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"Myrmidon" later came to mean "hired ruffian", according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Henry Fielding in Tom Jones (1749, Book XV, ch. 5) employs the term in the sense of "hired thugs": "The door flew open, and in came Squire Western, with his parson and a set of myrmidons at his heels." The Royal Navy has had several ships called HMS Myrmidon.
Myrmidon was the son of Zeus and Eurymedusa, [4] daughter of Cleitor (Cletor) [5] or of the river god Achelous. [6]He married Peisidice, daughter of Aeolus and Enarete, and by her became the father of Antiphus and Actor. [7]
In demonology, sigils are pictorial signatures attributed to demons, angels, or other beings. In the ceremonial magic of the Middle Ages , sigils were used in the summoning of these beings and were the pictorial equivalent to their true name .
Septenary Sigil: Order of Nine Angles: The main symbol of the Order of Nine Angles, a neo-Nazi Satanic and Left-hand occult group based in the United Kingdom. Sigil: Renaissance magic: Images created for magical purposes, sometimes attributed as signatures of demons, angels, and other beings. Sigil of Lucifer: Grimorium Verum
Myrmidon of Athens, an Athenian commander of the 4th century BC; Myrmidon Club, a dining club at Merton College, University of Oxford; Operation Myrmidon, a planned raid during the Second World War on the Adour Estuary in south-western France; Myrmidons of Melodrama, a compilation album by American pop girl group The Shangri-Las
In Greek mythology, the name Myrmidone (Ancient Greek: Μυρμιδών, romanized: Myrmidón) may refer to: . Myrmidone, one of the Danaïdes, who married and killed Mineus, a son of Aegyptus.
Icelandic magical staves (Icelandic: galdrastafir) are sigils that were credited with supposed magical effect preserved in various Icelandic grimoires, such as the Galdrabók, dating from the 17th century and later. [1] [better source needed]
In Greek mythology Phthia (/ ˈ θ aɪ ə /; Ancient Greek: Φθία or Φθίη Phthía, Phthíē) was a city or district in ancient Thessaly. [1] It is frequently mentioned in Homer's Iliad as the home of the Myrmidons, the contingent led by Achilles in the Trojan War.