No mythic birth narrative for Aglibol is preserved in the surviving epigraphic and iconographic record provided. Historically, Aglibol appears as an established civic deity of Palmyra by at least 17 BCE (an inscription associating him with Malakbel) and continues to be attested through second‑century CE inscriptions and reliefs. His cult was institutionalized in Palmyra’s sanctuary system — notably the Sacred Garden (gnt' 'ilym) — and tended by organized civic groups such as the Bene Komare, demonstrating his origin and identity as a municipal/liturgical deity embedded in Palmyra’s public religion rather than as an individualized mythic figure in surviving texts.
Iconographic evidence depicts Aglibol on reliefs and monuments alongside other Palmyrene gods. Reliefs associated with the Sacred Garden and the Temple of Bel show Aglibol paired with Malakbel and presented in sanctuary scenes that include two altars, a sacred cypress, and a bath; some relief imagery portrays the two gods together in close, paired postures (e.g., jointly flanking ritual furnishings). Beyond these contextual markers, no consistent corpus of distinctive bodily attributes or costume elements unique to Aglibol is preserved in the supplied sources, but he is visually represented as part of formal divine group imagery in public monuments.
Aglibol's attested functions are cultic and celestial: he is identified as Palmyra's moon god and functions in paired or triadic relationships with solar and city gods (notably Malakbel, Bel, Yarhibol, and Baalshamin). Inscriptions show Aglibol jointly sponsoring votive acts and civic recognitions (for example, a bilingual inscription of 122 CE records Aglibol and Malakbel sponsoring a citizen named Manai for his piety), indicating an intercessory and patronal role within municipal religiosity. The material elements of his sanctuaries — two altars, a sacred cypress, and a bath in the Sacred Garden — point to practices of altar offerings, sacred‑tree veneration, and ritual ablution connected to his cult. The sources do not ascribe narrative magical feats, possession behaviors, or mythic exploits to him beyond these civic and ritual functions.
*Perkʷūnos
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*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
Péh₂usōn is a hypothetical Proto‑Indo‑European pastoral guardian reconstructed by comparative scholars from parallels in Greek and Vedic traditions. Proposed as a Graeco‑Aryan ancestor‑figure, the reconstruction describes a protector of flocks, roads, and travellers rather than an attested historical cultic personality.
57 Mnemosyne
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Abaddon
In Hebrew scripture Abaddon is primarily a noun meaning 'destruction' or a section/condition of the underworld paired with Sheol; in the New Testament Book of Revelation Abaddon is personified as an angelic figure (Greek Apollyon) described as the king of an army of locusts released from the abyss during the apocalypse.
Abadir
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Aban Yasht
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Abath
No corroborated folkloric entity named "Abath" is documented in the provided sources. The string appears in the supplied material only as a surname/personal name in Aruban/Dutch-Caribbean archival records and as an unrelated taxonomic or encyclopedic hit; no mythic attributes, origin stories, rituals, or apotropaic practices for an entity called Abath are present in the documents reviewed.
Abatur
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Abatwa (Twa / Batwa)
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Abellio
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Abraham
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Abraun
Abraun is an attested name in German-language plant-legend scholarship (Der abraun, ein beitrag zur pflanzensagenkunde, 1916) and a short database entry (Wikidata) labels it as a spirit from German mythology. Surviving accessible documentation is extremely limited: the principal academic treatment is a 1916 contribution to pflanzensagenkunde (plant-saga studies), but the excerpts available here contain only bibliographic metadata and do not record tales, descriptions, or rituals.
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