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Ja.n.u.s, a deity from the earliest times held in high estimation by the Romans, temple of
j.a.pHET (Iapetus)
JASON, leader of the Argonauts, seeking the Golden Fleece
JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA, who bore the Holy Graal to Europe
JOTUNHEIM, home of the giants in Northern mythology
JOVE (Zeus), chief G.o.d of Roman and Grecian mythology, See JUPITER
JOYOUS GARDE, residence of Sir Launcelot of the Lake
JUGGERNAUT, Hindu deity
JUNO, the particular guardian spirit of each woman (See Genius)
JUNO, wife of Jupiter, queen of the G.o.ds
JUPITER, JOVIS PATER, FATHER JOVE, JUPITER and JOVE used interchangeably, at Dodona, statue of the Olympian
JUPITER AMMON (See Ammon)
JUPITER CAPITOLINUS, temple of, preserving the Sibylline books
JUSTICE, See THEMIS
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KADYRIATH, advises King Arthur
KAI, son of Kyner
KALKI, tenth avatar of Vishnu
KAY, Arthur's steward and a knight
KEDALION, guide of Orion
KERMAN, desert of
KICVA, daughter of Gwynn Gloy
KILWICH, son of Kilydd
KILYDD, son of Prince Kelyddon, of Wales
KNEPH, spirit or breath
KNIGHTS, training and life of
KRIEMHILD, wife of Siegfried
KRISHNA, eighth avatar of Vishnu, Hindu deity of fertility in nature and mankind
KYNER, father of Kav
KYNON, son of Clydno
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LABYRINTH, the enclosed maze of pa.s.sageways where roamed the Minotaur of Crete, killed by Theseus with aid of Ariadne
LACHESIS, one of the Fates (which See)
LADY OF THE FOUNTAIN, tale told by Kynon
LAERTES, father of Ulysses
LAESTRYGONIANS, savages attacking Ulysses
LAIUS, King of Thebes
LAMA, holy man of Thibet
LAMPETIA, daughter of Hyperion LAOC'OON, a priest of Neptune, in Troy, who warned the Trojans against the Wooden Horse (which See), but when two serpents came out of the sea and strangled him and his two sons, the people listened to the Greek spy Sinon, and brought the fatal Horse into the town
LAODAMIA, daughter of Acastus and wife of Protesilaus
LAODEGAN, King of Carmalide, helped by Arthur and Merlin
LAOMEDON, King of Troy
LAPITHAE, Thessalonians, whose king had invited the Centaurs to his daughter's wedding but who attacked them for offering violence to the bride
LARES, household deities
LARKSPUR, flower from the blood of Ajax
LATINUS, ruler of Latium, where Aeneas landed in Italy
LATMOS, Mount, where Diana fell in love with Endymion
LATONA, mother of Apollo
LAUNCELOT, the most famous knight of the Round Table
LAUSUS, son of Mezentius, killed by Aeneas
