Category: Greek Mythology

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…

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…

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…

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…

Polyboea ALSO KNOWN AS: Polyboia ORIGIN: Greece Polyboea, Hyacinth’s sister, died a young virgin. She is eternally a Kore, a young girl who died at…

Pleiades The Star Sisters; The Seven Sisters ORIGIN: Greece The Seven Star Sisters are goddesses of the seven-starred constellation called the Pleiades. These star goddesses…

Achelous He Who Washes Away Care ORIGIN: Greek Achelous is king of Greece’s river spirits. He was venerated throughout Greece and southern Italy. Achelous’ primary…

Achilles is most famous as the Greek hero of the Trojan War. He is the son of Thetis, a powerful sea goddess who tried to…

Adonis Adonis is a breathtakingly handsome spirit, whose very name epitomizes male good looks, is the son of a myrrh tree. How does a tree…

Aeacus, son of Zeus and Aegina, was king of the Isle of Aegina. Zeus imprisoned his mother on an uninhabited island, and so Aeacus had…