LEUCOTH′EA. The name of Ino after she was transformed into a sea-nymph.
LEVA′NA. The deity who presided over new-born infants.
LEVEL, THE, see Dædalus.
LIAK′URA. Mount Parnassus.
LIBERAL ARTS, see Minerva.
LIB′ER PAT′ER. A name of Bacchus.
LIBERTY, see Bacchus.
LIB′ISSA. Queen of fays and fairies.
LIBITI′NA. The chief of the funeral deities.
LICENTIOUSNESS, see Belphegor.
LIGE′A. A Greek syren or sea-nymph.
LIGHTNING, see Agni.
LI′LITH. A Jewish myth who is a great enemy to new-born children. She
was said to have been Adam’s first wife, but, refusing to submit to
him, was turned from Paradise and made a spectre.
LI′NA. The goddess of the art of weaving.
LIN′DOR. A lover in the shape of a shepherd, like Corydon; a love-sick
swain.
LION, see Atalanta, Chimæra.
LIVER, see Tityus and Prometheus.
LOCKS, see Janus.
LO′FEN. The Scandinavian god who guards friendship.
LOF′UA. The Scandinavian goddess who reconciles lovers.
LOKE. The Scandinavian Satan, the god of strife, the spirit of evil.
LO′TIS. A daughter of Neptune, who fled from Priapus, and only escaped
from him by being transformed into a lotus-plant.
LO′TUS-PLANT, see Lotis.
LOVE, see Cupid, Eros, Venus.
LU′CIAN. The impersonation of folly, changed into an ass.
LU′CIFER. The morning star.
LUCI′NA. The goddess who presides at the birth of children. She was a
daughter of Jupiter and Juno.
“Lucina, hail! So named from thine own grove,
Or from the light thou giv’st us from above.”