Mythology - A to Z

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I always thought it was a sieve...oh well.
Fenrir [the monstrous wolf son of Loki; devours the sun and Odin at the end of the world]

^ Here's a picture of the Danaids by J.W. Waterhouse...

G - Galatea: a sea-nymph whom the Cyclops Polyphemus desired, but who was in love with a certain Acis, whom Polyphemus then murdered. Galatea turned the dead Acis into a river, thus giving him eternal life.

Galatea was also a living statue.
Hephestos [Greek god of fire and the forge]

Ishtar - Inanna
The Sumerian goddess of love and war, Inanna or Ishtar, was Nanna's daughter and associated with the Underworld.

Juno - Roman goddess and wife of Jupiter.

Kronos (Saturn)

Loki [Norse trickster god, also half giant]

Manitou, spirits in Obijwe mythology

Nitosi, or Yedariye, is the name of the great sky god of the Dene tribes. He is a benevolent creator spirit who will occasionally intervene to help people in distress. Yedariye means "He who lives on high," and Niottsi means "Creator."

Oisín was regarded in legend as the greatest poet of Ireland. He is the son of Fionn mac Cumhaill and of Sadhbh (daughter of Bodb Dearg). His name literally means "young deer" or fawn, and the story is told that his mother, Sadbh, was turned into a deer by a druid, Fear Doirche (or Fer Doirich). When Fionn was hunting he caught her but did not kill her, and she returned to human form. Fionn gave up hunting and fighting to settle down with Sadbh, and she was soon pregnant, but Fer Doirich turned her back into a deer and she returned to the wild. Seven years later Fionn found his child, naked, on Benbulbin

Pandora, the woman who was created by the Greek gods to punish mortals.

Quest (for the Holy Grail)

Rhea Silvia: priestess of the goddess Vesta, mother of Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome.

Sylla

A monster on a cliff above the sea that Odysseus and his crew had to dodge while sailing around a whirlpool.

Tantalus: a man who was punished in the afterlife by being placed in a lake, with a tree containing delicious fruits dangling above his head, just out of his reach, thus rendering him perpetually hungry. Hence the verb 'tantalize'.