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A Compendium of the Ancient Gods

Themes

Forest and wild

36 gods of forest and wild, across eight rooms, in the order the rooms are walked.

The Cradle of Cities

5 works

Attis, plate — Attis at-tis Beloved of the Mother — Phrygian shepherd-god

Baalat Gebal, plate — Baalat Gebal baa-lat ge-bal The Lady of Byblos — Mistress of the Cedar Coast

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

Enkidu, plate — Enkidu en-ki-du The Equal Match Made by the Gods — Friend Beloved Beyond Speech

Humbaba, plate — Humbaba hum-ba-ba The Guardian of the Cedar Forest — Whose Face was Coiled Entrails

The Gift of the Nile

1 work

Pakhet, plate — Pakhet pa-khet The Tearer — lioness of the desert wadis

The Olympian Order

7 works

Actaeon, plate — Actaeon ak-tee-on The Theban hunter, torn by his own hounds for seeing Artemis bathing

Artemis, plate — Artemis ar-tuh-mis The Huntress — virgin of the wilderness

Atalanta, plate — Atalanta at-uh-lan-tuh The Huntress — the only woman among the Argonauts

Dionysus, plate — Dionysus dye-oh-nye-sus The Twice-Born — god of wine and ecstasy

Echo, plate — Echo eck-oh The Mountain Nymph who could only repeat

Pan, plate — Pan pan God of the Wild — pastoral piper of Arcadia

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

The Persian World

1 work

Haoma, plate — Haoma hao-ma The Sacred Plant — and the yazata of the priestly drink

The Edges of Empire

4 works

Bendis, plate — Bendis ben-dis The Thracian Huntress — patroness of the moon and the wild animals

Dali, plate — Dali da-li The Caucasian Goddess of the Hunt — wild golden mistress of the mountain

Thana, plate — Thana tha-na Goddess of the Hunt — paired with Vidasus

Vidasus, plate — Vidasus vi-da-sus Forest-God of the Western Balkans — Roman Silvanus in Illyrian guise

The Etruscan World

1 work

Selvans, plate — Selvans sel-vans God of Boundaries and Forests — Roman Silvanus

The Roman Inheritance

2 works

Faunus, plate — Faunus fau-nus Italian Woodland God — Prophet of the Wild

Silvanus, plate — Silvanus sil-va-nus God of Forests, Fields, and Boundaries

The Northern Inheritance

15 works

Awaiting its plate

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

Baba Yaga, plate — Baba Yaga ba-ba ya-ga The Witch of the Forest — who lives in a hut on chicken legs

Cernunnos, plate — Cernunnos cer-nun-nos The Horned God — Lord of Animals

Esus, plate — Esus e-sus Gaulish God of the Tree-Felling

Fionn Mac Cumhaill, plate — Fionn Mac Cumhaill fionn mac cum-haill Leader of the Fianna — Hero of the Fenian Cycle

Grendel and Grendel's, plate — Grendel and Grendel's gren-del and gren-del's The Monsters of Heorot — slain by Beowulf

Awaiting its plate

Hiisi hii-si The Finnish Forest-Demon — and the place that is his haunt

Leshy, plate — Leshy le-shy Forest Spirit — Master of the Wood

Perkūnas, plate — Perkūnas per-kū-nas Lithuanian Thunder-God

Skadi, plate — Skadi ska-di Giantess of Mountains and Skis — Reluctant Bride

Sucellus, plate — Sucellus su-cel-lus The Good Striker — Hammer-Bearing Father-God

Awaiting its plate

Tapio ta-pio Forest-God — Lord of the Woods — Finnic

Ullr, plate — Ullr ullr God of Skiing, Hunting, and the Bow

Velnias, plate — Velnias vel-nias The Old One — Chthonic Adversary of Perkūnas

Yggdrasil, plate — Yggdrasil ig-drah-sil The World-Tree — frame of the cosmos