The name Calybe occurs as a minor female figure in multiple classical contexts rather than as a single unified biography. In Greek genealogical material she is named a Trojan nymph who was a consort of King Laomedon and mother of Bucolion, placing her within Trojan royal genealogies (sources: Wikipedia summary; Theoi; myth cataloguing). Separately, Nonnus’ Dionysiaca lists a Calybe among the followers of Dionysus in his Indian campaign, situating that bearer of the name within a bacchic retinue in late antique epic (source: Wikipedia summary referencing Nonnus). A Latin/Vergilian index entry records a Calybe as an "aged priestess of Juno" (catalogue/frieze entry 7.419 in Dickinson College Commentaries), indicating reuse of the name in Roman epic reception and commentary; whether this priestess is intended to be identical with any Greek attestations is not established in the provided materials.
The provided sources supply no explicit physical descriptions. Attestations identify Calybe by social and ritual role (nymph/consort, bacchic follower, aged priestess) but do not describe bodily appearance, clothing, or other distinguishing features. Any visual expectation beyond that she is a female humanlike or semidivine figure derives from the generalized categories (nymph, maenad, priestess) rather than direct textual description (sources: Wikipedia summary; Theoi; Dickinson College Commentaries).
No specific supernatural powers or abilities are ascribed to Calybe in the cited material. Her documented functions are role-based: motherhood/consort within Trojan genealogy (mother of Bucolion), participation in Dionysus’ retinue during the Indian war (late antique epic list of followers), and an institutional religious role as an "aged priestess of Juno" in a Vergilian index entry. The sources do not record acts of magic, prophecy, healing, or harm attributed to her (sources: Wikipedia summary; Theoi; Dickinson College Commentaries; Nonnus reference in provided notes).
*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
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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
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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
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