MYTHOLOGY
Abydos: in ancient Egypt, the holy city of the god Osiris
Aeon: a time-period lasting for eternity
Albion: England
Aleera: As beautiful as they are lethal, Aleera, Verona, and Marishka are Dracula's bloodthirsty brides. Bound by fate and seduced by Dracula's enigmatic power, they'll stop at nothing to help their master in his plan to subvert human civilization and to rule over a world of havoc, fear, and darkness.
Aphrodite: Greek goddess of love
Apocalypse: the end of the world, as described in the Book of Revelations
Arcturius: king Arthur
Armageddon: the end of the world
Ararat: mountain in Turkey on top of which supposedly Noah's Ark was stranded
Artemis: Greek goddess of hunting, wild animals, childbirth and nature
Asp: the scepter of an Egyptian pharao, shaped in the form of a cobra
Astarte: ancient goddess of love and war of the Near East
Astarte: Phoenician goddess of sexual pleasure
Attila: king of the Huns, who was also called 'the scourge of God'
Aurora: in Roman mythology, the goddess of the dawn
Avalon: magic island from where king Arthur makes his return
Avatar: in Hindu mythology, the incarnation of a deity
Azel: According to the bible, one of the sons of Benjamin
Babel: the tower of Bable was built to reach all the way to heaven. God punished mankind for this disobedience by creating the different languages to spread confusion
Bacchus: Roman god of wine and pleasure
Balrog: in the Lord of the Rings, the fire-demon with which Gandalf battles in the mines of Moria
Banshee: female spirit whose howling announces a coming death
Baphomet: worshiped by the Templars as symbolic of Satan
Bastet: Egyptian cat goddess
Bastille: prison in Paris and symbol of the old regime which was overthrown by the French Revolution
Bathory: 16th century Hungarian Countess Elisabeth Bathory reputedly murdered 600 girls so she could bathe in their blood
Bealtaine: pagan festival to mark the beginning of the summer season
Beherit: Syrian name for Satan
Belladonna: the deadly nightshade flower
Bellona: Roman goddess of war
Borgia: Lucrezia Borgia was a sixteenth century beautiful Italian noblewomen who committed not a few murders
Bosch: 15th century Dutch painter, known for his phantasmagoric images of heaven and hell
Bounty: in the year 1787, the ship HMS Bounty left England under the command of Lieutenant William Bligh. Somewhere along the journey twelve crewmembers staged the now famous mutiny on the Bounty, capturing the ship and setting Lt. Bligh and his supporters adrift in the ship's launch
Brigantia: Celtic goddess of war, wisdom and crafts
Brocken: in German mythology, the mountain on which the witches held their sabbat
Brueghel: 16th century Flemish painter of landscapes
Cainan: descendant of Adam
Caliban: a fictional character in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, a deformed monster with beast- or fishlike features
Caliburn: sword of king Arthur
Calvary: the hill just outside of Jerusalem on which Jesus was crucified
Camelot: castle of king Arthur
Camilla: huntress and warrior, favorite of Diana
Camlann: last battle of king Arthur against Modred, king of the Picts
Carpathia: Transylvania lies in the midst of the Carpathian mountains
Chimera: in Greek mythology, a fire-breathing animal with a lion’s head and foreparts, a goat’s middle, a dragon’s rear, and a tail in the form of a snake
Count Lestat: the flamboyant protagonist in more than a few vampire novels by Anne Rice
Cthulhu: the whole universe of extraterrestrial beings created by Lovecraft - what his fans dubbed the "Cthulhu mythos," after the principal god of this demonic hierarchy, who lies in a state of living dead slumber in his ruined city deep beneath the Pacific Ocean
Cupid:Greek god of love
Dahmer: Geoffrey Dahmer was a notorious serial killer who raped, murdered and ate parts of 17 victims
Damocles: in popular legend, Damocles switched places with king Dionysus for a day only to discover a sword dangling above the throne of the ruler, the message being that great power begets great peril
Dante: Italian author of the Divina Commedia, a description of heaven and hell
Demeter: in Greek mythology, goddess of harvest and fertility
De Sade: French writer at the time of the Revolution, renowned for his shocking and pornographic style
Diana: Roman goddess of hunting, wild animals, childbirth and nature
Dis: in Gaulish mythology, the god of death
Draconian: of the order of the Dracul, which means 'dragon'. (Dracula means 'sons of the dragon')
Dresden: historical German city that suffered massive allied bombing raids at the end of world war II
Enos: descendant of Adam and son of Seth
Ereshkigal: Mesopotamian goddess of the underworld
Erzulie: the Haitian goddess of love, whose roots go back to West Africa
Esther: Jewish equivalent of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar
Eve: wife of Adam. She is seen as the seed of all evil, because she was the cause of Man's fall from grace
Faun: a spirit of the wilderness with goatlike features
Faust:sold his soul to the devil in Goethe's 19th century masterpiece
Gabriel: archangel Gabriel, as mentioned in the Bible
Gabrielle: feminization of the archangel Gabriel
Gehenna: hell
Gilles de Rais: 15th century French military commander, accused of being a serial killer and a child molester
Gordian knot: according to Greek legend, the person who could untie the knot by which a certain ox cart was fastened would become king of Asia; Alexander the Great fulfilled the prophecy and solved the riddle quite simply by cutting the knot with his sword
Gorgon: in Greek mythology, the Gorgons were female monsters, one of which was Medusa
Goshen: according to bible and archeological study, the land of Goshen was some sort of 'colony' in the eastern Nile delta for Israeli immigrants
Goya: 18th century Spanish painter, known for his pessimistic view on society
Grandier: Urbain Grandier, who was accused of witchcraft in the 17th century
Gretel: probably a reference to any innocent girl, like the one in Grimm's fairy tale 'Hansel & Gretel'
Hades: Greek god of the underworld
Hallowe'en: pagan festival in celebration of the dead
Hecate: Greek goddess of magic and spells
Helen: beautiful wife of Greek king Menelaus, won over by Paris of Troy, thus provoking the famous Trojan war
Herod: king of the Jews in Jesus' time
Herodias: grandchild of Herod
Herne: in English folklore, Herne the hunter is the spirit of a hunter which guards travellers through Windsor Great Park
Howitzer: type of field artillery, used in both world wars
Hymen: Greek god of marriage
Illuminati: literally 'the Enlightened Ones', a secret society that is said to control human history
Imbolg: Celtic festival of light, also known as Candlemas
Inanna: Sumerian goddess of love
Isaiah: In the Book of Isaiah, it is said: 'The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock; and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.'
Ishtar: Babylonian goddess of fertility
Jared: descendant of Adam
Jericho: according to the bible the first and oldest city of the people of Israel
Jesuits: Christian Catholic order
Job: one of the books of the Bible
Judas: disciple of Jesus, who betrayed him in the end
Judecca: in Dante's 'La Divina Comedia', the ninth circle of hell, preserved for traitors
Kali: Hindu goddess of death
Khem: old name for Egypt
Kraken: a mythological beast from the sea
Kytheria: other name for Aphrodite
Lamia: Latin word for vampire
Leda: Greek heroine who was courted by Zeus, while he was disguised as a swan. She also was the mother of the famous Helen of Troy
Lemures: a name given by the ancient Romans to their ghosts
Leonine: the British Lion, symbolic of the colonial empire
Liliot: a night demon. She doesn't take crap from anyone, particularly her prey. She is a natural sadist, and takes an incredible amount of pleasure from torturing people. The thing is, she only tortures those whom she believes deserve it, and in many ways they do. She is not surprised easily, and doesn't scare at all, as she is practically immortal.
Lilith: first wife of Adam. God supposedly created this demoness from filth and sediment
Longinus: in Christian mythology, the roman soldier who pierced Jesus with his spear upon the cross
Lord Byron: 19th century Romantic poet, best known for his foreign travels, his libertine life-style and his masterpiece 'Don Juan'
Lucifer: the fallen angel, bearer of light (Latin: lux ferre)
Lucretia: Lucrezia Borgia was a sixteenth century beautiful Italian noblewomen who committed not a few murders
Lughnasadh: Celtic festival of fire, held in celebration of the first fruits of harvest
Luna: Roman goddess of the moon
Lupercalia: festival held in honor of a primitive Roman wolf-goddess
Magdalene: Mary Magdalene, supposedly the wife of Jesus
Mahalaleel: descendant of Adam
Marishka: As beautiful as they are lethal, Aleera, Verona, and Marishka are Dracula's bloodthirsty brides. Bound by fate and seduced by Dracula's enigmatic power, they'll stop at nothing to help their master in his plan to subvert human civilization and to rule over a world of havoc, fear, and darkness.
Mars: Roman god of war
Mary: again a reference to Mary Magdalene. On Easter morning she found that the stone closing off Jesus's tomb was rolled back. Then Jesus appeared to her
Mendes: in Egyptian mythology, a goat-headed deity associated with nature
Menses: Egyptian pharao
Methusaleh: Biblical figure who lived to be a thousand years. God had named him 'when he is dead it shall come' because upon his death came the great flood
Michael: one of God's archangels, guardian of Israel
Midian: the city of the dead in Clive Barker's 'Nightbreed'
Mordecai: Jewish equivalent of the Babylonian wargod Marduk
Morganna: or Morgan le Faye was king Arthur's half-sister
Naiad: in Greek mythology, nymps of fresh water
Nemesis: goddess of vengeance
Nero: Crazed Roman emperor who set the city of Rome on fire
Paris: The Trojan prince who fell in love with the beautiful Helen of Greece, stole her from king Menelaus and thus provoked the Trojan war
Persephone: was abducted by Hades to become his wife in the underworld
Pi-Ramses: city built by pharaoh Ramses the Great, literally 'house of Ramses'
Poseidon: Greek god of the sea
R'lyeh: sunken city on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, where the god Ctulhu slumbers in his ancient tomb
Rorasa: in the Latin mythic tale 'The Gospel of the Witches', a beautiful maiden who lept to her death but was saved by Diana, the goddess of the moon, who took her to a safe place
Samael: another name for Satan in the Talmud or Kabbala
Samhain: pagan festival of the last harvest and of the dead
Sappho: Greek lyric poet who lived on the island of Lesbos. There she was the leader of a society of women
Sardonicus: the mad protagonist of a gothic tale, forever imprisoned inside his dark castle walls
Satan: literally 'the accuser', in Hebrew mythology a rebellious angel or demon
Saturnalia: rituals like those around the winter solstice
Satyriasis: excessive, often uncontrollable sexual desire by a man
Scylla and Charybdis: in Greek mythology, two monsters that guarded the narrow passage through which Odysseus had to sail in his wanderings
Seraphim: first of the 9 choirs of angels
Serpentine: during one her states in mythology, the vampire was half-serpentine and had wings
Set: Egyptian evil deity. He killed his own brother, Osiris, who was later brought back to life again by his wife Isis.
Seth: In Hebrew mythology, a descendant of Adam
Shekhina: in Judaism, the worldly presence of God, his feminine side. Also the Goddess of Wisdom
Sirens: in Greek mythology, creatures with the head of a female and the body of a bird, that lived on an island and lured mariners to the dangerous rocks with their enchanting song
Sodom: Old Testamentical city which was renowned for its vices and was destroyed by Jehova in a hail of fire and brimstone
Spitfire: type of fighterplane used in world war II
Styx: river in the underworld
Succubus: winged female demon
Suspiria: in the 19th century book Suspiria De Profundis by Thomas De Quincey, one of the three Ladies of Sorrow: Mater Suspiriorum, Our Lady of Sighs
Tartarus: in Greek mythology, the lowest depths of the underworld
Thessaly: region in ancient Greece where the cult of the White Goddess originated
Thoth: in Egyptian mythology, the god of the dead
Tirgoviste: Rumanian home of Count Dracula
Utopia: Thomas Moore's vision of a perfect society, in Greek literally no-place
Urilia: in Lovecraftian lore, the ancient Babylonic book containing a series of incantations that would unleash all the monsters and demons of the underworld
Uzza: Driver of the cart when the Israelites were moving the Ark of the Covenant. When he touched it, he was stricken dead by God
Valkyrie: Germanic goddess of the battlefield. Valkyries were maidens who served Odin as choosers of slain warriors who were taken to reside in Valhalla
Venus: Roman goddess of love and fertility
Verona: As beautiful as they are lethal, Aleera, Verona, and Marishka are Dracula's bloodthirsty brides. Bound by fate and seduced by Dracula's enigmatic power, they'll stop at nothing to help their master in his plan to subvert human civilization and to rule over a world of havoc, fear, and darkness.
Vesta: Vesta was the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman mythology; the priestesses who had to guard her sacred fire had to live in absolute chastity for 30 years
Virgil: Latin author, who acts as Dante's guide through hell in 'La Divina Commedia'
Volkh: in Russian mythology, shape-shifting guardian who may take the appearance of an animal or insect and may possess magical powers
Xul: Sumerian name for an evil god
Yahveh: god of the Israelites
Yin: Yin and yang, in Eastern Asian thought, are the two complementary forces or prnciples that make up all aspects and phenomena of life. Yin is earth, female, passive and absorbing. Yang is heaven, male, active and light
Zodiac: the twelve constellations making up the months of the year
Zyklon: Greek god of the thunder