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A Compendium of the Ancient Gods

Themes

Earth

57 gods of earth, across nine rooms, in the order the rooms are walked.

The Cradle of Cities

14 works

Apsu, plate — Apsu ap-su The Sweet-Water Abyss — primordial freshwater

Aranzah, plate — Aranzah a-ran-zah The Tigris River — Born of Anu's Severed Members

Artemis of Ephesus, plate — Artemis of Ephesus ar-te-mis of e-phe-sus The Many-Breasted Mother of Ephesus

Asag, plate — Asag a-sag The Stone Demon of the Mountains — Adversary of Ninurta

Belet-Ili, plate — Belet-Ili be-let--i-li The Lady of the Gods — Mother Who Pinched Mankind from Clay

Cybele, plate — Cybele cy-be-le The Mother of the Mountain — Phrygian Magna Mater

Dagon, plate — Dagon da-gon The Grain — Father of Baal

Illuyanka, plate — Illuyanka il-luyan-ka The Great Dragon — Adversary of Tarhunt

Kishar, plate — Kishar kee-shar The Earth-Horizon — primordial earth, sister-spouse of Anshar

Kuvava, plate — Kuvava ku-va-va Mother-Goddess of Carchemish — Ancestress of Cybele

Maliya, plate — Maliya ma-liya Goddess of Gardens and Gentle Waters

Ninhursag, plate — Ninhursag nin-hur-sag Lady of the Foothills — Mother of the Gods

Telepinu, plate — Telepinu te-le-pi-nu The Vanishing God — Hittite god of agriculture

Ullikummi, plate — Ullikummi ul-li-kum-mi The Stone Giant — Kumarbi's Champion Against Teshub

The Gift of the Nile

1 work

Geb, plate — Geb geb The Earth — father of the Osirian generation

The Olympian Order

13 works

Demeter, plate — Demeter dee-mee-ter Earth Mother — goddess of grain and the Eleusinian Mysteries

Echidna, plate — Echidna eh-kid-nuh The Viper-Woman — mother of monsters

Gaia, plate — Gaia gay-uh The Earth — mother of all

Hades, plate — Hades hay-deez Lord of the Dead — king of the underworld

Nesoi, plate — Nesoi ness-oy The Islands — uncertain primordial group

Ourea, plate — Ourea oo-ree-uh The Mountains — children of Earth

Poseidon, plate — Poseidon poh-sye-don Lord of the Sea — earth-shaker

Python, plate — Python pie-thon The Earth-Serpent of Delphi, slain by Apollo at the navel of the world

Rhea, plate — Rhea ree-uh Mother of the Olympians

The Erinyes, plate — The Erinyes the eh-rin-eez The Furies — Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto

The Gigantes, plate — The Gigantes the jih-gan-teez The Earthborn — and the Gigantomachy that ended their kind

The Hesperides, plate — The Hesperides the hes-pair-ih-deez The Nymphs of the Evening — keepers of the golden apples

Typhon, plate — Typhon tye-fon The Great Serpent — last and worst adversary of Zeus

The Persian World

2 works

Spenta Armaiti, plate — Spenta Armaiti spen-ta ar-mai-ti Holy Devotion — patroness of the earth, daughter of Ahura Mazda

The Amesha Spentas, plate — The Amesha Spentas the a-me-sha spen-tas The Holy Immortals — seven principles of the good creation

The Levantine Borderlands

1 work

Malakbel, plate — Malakbel ma-lak-bel Solar Spring-Aspect of Bel — the morning sun and vegetation

The Edges of Empire

3 works

Eia, plate — Eia eia The Histrian Goddess — local protectress of Pula

Ifri, plate — Ifri if-ri The Berber Cave-Goddess — patroness of the sanctuary-cave

Nabia, plate — Nabia na-bia Goddess of Springs and Rivers — patroness of the Atlantic waters

The Etruscan World

2 works

Cel, plate — Cel cel The Etruscan Earth-Mother — patroness of the soil

Sethlans, plate — Sethlans seth-lans The Etruscan Smith — master of the forge, equivalent to Vulcan

The Roman Inheritance

7 works

Consus, plate — Consus con-sus God of the Stored Harvest — whose altar was kept underground

Dis Pater, plate — Dis Pater dis pa-ter The Rich Father — Roman lord of the underworld

Flora, plate — Flora flo-ra Goddess of Flowering Plants

Ops, plate — Ops ops The Goddess of Plenty — wife of Saturn and mother of the Olympians

Pomona, plate — Pomona po-mo-na Goddess of Orchard Fruit

Tellus, plate — Tellus tel-lus Earth-Mother of Italy — Tellus Mater, also called Terra Mater

Terminus, plate — Terminus ter-mi-nus God of the Boundary-Stone

The Northern Inheritance

14 works

Awaiting its plate

Akka ak-ka The Old Woman — Earth-Mother and Female Counterpart — Finnic

Danu, plate — Danu da-nu Mother of the Tuatha Dé — Irish Ancestral Goddess

Awaiting its plate

E Bukura E Dheut e bu-ku-ra e dheut The Beauty of the Earth — Ambiguous Chthonic Figure — Albanian

Gefjon, plate — Gefjon gef-jon The Goddess Who Plowed Zealand from Sweden — patroness of virgins

Jumis, plate — Jumis ju-mis Latvian Spirit of the Double Ear — bringer of plenty

Awaiting its plate

Kalev / Kalevipoeg ka-lev / ka-le-vi-poeg The Estonian Giant-Hero — son of the giant Kalev

Māra, plate — Māra mā-ra The Latvian Earth-Mother — patroness of cattle, of women, and of the household

Mokosh, plate — Mokosh mo-kosh Mother Earth — Spinner of Fates

Nerthus, plate — Nerthus ner-thus The Germanic Earth-Mother — whose chariot crossed the fields in spring

The Cailleach, plate — The Cailleach the cail-leach The Old Veiled One — primordial hag-goddess of the Celtic landscape

Triglav, plate — Triglav trig-lav Three-Headed God of Western Slavs

Tuisto and Mannus, plate — Tuisto and Mannus tuis-to and man-nus The Germanic Earth-Born and his Son — primordial ancestors of the German peoples

Ymir, plate — Ymir y-mir The Primordial Giant — from whose body the world was made

Žemyna, plate — Žemyna že-my-na Mother Earth — Goddess of the Soil