story of her parentage, beyond the Theogony, or of her relatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greek Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greek Religion - Worship
The most widespread public act of worship in ancient Greece was sacrifice, whether of grain or the blood sacrifice of animals. In general...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannibalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannibalism - 'cannibalism' As Cultural Libel
Numerous groups, peoples, and cultures are accused of killing and eating human beings. See Blood libel. Unsubstantiated reports of cannib...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cannibalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Cannibalism - 'cannibalism' As Cultural Libel
Numerous groups, peoples, and cultures are accused of killing and eating human beings. See Blood libel. Unsubstantiated reports of cannib...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oracle: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Oracle
Oracle A divine saying, or the place or means by which a divine message is communicated. The soul, according to Plato, has a certain i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sabazios: Encyclopedia Ii - Sabazios - The God On Horseback
More "rider god" steles are at the Burdur Museum, in Turkey. Under the Roman Emperor Gordian III the god on horseback appears on coins mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sabazios: Encyclopedia Ii - Sabazios - Transformation To Sabazius
The naturally syncretic approach of Greek religion blurred distinctions. Later Greek writers, like Strabo, 1st century AD, linked Sabazio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medea: Encyclopedia Ii - Medea - Medea In Music
Luigi Cherubini composed the opera Médée in 1797 and it is Cherubini's best known work, but better known by its Italian title, Medea. D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Basque Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Basque Mythology - Mari And Her Court
Mari is considered the supreme goddess, and her consort Sugaar the supreme god. Mari is depicted in many different forms: sometimes as va...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trophonius: Encyclopedia Ii - Trophonius - Trophonius In Cult
Pausanias, in his account of Boeotia (9.39), relates many details about the cult of Trophonius. Whoever desired to consult the oracle wou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sphinx: Encyclopedia Ii - Sphinx - Similar Creatures
Not all human-headed animals of antiquity are sphinxes. In ancient Assyria, for example, bas-reliefs of bulls with the crowned bearded he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sibyl: Encyclopedia Ii - Sibyl - The Later Sibyls
The Sibyls were also represented in publicly available art. Michelangelo fixed our image of the sibyls forever, in his powerful represent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Freyr: Encyclopedia Ii - Freyr - Gesta Danorum
The Danish Gesta Danorum describes Freyr, under the name Frø, as the "viceroy of the gods". Frø quoque deorum satrapa sedem haud procul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theseus: Encyclopedia Ii - Theseus - Birth And The Six Labours Of Theseus
Aegeus, one of the primordial kings of Athens, found a bride at Troezen, a small city southwest of Athens, in Aethra, daughter of Troezen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Hecate In Modern Day Magic
In modern times, she has become popular in Paganism and Wicca, largely due to her association as the goddess of sorcery. In modern Pagani...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hero: Encyclopedia Ii - Hero - The Greek Hero
Homer applies the Greek word ηρως to all free men who were fighting in the Trojan War. Another epic poet, Hesiod, uses it in the cont...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Oresteia: Encyclopedia Ii - The Oresteia - The Eumenides
The Oresteia - Introduction. The Eumenides is the final play of the Oresteia, in which Orestes and the Furies go before a jury of Athen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polycephaly: Encyclopedia Ii - Polycephaly - Mythological Occurrences
Polycephaly - Greek mythology. Greek mythology contains a number of multi-headed creatures. Typhon, a vast grisly monster with a hundre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ugarit: Encyclopedia Ii - Ugarit - The Site
Ugarit's location was forgotten until 1928 when an Alawite peasant accidentally opened an old tomb while plowing a field. The discovered ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Queen Of Ghosts
Queen of Ghosts a title associated with Hecate due to the belief that she can both prevent harm from leaving, but also allow harm to ente...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Cross-cultural Parallels
The figure of Hecate can often be associated with the figure of Isis in Egyptian myth (mainly due to her role as sorceress). In Hebrew my...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Hecate In Literature
Hecate makes several appearances in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (c 1606); she is represented as a goddess or demon who commands...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Hecate In Popular Culture
More recently, Hecate has appeared in Mike Mignola's Hellboy comics. She is also heavily mentioned in the popular TV series Buffy the Vam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hero: Encyclopedia Ii - Hero - Overview
A person normally becomes a hero by performing an extraordinary and praiseworthy deed. Traditional deeds are slaying of monsters and savi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hero: Encyclopedia Ii - Hero - Later European History
The classic hero often came with what Lord Raglan (a descendant of the FitzRoy Somerset, Lord Raglan) termed a "potted biography" made up...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ganymede: Encyclopedia Ii - Ganymede - Modern Sources
Rosalind, a young woman in hiding, takes on the disguise of a man and the name of Ganymede in Shakespeare's comedy, As You Like It. Ganym...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Oresteia: Encyclopedia Ii - The Oresteia - Analysis
That the play ends on a happy note may surprise modern readers, to whom the word tragedy denotes a drama ending in misfortune. The word d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Mythology - The Creation Myth
In Maya mythology, Tepeu and Gucumatz (also known as Kukulkan, and as the Aztec's Quetzalcoatl) are referred to as the Creators, the Make...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trophonius: Encyclopedia Ii - Trophonius - Trophonius In Myth
In Greek mythology, Trophonius was a son of Erginus. According to the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, he built Apollo's temple at the oracle at D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ophiussa: Encyclopedia Ii - Ophiussa - The Expulsion Of The Oestrimni
The 4th century Roman poet on geographical subjects, Rufus Avienus Festus, in Ora Maritima ("Seacoasts"), a document inspired by a Greek ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Triskelion: Encyclopedia Ii - Triskelion - Manx Triskelion
In the symbol for the more thoroughly Celtic Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, the "three legs embowed" of the heraldic triskelion are repres...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Triskelion: Encyclopedia Ii - Triskelion - Spirally Triskele
The druidic symbol of three conjoined spirals may well have had triple significance similar to the imagery that lies behind the triskelio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Triskelion: Encyclopedia Ii - Triskelion - Nazis And Racist Groups
The Nazis adopted this Celtic symbol specifically as the insignia for a Waffen SS division composed of ("Celtic") Belgian volunteers. Tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sphinx: Encyclopedia Ii - Sphinx - Egyptian Sphinx
The Egyptian sphinx is an ancient iconic mythical creature usually comprised of a recumbent lion – an animal with sacred solar associat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sabazios: Encyclopedia Ii - Sabazios - Thracian/phrygian Sabazios
It seems likely that the migrating Phrygians brought Sabazios with them when they settled in Anatolia (ca. 1200 BCE?) and that the god's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zalmoxis: Encyclopedia Ii - Zalmoxis - Etymology
A number of etymologies have been given for the name. Diogenes Laertius (3rd century-4th century ad) claimed that Zalmoxis meant "bear sk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orion Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Orion Mythology - Primordial Orion
What was the Titan Orion, then, before the pomegranate transmuted him? Orion, literally "mountain-man," (compare orogeny) embodies some p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ugarit: Encyclopedia Ii - Ugarit - Ugaritic Literature
Apart from royal correspondence to neighbouring Bronze Age monarchs, Ugaritic literature from tablets found in the libraries include myth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theseus: Encyclopedia Ii - Theseus - The Return To Athens
Sailing back to Athens, Theseus forgot to change the black sails for white ones, as he had promised his father he would do if he survived...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theseus: Encyclopedia Ii - Theseus - Hippolyte
Theseus assists Heracles in his ninth labour - obtaining the girdle of Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons. After succeeding in the task, The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leto: Encyclopedia Ii - Leto - Birth Of Artemis And Apollo
When Hera, the most conservative of goddesses — for she had the most to lose in changes to the order of nature — discovered that Leto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athena: Encyclopedia Ii - Athena - History
Athena has no Greek etymology, and probably was already a goddess in the Aegean before the coming of the Greeks, although her name is not...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - His Dark Materials: Encyclopedia Ii - His Dark Materials - Terminology
His Dark Materials - Esoteric renaming. To enhance the feeling of being in a parallel universe, Pullman renames various common objects ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Theories Of Origin
In antiquity, authors like Herodotus speculated that the Greeks had borrowed their gods wholesale from the Egyptians. Later, Christian wr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - European Dragon: Encyclopedia Ii - European Dragon - Dragons In Germanic Mythology
The most famous dragons in Norse mythology and Germanic mythology, are: Níðhöggr who gnawed at the roots of Yggdrasil; Jörmungandr, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Freyr: Encyclopedia Ii - Freyr - Skírnismál
The courtship of Freyr and Gerðr is dealt with extensively in the Eddic poem Skírnismál. Freyr is depressed after seeing Gerðr. Njör...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hero: Encyclopedia Ii - Hero - The Greek Hero
Homer applies the Greek word ηρως to all free men who were fighting in the Trojan War. Another epic poet, Hesiod, uses it in the cont...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - His Dark Materials: Encyclopedia Ii - His Dark Materials - Terminology
His Dark Materials - Esoteric renaming. To enhance the feeling of being in a parallel universe, Pullman renames various common objects ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Freyr: Encyclopedia Ii - Freyr - Skaldic Poetry
Freyr is referred to several times in skaldic poetry. In Húsdrápa he is said to ride a boar to Baldr's funeral. Ríðr á börg til bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Freyr: Encyclopedia Ii - Freyr - Ballad Of Veraldur
Dumézil (1973, Appendix I) cites a Faroese ballad recorded in 1840 about Odin and his son Veraldur. It is believed that this Veraldur is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Mythology - Theories Of Origin
In antiquity, historians such as Herodotus theorized that the Greek gods had been stolen directly from the Egyptians. Later on, Christian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hecate: Encyclopedia Ii - Hecate - Other Names And Epithets
Hecate - Goddess of the crossroads. Hecate had a special role at three-way crossroads, where the Greeks set poles with masks of each of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ganymede: Encyclopedia Ii - Ganymede - Ganymede In Ancient Arts
In Athens, vase-painters often depicted the mythological story, which was so suited to the all-male symposium or formal banquet. The Gany...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Mythology - Notable Gods
Maya mythology - Bacabs. The Bacabs were four brothers, the sons of Itzamna and Ixchel. A creator god placed these skybearers at the fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Delphi: Encyclopedia Ii - Delphi - Apollo
The name Delphoi is connected with δελφός delphus "womb" and may indicate archaic veneration of an Earth Goddess at the site. Apoll...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Oresteia: Encyclopedia Ii - The Oresteia - The Libation Bearers
The Oresteia - Introduction. The Libation Bearers (also known as Choephoroe) is the second play of the Oresteia. It deals with the reun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Mythology - Overview
The Maya believed there were five different cardinal directions four of which were associated with colors: north/white, south/yellow, eas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Mythology - The First Humans
Maya mythology - The Men. B'alam Agab Meaning "night jaguar," he was the second of the men created from maize after the Great Flood se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Triskelion: Encyclopedia Ii - Triskelion - Sicilian Triskelion
Familiar as an ancient symbol of Sicily, the triskelion is also featured on Greek coins of Syracuse, such as coins of Agathocles (317-289...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orion Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Orion Mythology - Ancestry Origins Birth
The mythographers site the birthplace of Orion in Boeotia, the fertile heart of civilized Hellas, whose folk the Boeotian poet Hesiod des...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orion Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Orion Mythology - Orion And Side
Orion's first episode, represented as a "marriage," associates him with Side, quite literally the "pomegranate", in a consecration to tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orion Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Orion Mythology - Orion And Eos
Far to the eastern shore, in Colchis at the uttermost end of the world, Helios, whose bright eye misses nothing on the earth nor in the s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - European Dragon: Encyclopedia Ii - European Dragon - Dragons In Modern Times
The dragon of the modern period is typically depicted as a huge fire-breathing , scaly and horned dinosaur-like creature, with leathery w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - European Dragon: Encyclopedia Ii - European Dragon - Dragons In Catalan Mythology
Dragons are well-known in Catalan myths and legends, in no small part because St. George (Catalon Sant Jordi) is the patron saint of Cata...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Mythology - Overview
The Maya believed there were five different cardinal directions four of which were associated with colors: north/white, south/yellow, eas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ugarit: Encyclopedia Ii - Ugarit - History
Though the site is thought to have been inhabited earlier, Neolithic Ugarit was already important enough to be fortified with a wall earl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chthonic: Encyclopedia Ii - Chthonic - Cult Type Versus Function
While chthonic gods and goddesses had a general association with fertility, they did not have a monopoly on it, nor were Olympian gods wh...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Sitemap I - C
This is a sitemap for Spiritual - C . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word.  ...   » Read the article