Encyclopedia - Nymph: Encyclopedia - Nymph
In Greek mythology, a nymph is any member of a large class of female nature entities, sometimes bound to a particular location or landfor...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nymph: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary On Nymph
NYMPH: 1) a nature spirit 2) derogatory slang for a woman who loves sex anytime anywhere from anyone.   (See also: NYMPH , W...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nymph: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Nymph
Nymph [from Greek nymphe bride]   Applied to a numerous order of nature spirits, regarded as feminine, pertaining to water, mount...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chloris: Encyclopedia - Chloris
There are many stories in Greek mythology about figures named Chloris ("Khloris" or χλωρις, from "Khloros" or χλωρος, meaning...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Siren: Encyclopedia - Siren
In Greek mythology, the Sirens or Seirenes (Greek Σειρῆνας) were Naiads (sea nymphs) who lived on an island called Sirenum scopu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corycian: Encyclopedia - Corycian
The Corycian Nymphs were the three Naiads (nymphs) of the sacred springs of the Corycian Cave of Mount Parnassus in Phocis. The names of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Greek Mythological Characters: Encyclopedia - List Of Greek Mythological Characters
(Most of the gods and goddesses had Roman equivalents.) See also family tree of the Greek gods and the list of Greek mythological creatur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canens: Encyclopedia - Canens
Canens may refer to: Canens, a nymph from Latium, the personification of song in Greek and Roman mythologies Canens, a commune in the Ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bucolion: Encyclopedia - Bucolion
In Greek mythology, Bucolion was a son of the Trojan king Laomedon and the nymph Calybe. His wife was the naiad Abarbarea, and they had a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crataeis: Encyclopedia - Crataeis
In Greek mythology, Crataeis was a nymph. According to Homer's Odyssey, Circe tells Odysseus that Crataeis is the mother of Scylla, the s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chariclo: Encyclopedia - Chariclo
In Greek mythology, Chariclo was a nymph. With Chiron, she was the mother of Ocyrhoe. She was also the mother of Tiresias, who was struck...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cynosura: Encyclopedia - Cynosura
In Greek mythology, Cynosura was a nymph (an Oread) on Mount Ida, Crete. According to some legends, she nursed Zeus when he was being hid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Crinaeae: Encyclopedia - Crinaeae
In Greek mythology, the Crinaeae were a type of nymph associated with fountains. The Crinaeae included: Aganippe Appias (Roman mythology...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Auloniad: Encyclopedia - Auloniad
The names of the species of the nymphs varied according to their natural abode. The Aulonaid (from the classical Greek αύλών; valley...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alseid: Encyclopedia - Alseid
In Greek mythology, Alseids were the nymphs of glens and groves. They liked to scare travelers. Other related archivesApollo, Artemis, A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aganippe: Encyclopedia - Aganippe
Aganippe is the name of a fountain and the nymph (a Crinaea) associated with it in Greek mythology. Aganippe was the daughter of Ternessu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Himavat: Encyclopedia - Himavat
Himavat is the Hindu God of snow, a personification of the Himalayan mountains. Himavat fathered the more prominent Parvati and Ganga, wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chelone: Encyclopedia - Chelone
Chelone is a plant genus (Chelone) commonly known as Turtleheads. a nymph in Greek mythology, Χελωνη, Khelônê. She refused to at...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dryad: Encyclopedia - Dryad
Dryads are female tree spirits in Greek mythology. In Greek drys signifies 'oak,' from an Indo-European root *derew(o)- 'tree' or 'wood.'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acis: Encyclopedia - Acis
In Greek and Roman mythology, Acis was the god of the Acis River near Mount Etna in Sicily. He was originally a Sicilian youth, and was o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Echo: Encyclopedia - Echo
Echo may refer to: Echo (mythology), a nymph from Greek mythology. Echo (phenomenon), a natural acoustic phenomenon named for the nymph....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corycian Cave: Encyclopedia - Corycian Cave
The Corycian Cave is located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, in Greece. In the mythology of the area, it is named after the nymph Coryc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Camenae: Encyclopedia - Camenae
In Roman mythology, the Camenae were originally goddesses of springs, wells and fountains, or water nymphs of Venus . They were wise, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 53 Kalypso: Encyclopedia - 53 Kalypso
53 Kalypso is a large and very dark main belt asteroid. It was discovered by R. Luther on April 4, 1858. It is named after Calypso, a sea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Picus: Encyclopedia - Picus
In Greek and Roman mythology, Picus was a man turned into a woodpecker by Circe for scorning her love. His wife was Canens, a nymph, who ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Water Sprite: Encyclopedia - Water Sprite
A water sprite (or water faery) is a mythical creature that resembles a human female, but is the color of the sea. Water sprites are said...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eurydice: Encyclopedia - Eurydice
In Greek mythology, there were two characters named Eurydice (Eurydíkê). Eurydice - Wife of Orpheus. The more famous was a woman—or ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pleiades Mythology: Encyclopedia - Pleiades Mythology
The Pleiades Πληιόνης (pleye'-a-deez, also plee'-a-deez), companions of Artemis (ar'-te-mis), were the seven daughters of the T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muse: Encyclopedia - Muse
In Greek mythology, the Muses (Greek Μουσαι, Mousai) are nine archaic goddesses who embody the right evocation of myth, inspired th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apterygota: Encyclopedia - Apterygota
Apterygota is a subclass of insects that are small agile insects, distinguised from other insects by their lack of wings now and in their...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bateia: Encyclopedia - Bateia
In Greek mythology, Bateia can refer to several characters: The daughter of Teucer and ancesstress of the Trojans. (See Batea.) A naiad....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aphaea: Encyclopedia - Aphaea
Aphaea (gr. Aphaia; not dark or vanisher) was a Greek goddess who was worshipped almost exclusively on the island of Aegina. She later ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chiron: Encyclopedia - Chiron
In Greek mythology, Chiron ("hand") — sometimes spelled Cheiron or Kiron — was held as the superlative centaur over his brethren. Lik...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Styx: Encyclopedia - Styx
Styx has several meanings: In Greek mythology: the river Styx formed the boundary between the underworld and the world of the living th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antiphus: Encyclopedia - Antiphus
In Greek mythology, one of these people: In the Iliad, Antiphus, or Ántiphos, a Trojan ally, the son of Talaemenes and a nymph. During ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acantha: Encyclopedia - Acantha
Acantha was a nymph and the spirit of the acanthus plant in Greek mythology. He and Apollo, the Sun god, loved each other deeply and had ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arcas: Encyclopedia - Arcas
There is also Arcas (pronunciation: AHR-kaash) in Portugal, see Arcas, Portugal. In Greek mythology, Arcas (Αρκάς) was the son of Ze...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arethusa: Encyclopedia - Arethusa
Poseidon Oceanus Ceto Nereus Glaucus Thetis Amphitrite Tethys Triton Ophion Proteus Phorcys Pontus Oceanids Nereids Naiads Arethusa ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kalypso Mythology: Encyclopedia - Kalypso Mythology
In Greek mythology Kālypsō (Greek: 'Καλυψώ', 'I will conceal'), or Calypso, was a sea nymph, daughter of Atlas, who delayed Odyss...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oenone: Encyclopedia - Oenone
In Greek mythology, Oenone ("wine woman") was the first wife of Paris. She was a mountain nymph (an Oread) on Mount Ida in Phrygia, a mou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Melia: Encyclopedia - Melia
In Greek mythology, Melia was a nymph, one of the Meliae, who were daughters of Oceanus. By her brother Inachus, she became the mother of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Castalia: Encyclopedia - Castalia
Castalia, in Greek and Roman mythology was a nymph whom Apollo transformed into a fountain at Delphi, at the base of Mt. Parnassos, or at...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bakis: Encyclopedia - Bakis
Bakis was a semi-legendary ancient Greek seer of the 6th or 7th century BC, a native of Boeotia. Bakis was said to have been possessed by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maple Bug: Encyclopedia - Maple Bug
The Maple bug or Boxelder bug Boisea trivittata (syn. Leptocoris trivittatus) is an insect found primarily on maple and ash trees. The ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegina Mythology: Encyclopedia - Aegina Mythology
In Greek mythology, Aegina was the daughter of the river-god Asopus and the nymph Metope. She bore at least two children: Menoetius by Ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adrasteia: Encyclopedia - Adrasteia
In Greek mythology, Adrasteia (inescapable; also spelled Adrastia, Adrastea, Adrestea) was a nymph who was charged by Rhea to raise Zeus ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amalthea Mythology: Encyclopedia - Amalthea Mythology
In Greek mythology, Amalthea (Greek Αμαλθεια, "tender") is the most often mentioned among foster-mothers of Zeus. She is sometime...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asteria: Encyclopedia - Asteria
Asteria can refer to: In Greek mythology, Asteria was the sixth killed by Heracles when he came for Hippolyte's girdle. The Amazons (of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lamia: Encyclopedia - Lamia
There are several different meanings of Lamia. Lamia, a city in Greece Lamia, a Greek mythological figure Lamiak (sing. lamia), a Basque...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Britomartis: Encyclopedia - Britomartis
In Greek mythology, Britomartis ("sweet maid", "good maiden", "sweet virgin") was a nymph (an Oread) also known as Aphaea and Diktynna. B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calypso: Encyclopedia - Calypso
Calypso might refer to one of several things: Calypso is the name of a sea nymph in Greek mythology; Calypso music is a style of Caribbe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hamadryad: Encyclopedia - Hamadryad
Hamadryads are Greek mythological beings that live in trees. They are a specific species of dryad, which are a particular type of nymph. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mount Parnassus: Encyclopedia - Mount Parnassus
Mount Parnassus (also Mount Parnassos or Liakoura) is a mountain of barren limestone in central Greece that towers above Delphi, north of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alpheus: Encyclopedia - Alpheus
In Greek mythology, Alpheus, or Alpheios (Greek: Αλφειός, meaning whitish) was a river (present Alfeios River) and river-god, thus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aja Hindu Mythology: Encyclopedia - Aja Hindu Mythology
In Hindu mythology, Aja is the son of king Raghu, and thus a scion of the Ikshavaku dynasty, who claimed descent from the sun-God Surya. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Nymphs: Encyclopedia Ii - The Nymphs - Band History
Lorre and guitarist Jet formed the band in New Jersey in the mid 1980's. The band moved to Los Angeles to pursue their musical careers, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chloris: Encyclopedia Ii - Chloris - Chloris Nymph
Chloris was a Nymph associated with spring, flowers and new growth. Her Roman equivalent was the goddess Flora. She was abducted by (and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Styx Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Styx Mythology - Goddess
Styx is also the name of a primordial goddess who represented that river, and was the only female river. She was a daughter of Okeanos an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chloris: Encyclopedia Ii - Chloris - Chloris Meliboea
Meliboea was one of Niobe and Amphion's fourteen children (the Niobids), and the only one (or one of the few) spared when Artemis and Apo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Siren: Encyclopedia Ii - Siren - Popular Culture
There's always a siren singing you to shipwreck. (don't reach out, don't reach out) Steer away from these rocks we'll be a walking disast...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nix: Encyclopedia Ii - Nix - Näcken
The Scandinavian näcken, nøkken, strömkarlen, Grim or Fosse-Grim was a male water spirit who played enchanted songs on the violin, lur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Siren: Encyclopedia Ii - Siren - Encounters With The Sirens
Odysseus escaped the Sirens by having all his sailors plug their ears with beeswax and tie him to the mast. He was curious as to what the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Styx Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Styx Mythology - River
In Greek mythology, Styx ("[river of] unbreakable oath") is the name of a river which formed the boundary between earth and the underworl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Styx Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Styx Mythology - River
In Greek mythology, Styx (Στυξ, "[river of] unbreakable oath") is the name of a river which formed the boundary between earth and the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Sea Gods: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Sea Gods - Types Of Sea-gods
Greek sea gods - Primordial powers. Some early Greek thinkers made the sea-divinities into primordial powers. Oceanus and Tethys are th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nix: Encyclopedia Ii - Nix - Nixe
The German Nixe is a kind of river mermaid who lures men to drown, akin to the Celtic Melusine and similar to the Greek Siren. Nixes are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fly Tying: Encyclopedia Ii - Fly Tying - Flies
Since the existence of fly tying many different patterns have been created. The Professional Fly Tying manual classifies flies into five ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greek Sea Gods: Encyclopedia Ii - Greek Sea Gods - Otherworld And Craft
The sea - at once barren and prosperity-bringing, loomed large and ambivalently in the Greek mind. Aside from the ebb and flow of piracy ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Depossession: Alternative Health Dictionary On Depossession
depossession (releasement, release therapy): Outgrowth of past-life therapy. Depossession is a variation of exorcism that involves det...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nix: Encyclopedia Ii - Nix - Bäckahästen
Bäckahästen (translated as the brook horse) is a mythological horse in Scandinavian folklore. It has a close parallel in the Scottish k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Greek Mythological Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Greek Mythological Characters - Greek Mythological Characters
(Most of the gods and goddesses had Roman equivalents.) See also family tree of the Greek gods and the list of Greek mythological creatur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fly Tying: Encyclopedia Ii - Fly Tying - Common Patterns
There are many fly patterns in the world but some of the more classic and common patterns are listed below. The Adams The Hendrickson Roy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Greek Mythological Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Greek Mythological Characters - Immortals
List of Greek mythological characters - The twelve gods of Olympus. Aphrodite - Goddess of beauty and Love Apollo - God of healing, li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fly Tying: Encyclopedia Ii - Fly Tying - Materials
In fly tying materials can be almost anything. According to Skip Morris a material is basically anything that is placed on a fly. There a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Xanth Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Xanth Characters - Magicians
Magician-caliber persons take center stage in many of the Xanth novels. While each human (and many non-human) residents of Xanth have a s...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Melia: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Melia
Melia (Greek) Nymph, mother of Phoroneus. {SD 2:529-20}   (See also: Melia , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Urvasi: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Urvasi
Urvasi(Sanskrit). A divine nymph, mentioned in the Rig-Veda, whose beauty set the whole heaven ablaze. Cursed by the gods she descende...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aea, Aeaea: Theosophy Dictionary On Aea, Aeaea
Aea, Aeaea (Greek) In Greek myth, the realm of AEetes, son of Helios (the sun) and the ocean nymph Perseis, brother of Circe and fathe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Calypso: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Calypso
CALYPSO - nymph who detained Odysseus for seven years in Ogygia island. (NAD)   (See also: CALYPSO , Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, P...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Rhianon: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Rhianon
Rhianon (Welsh) Nymph, goddess; wife of Pwyll Pen Annwn in the first branch of the Mabinogi.   (See also: Rhianon , Mysticism,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Harini: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Harini (harinee)
Harini: Harini (Harinee). Heavenly nymph who was incited by Indra to tempt sage Thrinabindu.   (See also: Harini , Hinduism...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Apsaras: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Apsaras
apsaras: apsaras. Wives of the Gandharvas, celestial nymphs.   (See also: apsaras , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orthoptera: Encyclopedia Ii - Orthoptera - Life Cycle
Orthopterans develop by incomplete metamorphosis. Most orthopterans madona lay their eggs in the ground or on vegetation. The eggs hatch ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pramlocha: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Pramlocha
Pramlocha (Sanskrit). A female Apsaras - a water-nymph who beguiled Kandu. (See "Kandu".)   (See also: Pramlocha , T...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Undines: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Undines
Undines (Latin). Water nymphs and spooks. One of the four principal kinds of elemental spirits, ‘which are Salamanders (fire), S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arcadia Utopia: Encyclopedia Ii - Arcadia Utopia - The Historical Arcadia
According to Greek mythology, Arcadia of Peloponnesus was the domain of Pan, the virgin wilderness home of the god of the forest and his ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Nympholepsy: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Nympholepsy
NYMPHOLEPSY Overtaken by insatiable and mad desire. In Greek, nymphe means "bride," as contrasted with porne, or "prost...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Styx: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Styx
Styx (Greek) River of the underworld, containing 1/10th of the waters of Oceanus; named after its nymph, eldest daughter of Oceanus an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cicada: Encyclopedia Ii - Cicada - Life Cycle
Most cicadas go through a life cycle that lasts between two to five years. Some species have much longer life cycles, e.g. the Magicicada...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Calypso Kalypso: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Calypso Kalypso
Calypso Kalypso (Greek) A nymph, daughter of Atlas, who lived on Ogygia and kept Odysseus with her there for seven years. (SD 2:762, 7...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Celaeno, Kelaino: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Celaeno, Kelaino
Celaeno Kelaino (Greek) One of the Pleiades; daughter of Atlas and the ocean nymph Pleione, and mother of Lycus and Nycteus by Poseido...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Dictionary Nymph: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Nymph
  Nymph To see nymphs bathing in clear water, denotes that passionate desires will find an ecstatic realization. Convivial ente...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cochineal: Encyclopedia Ii - Cochineal - Biology
Cochineal insects are soft-bodied, flat, oval-shaped scale insects. The females, wingless and about 5 mm long, cluster on cactus pads. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eurydice: Encyclopedia Ii - Eurydice - Wife Of Orpheus
The more famous was a woman—or a nymph—who was the wife of Orpheus. While fleeing from Aristaeus, she was bitten by a serpent and die...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermes: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermes - Birth
Hermes was born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia to Maia. As the story is told in the Homeric Hymn, the Hymn to Hermes, Maia was a nymph, but ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Undines: Mysticism Magick Dictionary On Undines
UNDINES Water elementals, aquatic nature spirits, "water babes," nymphs or nereids, resembling human beings, but of a differ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Head Louse: Encyclopedia Ii - Head Louse - Life Cycle
Lice eggs on the hair very close to the scalp are the primary sign of an active infestation. The female louse glues her eggs, sometimes c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Amaltheia, Amalthea: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Amaltheia, Amalthea
Amaltheia, Amalthea (Greek) In Greek mythology a nymph who cared for the infant Zeus when his mother Rhea concealed him in a cave in C...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Aristaeus: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Aristaeus
Aristaeus (Greek) Beneficent Greek deity, son of Apollo and the nymph Cyrene, who aided with husbandry, flocks, and bees and gave prot...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dione: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Dione
Dione (Greek) Daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, or of Uranus and Gaia; the mother of Aphrodite by Zeus, she was worshiped as the wife of...   » Read the article