Dictionary Of God And Godedesses

94 Ešmunare identified by necklaces of black or brownbeads.of the home of the gods holding a set of keys. Heis known for his trickery.EšmunGod of healing. Western Semitic (Phoenician).Known first from the Iron Age levels at Sidon,his cult spread as far as Carthage, Cyprusand Sardinia. Possibly became syncretizedwith the god MELQART and, in Hellenic times,with the physician god ASKLEPIOS. His namefurther became linked with the mother goddessCAELESTIS.Estsanatlehi (woman that changes)Fertility goddess. Navaho [USA]. Probablyregarded as the most powerful deity in theNavaho pantheon, she has powers of endlessself-rejuvenation. According to tradition, shewas created from a small turquoise image intowhich life was infused through a ritual of thegreat gods and she is the sister of the goddessYOLKAI ESTAN. She is also the consort of thesun god TSOHANOAI and the mother of the wargod NAYENEZGANI. She is said to live in the westand is benevolent in nature, sending the gentlerains of summer and the warm thawing winds ofspring.EsuGod of passage. Edo [Benin and Nigeria, WestAfrica]. A fearsome deity who stands at the gatesEsusGod of war. Celtic (Continental European). Mentionedby the Roman writer Lucan but otherwisevirtually unknown. He may have originated as atree god. One carving [Trier] identifies Esusfelling a tree with birds in the branches (seealso INANA). Elsewhere he is associated with threecranes and a bull.EunomiaGoddess of order. Greek. One of the children ofZEUS and THEMIS, her siblings include theHorae, DIKE and EIRENE.See also HOURS.EurosGod of the east winds. Greco-Roman. One of thesons of EOS. Particularly known from Sparta andlater Romanized as Eurus.EurynomeSea goddess. Greek. The daughter of Nisos andmother of the Graces. Also the mother of Bellepheron,fathered by POSEIDON, though she isaccounted as the consort of GLAUKOS. Little elseis known, but her cult center was apparently atPhigaleia (Arcadia).