Ismarus, first stop of Ulysses, returning from
Trojan War
ISME’NOS, a son of Niobe, slain by Apollo
Isolier, friend of Rinaldo
Isoude the fair, beloved of Tristram
Isoude of the white hands, married to Tristram
Isthmian games, See games
Ithaca, home of Ulysses and Penelope
Iulus, son of Aeneas
Ivo, Saracen king, befriending Rinaldo
Ixion, once a sovereign of Thessaly, sentenced in Tartarus to be lashed with serpents to a wheel which a strong wind drove continually around
J
Janiculum, Roman fortress on the Janiculus, a hill on the other side of the Tiber
Janus, a deity from the earliest times held in high estimation by the Romans, temple of
Japhet (Iapetus)
Jason, leader of the Argonauts, seeking the Golden Fleece
Joseph of arimathea, who bore the Holy Graal to Europe
Jotunheim, home of the giants in Northern mythology
Jove (Zeus), chief god of Roman and Grecian mythology, See Jupiter
Joyous Garde, residence of Sir Launcelot of the Lake
Juggernaut, Hindu deity
Juno, the particular guardian spirit of each woman (See Genius)
Juno, wife of Jupiter, queen of the gods
Jupiter, JOVIS pater, father Jove, Jupiter and Jove used interchangeably, at Dodona, statue of the Olympian
Jupiter Ammon (See Ammon)
Jupiter Capitolinus, temple of, preserving the Sibylline books
Justice, See Themis
K
Kadyriath, advises King Arthur
Kai, son of Kyner
Kalki, tenth avatar of Vishnu
Kay, Arthur’s steward and a knight
Kedalion, guide of Orion
Kerman, desert of
Kicva, daughter of Gwynn Gloy
Kilwich, son of Kilydd
Kilydd, son of Prince Kelyddon, of Wales
Kneph, spirit or breath
Knights, training and life of
Kriemhild, wife of Siegfried
Krishna, eighth avatar of Vishnu, Hindu deity of fertility in nature and mankind
Kyner, father of Kav
Kynon, son of Clydno
L
Labyrinth, the enclosed maze of passageways where
roamed the
Minotaur of Crete, killed by Theseus with aid of Ariadne
Lachesis, one of the Fates (which See)