Candybus is attested in Greek genealogical registers as a son of Deucalion and probably of Pyrrha, placing him in the post‑deluge, foundational generation of Greek mythic time. Stephanus of Byzantium records a local tradition that the town of Kandyba in Lycia was named after Candybus; beyond this onomastic link and his filial placement in Deucalion's lineage, no narrative or mythic deeds are preserved in the surviving brief notices.
No physical description of Candybus is recorded in the surviving sources. He is attested only as a name in genealogical lists and in a toponymic explanation; there is no known iconography, cult evidence, or descriptive passage that provides his appearance.
The sources supply no deeds, powers, or characteristic behaviors for Candybus. He functions in the tradition primarily as an eponymous ancestor — a named princely figure used to explain a place‑name (Kandyba) and to occupy a slot within the post‑deluge genealogical framework of Deucalion's offspring. There are no recorded myths, miracles, or supernatural attributes attached to him in the cited material.
Deucalion
Deucalion (Ancient Greek: Δευκαλίων) is a mortal culture-hero in Greek myth who survives a divinely-sent primeval flood and, with his wife Pyrrha, re-populates the world by throwing stones that become humans. He is portrayed as a king, founder of cities and temples, and son of Prometheus in many traditions.
Hellen
Hellen (Ancient Greek: Ἕλλην, Héllēn) is the eponymous mortal ancestor of the Hellenes in Greek myth. Presented in genealogical traditions as a son (in most accounts) of Deucalion and Pyrrha and as father of Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, Hellen functions as the mythic pivot by which the collective name 'Hellas' and major tribal divisions of Greeks are explained.
Amphictyon
Amphictyon (Greek: Ἀμφικτύων) is a mytho-historical ancestral king in Greek tradition associated with the generation after the great flood and with the foundation/organization of communities that dwelt around sanctuaries (the Amphictyons). He appears in variant genealogies as son of Deucalion and Pyrrha or as son of Hellen, is called king of Thermopylae and in some accounts king of Athens, and is etiologically linked to the Amphictyonic League and early cultic practice.
Protogeneia
Protogeneia (Ancient Greek: Πρωτογένεια, 'the firstborn') is a name borne by several mythic women in Greek genealogical tradition. Rather than a single supernatural being, the name functions as an etiological marker used in local foundation myths to link Zeus, post‑deluge human stock, and the eponymous ancestors or ruling houses of regions such as Elis, Aetolia, Opus/Locrian lines, and Attica.
Thyia
Thyia (Ancient Greek Θυία) is attested in Greek mythic-cultic tradition as a naiad — a freshwater nymph of a spring on Mount Parnassos in Phokis — and as a local female figure connected with cult activity. Her name is derived from the verb θύω ('to sacrifice'), and some sources connect the name-form with Thyiad/’Bacchic’ terminology, suggesting a possible link to cultic or ecstatic contexts.
Melantho
Melantho (Ancient Greek: Μελανθώ) is a personal name borne by multiple women in Greek mythic tradition: a Phthian princess variously linked to Deucalion and Pyrrha and to the birth of Delphus, an Argive queen married to Criasus, and a disloyal maid in the household of Penelope. The name is also reused in modern contexts (a role in Fauré’s Pénélope and as the species epithet Solenocera melantho).
*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
Péh₂usōn is a hypothetical Proto‑Indo‑European pastoral guardian reconstructed by comparative scholars from parallels in Greek and Vedic traditions. Proposed as a Graeco‑Aryan ancestor‑figure, the reconstruction describes a protector of flocks, roads, and travellers rather than an attested historical cultic personality.
Aba (disambiguation / name-form)
Aba is a polyvalent name-form attested across many unrelated contexts (place names, personal names, animal names, and brief mythological listings). The provided sources do not support a single, coherent supernatural entity called "Aba" and offer no descriptive or ritual material for such a being.
Abarbarea
Abarbarea is a name attested in classical Greek and Roman sources for freshwater nymphs (naiads). The name appears for at least two individual mythic figures — a naiad wife of Bucolion and a naiad counted among ancestors of the Tyrians — and Hesychius records plural forms that may indicate the name was also used as a class-name (Abarbareai / Abarbalaiai).
Abas
Abas (Ancient Greek: Ἄβας, gen.: Ἄβαντος) is not a single mythic being but a recurring personal name borne by multiple mortals and minor mythic figures in Greek epic and genealogical traditions — kings, founders, seers, warriors, attendants, a centaur, and a youth transformed by a goddess. The name is glossed in the sources as 'guileless' or 'good-hearted' and appears across Argive, Theban, Trojan, Euboean, and other local cycles.
Abderus
Abderus (Ancient Greek: Ἄβδηρος, romanized Ábdēros) is a mortal heroic figure in Greek myth closely associated with Heracles, remembered as the youth left in charge of the Mares of Diomedes who was killed by them. He functions as an eponymous local/divine-hero ancestor for the city of Abdera and received funerary commemoration and athletic agones at his tomb.
Abomination of Desolation
An apocalyptic prophetic phrase originating in the Book of Daniel designating a profaning thing or act that renders the Jerusalem Temple cult desolate; later reused in the Synoptic Gospels as an eschatological sign prompting urgent flight. The term denotes ritual/cultic impurity (Hebrew shiqquts) and is variously interpreted as pagan offerings or altar, a foreign cult statue, or (in some New Testament readings) an acting agent.
Absyrtus
Absyrtus (Ancient Greek: Ἄψυρτος) is a Colchian prince in the Greek Argonautic cycle, son of King Aeëtes and brother or half-brother of Medea. He appears in variant traditions either as a companion taken by Medea during her flight with Jason and murdered/dismembered to delay pursuit, or as a pursuer sent by Aeëtes who is overtaken and slain by Jason; his death functions as a key narrative device in the escape from Colchis.
Acacallis
Acacallis (Ancient Greek: Ἀκακαλλίς; also Acalle) is a mythological princess of Crete in Greek tradition, daughter of King Minos and Pasiphae. She functions primarily as a dynastic and etiological figure: in varying accounts she is mother, by gods such as Hermes (Mercury) or Apollo, of eponymous or founder-figures like Cydon (founder of Cydonia), Miletus, or Lydon/ Lydus.
Acacus
Acacus (Ancient Greek: Ἄκακος) is, in Arcadian Greek tradition, a mortal eponymous founder-king of Acacesium and is remembered as the foster-father who reared the infant Hermes (Mercury) in that local tradition. He is presented in genealogies as a son of Lycaon and functions as a local ancestral/onomastic figure rather than a supernatural spirit.
Academus
Academus (Greek: Akádemos / Hekádemos) is an Attic hero-eponym tied to a sacred grove (Akademeia) on the Cephissus near Athens. In myth he revealed where Helen was hidden to the Dioskouroi, an act said to have saved the city, and the place bearing his name became a long-lived sacred precinct, later the site of Plato's Academy.
Acamas
Acamas (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάμας) is a personal name recurrent in ancient Greek narrative traditions applied to multiple human characters (warriors, princes, suitors), once to a Cyclops, and once as a hound's name. Rather than a single supernatural entity, bearers of the name appear episodically across the Trojan War, Theseid, and Theban cycles as mortal actors whose deeds intersect with gods and fate.
Acantha
Acantha (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάνθα, 'thorn') is a late or secondary mythological figure known from modern retellings as a nymph transformed into the acanthus plant. The tale that she scratched Apollo and was changed into a spiny-leaved plant is not attested in surviving classical corpora and appears to be a modern compilation or invention rather than a firmly documented ancient myth.
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- [2]Wikidata entry Q56634453 for Candybus. Wikidata. Q56634453. http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q56634453wiki