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 Greek people 
 Heracles  The Twelve Labors of Heracles, part 1  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 The Twelve Labors of Heracles, part 2  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 The Twelve Labors of Heracles, part 3  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 The Twelve Labors of Heracles, part 4  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Achilles  The mighty hero Achilles  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Actaeon  The legendary hunter torn apart by Artemis' dogs  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Agamemnon  This golden death mask of an Agaean king was found at the acropolis of Mycene. The archeologist Heinrich Schliemann referred to it as the Mask of Agamemnon  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Ajax  The mightiest of the Greek heroes in the Trojan War  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Argo  The building of the ship Argo  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Argonauts  The legendary Argonauts who encounter Poseidon  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Ariadne  The daughter of King Minos of Crete. She helped Theseus escape from the labyrith that housed the Minotaur  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Atalanta  The famous Greek huntress who wanted to remain unmarried until she could be defeated in a footrace. Here, Melanion drops golden apples and Atalanta stops to pick them up, thus losing the race  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Bellerophon  The Corinthian hero Bellerophon  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Bellerophon  The Corinthian hero Bellerophon with the winged horse Pegasus  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Cadmus  The founder of the city of Thebes  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Calchas  The famous Greek seer  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Circe  The Greek sorceress, daughter of the sun-god Helios. She turned the companions of Odysseus into swine, and kept him with her for a year  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Daedalus  The famous Greek architect, inventor, and craftsman  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Dido  The legendary founder and queen of Carthage  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Dioscuri  Castor and Polydeuces (Pollux), the twin sons of Leda and Zeus  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Dirce  The wife of King Lycus, she was tied to the horns of a bull  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Heracles 
 The legendary hero Heracles .Hercules  [External Link Removed for Guests] 

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 Greek people 
 Hydra  A gigantic monster with seven heads (or nine) from Greek legend  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Jason  The legendary hero Jason  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Jason  The hero Jason killing a dragon  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Laocoon  The priest who warned the Trojans about the wooden horse of the Greeks  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Menelaus  The ruler of Lacedaemon and one of the heroes in the Trojan War  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Myrmidons  A people who were created by Zeus from ants  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Nausicaa  The daughter of Alcinous, and one of the most charming figures in the Odyssey  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Odysseus  Marble wall carving of the hero Odysseus  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Opheltes  Opheltes was the son of the Nemean king Lycurgus and his wife Eurydice. When he was still an infant he was killed by a snake  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Orestes  The son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, brother of Electra  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Orpheus  The famous musician Orpheus  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Paris  The son of the Trojan king Priamus and Hecuba. He abducted Helen  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Patroclus  The gentle and amiable friend of Achilles  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Penelope  The wife of Odysseus  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Perseus  The hero Perseus holding Medusa's head  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Talos  Talos was a man of bronze, made by Hephaestus, whom Zeus gave to Europa after he kidnapped her and took her to Crete. Detail of a vase painting  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Theseus  A famous hero, and King of Athens  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Triptolemus  Triptolemos was one of the men who had great power and honor in Eleusis and was one of the chiefs among the people, protecting the city by their wisdom and true judgements  [External Link Removed for Guests] 

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 Hindu mythology 
 Avaloketishwara  Redeemer of Humanity. An emanation of Amitaba, the Buddha of Infinite Radiance, his six-armed deity is also known as the Padma-Pani .Lotus Bearer  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Brahma  One of the great Hindu gods  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Ganesha  The deity of good fortune, new ventures, wisdom, and removal of obstacles  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Ganesha  The Hindu god deity of good fortune  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Hanuman  The symbol of Devotion and Service  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Kali  The Hindu goddess of dissolution and destruction  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Kali  The Hindu mother goddess, symbol of dissolution and destruction  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Pashupati  A Hindu deity  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Vishnu  One of the major Hindu gods  [External Link Removed for Guests] 

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 Japanese mythology 
 Hotei  One of the seven Japanese Shinto-gods of luck. Hotei ("cloth bag") is the god of happiness and laughter and the wisdom of being content  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Kappa  A Japanese water-demon  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Oni  Japanese demons who seize the souls of wicked persons on their deathbeds  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Ten-gu  A bogeyman from Japanese folklore  [External Link Removed for Guests] 

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 Judaic mythology 
 Asherah  A goddess popular with the ancient Israelites  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
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 Baal  The Phoenician sun-god  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Behemoth  The Behemoth and the Leviathan  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Eve  Eve presenting Adam with the apple in the Garden of Eden  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Lilith  A female demon  [External Link Removed for Guests] 

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 Korean mythology 
 Tol-Harubang  Stone Grandfather; ancient statues offering protection and fertility  [External Link Removed for Guests] 

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 Maya mythology 
 Ixchel  The Mayan earth and moon goddess and patroness of pregnant women. Here she is represented as the crone  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Ixchel  The Mayan earth and moon goddess and patroness of pregnant women  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
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 Sacrifice  Human sacrifice performed by Mayan priests  [External Link Removed for Guests] 

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 Mesopotamian mythology 
 Dagon  An ancient Mesopotamian vegetation god  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Inanna  The Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, and war. One of the most important goddesses of the Sumerian pantheon  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Ishtar  The Babylonian goddess of love and fertility  [External Link Removed for Guests] 

 Pazuzu  This demon is the personification of the south-east storm wind, which brings diseases  [External Link Removed for Guests] 

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 Norse mythology 
 Freya  Freya is a goddess of love and fertility, and the most beautiful and propitious of the goddesses  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Freya  The Norse goddess of love and fertility  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Freyr  The god of sun and rain, and patron of bountiful harvests  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Odin  The chief divinity of the Norse pantheon  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
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 Thor  The Norse god of thunder, battling Jormungand (bottom right). The picture also shows Odin, riding his eight-legged horse and carrying his spear  [External Link Removed for Guests] 

 from:www.pantheon.org 

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 Other mythology 
 A Kwa Ba  The Primordial Mother of the Ashanti  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Anat  The Phoenician/Canaanite/Ugaritic earth goddess, and goddess of love and war  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Astarte  West Semitic great goddess, and goddess of love and fertility  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Dakini  A Tibetan supernatural creature  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Kurukulla  The Tibetan goddess of love and wealth  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Ouroboros  The worm Ouroboros  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Shahmeran  In Anatolian mythology, the goddess of wisdom and the guardian of secrets  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Thisbe  A young Babylonian girl, the lover of Pyramus  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Wayland  The Anglo-Saxon god of blacksmithing  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Willendorf Venus  A primitive image of the great Mother Goddess  [External Link Removed for Guests] 

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 Persian mythology 
 Anahita  A Persian water goddess, fertility goddess, and patroness of women, as well as a goddess of war  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
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 Mithra  The god of light. Here he is slaying the divine bull  [External Link Removed for Guests] 

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 Roman mythology 
 Aeneas  One of the most respected of the Trojan heroes and founder of the Roman culture  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
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 Amor  The god of love  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Aurora  The Roman personification of the dawn  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Bacchus  The Roman god of wine  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
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 Ceres  The goddess of agriculture  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
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 Cupid  The god of love and his mortal lover Psyche  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Diana  The goddess of the hunt  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
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 Fauns  Wild forest deities from Roman mythology  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Flora  The Roman goddess of blossoming flowers of spring  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Fortuna  The Roman personification of good fortune  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Janus  The god of gates and doors, beginnings and endings  [External Link Removed for Guests] 
 Juno 
 Protector and special counselor of the Roman state and queen of the gods  [External Link Removed for Guests]