This page gathers the 642 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Mysticism”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 5 of 7: from “nahuelito” to “sciapod”.
- nahuelito noun A large aquatic creature, similar to the Loch Ness monster, which supposedly lives in Nahuel Huapi Lake, Argentina.
- naiad noun A female deity (nymph) associated with water, especially a spring, stream, or other fresh water.
- Naiadian adj Of or relating to the Naiads in Greek mythology.
- nart noun Any of a race of giant heroes in the folklore of the peoples of the North Caucasus (notably the Circassians, Ossetians, Abkhazians, and…
- nativity noun Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.
- natural astrology noun The divination by astrology of events in the natural world (such as plant growth and tides), as opposed to judicial astrology.
- nebris noun The skin of a fawn, as worn by Dionysus, and as worn in his honor by his male followers and female followers (maenads) and other votaries…
- nectar noun The drink of the gods.
- Nemesian adj Of or relating to the Greek god Nemesis.
- Neptunian adj Of or pertaining to Neptune, the Roman god of fresh water and the sea, the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon.
- nereid noun Any one of the fifty sea-nymphs who were daughters of the sea-god Nereus and attendants upon Poseidon (Neptune), and were represented as…
- nereidian adj Of or relating to the Nereids in Greek mythology.
- Nesoan adj Of or relating to the Nereid Neso in Greek mythology.
- Nibelung noun A member of a supernatural underground race that guarded treasures and gold searched for and eventually seized by Siegfried.
- Niobid noun Any of the children of Amphion of Thebes and Niobe, slain by Apollo and Artemis because Niobe, born of the royal house of Phrygia, had…
- nonagenary noun Synonym of square or quadrature, a rising at a 90 degree angle to the position of another heavenly body, particularly the sun.
- nordic noun A member of a race of extraterrestrials similar in appearance to Nordic humans.
- nymph noun Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grottos, wind, etc.
- octant noun The aspect of two planets that are 45°, or one-eighth of a circle, apart.
- octavation noun The relationship between two planets that are distant from each other by one eighth of a great circle (45.625 degrees)
- octave noun The subjective vibration of a planet.
- ogre noun A large, grotesque, brutish humanoid monster, typically marked by great strength and a propensity to kill or devour humans.
- Olympian noun Any of the 12 principal gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon (Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena…
- orb noun Amount of deviation from the closest perfect aspect.
- orc noun A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive and often green.
- Oriental adj Pertaining to the eastern part of the sky; happening before sunrise.
- Orphic adj Of or pertaining to Orphism and its doctrines and rituals.
- Orthosian adj Of or relating to the god Orthosia in Greek mythology.
- ouroboros noun A serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
- palladian adj Of or relating to Pallas, an epithet of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and potentially to other female Greek figures such as Pallas the…
- Pallenean adj Of or relating to Pallene in Greek mythology.
- pandemic adj Of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted…
- Pandoran adj Of or relating to Pandora in Greek mythology.
- panic adj Synonym of Pandean (“pertaining to the Greek god Pan”).
- pantheon noun All the gods of a particular people or religion, particularly the ancient Greek gods residing on Olympus, considered as a group.
- panther noun A creature resembling a big cat, typically incensed (“emitting fire”), and often having a multicolored hide, found in Ancient Greek…
- Pasiphaëan adj Of or relating to the queen Pasiphaë or Pasiphae in Greek mythology.
- Pebet noun A legendary bird species, smaller than sparrows in size, and endemic to Manipur, often known for its wits.
- Pegasean adj Of or pertaining to the mythical winged horse Pegasus.
- penates noun The household deities thought to watch over the houses and storerooms of ancient Rome.
- peng noun A legendary enormous bird.
- peregrine adj Lacking essential debility.
- perseid adj Of or relating to the Perseids.
- Philoctetean adj Of or relating to Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης), a famed archer who participated in the Trojan War.
- Phoebean adj Of or relating to the Titan Phoebe in Greek mythology.
- phoenix noun A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own…
- Piscean adj Of, or pertaining to, the Pisces star sign.
- pishtaco noun A mythical white male demon in South American folklore, who steals and eats the bodyfat of indigenous South Americans, or cuts up their…
- pixie noun A playful sprite or elflike or fairy-like creature.
- placement noun The zodiacal region of the sky in which the sun, moon, or a planet appears at the time and place of a person's birth.
- planet noun Each of the seven major bodies which move relative to the fixed stars in the night sky—the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and…
- pleiad noun Any one of the Pleiades.
- Pleiadean noun An alien being from the Pleiades.
- Plutonian adj Of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld; demonic, infernal.
- plutonic adj Synonym of Plutonian (“of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld; demonic, infernal”).
- Polydeucean adj Of or relating to the god Polydeuces (a.k.a. Pollux) in Greek mythology.
- popess noun A high priestess.
- Priapean adj Of, relating to, or in honour of Priapus or Priapos (Ancient Greek: Πρίαπος), a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit…
- protean adj Of or relating to the god Proteus in Greek mythology.
- Psamathean adj Of or relating to the Nereid Psamathe in Greek mythology.
- Psychean adj Of or relating to the Greek god Psyche.
- puck noun The mischievous fairy-like creature from English folklore, like Puck from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
- puer aeternus noun A child-god who is forever young.
- pygmy noun A member of various legendary races of dwarfs, or supernatural peoples of diminutive stature.
- quadrate noun An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
- quinary noun Any of 72 rays associated with the Sun, six for each of the 12 houses of the Zodiac.
- quincunx noun An angle of five-twelfths of a circle, or 150°, between two objects.
- quintile noun An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)
- race noun A large group of nonhumans distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
- rack verb To alternately concatenate two words to magical effect.
- Ramnes noun One of the three tribes created by Romulus after the founding of Rome, sometimes thought to represent Rome's Latin population.
- rashi noun A zodiac sign.
- Raven Mocker noun A witch or evil spirit in Cherokee mythology, said to fly through the night making raven-like calls and to prolong its life by preying on…
- rectification noun A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.
- ren noun One’s name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.
- repeater noun A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
- reptoid noun A member of an extraterrestrial sapient species said to resemble a reptile, often ascribed shapeshifting capabilities and implicated in…
- retrograde noun The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- retroshade noun A transitional period, occurring immediately before and after retrograde, during which a planet moves across the same part of the sky twice.
- Rhean adj Of or relating the Titan Rhea in Greek mythology.
- Rheingold noun A treasure of gold that lies at the bottom of the Rhine, guarded by the three Rhine maidens and afterward owned by the Nibelungs and…
- rider noun The first Lenormand card, also known as either the horseman or the cavalier.
- ring noun The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- rod noun A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often…
- Roman charity noun A story where someone is sentenced to die by starvation; but their daughter saves them by secretly breastfeeding them.
- royal star noun One of a set of four first-magnitude stars, Aldebaran, Regulus, Antares and Fomalhaut, regarded by ancient Persians as the guardians of the…
- ruling planet noun The planet (a term which in astrology includes the Sun and Moon) which is considered to have especially strong influence over a given…
- Sagittarian adj Of, or pertaining to, the Sagittarius star sign.
- salamander noun A creature much like a lizard that is resistant to and lives in fire (in which it is often depicted in heraldry), hence the elemental being…
- Saonian adj Of or relating to the Nereid Sao in Greek mythology.
- satellitium noun A grouping of several planets in a sign.
- satori noun A yokai (“supernatural monster”) having the form of a mind-reading monkey-like creature said to dwell in the mountains of the historical…
- Saturn return noun A transit in which Saturn returns to the position it occupied at the moment of a person's birth, occurring for the first time from age 27…
- saturnal adj Of or pertaining to the Ancient Roman god Saturn or to the corresponding planetary entity in astrology.
- saturnine adj Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Saturn; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).
- satyr noun A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment…
- saucerian noun A person who has communicated with an extraterrestrial being.
- schematism noun The combination of the heavenly bodies.
- scheme noun A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
- sciapod noun A member of a mythical race of humans living in Africa, who have one single, large foot which they use to shade themselves from the rays of…