Curated category
Avian humanoids
- HorusThe name Horus appears in Egyptian hieroglyphs as with the original pronunciation reconstructed for Old and early Middle Egyptian.
- Victoria (mythology)Victoria first appeared during the First Punic War as a Romanized renaming of Nike. This Greek goddess of victory was already familiar to the Roman military…
- ErosHesiod's Theogony, written around 700 BC, lists Eros as the fourth god to emerge from Chaos. He appeared after Gaia and Tartarus, establishing love as a…
- AngelThe word angel arrives in modern English from Old English engel and the Old French angele. Both of these derive from Late Latin angelus, which in turn was…
- Uranus (mythology)Most linguists trace the name Uranus to a Proto-Greek form called Worsanós. Originally reconstructed by Johann Baptist Hofmann, this root expands from Worsó-.
- ThothThe name Thoth emerges from the ancient Egyptian phrase meaning he is like the ibis. Linguists reconstruct this as *di-hauti, though the exact pronunciation…
- EosThe Proto-Greek form of the dawn goddess is reconstructed as auhōs. This linguistic root connects her to the Vedic goddess Ushas, the Lithuanian goddess…
- IsisAn inscription from the reign of Nyuserre Ini during Egypt's Fifth Dynasty marks the first known mention of Isis by name.
- ErinyesUranus lay upon the earth as his son Cronus struck with a sickle. Drops of blood fell from the wound and stained the soil below.
- Iris (mythology)The ancient Greek noun for rainbow also meant the halo of the Moon. An inscription from Corinth reveals an original form with a digamma that eventually…
- RaIn the beginning, there was only Nun, a vast mass of watery chaos filling the universe. No land existed yet, and no life stirred within that dark expanse.
- NephthysThe Greek name Nephthys derives from the Egyptian phrase nbt-ht, which translates to Lady of the House or Lady of the Temple.