#god

• Ares — The supreme god of bloody warfare, violence, and brutal physical courage in ancient Greek mythology, son of Zeus and Hera, structurally identified within the Roman pantheon with Mars. In astronomy and astrophysics, the name is utilized as an etymological root in terms describing Martian phenomena, or as a designation for launch vehicles in modern space programs.
• Aristaeus — A minor deity in Greek mythology, son of the god Apollo and the nymph Cyrene, revered as the patron god of agriculture, hunting, and rural crafts. Ancient tradition credits him with civilizing mankind by teaching essential techniques such as beekeeping, olive cultivation, oil extraction, and milk curdling for cheese making.
• Aristeu — A benevolent minor deity in Greek mythology, the son of the god Apollo and the nymph Cyrene, revered as the protector of shepherds, hunters, and flocks. Aristaeus is traditionally considered the one who taught humanity the secrets of beekeeping, olive cultivation, cheese-making, and oil extraction, standing as a symbolic figure of rural civilization and agrarian arts.
• Artemis — An adapted form or literary variant for Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, forests, wild animals, and the Moon in Greek mythology, twin sister of Apollo; (in astronomy) a designation attributed to certain celestial bodies, asteroids, or large planetary geological structures; (in biology) a name used regionally or scientifically in the classification of certain medicinal or aromatic plant species from the Artemisia family or aquatic organisms from the Artemia genus.
• Artemis — A major goddess in Greek mythology (equated with Diana by the Romans), daughter of Zeus and Leto, and twin sister of Apollo. Venerated as the deity of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, and the moon, she is structurally represented as an independent and untamed maiden, armed with a golden bow and arrows.
• Artemis of Ephesus — A compact phrase adopted as a unique lemma in old Romanian dictionaries for 'Artemis of Ephesus'; a deity of Anatolian-Asian origin pre-dating the Ionic migration, which the Greeks absorbed into their pantheon under the name Artemis. Venerated at the legendary Artemision (one of the Seven Wonders of the World), this deity represented universal fertility, earth abundance, and a nurturing mother, featuring a unique iconography packed with spherical torso nodes and wild beast motifs, differing radically from the mainland Greek huntress.
• Artimi — A rare graphic or regional variant historically used to designate the goddess Artemis from ancient mythology, or a proper noun utilized in various old toponymic maps. In isolated literary senses, it can appear as an adapted poetic form to describe a mystical manifestation or a female figure with sacred traits.
• Artio — A goddess in Celtic mythology, protector of bears, wildlife, and fertility, worshipped in antiquity particularly in the region of modern-day Switzerland. In iconographic and historical structures, her artistic representations often depict her alongside a large bear, symbolizing the regenerative force of the forest and nature's abundance.
• Asclepius — The god of medicine, healing, and rejuvenation in Greek mythology, son of Apollo and Coronis, identified in Roman mythology as Aesculapius. Represented anthropomorphically holding a staff entwined by a snake (the universal symbol of medicine), he was venerated in temples called Asclepieions, where the sick sought healing through sacred rituals and primitive dream incubation techniques.
• Asclepius — The name of the god of medicine and healing in Greek mythology (transposed as Aesculapius in Roman mythology), son of Apollo and Coronis, structurally represented with a staff entwined by a serpent (the universal symbol of medicine). In a historical sense, the term can refer to the ancient medical school and to the asclepieions, the temple-sanatoriums where therapeutic rituals and early surgical or holistic treatment techniques were practiced.
• Aesir — The plural form of the noun 'as'; it designates the main gods in Norse mythology (the Germanic pantheon), led by Odin, who inhabited the sacred realm of Asgard. These structural deities were associated with war, power, the sky, and magic, frequently found in conflict or alliance with another divine family called the Vanir. In a different historical context, it can denote the plural of 'as' used for aviation champions or playing cards.
• Asclepius — Hero and god of medicine, healing, and regeneration in Greek mythology, later identified in the Roman pantheon as Aesculapius. Son of Apollo and Coronis, instructed in the art of healing by the centaur Chiron, he symbolizes ancestral therapeutic knowledge, sacred medical science, and the ability to restore biological balance, being iconographically represented holding a staff entwined by a serpent.
• Assur — The supreme god of the Assyrian pantheon and, concurrently, the first historical capital of the Assyrian Empire, located on the western bank of the Tigris River (in modern-day Iraq); the deity, often represented as an archer within a winged disc, was considered the god of war and absolute protector of the state, while the homonymous city, founded in the 3rd millennium BC, was a crucial religious and commercial center in ancient Mesopotamia, the site currently being inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
• Astarte — A major deity of Phoenician and Canaanite mythology, goddess of fertility, carnal love, motherhood, and war, structurally equated with Ishtar in Mesopotamia and Aphrodite in Ancient Greece; her cult, marked by rural rituals and associations with the planet Venus, exerted a profound influence across the Mediterranean basin and is frequently mentioned (often critically) in biblical texts as Ashtoreth.
• Astraea — The virgin goddess of innocence, purity, and justice in Greek mythology, daughter of Astraeus and Eos, considered the last immortal to leave Earth at the end of the Iron Age to seek refuge in the sky, where she became the constellation Virgo. In astronomy, it denotes 5 Astraea, a large main-belt asteroid discovered in 1845 by Karl Ludwig Hencke, and in zoology, it represents a genus of medium to large sea snails in the family Turbinidae.
• Astrea — An accepted spelling and literary variant of 'Astraea' or a rare common noun used in old poetry to mean a star or luminous celestial body; in Greek mythology, it represents the name of the virgin goddess of justice and innocence who retreated to the heavens, forming the constellation Virgo. In astronomy, it points to the large main-belt asteroid discovered in the mid-19th century.
• Ashur — The supreme god of the Assyrian pantheon and protector of the empire, the divine personification of the first capital of Assyria; it also designates the ancient city-state located on the western bank of the Tigris River, which formed the structural and religious core of the Assyrian civilization. As a historical entity, the archaeological site is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
• Asura — In Hindu mythology, a class of supernatural or demi-divine beings endowed with great physical and magical power, often found in a structural eternal conflict with the benevolent deities (devas) for cosmic power. In early Vedic texts, the term designated powerful spirits without a malevolent connotation, later evolving toward the meaning of demons.
• Atargatis — The great goddess of Northern Arabia and Syria in antiquity, a divinity of fertility, the earth, and water, primarily worshipped at Hierapolis. Often represented with the body of a woman and the tail of a fish (associated with the earliest mermaid legends) or surrounded by lions, Atargatis embodied the generative power of nature and protection of human communities in the Near East, later assimilated by the Greeks as Dea Syria.
• Atheism — A school of thought or philosophical position characterized by the absence of belief in the existence of a deity, or by the explicit, reasoned denial of God and any supernatural forces. Unlike agnosticism (which views the divine as unknown or unknowable), atheism is structurally founded on rationalism, scientific materialism, and the explanation of the universe through empirically verifiable natural laws.