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General Index

Aaron

Abode (Isle) of the Blessed Ones

Abraham

Abraxas

Abu Usba

Acco
(also
Akko, Acre) Achelous Acontias Actium

Adam

Adid
(also
Karkom, mountain) Adonijahn Aeetes Aegean islandsn Aegipan

Aelia Capitolina Aelian
(also
Claudius Aelianus)

Aeolus

Aeon
(also
Aion); as Zrvan Akarana in Mithraism

Aesop

Africa

Agamemnon Agatha Tyche

Agathadaimon
(also
Agathos Daimon)

Agesander

Ahab

Ahaziah

Ahura Mazda

Ain Rogel
(also
En Rogel)

Akkad and Akkadians

Akkadian language and lexican

Alcmene Alcyoneus

Alecto Aleppo Alexander Jannaeus Alexander of Abonuteichos Alexander the Great

Alexandria

Amenophis

Amenophis

Amman

Amorite (language)

Amorites

Amphiaraos

Amphitryon

Anat
(also
Anath)

Anatolian; Anatolian art

Andrew, St.

Angra Mainyu
(also
Ahriman)

Annaeus Florus

Annius Verus

Antas Valley (in Carthaginia)

Antioch

Antiphas

Antoninus Pius Anubis

Aphraate

Aphrodite
(also
Venus)

Apocryphan.
See also
Index of Ancient Sources
Apollo,
See also

Phoebus

Apollodorus

Apophis
(also
Apep)

Aquila (LXX)n Aquileia

Arabia (Arabian Peninsula)

Arad, Archelaus Archemoros Archinos Ard el-Birkeh Argonauts
(Argonautica)
Argos (city) Aristophanes Aristotle

Arius Arpad

Artemidorus

Artemisn.
See also
Diana

Asclepius
(also
Aesculepius, Asklepios), Asklepieia, and Asclepian cultsn

Ashdodn

Asherahn Ashkelon

Ashtoreth

Assyria and Assyrian language, lore, and people

Astoreth Aswan

Athamas (king of Thebes) Athanasius

Athenan.
See also
Minerva

Athenodorus

Athensn

Athienou (on Cyprus)

Atlas

Attis

Augustine, St.

Augustusn.
See also
Octavian

Aborigines (Australia); aboriginal mythologies

Avesta
Azi-Dahaka Aztecs

Baal

Baal-Hadad Baal Zebub Baal Zebul Babi

Babylon, Babylonians, and Babylonian literature

Babylonian Exilen

Babylonian Talmud

Bar Kokhba

basiliskn

Bedouinn Beelzebub

Beer-sheban

Behemoth

Belial

Beloved Disciple (in Gospel of John)

Besn Bethel Bethesda
(also
Bethzatha)

Bethlehem

Beth Shan
(also
Beth-shan, Beth Shean, Bei-san)n

Beth Shemeshn

Bithynia

Black ibis Black Sea

Blake, William Boccaccio, Giovannin Boeotia Bordeaux Pilgrim Brabender, Johann Brancacci Chapel (Florence) Britain, invasions of Burmese snake worshippers

Buto Byblos

Byron, George Gordon, Lord

Cadmus
(also
Kadmos)

caduceus

Caesarea Maritima

Cain

Calvin, Johnn Canaan and Canaanites

Canterbury

Capernaumn

Caracalla

Casa del Menandro (Pompeii) Casa di Laocoonte (Pompeii) Cassibellawn Castel San Mariano Castores

Catacombs; of Kom el-Shuqafa; of Lucina and Priscilla; of Via Latina; of Vigna Randanini

Celsus, Aulus Cornelius.
See also
Origen

Celts

Cerberus
(also
Kerberos)

Ceres

Cernunnos

Chagall, Marc Chalcedon

Chariboea

Chimera
(also
Chimaera)

China

Chnoubis Christol, St.

Chronos.
See also

Saturn Cicero Cilicia Cimbalka

Cleopatra VIIn

Coffin Texts

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Conca (Satricum)

Constantine the Great

Constantinople copper or bronze serpent in Numbers

Corinth Corycian cave

Cos

Cosimo, Piero di

Costa Rica

Crete

Cult of San Domenico at Cocullo Curissia Cybele Cyclades Cyclops

Cyprus Cyrene

Dabara Damascus Gate

Dan (Laish)

Daniel