A God By Any Other Name~

Alternate spellings of Indra include; Indran (Tamil), Indrudu (Malayalam), Indera (Malay),Sakra (Buddhism), Sakka (Buddhism). The last two are epithets but some scholars believe that is a different God all together.

Juno!

Juno

Her Greek name is Hera.

Hera was the Olympian queen of the gods, and the goddess of marriage, women, the sky and the stars of heaven. She was usually depicted as a beautiful woman wearing a crown and holding a royal, lotus-tipped sceptre, and sometimes accompanied by a lion, cuckoo or hawk.

next is.. Kali

Kali:

Other names for Kali include Kalika, Kalaratri. Kali is the femenine version of Kalam which means, "black", "dark colored". Kalaratri means, "the black night". Kalika simply means, "the black one". It is also good to note that Kali has additional meanings to her base name such as, "time" and "the fullness of time".

Her consort is Shiva which she is often depicted dancing or standing in front of while he sits there calmly. Her skin is literally black hence the meaning of some of her names. She is a Hindu Goddess but is often combined with the Mahavidya which has Buddhist and Hindu Goddesses. Ten to be exact. Mahavidyas meaning, "Great Wisdoms". Kali is the one who consumes Raktabija and his duplicates. She was spawn from the forehead of Durga in her rage at being attacked by Chanda and Munda. Which Kali defeated.

Leto!

Leto

Another name for Leto is Latona.

In Greek vase painting Leto was usually depicted as a woman lifting her veil in a gesture of modesty. She was usually depicted accompanied by her two children. The exact meaning of her name is obscure, some commentators connect it with the wordleth , to move unseen, suggestive of modesty, others derive it from the Lycian word for woman,lada .

Macaria.. .

Macaria is her Latin name as Makaria is her Greek name. The meaning of her name comes from the root word, "makar" which means, "blessed". She is the daughter of Haides and Haides alone. Which is strange considering Haides is infertile and there is no mother listed. Techinally, all of his children by Persephone were biologically Zeus's because Haides could not impregnate her. But he is still considered the father because Persephone is his wife.

"Haides was usually regarded as an infertile god, for a god of the dead should, by his very nature, be incapable of siring children.

In Orphic myth, it is heavenly Zeus rather than Haides who impregnates Persephone, sometimes in the guise of an earthly dragon, sometimes in the form of her own husband."

http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Haides.html

Nemesis!

Nemesis

Her name means she who distributes or deals out

Nemesis was the goddess of indignation against, and retribution for, evil deeds and undeserved good fortune. She was a personification of the resentment aroused in men by those who commited crimes with apparent impunity, or who had inordinate good fortune.

Happiness and unhappiness were measured out by her, care being taken that happiness was not too frequent or too excessive. If this happened, Nemesis could bring about losses and suffering.

" The Romans usually used the Greek name of the goddess but sometimes also named her Invidia (Jealousy) and Rivalitas (Jealous Rivalry).

Oreads is also spelled Oreiade. They are Nymphs which are lesser Goddesses of nature. These ones specifically are a subdivision of Dryads. They were the Nymphs of the mountains. The eldest of which were the daughters of the five Daktyloi and five Hekaterides.Later generations came from the original Oreads and their Satyr brotheren.

Persephone!

Persephone

Roman name is Proserpina

Persephone was also titled Kore (Core) (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring's bounty.

Persephone was the goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Haides.

Next is Quetzalcoatl ...

Quetzalcoatl means, "feathered serpent". Other names for this God are; Kukulkan which means, "plumed serpent" or "feathered serpent". Ehecatl , and Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli which means "Lord of The Dawn". "Precious Twin" is one of the nicknames given as well. This Deity is of Aztec origins and a part of the Mesoamerican religion.

Rhadamanthys!

Rhadamanthys!

Rhadamanthys was a wise king of Crete. Later accounts make him one of the judges of the dead.

Son of Zeus and Europa, brother to Sarpedon and Minos.

Rhadamanthus' name might mean 'rod diviner' derived from two Greek wordsmantis "soothsayer, seer" andrhabdos "rod, wand". It can also be etymologically related to Greekadmas "invincible, untamed" or Greekdamzo "to overpower, to tame, to conquer."

Serapis!