Ranks

A son of Zeus by Ida, a nymph of Mount Ida, from whom the island of Crete was believed to have derived its name. According to Diodorus, Cres was an Eteocretan, that is, a Cretan autochthon.

Enyo was one of the Graeae in Greek mythology. Her two sisters were Deino and Pemphredo. The three of them were daughters of Phorcys and Ceto. They were usually depicted as old women and share one eye and one tooth. Along with Geras, they were personifications of old age. Enyo herself was the personification of horror.

Pemphredo was one of the Graeae in Greek mythology. Her two sisters were Enyo and Deino. The three of them were daughters of Phorcys and Ceto. They were usually depicted as old women and share one eye and one tooth. Along with Geras, they were personifications of old age. Pemphredo herself was the personification of alarm and shock.

Deino was one of the Graeae in Greek mythology. Her two sisters were Enyo and Pemphredo. The three of them were daughters of Phorcys and Ceto. They were usually depicted as old women and share one eye and one tooth. They were personifications of old age. Deino herself was the personification of dread, and anticipation of horror.

Stheno was the eldest of the three Gorgon sisters, vicious female monsters with brass hands, sharp fangs and hair of living venomous snakes.Unlike Medusa, Stheno (and Euryale) were not able to turn people to stone when she looked at them. She was known to be the most murderous of the Gorgon sisters, having killed more men then both of

Euryale was born, along with her two sisters, to Medusa and Stheno, deities of the sea, in caverns beneath Mount Olympus, the home of the Olympians. Euryale and her sisters were not born gorgons. Poseidon had sexually forced himself upon Medusa in the temple of Athena, which angered Athena because she was a virgin goddess. Athena turned Medusa into a gorgon along

THE GORGONES (Gorgons) were three powerful, winged daimones named Medousa (Medusa), Sthenno and Euryale. Of the three sisters only Medousa was mortal. King Polydektes of Seriphos once commanded the hero Perseus to fetch her head. He accomplished this with the help of the gods who equipped him with a reflective shield, a curved sword, winged boots and helm of

Kabiero (Cabeiro) (aka Eidothea)  was a sea-nymph daughter of the shape shifting marine-god Proteus. She was the mother of the Kabeiroi (Cabeiri) gods of Lemnos by Hephaistos (Hephaestus). When Menelaus was returning home from Troy, his fleet was becalmed on the island of Pharos near Egypt. Eidothea took pity on the hero and told him

ERSEPHONE was the goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Haides (Hades). She was also the goddess of spring growth, who was worshipped alongside her mother Demeter in the Eleusinian Mysteries. This agricultural-based cult promised its initiates passage to a blessed afterlife. Persephone was titled Kore (Core) (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring’s bounty. Once upon

SEMELE THYONE was the mother of Dionysos and the goddess of the Bacchic frenzy which seized female devotees of the god during the Orgies. Thyone’s mortal name was Semele. She was a Theban princess loved by the god Zeus. When his wife Hera learned of their affair, she tricked the girl into having Zeus swear an oath