Glossary of the Gods

FROM THE CRUCIBLE TRILOGY

  • Aphrodite: Greek goddess of love, desire, beauty, pleasure, and procreation
  • Apollo: Greek god of music, poetry, light, prophecy, and healing; often associated with the sun (Artemis’ twin brother)
  • Anubis: Egyptian “Conductor of Souls”; god of mummification, embalming, the dead, cemeteries, and the afterlife; guides souls to the underworld and oversees judgment, acting as a protector of tombs and a patron of lost souls
  • Ares: Greek god of war, physical combat, bloodlust, and protection
  • Artemis: Greek goddess of the hunt, wilderness, wild animals, and childbirth; often associated with the moon (Apollo’s twin sister)
  • Athena: Greek goddess of wisdom, strategic warfare, and crafts
  • Boone: Greek god of thieves…and more to come
  • Cerberus: Greek creature—Hades’ three-headed hellhound; guardian of the Underworld
  • Charon: Greek ferryman of the dead across the rivers Styx and Acheron in the Underworld
  • Crius: Greek Titan of constellations; orderer of the year
  • Cronos (deceased): Greek King of the Titans; Titan of time, agriculture, heavens, strength, animal communication
  • Daemones: four Greek winged deities who guard the throne of the King or Queen of Olympus: Zeles, spirt of dedication, eager rivalry, and jealousy; Nike, spirit of victory; Kratos, spirit of strength and power; and Bia, spirit of force and might
  • Demeter: Greek goddess of agriculture, harvest, and fertility; mother of Persephone
  • Dionysus: Greek god of wine, festivity, religious ecstasy, and theatre
  • Eirenes: the Furies; three Greek goddesses of vengeance and retribution who punished men for crimes against the natural order; Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone; born from Uranus’s blood, they reside in the Underworld
  • Ereshkigal: Sumerian goddess of death and Queen of the Underworld
  • Eshu: Yoruba messenger spirit and trickster god
  • Eurybia: Greek Titaness of all things that affect the seas, including weather and winds
  • Gaia (deceased): Greek Primordial mother of the Titans
  • Hades: Greek god of death and the dead; previous King of the Underworld; current King of the Greek/Olympic Gods
  • Hecate: Greek goddess of magic, witchcraft, crossroads, ghosts, and necromancy
  • Hecatoncheires: the Hundred-Handed Ones; monstrous Primordial giants each possessing fifty heads and one hundred arms of immense strength
  • Hel: Norse goddess of the Underworld and the dead
  • Hephaestus: Greek god of fire, metalworking, crafts, and volcanoes
  • Hera: Greek goddess of marriage, women, and childbirth; previous Queen of the Greek/Olympic gods as Zeus’ wife
  • Hermes: Greek messenger of the gods, god of travelers, merchants, athletes, and orators; previous god of thieves
  • Hestia (deceased): Greek goddess of hearth, home, and family
  • Hyperion: Greek Titan of cosmic order, father of light and the heavens
  • Hypnos: Greek god of sleep (twin of Thanatos)
  • Iapetus: Greek Titan of life and pain; father of mortals; western pillar of the sky
  • Judges of the Dead: demigod sons of Zeus who determine the fate of souls, deciding whether they are sent to Elysium, Tartarus, or the Asphodel Meadows based on their earthly lives; Aiakos is the guardian of the keys of the Underworld, Rhadamanthys is the lord of Elysium, and Minos is the tiebreaker.
  • Keres: Greek female spirits of violent or cruel death, including death in battle, by accident, murder or ravaging disease; the personification of elements like violent doom, disease, and battle-slayings, the Keres are usually referred to as a collective, but sometimes named individually such as Achlys (mist of death), Nosos (plague), Arai (curses), Epiales (nightmares); cravers of blood; agents of the Moirai (Fates) and Moros (Doom);
  • Koios: Greek Titan of intellect
  • Lethe: Greek goddess of oblivion and the river Lethe in the underworld
  • Lyra: new/secret Greek goddess of time, goddess of glamours, co-Queen of the Underworld with Persephone…and more to come
  • Medusa: Greek gorgon with snakes for hair who could turn anything living to stone with a look until Perseus cut off her head to defeat the kraken
  • Mictlāntēcutli: Aztec god of death and the ruler of the Underworld Mictlan
  • Mnemosyne: Greek Titaness of memory
  • Moirai: the Fates; three Greek goddesses of mortal fate: Clotho spins the thread of life, Lachesis uses her rod to measure the thread of life allotted to each mortal, and Atropos, cuts the thread, choosing the manner of each mortal’s demise
  • Moros: Greek spirit of doom; the force which drives mortals towards their fated deaths
  • Nightmares: Greek creatures of antiquity who can make people see/experience real-feeling dreams as alternate realities, sworn to serve Lyra
  • Nyx: Greek Primordial goddess of night; mother of many deities and spirits
  • Persephone: Greek goddess of spring, vegetation, and agriculture; co-Queen of the Underworld with Lyra
  • Phoebe: Greek Titaness of prophecy and the moon
  • Poseidon: Greek god of the sea, storms, earthquakes, and horses
  • Oceanus: traitorous Greek Titan source of all waters: oceans, seas, rivers, and springs
  • Odin: Norse “Allfather” and ruler of the Aesir gods; god of wisdom, poetry, death, magic, and war
  • Rhea: Greek Queen of the Titans; Titaness of the Earth, fruitfulness, fertility, motherhood, generation
  • Ta’xet: Haida god of violent death (Tia’s twin brother)
  • Thanatos: Greek god of non-violent death (twin brother of Hypnos)
  • Tethys: Greek Titaness of fresh water, nursing
  • Theia: Greek Titaness of healing, sight, and prophecy
  • Themis (deceased): Greek Titaness of divine law, order, justice, and custom
  • Tia: Haida goddess of peaceful death (Ta’xet’s twin sister)
  • Uranus (deceased): Greek Primordial father of the Titans
  • Yeomra: Korean god of the dead and the fifth of the ten Kings of the Underworld (Shi-wang); supreme ruler of the Underworld and judge of the dead
  • Zeus: Greek god of the sky, thunder, lightning, and overall kingship; original and previous King of the Gods

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