The Aspidochelone is not explicitly stated to have a mythological origin, but it may be related to the symbolism of Satan in medieval bestiaries.
The entity appears as an enormous sea creature, often mistaken for a rocky island due to its massive size. It has huge spines on the ridge of its back and can take various forms, including a whale or vast sea turtle.
The Aspidochelone lures unwary sailors onto its shell with its 'island' appearance, only to pull them underwater and drown them along with their ships and crew. It also emits a sweet smell that attracts fish into its trap, which it then devours.
Aslaug
Aslaug (Old Norse: Áslaug), also called Aslög or by the byname Kráka ("Crow"), is a legendary woman of Old Norse saga tradition, presented in medieval narratives (notably the Tale/Saga of Ragnar Lodbrok and the Völsunga material) as a noble-born figure raised in concealment and later married to the hero Ragnar Lodbrok.
Asmodai
Asmodai (variants: Asmodeus, Asmodaeus, Ashmedai) is a named, kingly malign spirit attested in late-antique and medieval Judaeo-Christian narrative traditions — most prominently the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit and legends about Solomon — where he functions as a leading hostile spirit who troubles humans.
Asmodeus
Asmodeus (Heb. Ashmedai/Ashmeday; Gr. Asmodaios; Arabic Sakhr in some accounts) is a named malignant spirit appearing in Near Eastern Jewish, Christian deuterocanonical, and later Islamic storytelling. Traditions portray him as a princely or kingly figure among malevolent spirits who intervenes in human affairs—notably hostile to marriages and in contest with King Solomon—and who can be driven off or bound by ritual fumigation and angelic agency.
Asopis
Asopis is the name borne by two distinct women in ancient Greek genealogical traditions: (1) a naiad listed among the daughters of the river-god Asopus and Metope, and (2) a Thespian princess, one of the fifty daughters of King Thespius, who bore Heracles a son named Mentor. The name is explicitly glossed as 'daughter of Asopus' in the cited sources, marking it primarily as a patronymic/eponymic identifier within Greek mythic genealogies.
Asopus
Asopus is a Greek river-eponym: both the name of several rivers and of mythic personages identified with those rivers. Traditions alternately present Asopus as a divine river-god (often as a child of Oceanus and Tethys, or in variant genealogies a son of Poseidon or Zeus), and as a local founding king; he functions as progenitor of many eponymous daughters and as an agent in myths explaining springs, city origins, and river characteristics.
Aspalis
Aspalis is a local heroine and cultic eponym from Melite (Melitaea) in Phthia, Thessaly. According to the tradition preserved via Antoninus Liberalis (summarized in modern compendia), she hanged herself to avoid enforced concubinage under a tyrant; her body vanished and was said to have been replaced by a wooden statue that became a cult image of Artemis, giving rise to an annual ritual in the city.
Asrai
A female aquatic fairy or water-spirit figure appearing in English-language literature and later folkloric-style retellings; associated with lakes and deep water and variably described as timid, long-lived, and vulnerable to light. Its provenance is disputed between 19th‑century literary origins and later folkloric claims.
Assaracus
Assaracus is a mytho-historical king of Dardania in ancient Greek genealogical tradition, presented as a mortal ancestor within the royal house that connects to the foundation and lineage of Troy (Ilium). He is primarily attested as a dynastic progenitor—son of Tros, brother of Ilus, and father of Capys—and is not described in the supplied sources as a supernatural being.
Assessors of Maat
A collective of forty-two minor divine figures in ancient Egyptian funerary religion who act as judicial assessors in the post-mortem tribunal of Osiris. They are each associated with one of the 'Negative Confessions' in Chapter 125 of the Book of the Dead and serve to determine the deceased's conformity to Maat (truth, justice, and cosmic order).
Astacia
Astacia is attested in a brief encyclopedic note as a nymph in Greek mythology after whom, according to that note and a referenced Pauly‑Wissowa entry, Dionysus named a city. Attestation in the supplied materials is extremely limited: a one-line Wikipedia entry and a bibliographic pointer to Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE).
Astarion Ancunín
Astarion Ancunín is a fictional player-controllable character from Larian Studios' Baldur's Gate 3 (2023). Presented as a High Elf rogue who was infected by an Illithid tadpole and revealed to be a vampire spawn, he functions in-game as a companion/protagonist with a personal quest concerning his former master, Cazador Szarr.
Astaroth
Astaroth is a named adversarial spirit in Christian demonological literature, commonly catalogued as a high-ranking infernal officer (described in sources as a 'Great Duke' or 'Grand Duke' of Hell). The figure represents the Christian polemical reception of ancient Near Eastern goddess-names (Astarte/Ashtoreth) recast within narratives and demonological lists and appears in medieval legendary episodes as well as later occult imagery and modern popular culture.
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