Cometes

The material supplied presents Cometes not as a single originating supernatural being but as a recurring Ancient Greek personal name (Κομήτης) applied to multiple distinct mythic personages. The cited compendium lists at least five mythic figures named Cometes: (1) Cometes, son of Thestius (genealogical placement among Greek heroic families); (2) Cometes, father of Asterius (the latter counted among the Argonauts in certain accounts); (3) Cometes, one of the Lapiths present at Pirithous' wedding (a participant in the Lapith–Centaur episode, killed accidentally by Charaxus in one listing); (4) Cometes, named as a lover of Aegialia while Diomedes was at Troy (a post-Trojan War narrative motif of marital infidelity); and (5) Cometes, son of Tisamenus who sailed to Asia in the migrations associated with the Heracleidae. Beyond these citations the sources do not present a unified origin narrative, cult, or cosmogonic role for any Cometes figure.

The provided sources offer no canonical or consistent physical description for any mythic Cometes; the listed figures are treated as mortal or heroic humans within their respective narratives and are not described with supernatural or uniform visual traits. In modern biological usage, Cometes appears as a genus name for certain beetles (species listed without morphological description in the excerpts) and as part of the binomial for the hummingbird Cometes phaon, which the monograph describes as "this rare and lovely species"; however, detailed plumage or beetle morphology is not present in the supplied lines.

No supernatural abilities, powers, or spirit behaviors are attributed to any Cometes in the provided materials. The mythic individuals function in genealogical or narrative roles (relatives, participants in mythic episodes, or lovers) rather than as beings with defined magical capacities. Biological and taxonomic usages imply ordinary species behaviors appropriate to beetles or hummingbirds, but specific behaviors are not documented in the excerpts.