The name Amyntor appears in Greek mythic genealogies applied to several distinct mortal figures rather than a single supernatural origin. Amyntor son of Ormenus is attested as a mythological king and the father of Phoenix, who serves as tutor and companion to Achilles in epic tradition; this places him within the heroic/epic milieu of Achilles' generation. Another bearer, Amyntor son of Aegyptus, appears in the Danaïdes cycle as one of the sons of Aegyptus who was killed by his wife Damone. A further Amyntor, son of Phrastor, is recorded in genealogical registers as father of Teutamides and grandfather of Nanas. The supplied sources are concise encyclopedic entries (Wikipedia and Wikidata) that record these familial and genealogical relationships without extended narrative origin myths linking them into a single biography.
No physical description or iconography for any Amyntor is provided in the cited materials. The sources are nominative and genealogical: they identify relationships and social status (for example, Amyntor son of Ormenus is described as a king) but do not supply details of stature, dress, age, or distinctive marks. The absence of descriptive material in these entries reflects their nature as brief reference notices rather than full narrative or artistic sources.
The supplied sources attribute no supernatural powers or special abilities to any bearer of the name Amyntor. The entries record social and familial roles—king, father, son, progenitor—and one narrative outcome (the killing of Amyntor son of Aegyptus by his wife Damone) but do not describe feats, magical functions, or consistent behavioral patterns. Amyntor son of Ormenus's status as a king and father of Phoenix implies social prominence within epic genealogies, but no extraordinary powers are recorded in the referenced materials.
*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.
Aba (disambiguation / name-form)
Aba is a polyvalent name-form attested across many unrelated contexts (place names, personal names, animal names, and brief mythological listings). The provided sources do not support a single, coherent supernatural entity called "Aba" and offer no descriptive or ritual material for such a being.
Abandinus
Abandinus is a locally attested Romano‑Celtic theonym known from a single inscribed bronze feather (votive object) dedicated at Godmanchester (the Roman fort Durovigutum) in Cambridgeshire. Scholars interpret him as a local god or male spirit tied to a specific place and possibly associated with a nearby spring or stream; this association is tentative and based on etymological readings of the name.
Abarbarea
Abarbarea is a name attested in classical Greek and Roman sources for freshwater nymphs (naiads). The name appears for at least two individual mythic figures — a naiad wife of Bucolion and a naiad counted among ancestors of the Tyrians — and Hesychius records plural forms that may indicate the name was also used as a class-name (Abarbareai / Abarbalaiai).
Abas
Abas (Ancient Greek: Ἄβας, gen.: Ἄβαντος) is not a single mythic being but a recurring personal name borne by multiple mortals and minor mythic figures in Greek epic and genealogical traditions — kings, founders, seers, warriors, attendants, a centaur, and a youth transformed by a goddess. The name is glossed in the sources as 'guileless' or 'good-hearted' and appears across Argive, Theban, Trojan, Euboean, and other local cycles.
Abderus
Abderus (Ancient Greek: Ἄβδηρος, romanized Ábdēros) is a mortal heroic figure in Greek myth closely associated with Heracles, remembered as the youth left in charge of the Mares of Diomedes who was killed by them. He functions as an eponymous local/divine-hero ancestor for the city of Abdera and received funerary commemoration and athletic agones at his tomb.
Abellio
Abellio is a theonym attested in Roman‑period inscriptions from the Comminges area of the Pyrenees and reported as worshipped in the Garonne Valley of ancient Gallia Aquitania. Surviving evidence is limited to a small number of inscriptions; scholars have variously hypothesized solar or arboreal associations and compared the name to forms of Apollo or to Celtic Belenus, but the deity's precise role in local cosmology remains uncertain.
Abnoba
Abnoba is a Gaulish theonym and toponym attested in Roman-era sources and inscriptions: a localized deity associated with woods, springs and the sources of rivers (notably the Danube) and simultaneously the name applied to a mountain or mountain range in the Black Forest/Baar/Odenwald region. Roman altars equate her with Diana, reflecting syncretic cult practice in frontier provinces.
Abomination of Desolation
An apocalyptic prophetic phrase originating in the Book of Daniel designating a profaning thing or act that renders the Jerusalem Temple cult desolate; later reused in the Synoptic Gospels as an eschatological sign prompting urgent flight. The term denotes ritual/cultic impurity (Hebrew shiqquts) and is variously interpreted as pagan offerings or altar, a foreign cult statue, or (in some New Testament readings) an acting agent.
Aborigines (mythology)
A mytho-historical label used in Roman and general reference sources to denote the oldest inhabitants of a region (specifically central Italy in the cited Roman context). The term functions as an identity/category for original human populations rather than as a characterized supernatural being in the provided sources.
Absyrtus
Absyrtus (Ancient Greek: Ἄψυρτος) is a Colchian prince in the Greek Argonautic cycle, son of King Aeëtes and brother or half-brother of Medea. He appears in variant traditions either as a companion taken by Medea during her flight with Jason and murdered/dismembered to delay pursuit, or as a pursuer sent by Aeëtes who is overtaken and slain by Jason; his death functions as a key narrative device in the escape from Colchis.
Abundantia
Abundantia is the Roman divine personification of abundance and material plenty, used primarily in imperial propaganda and public iconography to signify secure grain supplies, wealth, and the promise of a 'Golden Age' under the emperor. She also appears in later medieval European folklore as Domina Abundia / Dame Habonde, a household benefactor in accounts condemned by ecclesiastical writers.
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- [1]Amyntor (Wikipedia). Wikipedia: 'Amyntor (Ancient Greek: Ἀμύντωρ, romanized: Amýntor, lit. "defender") may refer to: In Greek mythology: Amyntor (son of Ormenus)... Amyntor (son of Aegyptus)... Amyntor (son of Phrastor)...'wiki
- [2]Amyntor (Wikidata). Wikidata entry noting 'son of Ormenos and father of Phoenix'.wiki
- [3]Amyntor and Theodora: Or, The Hermit: A Poem in Three Cantos (archive). Listed archival literary use showing later cultural appearances of the name 'Amyntor'.literary
- [4]Die Gisellis: Ein Kulturbild aus der Gegenwart von Gerhard v. Amyntor (Dagobert von Gerhardt) (archive). Archival evidence of the pen name 'Gerhard von Amyntor' illustrating later European literary adoption of the name.literary
- [5]Visions and Revelations - Mike Bickle with Bob Jones 1988 (archive). Listed among provided source URLs though not directly evidencing mythic details of Amyntor in the supplied notes.other