Lux Ferre

Eunomia (good government) In Greek mythology, one of the Horae; goddess of order and legislation, daughter of Zeus and Themis. Her sisters were Eirene (peace) and Dice (justice). SOURCE: Encyclopedia of World

Euhemerus (spending days cheerfully) Fourth century b.c.e. Greek writer on mythology whose book Sacred History theorizes that the gods were originally humans who were later deified. SOURCE: Encyclopedia of World Mythology and

Eudora (generous) In Greek mythology, one of the Nereids, the 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris who attended Poseidon. Homer’s Iliad (book 18), Hesiod’s Theogony, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses all mention the Nereids.

Eteocles and Polynices (true glory and much strife) In Greek mythology, sons of Oedipus and Jocasta (or Euryganeia); brothers of Antigone and Ismene. Both sons had insulted their blind father, Oedipus, by

Erytheis (crimson) In Greek mythology, one of the Hesperides who guarded the Golden Apples in the garden of the Hesperides. SOURCE: Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, Third Edition – Written by

Erymanthian boar In Greek mythology, the boar captured by Heracles as his fourth labor; it lived on Mount Erymanthus in Arcadia. Erymanthus is also the name of a son of Apollo who

Erisichthon (wool of the earth, much earth) In Greek mythology, a sacrilegious person, son of Triopas and Hiscilla of Thessaly; brother of Iphimedeia, Messene, and Phorbas; father of Mestra. Mestra could take

Erigone (plentiful offspring) In Greek mythology, daughter of Icarius of Athens. She was raped by Dionysus, who transformed himself into a grape. When her father was murdered, she hanged herself and was

Erichthonius (much earth) In Greek mythology, culture hero, fourth king of Athens, who had serpent’s tails for legs. Erichthonius was the son of Hephaestus, the lame god, whose sperm fell on the