Mythographic register: In the Hyginus genealogical listing cited, Emphytus appears as one of the Giants enumerated among the beings produced 'From Earth and Tartarus.' The source is a catalogue entry and provides no narrative, deeds, or further cosmogonic role beyond placement in that list. Scientific register: Emphytus is a Latinized genus name established in entomological taxonomy (appearing in literature as Emphytus Klug, 1816) used to classify a group of sawfly species; the taxonomic literature and checklists record the genus in modern faunas and in fossil deposits (Upper Miocene France), but the provided sources do not state why the name was chosen or an origin story for the taxon beyond standard Linnaean naming practice.
Mythographic register: The Hyginus passage names Emphytus among the Gigantes but supplies no individual physical description; any characterization as a large or chthonic giant is a general inference from membership in the Gigantes, not a detail preserved for Emphytus in the cited text. Scientific register: Emphytus is treated as a genus of sawflies (family Tenthredinidae) in checklists and species accounts; the supplied sources list species names (e.g., Emphytus basalis, Emphytus carpini, Emphytus coryli) and note occurrence records, but do not provide diagnostic morphological descriptions in the excerpts provided.
Mythographic register: The Hyginus genealogical list attributes no specific actions, powers, or behaviors to Emphytus; the entry is nominal only. Scientific register: As a sawfly genus, species placed in Emphytus would be biological insects with life stages typical of Tenthredinidae, but the provided materials only present taxonomic, checklist, and fossil occurrence information and do not supply species-specific behavioral or ecological data for Emphytus beyond placement within the sawfly family.
Typhon
The last great monster of Greek mythology — a vast, fire-breathing giant whose shoulders sprouted a hundred serpent heads, nearly toppling Zeus from Olympus.
Gigantes
In Greek myth the Gigantes (Gigantes) are a race associated with great strength and aggression who wage war against the Olympian gods in the Gigantomachy. Classical summaries (via Hesiod as reported in standard reference summaries) present them as offspring of Gaia born from the blood of Uranus after his castration by Cronus and as cosmological antagonists whose defeat helps establish Olympian order.
*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.
Community Record
- [1]LP0076 -II ARGONAUTS- Ino & Phrixus, from the Fables of Hyginus (genealogical listing). Hyginus, Fabulae (genealogical lists) as transmitted in archive transcription; excerpt lists 'Emphytus' among Giants born from Earth and Tartarus.literary
- [2]Gaia. Wikipedia entry on Gaia (reference used for context regarding Earth/Tartarus genealogical traditions).wiki
- [3]Fauna Italia — Tenthredinidae checklist. FaunaItalia checklist showing Emphytus Klug, 1816 among Tenthredinidae listings.academic
- [4]Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Sawflies, ‘Symphyta’. British and Irish sawfly checklist listing species and genera, including Emphytus taxa in regional faunas.academic
- [5]The first fossil representatives of the sawfly genera Emphytus and Empria from the upper Miocene of France. Palaeoentomology article reporting Upper Miocene fossil occurrences assigned to Emphytus and Empria.academic
- [6]Emphytus basalis (Klug) and some other interesting British sawflies (Hym., Symphyta).. Article discussing Emphytus basalis among British sawflies; used as an example of the genus' appearance in entomological literature.academic
- [7]Insects of Britain and Ireland: Hymenoptera families - Tenthredinidae (delta-intkey). Family-level reference for Tenthredinidae used to contextualize biological traits of sawflies referenced in the sources.academic