Psyche Psyche’s myth first appears in Lucius Apuleius’ second-century CE novel The Golden Ass. It is the prototype for the fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast.” (Roman names for Greek spirits are
Caduceus: The Serpent Staff of Hermes, Magic, Healing, and Transformation The caduceus is a wand or staff entwined by two serpents and often topped with wings or a winged helmet. It is one of the most recognisable symbols in Western
AEGEUS In Greek mythology, king of ATHENS and father of the hero THESEUS, with Aethra, daughter of King Pittheus of Troezen. Some say that the sea god, POSEIDON, was the father of
ADRASTUS In Greek mythology, king of ARGOS; the leader of the warriors known as the SEVEN AGAINST THEBES according to the tragedy written by the Greek poet AESCHYLUS. The attack on THEBES
ADRASTIA (Inescapable One) In Greek mythology, daughter of Melisseus, king of CRETE; sister of IDA (1). With Ida and the goat-nymph AMALTHEA, Adrastia tended the infant god ZEUS on Mount IDA (2),
ACTAEON In Greek mythology a hunter and the son of Autono and grandson of CADMUS. He aroused the anger of the goddess ARTEMIS when he saw her bathing naked in a river.
ACHERON (River of Sadness) In Greek mythology, the “woeful river” of the UNDERWORLD into which flowed the Phlegethon and the Coctyus. Acheron was the son of GAIA. He had quenched the thirst
ALCMAEON, one of the SEVEN AGAINST THEBES, cursed by his mother, finally found refuge on an island newly formed from silt carried down by the river Achelous. Taken from : Greek and
Achelous is in Greek mythology, a river god who turned himself into a serpent to overcome his rival, HERACLES, for the hand of DEIANIRA. Heracles finally subdued Achelous and won the maiden.
Echidna, the snake woman, is the daughter of Gaia the Earth. (An alternative myth suggests that she’s the daughter of Keto and Phorkys.) Typhon is her brother, lover, and father of her
Zeus is the king of the Greek Olympian spirits, the wielder of the mighty thunderbolt. Scholarly debate rages as to whether he is an indigenous Greek spirit or whether he arrived with
Telesforos ALSO KNOWN AS: Telesphoros; Telesphorus ORIGIN: Greece Telesforos is Hygeia’s brother and the son of Asklepios. He is the spirit of convalescence, recuperation, and recovery from illness and injury. Telesforos is
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