Mythological Dictionary on Letter #H

Halcyon

Halcyon or halcyon days. The mythical bird, the halcyon, is identified with the kingfisher. Ceyx an...

Harpy

The Harpies ("snatchers"), daughters of Thaumas and Electra, were originally conceived of as winds, ...

Hector

Hector was the greatest warrior of the Trojans, who was defeated by his counterpart on the Greek sid...

Heliotrope

Heliotrope or heliotropism, etc. Helius was god of the sun. The Greek root trop- refers to a turnin...

Hercules

Hercules or herculean or Hercules' club. Hercules, in Greek Heracles, was the greatest hero in the ...

Hermetic

Hermetic or hermeneutic or hermeneutics or hermaphrodite. The god Hermes became associated with the...

Hydra

Heracles' second labor was to encounter the Hydra, a nine-headed serpent, which would grow back two ...

Hymen

Hymen or hymenea. Hymen was the god of marriage and invoked during the wedding ceremony with the ch...

Hyperborean

The Hyperboreans were a mythical race that inhabited a paradise in the far north, at the edge of the...

Hypnosis

Hypnosis or hypnotic, etc. Hypnos, son of Nyx (Night) and brother of Thanatos (death), was the god ...