Dodona was a city in Epeirus. The city was famous for its forest of oak trees that had oracular power. Oracles were gained through interpretations of the sounds of rustlings and creakings of the trees. It was also one of the centres of worship for Zeus.
Dodona, Δωδώνη.
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Delphi was a city in Phocis. Delphi was famous for its oracle. The area and the oracle used to belong or were sacred to Gaea (earth). Later, it was sacred to Themis , a Titaness, who then passed it to her sister Phoebe . Finally, Delphi was passed...
There are two regions named Locris (Λοκρίς). East of Phocis and north of Boeotia, on the coast of Euboean Gulf, was Opuntian Locris. The most important city of Locris (Oportian) was Opus. The Ozolian Locris was located on the Gulf of Corinth, betw...
Also called Epirus. Epeirus was the coastal region of Greece, stretching from the Ambracian Gulf in the south to the north in southern Albania. Epeirus could be divided into Thesprotia in the south with Ephyra as its major city, while Ambracia was...
Nodons was a British (Romano-Celtic) god of healing. Nodons was associated with the Irish god Nuada Airgedlámh ("Nuada of the Silver Hand"), and the Welsh god Lludd Llaw Ereint ( Nudd ). There was a great temple of Nodons established at Lydney on ...
Arduinna was the Gallic goddess of the forest and hunting. The Romans identified her with Diana (Artemis). Arduinna was depicted in art as riding on the back of a wild boar. She seemed to be popular around the Ardennes region.
Delos was a small island in the Cyclades, located between two larger islands, Rhenea and Myconus. It was probably called Asteria or Ortygia after Asteria, daughter of the Titans, Coeüs and Phoebe, and sister of Leto. Asteria was changed into a qua...
Abnoba was a goddess of the forest and the rivers. Abnoba was a Romano-Celtic goddess who was popular in the Black Forest (in Germany).
Ephyra (Ephyre) was the principal city of Thesprotia, a region in southern Epeirus. Neoptolemus became the king of Ephyra after the Trojan War. Neoptolemus probabaly ruled all of Epeirus. (See family tree of the Aeacides )
Dercetius was a Romano-Iberian mountain god.
Dione was an obscure goddess. It was not certain whether she was either a Titaness or an Oceanid . None of the writers I had come across said anything about her attributes, but she was most likely the goddess of the sea, mainly because Dione was a...