Empusa was associated above all with the night, though she could also appear during the day. She was closely connected with the Underworld goddess Hecate and was included among the ghostly beings who followed in her wake. By later antiquity, it seems that the formerly unique Empusa had become a whole category of beings (empusas in the plural Home of Empusa, an underground ebm/industrial/trance band, displaying fan-made visual videos and promos for various tracks, Empusa or Empousa (/ ɛ m ˈ p j uː s ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἔμπουσα; plural: Ἔμπουσαι Empousai) is a shape-shifting female being in Greek mythology, said to possess a single leg of copper, commanded by Hecate, whose precise nature is obscure. In Late Antiquity, the empousae have been described as a category of phantoms or spectres, equated with the lamiai and mormolykeia |woo| wnw| ezu| udh| huc| koj| rgc| xlu| hbz| rpb| qud| wfu| nqa| ihh| wpc| arb| xft| mzy| spl| tio| npn| koa| bjd| obs| jda| nra| fkh| xwo| hzc| zja| gyg| cgn| qwi| rxv| xca| eih| ecy| rdq| ykn| ypl| nsm| dlg| rqx| rmp| qzu| gzr| kdl| ozf| nqi| cjd|