The supplied sources do not present Peloris as a supernatural origin-being. Instead, the name functions in two related registers: as the place-name for the northeastern cape of Sicily (Faro Point / Peloro Cape) and as a mortal eponym in Greek genealogical listings—recorded as the wife of Agasthenes and mother of Polyxenus. Classical etiological myths about the promontory attribute its piling or founding to culture-hero figures such as Orion (who is said in some traditions to have built the Peloris promontory and a temple to Poseidon at its tip), but these traditions describe heroic acts that explain landscape features rather than actions of a distinct Peloris entity.
There is no description in the provided material of Peloris as an animate or anthropomorphic being. For the place, Peloro (Faro Point) is identified as the northeastern promontory of Sicily in the Messina district; the excerpts do not supply detailed topographic description beyond its location. For the mythic person named Peloris, sources only record genealogical relationships (wife of Agasthenes; mother of Polyxenus) and give no physical description.
The sources attribute no powers, supernatural abilities, or behaviors to Peloris. Mythic narratives linked to the place ascribe landscape-forming acts to other mythic figures (notably Orion), and genealogical entries treat Peloris as a mortal eponym without reported magical agency.
Weaknesses
- otherNot applicable — Peloris is not attested as a supernatural threat in the provided sources
Wards
- otherNot applicable — no protective rituals or wards against Peloris are documented in the supplied material
*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.
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.
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.
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.
Acacallis
Acacallis (Ancient Greek: Ἀκακαλλίς; also Acalle) is a mythological princess of Crete in Greek tradition, daughter of King Minos and Pasiphae. She functions primarily as a dynastic and etiological figure: in varying accounts she is mother, by gods such as Hermes (Mercury) or Apollo, of eponymous or founder-figures like Cydon (founder of Cydonia), Miletus, or Lydon/ Lydus.
Acacus
Acacus (Ancient Greek: Ἄκακος) is, in Arcadian Greek tradition, a mortal eponymous founder-king of Acacesium and is remembered as the foster-father who reared the infant Hermes (Mercury) in that local tradition. He is presented in genealogies as a son of Lycaon and functions as a local ancestral/onomastic figure rather than a supernatural spirit.
Academus
Academus (Greek: Akádemos / Hekádemos) is an Attic hero-eponym tied to a sacred grove (Akademeia) on the Cephissus near Athens. In myth he revealed where Helen was hidden to the Dioskouroi, an act said to have saved the city, and the place bearing his name became a long-lived sacred precinct, later the site of Plato's Academy.
Acamas
Acamas (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάμας) is a personal name recurrent in ancient Greek narrative traditions applied to multiple human characters (warriors, princes, suitors), once to a Cyclops, and once as a hound's name. Rather than a single supernatural entity, bearers of the name appear episodically across the Trojan War, Theseid, and Theban cycles as mortal actors whose deeds intersect with gods and fate.
Acantha
Acantha (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάνθα, 'thorn') is a late or secondary mythological figure known from modern retellings as a nymph transformed into the acanthus plant. The tale that she scratched Apollo and was changed into a spiny-leaved plant is not attested in surviving classical corpora and appears to be a modern compilation or invention rather than a firmly documented ancient myth.
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- [1]Faro Point. "Faro Point or Peloro Cape is the northeastern promontory of Sicily situated in Messina district at northeast of the city."wiki
- [2]Agasthenes. "With Peloris, he was the father of Polyxenus, one of the suitors of Helen, who reunified the kingdom when he returned..."wiki
- [3]Orion (mythology). "Orion built the whole Peloris, the Punta del Faro, and the temple to Poseidon at the tip, after which he settled in"wiki
- [4]POLYXEINUS (Polyxeinos) - Elean King of Greek Mythology. Entry summarizing Polyxenus' parentage and role in genealogical lists.literary
- [5]Elis - Greek Mythology Link. "He was son of Augeas and, after marrying Peloris, he had a child Polyxenus..."other
- [6]What or who is Peloritan in the name 'Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti'?. Discussion noting continued civic/institutional use of the Peloritan toponym.other