Ataensic
Ataensic In North American Indian mythology (Iroquois), sky woman, creator goddess, mother of twin brothers, Hah-gweh-di-yu (sapling) and Hah-gweh-da-et-gah (flint), one good and one evil.…
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Asgaya Gigagei
Asgaya Gigagei (red man) In North American Indian mythology (Cherokee), bisexual deity, either the Red Man or the Red Woman. Believed originally to have been…
Anpetu wi and Hanhepi wi
Anpetu wi and Hanhepi wi In North American Indian mythology (Sioux), the sun and the moon. SOURCE: Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, Third Edition…
Celaeno
Celaeno (swarthy) In Greek mythology, one of the seven Pleiades (a constellation), daughter of Atlas and Pleione. Celaeno was the mother of Lycus and Chimaereusc…
Cedalion
Cedalion (he who takes charge of sailors) In Greek mythology, a man sent by Hephaestus to carry the blind Orion from Lemnos to the sun,…
Cecrops
Cecrops (face with a tail) In Greek mythology, a culture hero, son of Gaea; married Agraulos; father of Erisichthon, Herse, and Pandrosus. Cecrops was half…
Caunus and Biblis
Caunus and Biblis In Greek and Roman mythology, brother and sister, children of Miletus and Cyanee. Biblis fell in love with her brother and wrote…
Caucasus
Caucasus Mountain range where the Greek god Zeus chained Prometheus as a punishment. Each day Prometheus’s liver was devoured by an eagle or a vulture.…