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27 Sep 2015, 1:27 am

Boreas: (Greek) the god of the North Wind.

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Cleodora - Cleodora or Kleodora was one of the prophetic Thriai, nymphs who divined the future by throwing stones or pebbles.

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Dis: Roman name for Pluto, king of the Underworld.

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27 Sep 2015, 10:23 am

Eros - Greek god of love

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27 Sep 2015, 12:59 pm

Frige

The Anglo Saxon goddess of love.

"Friday" in the week, is named after her.

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27 Sep 2015, 2:13 pm

Really? I always thought that Friday was 'Freya's Day'. Oh well.
Um...okay, [the] Green Man [a symbolic nature spirit from Europe; possibly the inspiration for the Green Knight].

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27 Sep 2015, 2:49 pm

Hagno - Hagno was one of Nine Nymphs that helped bring up Zeus after his birth by Rhea, in order to hide him from his brutal father Cronos.

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27 Sep 2015, 6:00 pm

Indra

The head honcho of the Hindu gods. Kinda like Zeus.

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27 Sep 2015, 6:05 pm

Kuraudo777 wrote:

Really? I always thought that Friday was 'Freya's Day'. Oh well.
Um...okay, [the] Green Man [a symbolic nature spirit from Europe; possibly the inspiration for the Green Knight].

I thought that too, but when I checked the Net to refresh my memory the sources said "Frige". Freya maybe the German/Norse equivalent goddess (the Anglo Saxons were an offshoot of the same Germanic culture).

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27 Sep 2015, 6:08 pm

Kuraudo777 wrote:

Really? I always thought that Friday was 'Freya's Day'. Oh well.

I've also heard that Friday is named after Frøya/ Freya. But I've also heard it's after Frøy /Frey/ Freyr. brother of Freya.
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday

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The name Friday comes from the Old English Frīġedæġ, meaning the "day of Frige", a result of an old convention associating the Old English goddess Frigg with the Roman goddess Venus, with whom the day is associated in many different cultures. The same holds for Frīatag in Old High German, Freitag in Modern German and vrijdag in Dutch.

The expected cognate name in Old Norse would be *friggjar-dagr. However, the name of Friday in Old Norse is frjá-dagr instead, indicating a loan of the week-day names from Low German.[3] The modern Scandinavian form is Fredag in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, meaning Freyja's day. The distinction between Freyja and Frigg in some Germanic mythologies is problematic.

Jötunn/ Jotun/ Jotne (giants from Norse mythology)

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27 Sep 2015, 8:56 pm

Karasu-tengu [an awesome yet ever so slightly terrifying crow spirit from Japan]

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Loke or Loki (Norse trickster deity)

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Minerva: Roman goddess of Wisdom and the Arts. For some reason a famous brand of football is named after her.

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28 Sep 2015, 9:23 am

Nûñnë'hï: (The Spirit People - Cherokee)

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Onmyoji [a Japanese creature that has magical powers and is potentially half human half yokai]

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Pegasus

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