There are a lot of stories behind the scenes of the Summons & Mythology. We'll descibe all summons here with basicly their 'life'. Because of the big stories: here are the shortcuts:

Alchemy - The first known science of the world. Alchemy holds in the search of the stone of sages and the knowledge of making gold from chemical elements. The science of turning elements into gold includes the elemental studies. Gold was not only necessarily for pure wealth, but it was needed to create a potion or draught to keep the body young (fountain of youth).
According to the Alchemy everything is made out of four elements: Earth (Venus), Wind (Jupiter), Fire (Mars) and Water (Mercury). For many long centuries scientists were looking for a possible fifth element, which could connect these four basic elements into gold. With the help of Sol (Sun/gold) and Luna (Moon/silver) they beleived that they could do this. In the late 18th century, the Alchemy study crashed and it was no longer anyhting more then an ancient study of a old chemical science. The scientist discovered that it's IMPOSSIBLE to make gold out of any material, except for pure gold.
Alchemy was founded originally in China and moved to Egypt and ancient Greece, as it passed to India and back to West-Europe. The symbols of the Alchemy were the Lion Kirin and the Dragon Tiamat, according to the Chinese Alchemy. Specialists in the Chinese Alchemy were also called "Shamans", according to the Western-Europeans "Adepts".

Djinn - Creatures that are half-human and half-demon from pre-Islamic times. Originally, they were spirits of nature that caused madness in humans. They differ not much from humans: they reproduce, they have the same bodily needs, and they die, although their life span is much longer. The Arabic word Djinn, which means "spirit", is neutral--some of the Djinni serve Allah, while others do not. The Arabs believed the Djinni often took the form of ostriches, or rode them. Dalila, Samson's treacherous mistress, rode an ostrich. There are five orders of genies: the Marid (the most powerful), the Afrit, the Shaitan, the Djinn, and the Jann (the least powerful).
Djinni can do good or evil, are mischievous and enjoy punishing humans for wrongs done them, even unintentionally. Thus accidents and diseases are considered to be their work. They are composed of fire or air and they can assume both animal and human form. They exist in air, in flame, under the earth and in inanimate objects, such as rocks, trees and ruins. In the stories of the "Thousand and One Nights" a Djinn often inhabits an old, battered oil lamp. After rubbing the lamp three times, it will appear and grants the holder of the lamp three wishes. A forth wish will undo the previous three. Other names are: Genie, Jinn

Atalanta - Atalanta is the (2nd) Greek Goddess of the hunting. She's devoted to the lion, swine (pig) and the bear. She also has golden apples and water and a spear. Atalanta is born from the Amazones. She's also identified with Artemis. Atalanta was however found in the Parthenic hills near Kalydon and found and raised by Artemis, who was also the Godess of the mountains and the wildlife. Atalanta became a huntress too, so she participated at the hunt of the Kalydonical swine, sent by Artemis to destroy the harvest of Oineus, king from Kalydon in Aitolia, because he didn't offered Artemis. Though, during this haunt, Atalanta killed two centauri, because they were trying to rape her.
Atalanta was warned by the Oracle from Apollo in Delphi for a marriage, when someone would defeat her in a atlethicscompetition. Meilanion OR Hippomenes won and got from Aphrodite three golden apples, from the garden of the Hesperides. Atalanta and Meilanion or Hippomenes were making love in the temple from Aphrodite or Cybele. As punishment, they both changed into lions.

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Boreas - (a.k.a. Aquilo) Serpent tailed Greek god of the North Wind and son of Astraeus and Eos. Boreas lived in the extreme north of either Thrace or Scythia and was considered the most violent of all the winds. When the princess Orithyia resisted his advances, Boreas wrapped her up in a cloud near the river Ilissus and carried her off to his home. Orithyia then bore him two winged sons Zetes and Calais and two daughters Chione and Cleopatra. In the Pelasgian creation myth, the serpent Ophion arose from his union with Eurynome. He also fathered Butes, Hecaerge, Loxo, Lycurgus, and Opis by unknown mates. Boreas is associated with horses and fathered twelve foals on the mare belonging to Danauus. He was later a patron of the Athenians and received their sacrifices during the Persian Wars. Boreas is also one of the Anemoi, the wind.

Catastrophe - The embodiant of destruction - Catastrophe is the more evil version of Judgment, the Apocalyps, the destruction of the earth.

Charon - Charon, in Greek mythology, is the ferryman of the dead (the river Styx). The souls of the deceased are brought to him by Hermes, and Charon ferries them across the river Acheron. He only accepts the dead which are buried or burned with the proper rites, and if they pay him an obolus (coin) for their passage. For that reason a corpse had always an obolus 1 placed under the tongue. Those who cannot afford the passage, or are not admitted by Charon, are doomed to wander on the banks of the Styx for a hundred years. Living persons who wish to go to the underworld need a golden bough obtained from the Cumaean Sibyl. Charon is the son of Erebus and Nyx. He is depicted as an sulky old man, or as a winged demon carrying a double hammer. He is similar to the Etruscan (Charun).

Coatlicue - The Aztec goddess of earth and fire, and mother of the gods and mother of the stars of the southern sky. Her daughter is the goddess Coyolxauhqui. Coatlicue was magically impregnated by a ball of feathers. Her outraged children decapitated her, but the god Huitzilopochtli emerged fully armed from his mother's womb and slew many of his brothers and sisters. She represented the type of the devouring mother in whom were combined both the womb and the grave. Coatlicue was a serpent g0ddess, depicted wearing a skirt of snakes.

Pronunciation
{coh-ah-tlee'-cooeh}

Cybele - Phrygian goddess who was incorporated into the Greek pantheon. She was worshipped as a Mother Goddess, and was often identified with the likes of Rhea, Demeter, Hecate or Aphrodite. She was also considered to be the mother of the mystic Dionysos Sabazius, that the Orphic mystery cult principally worshipped. Cybele fell in love with Atys and made him her priest. Before he took his vows, he could no resist having a final affair with the nymph Sagaritis. In a fit of jealousy, Cybele punished him for this and drove him temporarily insane. When he recovered, Atys was mortified to discover that he had emasculated himself during his insanity. He then wanted to commit suicide, but Cybele turned him into a fir tree. After these events, all priests in Cybeles service had to castrated themselves, and the fir tree became her holy tree. Another version tells us that Cybele really was the daughter of the Phrygian king Maeon. She eloped with Atys since her family disagreed with their relationship, and for this he king killed Atys. This drove Cybele mad with grief and she would let no one come near the corpse. She roamed the countryside and sang lamentations accompanied by cymbals. Because Atys was no buried his corpse caused a plague, and on oracle said his remains must be burned to stop the epidemic. The decay was too far gone, though, and an image of him was burned instead. Cybele was from then on worshipped as a goddess. There is yet another version that tells us Hera was jealous of Atys, and killed him by sending a boar. He was then buried under Mt. Agclistis, and there a cult to him and Cybele was founded.

Daedalos - (In Latin it's Daedalus) The Athenian Daedalus, son of Metion and the grandson of Erechtheus, was a famous architect, inventor, and craftsman. Among his inventions and creations were the wooden cow he constructed for the queen Pasiphae, the Labyrinth at Knossos, artificial wings for himself and his son Icarus, and he was even said to have invented images.
His homeland was Athens. For a short time, his apprentice was his sister's son Perdix. When Daedalus feared that the boy would surpass him in talent, he murdered the boy by tossing him from the Acropolis of Athens. He was then tried at the Areopagus and banished from the city. Athena saw all these happenings, she even changed the soul of Perdix into a pigeon! Daedalos was afraid he would get punished somehow, so he fled to Crete, where he began to work at the court of King Minos and Queen Pasiphae, in the magnificent palace of Knossos. There he constructed a wooden cow for the queen to hide in to satisfy her amorous longings for a white bull sent by Poseidon, and by which she became pregnant with the Minotaur.
When the Minotaur was born, Daedalus built the Labyrinth to contain the monstrous half-man, half-bull. For years Minos demanded a tribute of youths from Athens to feed the creature. Eventually, the hero Theseus came to Crete to attempt to slay the Minotaur. Ariadne, daughter of Minos and Pasiphae, fell in love with Theseus and asked Daedalus to help him. Daedalus gave her a flaxen thread for Theseus to tie to the door of the Labyrinth as he entered, and by which he could find his way out after killing the monster. Theseus succeeded, and escaped Crete with Ariadne. Minos, enraged at the loss of his daughter, shut Daedalus and his son Icarus into the Labyrinth. To escape, Daedalus built wings for himself and Icarus. They successfully flew from Crete, but Icarus' wings melted when he flew too close to the sun, and he drowned in the sea. Daedalus buried his son and continued to Sicily, where he came to stay at the court of Cocalus. He knew this was his punishment for murdering Perdix.
Minos then went in pursuit of Daedalus, hoping to trick the great inventor into revealing himself. At each city he visited, Minos offered a reward to whomever could thread a spiral seashell. Eventually, Minos came to Camicus in Sicily and presented the contest at Cocalus' court. Cocalus knew of Daedalus' talents, and gave the shell to him. The clever Daedalus tied the string to an ant, place the ant at one end of the shell, and allowed the ant to walk through the spiral chambers until it came out the other end. When Minos saw that someone had solved the puzzle, he demanded that Cocalus surrender Daedalus. Cocalus promised to do so, but he persuaded Minos to take a bath and stay for some entertainment. Minos agreed, and was murdered by Cocalus' daughters.

Eclipse - More Info? Please mail us. We only know WHAT an Eclipse is, not WHO Eclipse is. An Eclipse is when the moon blocks the light of the sun at day.

Flora - The goddess of blossoming flowers of spring. She had a minor temple on the Quirinalis and was given a sanctuary near the Circus Maximus in 238 BCE. The festival of the Floralia, celebrated on April 28 -May 1, existed until the 4th century CE. Flora is identified with the Greek Chloris.

Haures - Haures (also spelled Hauras, Havres, and Flauros) is the Sixty-fourth Spirit listed in the Goetia, who governs 36 Legions. He appears as a leopard but will take human shape with fiery eyes upon command. He tells of past/present/future events, & must be invoked into a triangle to ensure he won't tell lies. He also will tell of creation, divine things, & how the spirits fell. Haures will destroy & burn all enemies of the invoker.

Iris - In Greek mythology, Iris is the personified go ddess of the rainbow. She is regarded as the messenger of the gods to mankind, and particularly of the go ddess Hera whose orders she brought to humans. Iris is the daughter of Titan Thaumas and the nymph Electra. She is portrayed as a young woman with wings and her attributes are a herald's staff and a water pitcher. She appears mainly on Greek vases.

Judgment - Judgment (or Apocalypse) was Personification of the Last Day - surprising as it may seem at first, this one is taken from christian mythology. It bears the symbols of the four evangelists: Lion (Right Hand), Angel (Winged Being), Bull (Horned Helm) and Eagle (the Wings themselves)).

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Jupiter - Jupiter is in short the element of the wind. Jupiter actually is the Roman name of Zeus: the uppergod of the Greek mythology, and he controlled truth, justice and the weather. He has many children, which explains the many wifes. He's married with Hera, though. Zeus is originally the son of Kronos, who is the son of Ouranos. Ouranos and Kronos were both killed by their own sons. Zeus is the most wise one, meaning he was since the dead of Kronos until the end the Greatest God.

Kirin - The Japanese unicorn, an animal-god who punishes the wicked with its single horn. It protects the just and grants them good luck. Seeing a kirin is considered an omen of extreme good luck - if one is a virtuous person.

Mars - Mars is the god of the war, in Greek Ares, in Scandinavian Volcanus. Mars isn't very loved among the people of the ancient world, as they don't like war that much. That's the reason why there are only a few temples in Greece.

Megaera - Megaera, the grudging or unwilling: one of the three Erinyes or Furies. The Erinyes are the three g0ddesses of revenge, they punished those who escaped or defied public justice. The other two sisters are Alecto, the unceasing, and Tisiphone, the avenging. The three are women with fiery eyes, dogs' heads, and their head are wreathed with serpents. Their whole appearance is terrific and appalling (although she's a bit of a cutie in GS:tLA). The sisters are sometimes called the daughters of night and are brought about by murder, perjury, ingratitude, disrespect, harshness, and the laws of hospitality. Megaera, Alecto, and Tisiphone are impartial and impersonal and they pursue wrongdoers until the sinners are driven mad and die.

Mercury - Mercury is the Latin name for the Greek God of messaging, trading and thieves: Hermes. Apparently, Hermes slept with the god Venus (Aphrodite) once, which resulted of a child immediatly. But it was a special child, called Hermaphroditus: a kid without a gender... or actually both genders. This is where the word Hermaphrodite comes from.

Meteor - To say it in short: there is no any god called meteor. This 'God' is just a big rock called a meteorite from deep space.

Moloch - Moloch was represented as a huge bronze statue with the head of a bull. The statue was hollow, and inside there burned a fire which colored the Moloch a glowing red. Children were placed on the hands of the statue. Through an ingenious system the hands were raised to the mouth (as if Moloch were eating) and the children fell into the fire where they were consumed by the flames. The people gathered before the Moloch were dancing on the sounds of flutes and tambourines to drown out the screams of the victims. According to some sources, the Moloch in the Old Testament is not a god, but a specific form of sacrifice.

Neptune - Neptune (or Poseidon in Greek) is the god of the seas. The Trojan horse is a 'gift' of Poseidon to the Trojans, because he was at the Greek side. The horse is actually devoted to Neptune, that's why. Poseidon had lots of children, including Cyclops and Nereids.

Nereid - The Nereids are the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris who dwell in the Mediterranean Sea. These beautiful women were always friendly and helpful towards sailors fighting perilous storms. They are believed to be able to prophesize. They belong to the retinue of Poseidon. In ancient art, particularly on black-figured Greek vases the Nereids were portrayed fully clothed, such as on a Corinthian vase (6th century BCE) where they stand around Achilles' deathbed, dressed in mourning-garbs. In later art they were portrayed naked or partially naked, riding on dolphins, seahorses, and other marine creatures.

Procne - Aedon was the wife of King Zethus of Thebes and mother of their son Itylus. Because she only had one child, she was so jealous of her sister-in-law Niobe, who had seven sons, that she tried to kill Niobe's elder. By mistake she killed her own son, and Zeus transformed her into a nightingale forever crying for her son.

Aedon, in other stories, is called Procne. She is in this version the daughter of the king of Athens, Pandion, and has a sister by the name of Philomela. Procne's husband was the Thracian hero Tereus, with whom she had the son Itys. Tereus one day raped Philomela and cut out her tongue, so she would not tell on him, but she embroided what had happened, revealing everyhting to Procne. The sisters conspired a terrible revenge: they killed Itys and served him as stew to his father. Outraged with horror when he relized the truth, Tereus chased the two sisters with an axe. The gods took mercy on them though, at Procne was turned into a nightingale and Philomela into a swallow. Tereus was transformed to a hoopoe.

According to another version Procne became a swallow and Philomela a nightingale.

Ramses - This summon is equal to Ramses II of Egypt, because he believed he was a god. Actually, Ramses II was just another Pharaoh of the ancient Egypt.

Thor - Thor is the god of Thunder and Lightning as well as the uppergod from the Norse Mythology. It's like an equivalent of Zeus.

Tiamat - In Babylonian myths, Tiamat is a huge, bloated female dragon that personifies the saltwater ocean, the water of Chaos. She is also the primordial mother of all that exists, including the gods themselves. Her consort is Apsu, the personification of the freshwater abyss that lies beneath the Earth. From their union, saltwater with freshwater, the first pair of gods were born. They are Lachmu and Lachamu, parents of Ansar and Kisar, grandparents of Anu and Ea. In the creation epic Enuma elish, written around 2000 BCE, their descendants started to irritate Tiamat and Apsu so they decided to kill their offspring. Ea discovered their plans and he managed to kill Apsu while the latter was asleep. Tiamat flew into a rage when she learned about Apsu's death and wanted to avenge her husband. She created an army of monstrous creatures, which was to be led by her new consort Kingu, who is also her son. Eventually, Tiamat was defeated by the young god Marduk, who was born in the deep freshwater sea. Marduk cleaved her body in half, and from the upper half he created the sky and from the lower half he made the earth. From her water came forth the clouds and her tears became the source of the Tigris and the Euphratus. Kingu also perished, and from his blood Marduk created the first humans.

Ulysses - Ulysses is the Roman name for Odysseus, the Greek hero of the Odyssee from Homerus. Odysseus had to fight along with Achilles, Ajax and other warriors against Troy. He had to leave his wife Penelope and his son Telemachos on the island of Ithaca. Pallas Athena liked him very much because of his wisdom (Athena herself is the goddess of the wisdom), so she would protect him. Odysseus created the idea of the Trojan horse, which led to a victory. Then, because of hybris (overcourage) he insulted Poseidon. Poseidon wasn't too happy about that and he cursed him: Odysseus would never make home again. He wandered in the Meditteranian sea for over 10 years, fighthing against Cyclops, the watermonsters Skylla and Charabdis and he even wandered in the underworld, where he saw his mother, who suicided out of sorrow. He rushed again and came on another island from Calypso. Calypso wanted to keep him on the island, but Hermes said she must release Odysseus, or else Zeus would let her island sink. Afterwards he finally met Ithaca

Venus - The goddess of the earth element. Her Greek name is Aphrodite, goddess of the love and beauty. She was born by Zeus and Dione according to Homer and according to Hesodius she was born out of the foam of the sea, when Cronus and Gaia took off the genitals of Ouranos and threw it in the open sea. Around the genitals in sea cane foam, which drove to the island of Cyprus and there was Aphrodite. "Aphros" is the Greek name for 'foam'. This goddess had a lot of relations, including Hephaistos (Vulcanus), Ares (Mars) and Hermes (Mercury). From her 8 relations, she gave birth to a lot of children. Her symbol was the pigeon.
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According to Homer (Il. 5. 370-417), Aphrodite was the daughter of Zeus and the oak-goddess Dione. This parentage would more firmly make her an Olympian, but it was accepted only in a few areas, mainly Dodona, and no existing myths tell about it. The more popular version, as described by Hesiod (Theog. 188-206), has Aphrodite rise from the foam of the sea. Homer has Aphrodite married to Hephaestus, but she was constantly unfaithful and the couple had no children together. Her favorite consort was the god Ares, with whom she bore Deimos, Phobos, Harmonia, Hyppolite, and possibly Eros and Anteros. By Hermes, she had Hemaphroditus. By Dionysus, she had Hymenaeus and Priapus. By Phaethon, she had Astynous. By Butes, she had Eryx. By Adonis (q.v.), she had Beroe. By the Trojan Anchises, she is the mother of Aeneas and Lyrus and plays a major role throughout Vergil's Aeneid. Aphrodite's major cults were located on the island of Cyprus, e.g. at Paphos and Amathus. Worshipped by men and women, she was associated with fertility and prostitution, civic concord and seafaring.

Zagan - Zagan was the Sixty-first Spirit listed in the Goetia, who governs 33 Legions. He appears as a bull with gryphon wings but will take on human form. He makes men witty, can turn wine into water, blood into wine, & water into wine. He can also turn all metals into coins of that metal.