| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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| Air: Ariel, Elves (singular, Elf). |
| Caves or Caverns: Hill-people (Hög-folk, hög = height). |
Corn: Ceres (2 syl.) (Greek, Dem ter). |
| Domestic Life: Vesta. |
| Eloquence: Mercury (Greek, Herms). |
| Evening: Vesper. |
| Fates (The): Three in number (Greek, Parcæ, Moiræ, 2 syl., Kres). |
Fire: Vulcan (Greek, Hephaistös, 3 syl.), Vesta, Mulc ber. |
| Fairies: (q.v.). |
| Furies: Three in number (Greek, Eumendes, 4 syl., Erinn’yes). |
Gardens: Pri pus, Vertumnus with his wife Pom na. |
| Graces (The): Three in number (Greek, Chartes). |
| Hills: Trolls. There are also Wood Trolls and Water Trolls. (See-below Mountains.) |
| Home Spirits (q.v.): Pentes (3 syl.), Lares (2 syl.). |
Hunting: Diana (Greek, Art mis). |
| Infernal Regions: Pluto, with his wife Proserpine, 3 syl. (Greek, A’ids and Persephn). |
| Justice: Them’is, Astræa, Nemesis. |
| Love: Cupid (Greek, Eros). |
| Marriage: Hymen. |
| Medicine: Æsculpius. |
| Mines: Trolls. |
Morning: Aurora (Greek, E s). |
Mountains: Orads or Orades (4 syl.), from the Greek, ó o a mountain; Trolls. |
| Ocean (The): Ocean’ides. |
| Poetry and Music: Apollo, the nine Muses. |
| Rainbow (The): Iris. |
| Riches: Plutus. Shakespeare speaks of “Plutus’ mine,” (Julius Cœsar, iv. 3). |
| Rivers and Streams: Fluviles, 4 syl. (Greek, Potamides, 5 syl.). |
| Sea (The): Neptune (Greek, Poseidon, 3 syl.), his son Triton, Necks, Mermaids, Nereids (3 syl.). (See Sea.) |
| Shepherds and their Flocks: Pan, the Satyrs. |
| Springs, Lakes, Brooks, etc.: Nreides or Naiads (2 syl.). |
| Time: Saturn (Greek, Chrnos). |
| War: Mars (Greek, Ars), Bellna, T’nor. |
| Water-nymphs: Naiads (2 syl.), Undine (2 syl.). |
| Winds (The): Ælus. |
| Wine: Bacchus (Greek, Diony’ss). |
| Wisdom: Minerva (Greek, Pallas, Athn, or Pallas-Athn). |
| Woods: Dryads (A Hama-Dryad presides over some particular tree), Wood-Trolls. |
| Youth: Hb. | |
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 Of course this is not meant for a complete list of heathen and pagan deities. Such a list would require a volume. | 1 |
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