Yggdrasil
The name is derived from Odin’s name Yggr (the deep thinker), and drasil (carrier) - it therefore means the Bearer or Manifestor of God.
Harper’s Book of Facts, 1905.
The name is derived from Odin’s name Yggr (the deep thinker), and drasil (carrier) - it therefore means the Bearer or Manifestor of God.
Harper’s Book of Facts, 1905.
One of Odin’s handmaidens, who selected those to be slain in battle and bore their souls to Valhalla.
International Book of Names by C.O. Sylvester Mawson, 1933.
A judge in the lower world.
International Book of Names by C.O. Sylvester Mawson, 1933.
“The all-gifted”; according to Hesiod, the first woman.
International Book of Names by C.O. Sylvester Mawson, 1933.
Three hundred-handed giants - Briareus, Cottus, and Gyges.
International Book of Names by C.O. Sylvester Mawson, 1933.
Egyptian goddess of love.
International Book of Names by C.O. Sylvester Mawson, 1933.
Ocean nymph who pined away for Apollo and was turned into a heliotrope.
International Book of Names by C.O. Sylvester Mawson, 1933.
The hundred-eyed founder of Argos.
International Book of Names by C.O. Sylvester Mawson, 1933.
Region of the dead.
International Book of Names by C.O. Sylvester Mawson, 1933.
Mother of Pentheus, whom she tore to pieces for opposing the introduction of the cult of Dionysus (Bacchus) into Thebes.
International Book of Names by C.O. Sylvester Mawson, 1933.
In the works of Paracelsus, the sixteenth-century Swiss alchemist and physician, we find four elementary spirits: the Gnomes of earth, the Nymphs of water, the Salamanders of fire, and the Sylphs or Sylphides of air.
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges, 2005.
The Wolf, Fenrir, was bound by a fetter called Gleipnir, made from six things: “the noise a cat makes when it moves, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the sinews of a bear, the breath of a fish, and the spittle of a bird.”
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges, 2005.
According to Egyptian mythology, Abtu and Anet are two identical sacred fish that swim along before the ship carrying the sun god Ra, in order to warn him against danger.
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges, 2005.
According to Cicero there were five Minervas:
The Every-Day Book by William Hone, 1827.
In the mythology of the Maoris of New Zealand there is an equivalent to the great Roc of the Arabic world. This is the ‘Poua-Kai’, a huge bird of terrific size and strength which, in a great battle, destroyed half the warriors of a powerful tribe with its terrible rending talons and thrusting beaks.
The Doomsday Book of Animals by David Day, 1981.
