Mejenkwaar

by Daniel A. Kelin, II

 
A type of demon in the Marshall Islands. These demons are almost exclusively female. When a woman was pregnant, often her husband who sail off to go and collect gifts or special food, etc. for his wife. However, if he was gone for too long a period of time, the pregnant woman would turn into a mejenkwaad. Very often this would mean she’d eat her newborn child. When the husband arrived, she’d go after him as well. The story of Lokokelok tells of a man who evades being eaten by a mejenkwaad through a series of tricks he plays on her.

Gorlois

by Brian Edward Rise

 
Duke of Cornwall and husband of Arthur‘s mother, Ygerna. First appearing in Geoffrey of Monmouth, we are told of King Uther’s lust for the duke’s wife. The duke barricades Ygerna in the fortress of Tintagel as he goes to the field to do battle with Uther. However, Merlin has transformed Uther into the likeness of the Duke and the king walks into the fortress and has sex with Ygerna as her husband dies on the battlefield. Arthur was conceived at this union. Gorlois is also the father of Arthur’s half-sisters Morgause, Elaine and Morgan.

Guinevere

by Brian Edward Rise

 
Arthur‘s queen. According to Giraldus Cambrensis, the inscribed cross from the royal grave at Glastonbury named her as Arthur’s second wife. Nothing is known of this first wife. Since the only surviving drawing of the cross only depicts one side and, presumably, any allusion to the queen was on the other, the claim of Giraldus is unverifiable. Those who believe Arthur died and was buried at Glastonbury generally accept that Guinevere was buried with him.

Lohengrin

by Brian Edward Rise

 
Parzival’s son in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival. He must keep his identity and history a secret. His wife, the Princess of Brabant, insists on questioning him and breaks the spell and Lohengrin is borne away by a great swan. Further treatment can be found in the 13th century German romance Lohengrin. In Richard Wagner’s opera, it is explained that the Grail gives it’s guardians magical powers that depend upon them maintaining their anonymity.

Ahoeitu

by Dr Anthony E. Smart

 
The god Eitumatupua climbed down from the sky on a great tree, and took a worm descendant, Ilaheva, as his wife. Returning to the sky, the god left the woman and her child, Ahoeitu, on the Earth. But when Ahoeitu grew up he longed to visit his father in the sky, and his mother told him that he would find Eitumatupua catching pigeons. So Ahoeitu climbed the tree, met his father, and there was much rejoicing. However, Eitumaupua’s other sons, children of the sky, grew jealous, and ambushed Ahoeitu, tore him to pieces, cooked and ate him.

Aedon

by Dr Anthony E. Smart

 
Wife of Zethus and mother of a daughter Itylus, whom she slew by mistake, whereupon Zeus transformed her into the nightingale who nightly laments her murdered child -OR- a queen of ancient Thebes who plotted to kill a son of her rival Niobe but killed her own son by mistake. Her grief led her to try suicide but she was transformed into the first nightingale by the gods, a bird that still haunts the night with its mournful cry.
Odyssey XIX, 518.

Abassi

by Dr Anthony E. Smart

 
The creator god of the Efik (Nigeria), Abassi was instructed by his wife, Atai, to allow a human couple to settle on the Earth, but forbade them to procreate or work, for fear that they might excel Abassi in wisdom.

Latramys

by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D.

 
According to some myths Latramys was the son of the wine-god Dionysus and his wife Ariadne, the brother of Thoas, Oenopion, Staphylus, Euanthes, and Tauropolus. He belonged to the leaders of the Helladic tribes which colonized the north-eastern Aegean region.