Entity Index

A record of the unseen, drawn from world folklore.

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Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius

Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius

Aeneas is a legendary Trojan nobleman, son of the goddess Aphrodite (Venus) and the mortal Anchises; he is portrayed in Greek epic and Roman literary tradition as a divinely favored warrior and a founder-ancestor whose destiny links Troy to the eventual Roman line represented by Romulus and Remus. Anchises is Aeneas' mortal father and a Trojan prince; Ascanius (also called Iulus in Roman tradition) is his son and the next link in the genealogical chain. Together they function in the sources as a familial triad that embodies divine intervention, pietas, and sacred genealogy.

Aenesidemus

Aenesidemus

Aenesidemus was a 1st-century BCE Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher, traditionally said to be from Knossos, who revived Pyrrhonian skepticism and formulated ten skeptical 'modes' (tropai) intended to produce epoché (suspension of judgment). Knowledge of him and his doctrines survives only through later epitomes and secondary sources.

Aenete

Aenete

Aenete (Ancient Greek Αἰνήτη) is a mythological human figure recorded in Greek epic genealogies as the mother of Cyzicus, king of the Doliones. She appears in brief genealogical notices in the Argonautic tradition and is otherwise unattested as an active character, cult figure, or supernatural agent in the surviving citations.

Aeneus (of Aenus)

Aeneus (of Aenus)

Aeneus (Ancient Greek: Αἰνεύς / Aineus) is a legendary eponymous founder attested in Greek mythographic tradition as the ancestral name‑figure for the ancient Thracian city Aenus (Ainos, modern Enez). He is cited in genealogical summaries as the father of Cyzicus by Aenete, daughter of Eusorus, and functions as an etiological ancestor linking place‑name and local mythic genealogy.

Aengus

Aengus

Aengus (Óengus, Aonghus) is a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish myth, portrayed as a youthful, attractive figure associated with love, youth, poetic inspiration and seasonal/solar symbolism; he is linked to Brú na Bóinne (Newgrange) and appears as fosterer, protector, enchanter and avenger in multiple tales.

Aeolus

Aeolus

Aeolus is a name applied to multiple related figures in Greek myth: an eponymous son of Hellen (founder of the Aeolian people), a son of Poseidon who led colonial ventures to Tyrrhenian islands, and a son of Hippotes depicted in epic as a ruler or keeper of the winds. Ancient mythographers note confusion and overlap among these persons.

Aeon (Gnosticism)

Aeon (Gnosticism)

In Gnostic religious systems an Aeon is a divine emanation or hypostasis that issues from the supreme divine source and together with other Aeons composes the Pleroma, the realm or fullness of divine reality. Aeons function as personified principles or powers (e.g., Nous, Sophia) that mediate between the ultimate One and lower levels of existence; their names, numbers, and relationships vary across Gnostic schools (Valentinian, Basilidian, Sethian, etc.).

Aeopolus

Aeopolus

Aeopolus (Ancient Greek: Αἰπόλος, gen.: Αἰοπόλου, romanized Aipolus or Aiopólos, lit. 'goatherd') is a mortal figure in Greek mythic genealogical tradition recorded only in brief scholia and summaries. He is named as the father of Cleobule, who in one variant is cited as a possible mother of Myrtilus by Hermes; some sources note he was also called Aeolus. Attestations are limited and no cult, deeds, or narratives are preserved for him.

Aepytus

Aepytus

Aepytus (Ancient Greek: Αἴπυτος, Aíputos/Aípytos, lit. 'steep, high, lofty') is a personal name in Greek myth borne by several legendary kings tied to Arcadian and Heraclid genealogies. The figures named Aepytus function as ancestral/dynastic nodes in literary genealogies and later literary receptions rather than as supernatural beings.

Aequitas

Aequitas

Aequitas is a Roman moral-legal concept denoting justice, equity, fair measure, and conformity that was sometimes personified as a female virtue in Roman iconography (notably on imperial coinage as Aequitas Augusti). Cicero frames aequitas as a tripartite standard linking obligations to the gods, the Manes, and other human beings.

Aerdrie Faenya

Aerdrie Faenya

Aerdrie Faenya is attested in the supplied sources as a named fictional deity from the Dungeons & Dragons game setting. The provided materials record the name and classification but give no canonical details about appearance, domains, rites, or myths.

Aergia

Aergia

Aergia (Ancient Greek: Ἀεργία) is the personification/goddess of sloth, idleness, indolence and laziness in Greco-Roman mythic thought. She appears in literary sources as a named personified quality and as an attendant or guardian in the household of Sleep (Hypnos/Somnus); Roman equivalents include Socordia and Ignavia.

Aernus

Aernus

Aernus is a theonym attested in a small number of Roman-period inscriptions from the vicinity of Bragança (north-eastern Portugal). Scholarly discussion treats Aernus as a local or regional deity within the Lusitanian and Gallaecian pantheons, probably serving as a protector of a specific tribal group (the Zoelae) in a limited territorial horizon.

Aerope

Aerope

Aerope (Ancient Greek: Ἀερόπη) is a mythological mortal woman of Greek tradition, a Cretan princess connected to the royal house of Mycenae (the Atreidai). In surviving accounts she functions as a human agent whose sexual relationships and/or the transfer of a symbolic object (the "golden lamb") are narrated as catalysts in the dynastic feuds of Atreus and Thyestes; sources preserve variant and sometimes conflicting traditions about her fate and parentage.

Aeropus

Aeropus

Aeropus is a name used for several distinct figures in Greek tradition: a mythic child variously described as son of Ares and Aerope; a son of Cepheus associated with Arcadian/Tegean genealogies and as ancestor/father of Echemus; a name applied to historical Macedonian kings; and a separate usage naming a bird into which Botres was transformed. The sources treat Aeropus primarily as a mortal or legendary ancestor rather than as an autonomous supernatural class.

Aesacus

Aesacus

Aesacus (Ancient Greek: Αἴσακος) is a mythic son of King Priam of Troy who, grieving the death of a river-nymph beloved, throws himself from a cliff and is transformed mid-plunge by the sea-goddess Tethys into a diving seabird (mergus). In some traditions (Apollodorus and Tzetzes) he is also described as a seer who learned dream-interpretation from his grandfather Merops and interprets Hecabe’s dream about Paris.

Aesar

Aesar

Aesar is a term attested in comparative and antiquarian literature as a name or class-label applied to divine or semi‑divine beings in discussions of Etruscan religion. In the provided sources it appears chiefly in speculative comparisons with other pantheons (e.g., Norse Æsir, Irish 'Living Ones', Egyptian Asar/Osiris) and as a proposed Etruscan word meaning 'a god' in secondary commentary.

Aesculapius (Asclepius)

Aesculapius (Asclepius)

Aesculapius (Greek Asclepius) is the classical divine-hero of medicine and healing in ancient Greek religion and later Roman cult. He functioned as the patron and legitimating divine figure for temples, attendants (therapeutae), and organized healing practices; his emblem, the rod of Asclepius (a snake-entwined staff), endures as a symbol of medicine.

Aesepus

Aesepus

Aesepus is the personified river-god (potamos) of the Aesepus River in the Troad / northern Mysia of Anatolia. Attested in Hesiod's catalogue of river-children and in Homeric and geographic passages, Aesepus functions primarily as a topographical divine ancestor and eponym for a town and local genealogies.

Aeshma

Aeshma

Aeshma is the Zoroastrian hypostasis of wrath — a fiendish being who personifies rage and functions as an ontological opponent to Ahuric principles and ritual discipline. In scripture and later tradition he distracts worship, foments violence and drunkenness, can be driven off by prayer or by divine agents such as Sraosha and Mithra, and will be overthrown or flee at the final renovation.

Aesimus

Aesimus

Aesimus is a mortal figure in Greek mythic genealogy, primarily attested as the father of Sinon, the Trojan-war deceiver. He appears only in brief genealogical notices and a few poetic fragments; no independent myths, cult, or supernatural powers are recorded for him in the supplied sources.

Aeson

Aeson

Aeson (Ancient Greek: Αἴσων) is a legendary mortal king of Iolcus in Thessaly in Greek myth, best known as the father of the hero Jason. His fate—imprisonment by his half-brother Pelias and either suicide or a miraculous restoration performed by Medea—provides the dynastic and moral background for the Argonautic cycle.

Aesyle

Aesyle

No evidence in the provided sources describes a mythological entity named Aesyle. The available records referencing the label 'Aesyle' point instead to taxonomic database entries (a genus of insects) and unrelated media, with no mythic details present.

Aeternitas

Aeternitas

Aeternitas is the Roman divine personification of eternity, cultivated as an abstract virtue in the official Imperial cult and invoked especially to express the perpetual duration of imperial rule (Aeternitas Imperii). She appears on coinage and in temple cult from the 1st through the 3rd centuries AD and is treated in later intellectual tradition as the Latin term for divine duration.

Aethalides

Aethalides

Aethalides is a personal name borne by two distinct figures in ancient Greek myth: one listed among the Argonauts as a son of Hermes and Eupolemeia, and another named among the Tyrrhenian sailors who attempted to deceive Dionysus and was transformed into a dolphin. The sources treat Aethalides as named human mythic personages appearing in separate narrative contexts rather than as a class of supernatural being.

Aether

Aether

Aether is the personified bright upper sky in ancient Greek myth and a primordial cosmic principle. Treated both as the luminous upper atmosphere and as a divine being, Aether appears in multiple cosmogonic genealogies (notably Hesiodic and Orphic traditions) as an early-born element that helps constitute the ordered cosmos.

Aethilla

Aethilla

Aethilla (Αἴθιλλα / Αἴθυλλα), also spelled Aethylla, is a mythic Trojan princess in Greek and Roman legendary tradition. She is credited in several ancient-derived accounts with persuading captive women to set fire to the Greek ships after the fall of Troy, an act that produced local etiologies for place-names and forced settlement in various locales (Thrace, Italy, or Sicily) rather than any supernatural office or power.

Aethiolas

Aethiolas

Aethiolas (Aithiolas) is a figure from Greek mytho-historical tradition described as a Spartan prince, commonly listed as a son of King Menelaus and in some accounts son of Helen or of an unnamed concubine. He and his brother Nicostratus are recorded in secondary sources as receiving cult worship from the Lacedaemonians.

Aethlius

Aethlius

Aethlius (Ancient Greek: Ἀέθλιος) is a legendary founding king of Elis in Greek tradition. Attested in genealogical and foundation narratives, he functions as an eponymic ancestor and dynastic progenitor whose line held ritual and political roles in Elis; some accounts also connect his name etymologically to athletic competition.

Aethon

Aethon

Aethon (Ancient Greek aithōn) is an epithet meaning 'burning', 'blazing' or 'shining' used across classical Greek literature to describe animals (especially horses), some other animals, and occasionally humans. In the provided sources it functions as a descriptive name applied in poetry and myth rather than as a single, individuated supernatural being; the term is also reused in modern taxonomy and cultural titles.

Aethra

Aethra

Aethra (Ancient Greek: Αἴθρα, romanized Aithra, lit. 'bright sky') is a name borne by multiple women in Greek myth, most prominently a princess of Troezen who is mother of the hero Theseus. In some traditions an Aethra is also listed among Oceanids, indicating a separate, water‑nymph identity in certain genealogies.

Aetna (corporate name)

Aetna (corporate name)

The supplied sources refer to 'Aetna' as Aetna Inc., an American managed health care company whose name derives from Mount Etna (Latin Aetna). The provided materials contain no attested folkloric or mythological entity named Aetna.

Aetnaeus

Aetnaeus

An epithet associated with gods and mythical beings connected to Mount Etna. (Note: - Power tier: Primordial (due to association with major gods like Zeus) - Weaknesses: Needs to be filled - Wards: Needs to be filled - Sensory cues: Needs to be filled - The summary should be revised )

Aetolus

Aetolus

Aetolus (Ancient Greek: Αἰτωλός, Aitolos) is a figure in Greek legendary genealogy described as a son of Endymion and an eponymous ancestor of the region called Aetolia. He appears in traditions that explain regional origins and sequences of local kingship, notably in genealogies connected with Elis and the foundation/ethnogenesis of Aetolia.

Aetolus of Aetolia

Aetolus of Aetolia

Aetolus (Greek: Aἰτωλός) is a mythic ancestral figure in Greek genealogical tradition, presented as a son of Endymion and member of the ruling dynasty that explains origins and succession in Elis, Calydon, and Aetolia. He functions as a mortal culture-hero/founder within origin myths rather than as a supernatural monster or daimon.

Aex

Aex

Aex (also rendered Aix) is a name attested in fragmentary Greek mythic traditions with at least three different identifications: a nurse of the infant Zeus later said (in a Hyginus-derived summary) to have been changed into a constellation; an Arcadian epimelid or 'nanny-goat' nymph said to have borne the goat-associated son Aegipan; and a goatish primeval figure called Gorgô Aix ('Terrible Goat') described in a source-summary as slain by Zeus at the start of the Titanomachy. These attestations are brief and inconsistent across sources.

Aeëtes

Aeëtes

Aeëtes is a mythic, semi-divine king of Aea (identified with Colchis) in the Greek heroic tradition, son of Helios and the Oceanid Perseis. He is guardian of wondrous objects—most famously the Golden Fleece—and functions as a royal task-master whose demands and possessions test visiting heroes (notably Jason and the Argonauts).

Afagddu

Afagddu

Afagddu (also Avagddu, Y Fagddu) is a figure in Welsh tradition noted for extreme ugliness and associated darkness. He appears in the Taliesin/Ceridwen narrative as the intended recipient of Ceridwen's cauldron of inspiration, and functions as a narrative catalyst within bardic origin material and Welsh triadic/name-list contexts.

Afallach

Afallach

Afallach is a male personal name attested in medieval Welsh genealogies and narrative sources. He is presented as the father of the goddess Modron and is linked in some texts to an Otherworld island (Ynys Afallach/Avalon); in one tale his daughter calls him 'the King of Annwn,' a formulation that has led scholars to suggest he may reflect an Otherworld ruler-type.

Afanc

Afanc

A named monstrous lake-being from Welsh tradition, the afanc is associated with specific lakes and functions as a dangerous localized supernatural hazard that appears in medieval narrative cycles and later antiquarian and local legends.

Afaon fab Taliesin

Afaon fab Taliesin

Afaon fab Taliesin is a medieval Welsh warrior-counsellor, named as a son of the bard Taliesin and recorded among Arthur’s retinue in Welsh tradition. He appears in the Welsh Triads and in the tale Breuddwyd Rhonabwy (The Dream of Rhonabwy) as a notable martial figure and proverb-speaker rather than as a supernatural being.

Afrasiab

Afrasiab

Afrasiab is the legendary king and arch-enemy of Iran in Iranian epic and Zoroastrian-influenced tradition. Attested from the Avestan Fraŋrasyan through Middle Persian and the Shahnameh, he functions as a powerful Turanian ruler associated with sorcery, subterranean dwellings, and opposition to Iranian heroes and divine agencies.

Afriquiamus

Afriquiamus

No folkloric or mythological entity named Afriquiamus is attested in the supplied sources. The available material comprises paleontological and taxonomic references (Trechnotheria, lists of prehistoric mammals) and contains no information identifying Afriquiamus as a spirit, deity, or monster.

Aga of Kish

Aga of Kish

Aga of Kish (Aga, Agga, Akka) is an Early Dynastic Mesopotamian king recorded in the Sumerian King List, the Tummal Inscription, epigraphic objects, and the Sumerian poem "Gilgamesh and Aga." He functions in texts as a historical/legendary political actor who attempted hegemonic demands on Uruk and was ultimately captured and released by Gilgamesh.

Agabus

Agabus

Agabus is an early Christian prophet attested in the Acts of the Apostles and later ecclesiastical tradition. He is reported in Acts to have predicted a famine and to have given a symbolic warning to Paul; later tradition lists him among the Seventy Disciples and attributes missionary activity and martyrdom to him.

Agag

Agag

Agag (Hebrew אֲגָג, ʾĂḡāḡ) is presented in the Hebrew Bible and later Jewish exegetical tradition as a royal personal name or dynastic title applied to the kings of Amalek. Treated as a human foreign king and eponymous ancestor of Amalekite hostility, Agag functions in scripture and rabbinic literature as a political antagonist whose fate embodies themes of memory, justice, and the consequences of royal failure.

Agagite

Agagite

A literary ethnonym used in the Book of Esther to identify Haman as a descendant or representative of Agag, king of the Amalekites; in rabbinic and midrashic interpretation it functions as a symbolic marker of perennial enmity toward Israel rather than a description of a supernatural being.

Agaliarept

Agaliarept

A named high-ranking spirit from post-medieval grimoire tradition, presented in the Grimoirium Verum and the Grand Grimoire as a commanding officer in a hierarchical host of spirits; credited with revealing secrets and commanding a legion, and cited in later printed occult imprints and modern fiction.

Agamede

Agamede

Agamede (Ancient Greek Ἀγαμήδη) is a name applied to several mythic women in Greek literary and geographic tradition: a Homeric healer versed in the powers of plants, a Hellenistic-era sorceress-figure associated with pharmakeia, and an eponymous ancestral woman linked to a town on Lesbos. Sources present her variously as a practical herbalist, a literary sorceress archetype, and a local founding figure.

Agamemnon

Agamemnon

Agamemnon is the legendary king of Mycenae (or Argos), head of the House of Atreus, and commander of the Achaean forces at Troy in Greek epic and tragedy. His story links dynastic guilt, ritual obligation, and political authority, culminating in the sacrifice-at-Aulis episode and his murder on return from Troy followed by juridical atonement in the Oresteia.

Aganippe (naiad)

Aganippe (naiad)

Aganippe is the local Naiad of the spring called Aganippe at the base of Mount Helicon in Boeotia. The spring and its nymph are traditionally associated with the Muses and with poetic inspiration; the name Aganippe is also used as an epithet in other, sometimes divergent, local mythic or cultic contexts.

Aganjú

Aganjú

Primordial Orisha associated with the sun, fire, and the untamed wilderness in Yoruba tradition. (Note: - Remove "untamed wilderness" from Power tier description as it's a trait associated with Lesser entities, not Primordial. - Add Appearance section based on source material (e.g., no specific descript)

Agapenor

Agapenor

Agapenor (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαπήνωρ) is a legendary Arcadian leader in the Greek heroic-age tradition: commander of Arcadian contingents at Troy, participant in Trojan-cycle episodes (including the Trojan Horse and funeral games), and, in later tradition, shipwrecked on Cyprus and credited with founding New Paphos. He is presented as a mortal king and genealogical ancestor rather than a supernatural being.

Agapius of Athens

Agapius of Athens

Agapius (Greek: Ἀγάπιος; c. 460 – after 511) is recorded in late antique sources as a learned Neoplatonic philosopher of Athens who lectured on Plato and Aristotle and as, in some traditions, a physician who worked in Alexandria and later Constantinople. The evidence is fragmentary and transmitted through later epitomes (notably Damascius via Photius and the Suda) and a report by John Lydus.

Agaptolemus

Agaptolemus

Agaptolemus (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαπτόλεμος) is a mythic Greek prince, one of the fifty sons of King Aegyptus, best known as the husband of the Danaid Pirene who, like most of the Danaids, slew her husband on their wedding night at the command of her father Danaus.

Agares

Agares

Agares is a named, ranked spirit in the European grimoire tradition. Frequently presented as an elderly man associated with the eastern quarter, he is credited in multiple grimoires with teaching languages, stopping or retrieving runaway persons, causing earthquakes, and granting noble titles, and is invoked in evocations and object-binding experiments.

Agaru

Agaru

Agaru (attested historically as Agarum) appears in the supplied sources as a Bronze Age Near Eastern toponym—often identified with Failaka Island—and as a modern personal or media name. The provided material contains no evidence that Agaru is a supernatural being in any traditional cosmology.

Agasaya

Agasaya

Agasaya is presented in modern secondary sources as a little-attested Semitic war goddess who, according to some summaries, was later absorbed as the warrior aspect of the major Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar. The attestation in available materials is sparse and much inferences about her name, attributes, and later influence are explicitly marked speculative in those sources.

Agasthenes

Agasthenes

Agasthenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀγασθένης) is a mytho-historical king of Elis in Greek tradition, presented in surviving sources as the son and successor of Augeas and the father of Polyxenus. He functions as a dynastic link in Elean king-lists that connect local rulership to wider heroic-age events such as the Trojan War.

Agastya

Agastya

Agastya (also Agathiyar/Agasti) is a revered Vedic and later-period Indian rishi (sage) figure credited in textual traditions as an inspired seer, ascetic, teacher, culture-founder, and attributed author of Vedic, Puranic and Tamil works; in South Indian tradition he is associated with origins of Tamil grammar and Siddha medicine and is identified astronomically with the star Canopus.