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A Compendium of the Ancient Gods

Themes

Mountains

30 gods of mountains, across six rooms, in the order the rooms are walked.

The Cradle of Cities

10 works

Agdistis, plate — Agdistis ag-dis-tis The Hermaphroditic Mother — Origin of Attis from the Almond

Anzu, plate — Anzu an-zu The Lion-Headed Bird — Thief of the Tablet of Destinies

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

Baal, plate — Baal baal The Rider on the Clouds — Hadad of Ugarit

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

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

Lugalbanda, plate — Lugalbanda lu-gal-ban-da Father of Gilgamesh — Eighth King of the First Dynasty of Uruk

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

Ninurta, plate — Ninurta ni-nur-ta The Warrior — son of Enlil, slayer of the Asag

Sharruma, plate — Sharruma shar-ru-ma Son of Teshub and Hebat — Royal Protector

The Gift of the Nile

1 work

Mertseger, plate — Mertseger mert-se-ger She Who Loves Silence — cobra-goddess of the Theban necropolis

The Olympian Order

9 works

Atlas, plate — Atlas at-las The Sky-Bearer — Titan of the western mountain

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

Hephaestus, plate — Hephaestus heh-fes-tus The Lame Smith — divine craftsman

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

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

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

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

The Muses, plate — The Muses the mu-ses Daughters of Mnemosyne — patrons of the arts

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

The Levantine Borderlands

2 works

Dushara, plate — Dushara doo-shah-rah Chief God of the Nabataeans — patron of Petra, lord of the mountain

Obodas, plate — Obodas o-bo-das The Deified Nabataean King — royal apotheosis at Avdat

The Edges of Empire

3 works

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

Reue, plate — Reue reue The Lusitanian Sky-God — sovereignty and the heavens

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

The Northern Inheritance

5 works

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

Awaiting its plate

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

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

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

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