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Sky and weather gods
- Jupiter (god)The Latin name Iuppiter originated as a vocative compound of the Old Latin vocative Iou and pater, meaning father. This form replaced the earlier Old Latin…
- ThorThe name Thor emerges from the Proto-Germanic root Þunraz, meaning thunder. This ancient word evolved into various forms across Germanic dialects.
- FreyrIn Norse mythology, Freyr stands as the god associated with kingship, fertility, peace, prosperity, fair weather, and good harvest.
- HorusThe name Horus appears in Egyptian hieroglyphs as with the original pronunciation reconstructed for Old and early Middle Egyptian.
- PoseidonThe earliest written record of the name Poseidon appears on Linear B clay tablets from Mycenaean Greece, inscribed as Po-se-da-o or Po-se-da-wo-ne.
- Set (deity)The earliest representations of what might be the Set animal come from a tomb dating to the Amratian culture, also known as Naqada I, which existed between…
- DagrIn stanza 25 of Vafþrúðnismál, the jötunn Vafþrúðnir answers Odin's question about the origin of day. He states that Delling is the father of day while night…
- NjörðrThe name Njörðr corresponds to that of the older Germanic fertility goddess Nerthus, whose reverence by various Germanic tribes is described by Roman…
- 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-.
- 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.