A God By Any Other Name~

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Selene

Also known as Luna or Mene.

Selene was the Titan goddess of the moon. She was depicted as a woman riding sidesaddle on a horse or driving a chariot drawn by a pair of winged steeds. Her lunar sphere or crescent was either a crown set upon her head or the fold of a raised, shining cloak. She was sometimes said to drive a team of oxen and her lunar crescent was likened to a pair of bull's horns.

Thanatos


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The Greek name for Thanatos is Thanatus. Thanatos is actually the Latanized version which are the ones we most commonly use when refering to the Olympians or much of the Theoi. His Roman names are Mors and Letum. His name literally means death. So it is the Greek word for it.

He is the Daimon of death. Which means he is the personification and personified spirit. Many think this means being a Daemon means you are not a God. They misunderstand the fluidity of the very word Daemon/Daimon. He is indeed a Deity as credited by Theoi and other credible sources. Within Hellenism going by the standard of accuracy, he is both. One does not discredit the other.

Uranus!


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Uranus...

Also known as Ouranos and Caelum

Uranus was the primordial god (protogenos ) of the sky. The Greeks imagined the sky as a solid dome of brass, decorated with stars, whose edges descended to rest upon the outermost limits of the flat earth. Ouranos was the literal sky, just as his consort Gaia (Gaea) was the earth.

Venus


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Names for Venus include but are not limited to:

  • Aphrodite is her Greek name.
  • Venus Felix meaning, "Venus the lucky" a Roman epithet.
  • Venus Genetrix meaning, "Venus the mother" another Roman epithet.
  • Venus Murica meaning, "Venus of the myrtile" again, a Roman epithet.

Because the Romans equate her to being Aphrodite as they do most of their Gods to being the Greek ones she shares the same birth story of Aphrodite. The one of the seafoam birth of which is the one I believe in rather than her being a daughter of Zeus. Some of her symbols are myrtile, rose, rosemary, swans, doves, pearls, bow and arrow, etc. She is dipicted as blonde in such famous classic paintings as The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli.

Wadjet!


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Wadjet

Other names include : Wadjyt, Wadjit, Uto, Uatchet, Edjo, Buto

Often shown as a rearing cobra, she was a protector of the pharaoh, ready to strike and kill his enemies. She was also depicted as a woman-headed cobra, a winged cobra, a lion-headed woman, or a woman wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt.

Xolotl


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An alternate name for Xolotl is Axolotl!

He is a male dog god with gouged out eyes. He's a fire god and a god of the underworld. The Parthenon he comes from is Aztec. His job is to protect the sun from the dangers of the underworld. He has a twin brother named Quetzalcoatl. He also guides people in the afterlife.

Zelos!


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Zelos (also spelled Zelus)

Roman name: Invidia

Zelos (Zelus) was the personified spirit (daimon ) of rivalry, emulation, jealousy, envy and zeal. He and his siblings, Nike(Victory), Bia (Force) and Kratos (Cratus, Strength), were the winged enforcers of Zeus who stood in attendance of his throne.

Aegir


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Egir is another name for him. His name means sea. He is a Jotun, Norse for Giant. His wife's name is Ran and they have nine daughters together. His servants were killed by Loki. In Lokasenna he hosted the party and provided ale made in a large cauldron provided to him by Thor and Tyr.

Bendis!


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Bendis. Ancient Thracian Goddess of the moon and hunt.

The Greeks identified her with the goddesses Artemis, Hekate and Selene. Worshiped with Bacchic-like orgies in the wilds of Thrake.

" Cratinus called this goddess dilonchos, either because she had to discharge two duties, one towards heaven and the other towards earth. [...] In Greece she was sometimes identified with Persephone, but more commonly wirth Artemis. "

Chronos!

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Other names for Chronos include Chronus, Saturn, Saturnus, and Khronos. His name literally means time. He is one of the elder Titans. Son of Uranus and Gaia. His wife is Rhea and with her he had Hestia, Demeter, Hades, Poesidon, and Zeus. He is the god who castrated his father Uranus and threw his man parts into the sea from which Aphrodite arose from. There is a primordial god by the same name as well but he has a different birth story and so forth.

Deimos!