CHARACTERS Glossary

The characters within this glossary listing are from the books, mythologies, or ancients texts where they live.  As each becomes referenced in the gossamer articles or info packets links will connect to these.  This is for those who want to learn or remember the characters from the era, epoch  and the original texts, and not the movies or other modern story telling.

A'BAS,

Mythology  [Greek? Roman?] -a son of Meganira, was turned into a newt, or water-lizard, for deriding the ceremonies of the Sacrifice.                                                                 Source  -A Handy Dictionary of Mythology For Everyday Readers   -published  1890's  

ABSY'RTUS 

Mythology [Greek] -brother of Medea.

AM'RAM

Bible- Old Testament

A Levite of the family of the Kohathites.  Son of Kohath and father of Moses.

SOURCE: Bible Dictionary Wm Smith LLD published 1884

ARIEL

Ariel, the airy spirit, in Shakespeare's The Tempest   article

'grace, tenderness, speed and especially freedom and lightness...  the other spirits [elementals] hate the magician, yet are compelled to serve him...  Ariel obeys him thankfully and truly, without lies, without mistakes... for this, his perfect freedom, his all, is promised him within a certain time,.. his lord [Prospero] will miss him when he has given him his freedom; ... but he, the airy creature, will feel no longing after his dear master, whom he only seems to love for the sake of his promised freedom.  - -Gervinus

Caliban 

Shakespeare's The Tempest  article

A half human, half demon, deformed monster whom Prospero has made his slave.  He is

"all earth, all condensed, and gross in feelings and images;   he has the dawnings of understanding without reason or moral sense, ... "  -Coleridge

E'lohi, or E'loi  -E'lohim

Bible- Old Testament

The Hebrew name for God - or gods E'lohim  plural  or Elohim, denotes God displayed in his power as the creator and governor of the physical universe      

SOURCE: Bible Dictionary Wm Smith LLD published 1884

JOCH'EBED

Bible- Old Testament

A daughter of Levi, sister of Kohath, wife of Am'Ram and mother of Moses.       SOURCE: Bible Dictionary Wm Smith LLD published 1884

JUPITER

KOHATH

Bible- Old Testament  

SOURCE: Bible Dictionary Wm Smith LLD published 1884

LEVI

Bible- Old Testament

The third son of Jacob and Leah, born about B.C. 1753                                           SOURCE: Bible Dictionary Wm Smith LLD published 1884

MOSES

Bible- Old Testament  

Born to Amram, his father and  Jochebed, his mother, at Goshen, in Egypt, B.C. 1571 Moses was concealed by his mother for three months hidden in the house in order to save him from "the general destruction of the male children of Israel".  He was then placed by his mother  "in a small boat or basket of papyrus closed against the water by bitumen.  This was placed among the aquatic vegetatian by the side of one of the canals of the Nile."  The sister of Jochebed remained there hiding to see what would happen to the baby.  An Egyptian princess found the baby and decided to raise him as her own son.  The sister then passed by the princess and recommended Jochabed as a nurse for the baby, so Moses's own mother was able to influence his first period of training as a "child of Israel" even though he was in the splendours of Pharaoh's court and considered Egyptian.   The Pentateuch is blank on the period of Moses as an Egyptian, but the New Testament he is presented as "learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians" and as mighty in words  and deeds.  This is known as the second period  of Moses' training.  SOURCE: Bible Dictionary Wm Smith LLD published 1884

In Moses we find the development of the mind; to him were given the tablets of the
law. - Manly P Hall

PROSPERO

Shakespeare's The Tempest   article

The great enchanter, the very opposite of the vulgar magician (Caliban).  "With command over the elemental powers which study has brought to him, he posses moral grandeur and a command over himself, in spite of occasional fits of involuntary abstraction and of intellectual impatience; he looks down on life, andsees through it, yet will not refuse to take his part in it .... it has been suggested that Prospero, the great enchanter, is Shakespeare himself ..."    -Dowden

SATURN

URANUS

VULCAN

ZEE

Book The Coming Race  - A main character from Edward Bulwar Lytton's novel, a female of the Vril people and a leader in the community.  She belonged to the College of the Sages.  Throughout the story her character displays immense power not only of the vril force but also a power of individuality retained in a way of nonconformity, but in a non confrontational way. 

ZEUS

The Greek God from mythology, also called Jupiter in Roman myth.