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Maera River
Maera can refer to: Mythology and religion *The name Maera or Maira is used by several beings in Greek mythology: **Maera (hound), hound of Icarius, was turned into the dog star **Maera, daughter of Proetus the son of Thersander, mother of Locrus by Zeus **Maera, daughter of Atlas, wife of Tegeates **Maera, one of the Nereids, daughters of Nereus and Doris **Maera, one of the four daughters of the river god Erasinus, along with Anchirhoe, Byze and Melite; they are associated with Britomartis *Maera or Mæra, an alternative name for Mara, a demon in Buddhist teachings Biology * ''Maera'' (crustacean), a genus of amphipod crustaceans Places * Maera (Arcadia), a town of ancient Arcadia, Greece *Mæra, a land in the Norse saga of Egill Skallagrímsson See also *Marea (other) Marea may refer to: * Marea (ancient city), Egypt * Mare' or Marea, a town in Syria * Marea (band), a Spanish hard rock band * Marea (restaurant), New York City * Marea Stamper (born 1977), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maera (hound)
In Greek mythology, Maera () is the hound of Erigone (daughter of Icarius), Erigone, daughter of Icarius (Athenian), Icarius of Athens. Mythology Icarius was a follower of the wine god Dionysus and had been taught how to make wine. While travelling, Icarius met some shepherds and gave them wine; they became intoxicated and believed Icarius had poisoned them, so they killed him. Erigone was worried about her father, and set off with Maera to find him. Maera led her to his grave, and both became so overwhelmed with grief that she hung herself and Maera leapt off a cliff. Upon hearing the news, Dionysus was angry and punished Athens with a plague, inflicting insanity on all the unmarried women, who all hung themselves, imitating Erigone. The plague did not cease until the Athenians introduced honorific rites for Icarius and Erigone. Zeus or Dionysus placed Icarius, Erigone and Maera in the sky as the constellations Virgo (constellation), Virgo (Erigone) Boötes (Icarius), and the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thersander
In Greek mythology, the name Thersander (; Ancient Greek: ''Thersandros'' means 'bold man' derived from 'boldness, braveness' and 'of a man') refers to several distinct characters: *Thersander or Thersandrus, a Corinthian prince as the son of King Sisyphus Pausanias2.4.3/ref> and the Pleiad Merope, daughter of the Titan Atlas. He was the brother of Ornytion ( Porphyrion), Glaucus and Almus. His sons were Haliartus and Coronus, eponyms of Haliartus and Coronea, respectively, and also Proetus, himself the father of Maera who was known to have died a maiden. *Thersander, one of the Heracleidae, son of Agamedidas.He was a king of the Cleonaeans and his twin daughters Anaxandra and Lathria married the twin sons of Aristodemus, Procles and Eurysthenes. *Thersander of Crete, father, by Arethusa, of a son Hyllus (not to be confused with the son of Heracles). Hyllus was killed by Aeneas in the Trojan War. * Thersander, son of Polynices and one of the Epigoni, killed by Telep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlas (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Atlas (; , ''Átlās'') is a Titans, Titan condemned to hold up the heavens or sky for eternity after the Titanomachy. Atlas also plays a role in the myths of two of the greatest Hero#Antiquity, Greek heroes: Heracles (Hercules in Roman mythology) and Perseus. According to the ancient Greek poet Hesiod, Atlas stood at the ends of the earth in the extreme Hesperides, west. Later, he became commonly identified with the Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa and was said to be the first King of Mauretania (modern-day Morocco and west Algeria, not to be confused with the modern-day country of Mauritania). Atlas was said to have been skilled in philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy. In antiquity, he was credited with inventing the first celestial spheres, celestial sphere. In some texts, he is even credited with the invention of astronomy itself. Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanids, Oceanid Asia (Oceanid), Asia or Clymene (wife of Iapetus), Clym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegeates
In Greek mythology, Tegeates (Ancient Greek: Τεγεάτης) was an Arcadian prince as son of King Lycaon, and the reputed eponymous founder and of Tegea. Family Tegeates was married to Maera, daughter of Atlas, by whom he had five sons: Archedius, Gortys, Cydon, Leimon and Scephrus; Tegeates' and Maera's tombs were shown at Tegea. Of their children, the following is related. Mythology When Apollo and Artemis were traveling about Greece in search for those who had once refused their mother Leto to punish them, they came to Tegea, where Apollo had a private conversation with Scephrus. Leimon, suspecting that his brother was charging against him, killed Scephrus. For his crime, Leimon was shot by Artemis; afterwards, despite Tegeates and Maera offering sacrifices to propitiate the gods, famine fell on the land. To avert the calamity, rites in honor of Scephrus were instituted and have since then been performed during the festival of Apollo Agyieus: as part of the ritual, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nereid
In Greek mythology, the Nereids or Nereides ( ; ; , also Νημερτές) are sea nymphs (female spirits of sea waters), the 50 daughters of the ' Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris, sisters to their brother Nerites. They often accompany Poseidon, the god of the sea, and can be friendly and helpful to sailors (such as the Argonauts in their search for the Golden Fleece). Name It is not known whether the name Nereus was known to Homer or not, but the name of the Nereids is attested before it, and can be found in the ''Iliad''.; ; Since Nereus only has relevance as the father of the Nereids, it has been suggested that his name could actually be derived from that of his daughters; while the derivation of the Nereids from Nereus, as a patronymic, has also been suggested. According to Martin Litchfield West (1966), Nereus is much less important than his daughters, mentioning that Herodotus offered "the Nereids, not Nereus, as an example of a divine name not deri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britomartis
Britomartis (;) was a Greek goddess of mountains, nets, and hunting who was primarily worshipped on the island of Crete. She was sometimes described as a nymph, but she was more commonly conflated or syncretized with the goddesses Artemis, Athena, and Aphaea. She is also known as Dictynna, Dicte, Dictymna, or as a daughter of Dictynna (Δίκτυννα). In the 16th century, Edmund Spenser, Edmund Spencer named a character identified with Great Britain, English military prowess as "Britomart" in his knightly Epic poetry, epic ''The Faerie Queene''. This subsequently led to a number of appearances of "Britomart" figures in British art and literature. Etymology According to Gaius Julius Solinus, Solinus, the name 'Britomartis' is from a Cretan dialect. He also says that her name means ''virgo dulcis'', or "sweet virgin". It is possible that her name also means "sweet" or "blessing" (βριτύς) "maiden," with Hesychius of Alexandria equating the Cretan βριτύ (''britý'') wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mara (demon)
Mara,, '; ; or ; ; also マーラ, ''Māra'' or 天魔, ''Tenma''; ; ; Tibetan Wylie: ''bdud''; ; ; ; in Buddhism, is a malignant celestial Asura king who tried to stop The Buddha, Prince Siddhartha from Awakening by trying to seduce him with his celestial Army and a vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be Mara's daughters. In Buddhist cosmology, Mara is associated with death, rebirth and desire. Nyanaponika Thera has described Mara as "the personification of the forces antagonistic to enlightenment." He is Yama's fearsome persona and all beings associated with him, darkness and death, become forces of Mara. These forces consist of Asuras, Rakshasa, Pishacha, Pisacas, Aratis and animals. Origin His name is first mentioned in the ''Atharvaveda, Atharva Veda'' (1200 BCE–1000 BCE) as Mrtyu and Agha Mara, the evil slayer. He is called the "evil one who kills" and "Papiyan", denoting a being which is not only morally bad but intertwined wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maera (crustacean)
''Maera'' is a genus of amphipod crustacean in the family Maeridae, and was first described by William Elford Leach in 1814.Leach, W.E. Crustaceology. In: Brewster, D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Balfour, Edinburgh, vol. 7(1): 383–384 813 7(2): 385–437, 765–766 814 __NOTOC__ Year 814 ( DCCCXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 814th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 814th year of the 1st millennium, the 14th year of the 9th century, and t ... 9(1): Pl. CCXXI 815 (1813-1815). The type taxon is ''Cancer (Gammarus) grossimanus'' Montagu, 1808, currently accepted as ''Maera grossimana'' (Montagu, 1808). Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copila?-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maera (Arcadia)
Maera or Maira () was a town in ancient Arcadia.There was a tradition that indicated that there was the tomb of Meara, daughter or descendant of Atlas, according to Greek mythology, though a different tradition said that Maera, the daughter of Atlas, had been buried in Tegea. Pausanias places Maera on one of the roads between Mantineia Mantinea (; ''Mantineia''; also Koine Greek ''Antigoneia'') was a city in ancient Arcadia, Greece, which was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history. In modern times it is a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, ... and Orchomenus, and indicates that its ruins were thirty stadia from the ruins of Ptolis, which was the original site where Mantineia had been built. References Populated places in ancient Arcadia Former populated places in Greece Lost ancient cities and towns {{AncientArcadia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egill Skallagrímsson
Egil Skallagrímsson ( ; Modern Icelandic: ; 904 995) was a Viking Age war poet, sorcerer, berserker, and farmer.Thorsson, 3 He is known mainly as the anti-hero of '' Egil's Saga''. ''Egil's Saga'' historically narrates a period from approximately 850 to 1000 AD and is believed to have been written between 1220 and 1240 AD. Life Egil was born in Iceland, to Skalla-Grímr Kveldúlfsson and Bera Yngvarsdóttir; he was the grandson of Kveld-Úlfr (whose name means 'evening wolf'). Another of his ancestors, Hallbjörn, was Norwegian- Sami. Skalla-Grímr was a respected chieftain, and mortal enemy of King Harald Fairhair of Norway. He migrated to Iceland, settling at Borg where his father Kveld-Úlfr's coffin landed after being ritualistically set adrift as Skalla-Grímr's boat approached Iceland. Skalla-Grímr and wife Bera had two daughters, Sæunn and Þórunn, and two sons, Þorolfr and Egil. Egil composed his first poem at three years old. He exhibited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marea (other) , a female horse
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Marea may refer to: * Marea (ancient city), Egypt * Mare' or Marea, a town in Syria * Marea (band), a Spanish hard rock band * Marea (restaurant), New York City * Marea Stamper (born 1977), American singer, songwriter, DJ, and record producer, known professionally as the Blessed Madonna * Lake Mariout, Egypt, once called Marea Other uses * Fiat Marea * MAREA, a transatlantic communications cable See also * Marea (We've Lost Dancing), a 2021 song by Fred Again and the Blessed Madonna * Maria (other) * Mare A mare is an adult female horse or other equidae, equine. In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse three and younger. In Thoroughbred horse racing, a mare is defined as a female horse more th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
