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Lots And Lots Of Gods
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- Sa. The remote and inscrutable divinity of the cosmic deep.
Babylonian
- Sa. God of death who built his house on mud. Kono,
Guinea
- Saaiz. A minor angel. Enochian
- Sabaoth. God, Lord of Sabaoth, Thou who ordainest
Thunder Thy clarion and lightning Thy sword,
Show forth Thy pity on high where Thou reignest;
Give to us peace in our time, O Lord. The Lutheran Hymnal
- Sabaoth. The genii of Mars, one of the planetary regents of
the seven sacred planets. Gnostic
- Sabazius, a Phrygian divinity, commonly described as a son of
Rhea or Cybele ; but in later times he was identified with the
mystic Dionysus, who hence is sometimes called Dionysus Sabazius.
For the same reason Sabazius is called a son of Zeus by
Persephone, and is said to have been reared by a nymph
Nyssa.
- Sabda, the cosmic Word, equivalent to the Greek Logos.
Sanskrit
- Saci Devi, the goddess of wrath and jealousy. India
- Saci. An impish mythical character of Brazilian folk
tales.
- Sacp. A minor angel. Enochian
- Sacra Savadia. The deity associated with the Jewish Sabaoth
(Tseba'oth). Plutarch states that the Jews worshiped
Dionysus, and that the day of the Jewish Sabbath was a festival
of Sabazius.
- Sadaksari. The tantric form of the bodhisattva
Avalokitesvara. Buddhist
- Sadarnuna, Goddess of the new moon. Sumeria
- Sadbhuja, the six-armed Lord Gaurasundara. Buddhist
- Sadhumati, the good-minded goddess. Buddhist
- Sadko, a legendary hero of a Russian epic tale.
- Sadrapa, protector of snakes and a god of healing.
Phoenician
- Sadwes, Maiden of Light and Daughter of Rain. Persia
- Saehrimner [Rime-producer]. The name of the boar on which the
gods and heroes in Valhal constantly feed. Norse
- Safekh-Aubi, stellar goddess who served to measure time and
is called the misstress of the house of books. Egypt
- Safa, the hill on which Adam and Eve came together, after
having been parted for two hundred years, during which time they
wandered homeless over the face of the earth. Arabian
- Saga. The goddess of history. She dwells in the crystal hall
of Sokvabek. Norse
- Sagara, a king of the solar dynasty and sovereign of Ayodhya.
He was the father of 60,000 sons who were turned into a heap of
ashes by a glance of the sage Kapila. Sanskrit
- Sagaramati. The Bodhisattva whose Mind is like the Ocean.
Buddhist
- Sagaritis, a nymph in whose
embraces Attis became faithless to
Cybele. The goddess avenged the wrong
done to her by causing the tree with which the nymph's life
was connected, to be cut down. Greek
- Sagbata, God who inflicts smallpox or madness. Yoruba
- Saham-pati. The All-parent, the common progenitor and source
of all. A name synonym with Brahman. Sanskrit
- Sahar, God of the moon. Aramaic
- Sahu, the entity of the deceased in heaven which grew out of
the dead body and was called into being by the ceremonies
performed over the dead. Egyptian
- Saiinou. A sub-angelic Watchtower leader in the North.
Enochian
- Saiinov. The senior leader of Water in Jupiter. Enochian
- Sai' Al "I have been deaf to my own lies, the cure
is sincere living and taqwa." Nabataean
- Saitada, Goddess of mourning and grief. Celtic
- Saint George Patron saint of England and the Christian
adaptation of the dragon slaying legends of Bel and the dragon,
Apollo and Python, Osiris and Typhon, etc. British
- Saitis, a surname of Athena, under
which she had a sanctuary on Mount Pontinus, near Lerna in
Argolis. The name was traced by the Greeks to the Egyptians,
among whom Athena was said to have been called Sai's.
Greek
- Saiva, the divinity and patron of all yogis. Sanskrit
- Sajara, Rainbow god Songhoi, eastern Mali
- Sakarabru, god of medicine, retribution and justice. Agni,
Guinea
- Sakhadai, the personification of fire who gives life to the
newborn winter sun. Siberia
- Sakhemet aka Sachmet, Sakhet and Sakhmet, originally the war
goddess of Upper Egypt. It was said that her breath created the
desert. She was also known by some cults to be a daughter of the
ancient sun god Ra. Egypt
- Sakkan, Goddess of the Arts and a celestial princess.
Gigo
- Sakkan, the god of animal husbandry and the fecundity of
cattle. Sumeria
- Sakra, the god of Trayastrimsa Heaven. Buddhist
- Sakti-trimurti. The feminine aspect of the Hindu Trimurti or
Triad, the active feminine energy of the divinities. India
- Sakti. The Supreme True One is Sakti. This True One is the
transcendent and Immanent One who encompasses all. Hindu
- Sakti, lived in Sapta Pratala, the seventh layer of the
earth. When he was angry he would became a gigantic scary snake
and the world would shake. Dwarawati
- Sakyamuni, Remembering such grace of Sakyamuni Buddha makes
our tears flow!
Like a silkworm imprisoned by its cocoon of
self-fabrication,
we are caught in the illusive net of our Karmic threads;
The more our efforts to untangle it, the deeper our entanglement
therein;
Buddha's transcendental wisdom clarified the non-existence of
such inherent sufferers;
Remembering such grace of Sakyamuni Buddha makes our tears
flow!
Grateful Commemoration Stanza to Sakyamuni Buddha. Buddhist
- Sala, "lady of the mountain" who became a goddess
of fertility and agriculture. Hittite
- Sala, the female consort of the Sun-god of Eridu.
Babylonian
- Sala, wife of the weather god Adad and a goddess of war.
Akkadia
- Salacia, the female divinity of the sea among the Romans, and
the wife of Neptune.
- Salganeus, a surname of Apollo,
derived from the town of Salganeus in Boeotia. greek
- Salagrama. A stone credited with possessing magical
properties and worn in parts of India as an amulet. Hindu
- Salamander, the nature spirits of fire, the fire elementals.
The Greek salamandra was believed to have power over fire.
- Salamis, a daughter of Asopis, and by Poseidon the mother of Cenchreus or Cychreus.
Greek
- Salevao, "Sacred one of the bush" a general village
god as well as a war god. Polynesia
- Salim, Shalim or Salem, a personification of Venus as the
evening star and a deity of the dusk. Ugaritic
- Salm of Mahram, a goddess from the pantheon of Tayma
introduced to North Arabia from North Syria.
- Salmacis, the nymph of the well
Salmacis, near the mausoleum at Halicarnassus. The nymph fell in
love with Hermaphroditos and tried to win his affections, but in
vain. Greek
- Salmacis. A fountain of Caria, which rendered effeminate all
those who bathed therein. It was in this fountain that Hermaphroditus changed his sex.
Greek
- Salmoneus, a son of Aeolus by Enarete, and a brother of Sisyphus. Sangarius, a river-god, is described as the
son of Oceanus and Tethys, and as the husband of Metope, by whom he became the father of Hecabe. (Theogony 344). Greek
- Salus, the personification of health, prosperity, and the
public welfare, among the Romans. In the first of these three
senses she answers very closely to the Greek Hygieia, and was
accordingly represented in works of art with the same attributes
as the Greek goddess. In the second sense she represents
prosperity in general and was invoked by the husbandmen at
seed-time. In the third sense Salus is the goddess of the public
welfare.
- Sama, a devotion dance and an aid for perfection. Islam
- Samael, The Demiurge, The Craftsman or Creator, the deity
responsible for the creation of the physical universe. Platonism
and Gnosticism
- Samael, the Prince of Darkness, the Angel of Death or Poison.
Hebreo-Chaldean Qabbalah
- Samael, the concealed occult Wisdom. Chaldean Book of
Numbers
- Samia, a daughter of the river-god Maeander, and wife of
Ancaeus, by whom she became the mother of Samos. Samia also
occurs as a surname of Hera, which is derived from her temple and
worship in the island of Samos. Greek
- Samiasa. A seraph, who fell in love with Aholibamah, a
granddaughter of Cain, and when the flood came, carried her under
his wing to some other planet. Jewish
- Samiel, the Black Huntsman of the Wolf's Glen. A satanic
spirit, who gave to a marksman who entered into compact with him
seven balls, six of which were to hit infallibly whatever was
aimed at, but the seventh was to deceive. The person who made
this compact was termed Der Freischutz. German
- Samius, a surname of Poseidon, derived from his temples in
Samos and Samicon in Elis. Greek
- Samantabhadra, the Lord of the Truth in Buddhism, who
represents the practice and meditation of all Buddhas.
- Samas, God of the sun and patron deity of Sippa and Larsa
Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia
- Samba, Heroic god Hindu
- Samkarsana, Local last form of Balarama
Dravidian/Camille
- Samkhat, Goddess of happiness and joy. Babylon
- Sammael. The chief of evil spirits, who is for ever gnashing
his teeth over the damned. Next to him is Ashmedai.
Cabalists
- Sampsa, Vegetation god who gives life to seed who lies
dormant through the winter. Finnish
- Sams, Sun deity who in the north is a male and in the south
female. Greek
- Samundra, Goddess of rivers India
- Samvara, God Buddhist/Mahayana
- San Chou Niang Niang, Mother goddess who was first deified
during the Sung dynasty China
- Sancus, Sangus or Semo Sancus, a Roman divinity, is said to
have been originally a Sabine god, and identical with Hercules
and Dins Fidius. The name which is etymologically the same as
Sanctus, and connected with Sancire, seems to justify this
belief, and characterises Sancus as a divinity presiding over
oaths.
- Sandalphon, the name of the chief of angels, the Kabbalistic
Prince of Angels, and one of the Cherubim of the Ark. Hebrew
- San-Dui, Tutelary god Buddhist/Tibet
- San-Guan, the three gods in charge of the Chinese heaven
- Sandhya, Goddess Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Sangarius, a river-god, is described as the son of Oceanus
and Tethys, and as the husband of Metope, by whom he became the
father of Hecabe. The river Sangarius (in Phrygia) itself is said
to have derived its name from one Sangas, who had offended Rhea,
and was punished lay her by being changed into water. Greek
- Sango Yoruba, God of thunder Nigeria
- Sani, god identified with the planet Saturn and whose parents
were the sun and the shade.
- Sani, Astral god Hindu/Buddhist
- Saning Sari, Rice mother goddess Java
- Sanjna, Goddess of warriors Hindu daughter of the celestial
architect Tvastra disguised herself as a horse and fled from her
husband. When he caught her, they produced the Ashwini Kumaras,
the horse-headed twins. Each day the twins bring the dawn as
their chariot speeds through the sky. Hindu
- Sanju Kafir, Harvest goddess Afghanistan
- Sankari, Mother goddess Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Sankha, Snake god Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Sankhasura. A demon who warred against the gods, stole the
Vedas and hid them at the bottom of the sea. They were rescued by
Vishnu in the form of a fish. Hindu
- Sanmukha, God, a form of Skanda Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Sanqing, one of the supreme trinity known as The Three Pure
Ones. China
- Santa, Mother goddess Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Santa Claus or Santa Klaus. A corrupt contraction of Sankt
Nikolaus (Sankni kolaus— i.e. St. Nicolas), the patron
saint of children. The vigil of his feast is still held in some
places, but for the most part his name is now associated with
Christmas—tide. The old custom used to be for someone, on
December 5th, to assume the costume of a bishop and distribute
small gifts to “good children.” The present custom is
to put toys and other little presents into a stocking or
pillow—case late on Christmas Eve, when the children are
asleep, and when they wake on Christmas morn each child finds in
the stocking or bag hung at the bedside the gift sent by Santa
Claus. St. Nicholas' day is December 6. The Dutch Kriss
Kringle.
- Santana, Minor goddess Hindu
- Santoshi Mata, Mother goddess of recent origin, about 1960
Hindu
- Sanu Kafir, God Afghanistan
- Sao, Goddess of sailing Greek
- Sao ch'ing Niang Niang, Goddess of brooms and fair
weather China
- Saon. A mythical lawgiver of Samothrace, is said to have been
a son of Zeus by a nymph, or of Hermes
by Rhene. Greek
- Sapas, God of the sun Canaan
- Sapientia, Goddess of wisdom Roman
- Saptanatra, Generic title of the seven deities of evil
influence Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Sar, God of the dawn Syria
- Sar Akka, Goddess midwives Swedish
- Sara, Minor war god Babylon/Akkadia
- Saraddevi, Fertility and vegetation goddess associated autumn
Buddhist/Tibet
- Sarama, the fleet one, the runner; the dog belonging to Indra
and the gods, the divine watcher "over the golden flock of
stars and solar rays." She is the mother of the two dogs
called Sarameyas. India
- Saranya, Primordial goddess Hindu/Vedic
- Sarapis, Serapis, an Egyptian divinity, the worship of which
was introduced into Greece in the time of the Ptolemies. Apollodorus (ii) states that Serapis was the name
given to Apis after his death and deification.
- Sarasvati The ethereal, the elegant one; the divine consort
or wife of Brahma, his feminine alter ego and goddess of hidden
learning and esoteric wisdom. Hindu
- Sarasvati, a sacred river in the Vedas, and as a river
goddess she was often invoked to bestow vitality, renown. She is
described as moving along a golden path and destroying the demon
Vritra. Hindu
- Saravakarmavaranavisodhani, God of the richer, another
deification of text Buddhist
- Saraswati, the first of the three prominent goddesses of
Hinduism, the other two being Lakshmi and Durga. Saraswati is the
consort of Lord Brahma, the creator.
- Saronis, a surname of Artemis at
Troezene, where an annual festival was celebrated in honour of
her under the name of Saronia. Greek
- Sarpa serpent was produced from Brahma's hair, which,
owing to his fright at beholding the Yakshas, whom he had created
horrible to behold, fell off from the head, each hair becoming a
serpent. Hindu
- Sarpa-rajni. The queen of the serpents; "Before our
globe became egg-shaped (and the Universe also) 'a long trail
of Cosmic dust (or fire mist) moved and writhed like a serpent in
Space.' The 'Spirit of God moving on Chaos' was
symbolized by every nation in the shape of a fiery serpent
breathing fire and light upon the primordial waters, until it had
incubated cosmic matter and made it assume the annular shape of a
serpent with its tail in its mouth -- which symbolises not only
Eternity and Infinitude, but also the globular shape of all the
bodies formed within the Universe from that fiery mist. The
Universe, as well as the Earth and Man, cast off periodically,
serpent-like, their old skins, to assume new ones after a time of
rest " The Secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky
- Sarpedon, 1. A son of Zeus by
Europa, and a brother of Minos and Rhadamanthys. Being involved
in a quarrel with Minos about Miletus, he took refuge with Cilix,
whom he assisted against the Lycians and afterwards he became
king of the Lycians, and Zeus granted him the privilege of living
three generations.
- 2. A son of Zeus by Laodameia, or according to others of
Evander by Deidameia, and a brother of Clarus and Themon. He was
a Lycian prince, and a grandson of No. 1. In the Trojan war he
was an ally of the Trojans, and distinguished himself by his
valour. Greek
- Sarrahitu, Goddess of fertility who started out being
Tutelary goddess of the city of Su-Sin
Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia/Sumeria
- Sarritor, Minor god of agriculture who was invoked during the
growing and harvesting of crops Roman
- Sarruma, God Hittite/Hurrian
- Sarvabuddharma-Kosavati, God of literature, the deification
of texts Buddhist
- Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma (Sanskrit) the manifested universe
with Brahma as the supreme mind and spirit. India
- Sarvaga, the spirit-substance of the world, its soul.
Equivalent to the anima mundi, and that which the Christians call
the Holy Spirit. Sanskrit
- Sarvakarmsvaranavisodhani, God of literature Buddhist
- Sarvanaranaviskambhin, God, a spiritual meditation buddha
Buddhist
- Sarvasokatamonirghatmatiage, God, another spiritual
meditation buddha Buddhist
- Sarvastramahajvala, Messenger goddess Jain
- Sastra-devatas. The gods of divine weapons in the Mahabharata
and Ramayana, the lords behind earthquakes, tidal waves, storms
of all kinds, and lightning. Hindu
- Sasuratum, Midwife goddesses, they are seven in number
Canaan
- Satabhisa, Minor goddess of fortune who is not very nice at
all Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Satan, the Christian Devil, a mere figment of theological
imagination.
- Sata-rupa, as nature, was the daughter of Brahma, and the
mother of the first manu, called Svayambhuva. India
- Satyrus, the name of a class of
beings in Greek mythology, who are inseparably connected with the
worship of Dionysus, and represent the luxuriant vital powers of
nature. In their appearance they somewhat resembled goats or
rams. Greek
- Sataruri, Minor goddess who was the victim of incest
Hindu/Puranic
- Satet Sati , the consort of Khnemu, and sister-goddess of
Anqet, and the second member of a triad. Together with Khnemu her
attributes are watery, so that she is depicted as sprinkling
water and scattering seed. Egypt
- Sati, Mother goddess Hindu/Puranic/India/Epic
- Sati, Goddess of waterfalls Egypt
- Satis, Minor goddess of fertility Egypt
- Satrughna, Minor god Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Saturn, God of agriculture, seeds,
astronomy, Saturn, education. Roman
- Saturnia, a daughter of Saturnus, and accordingly used as a surname
of Juno and Vesta. Roman
- Saturnus, a mythical king of
Italy to whom was ascribed the introduction of agriculture and
the habits of civilised life in general.
- Satyabhama, Goddess Hindu/Dravidian/Tamil
- Satyan Nasti Paro Dharmah. There is no religion higher than
truth. Rajas of Benares. Sanskrit
- Satyr, Generic term for woodland gods and divine beings
Roman/Greek
- Saucp. A minor angel. Enochian
- Saule, Goddess of the sun Baltic
- Saule, God of war Lithuania
- Sauska, Goddess of healing Mesopotamia
- Savaki, fish-eyed god of Tungus
- Savari, Goddess of terrifying appearance, or so it is said
Buddhist/Tibet
- Savati, Minor benevolent goddess of fortune. Hindu
- Savea Si'uleo, God of the dead Polynesia
- Savitri. Vivifier, stimulator; an aspect of the sun deity.
Hindu
- Savpayanjiha, God, a spiritual meditation buddha
Buddhist
- Saxnot, Tutelary god, at one time required to be denounced at
Christian baptism Saxon
- Say, Minor god of destiny Egypt
- Scabies, Goddess invoked to cure skin diseases Roman
- Scaeus. One of the sons of Hippocoon. Greek
- Scamander, an Oceanid, son of Oceanus and Tethys
and the god of the river Scamander, in Troas, was called by the
gods Xanthus. Being insulted by Achilles, he entered into a
contest with the Greek hero but Hera sent
out Hephaestus to assist Achilles,
and the god of fire dried up the waters of Scamander, and
frightened Scamander, until Hera ordered Hephaestus to spare the
river-god. By Idaea, he fathered Teucrus.(Theogony 345.) Greek
- Scamandrius. 1. The son of
Hector and Andromache, whom the people of Troy called
Astyanax, because his father was the protector of the city of
Troy.
- Scamandrius2. A Trojan, a son
of Strophius. Greek
- Scathach, "She Who Strikes Fear". She lived on the
Isle of Shadow in the Hebrides and trained the greatest of
Ireland's warriors. Ireland
- Schetewuarha, Goddess rain Brazil
- Scmio. A minor angel. Enochian
- Scniitic Bel, a Sun-god who rules among the shades below.
Babylon
- Scotia, once a mother Goddess in Egypt.
- Scotia, a bloodthirsty sorceress and a goddess of battle and
the slain. Scotland
- Scylla, and Charybdis, the names of
two rocks between Italy and Sicily, and only a short distance
from one another. In the midst of the one of these rocks which
was nearest to Italy, there dwelt, according to Homer, Scylla, a
daughter of Crataeis, a fearful monster, barking like a dog, with
twelve feet, six long necks and mouths, each of which contained
three rows of sharp teeth. The opposite rock, which was much
lower, contained an immense fig-tree, under which there dwelt
Charybdis, who thrice every day swallowed down the waters of the
sea, and thrice threw them up again: both were formidable to the
ships which had to pass between them. Greek
- Seb. One of the older Egyptian deities, the son of Shu and
Tefnut, brother and husband of Nut, father of Osiris and Isis,
Set and Nephthys.
- Sebitti, Collective name for the minor war gods
Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia
- Sebek, Sebeq or Sebeq-Ra, the crocodile-headed deity. In
The Book of the Dead
Sebek is named together with three other deities as dwelling on
the mount of sunrise, helping Horus to be reborn daily. He is
represented as giving the eyes to the deceased and assisting the
pilgrim to be reborn. Egyptian
- Secia, Goddess of stored seeds Roman
- Securita, Guardian goddess invoked to ensure continuing
stability of the Roman Empire.
- Sed, a jackal-god. Egypt
- Sedena, sea-mother and provider of food for the Inuit people.
She was the patron of fisherman and hunters.
- Sedna, queen of the monsters and demons of the Underworld.
Inuit
- Seemurgh. The wonderful bird that could speak all the
languages of the world, and whose knowledge embraced past,
present, and future events. Persian
- Sefkhet-Abwy, Local goddess, concerned with libraries and
writing Egypt
- Segesta, the Trojan Phoenodamas
(others call him Hippotes, Ippoteus or Ipsostratus) had three
daughters. When he was to be compelled by Laomedon to expose one
of them to the marine monster which was ravaging the country, he
called the people together and induced them to compel Laomedon,
whose guilt had brought the monster into the country, to expose
his own daughter Hesione. Roman
- Segeta, Goddess of healing of springs Gaul
- Segetia, a Roman divinity, who, together with Setia or Seja
and Semonia, was invoked by the early Italians at seed time.
- Segomo, God of war. Celtic
- Sehu, Goddess of grain. Cherokee
- Seker, Seket. One of the aspects of Ptah, also the name of
Osiris in Memphis, especially in his character of Lord of the
Underworld. Egyptian
- Sekhem. A shrine or sanctuary or the gods of the shrine.
Egyptian
- Sekhet, Goddess of justice, beer, war. Egypt
- Sekhet-Hor, Cow goddess of lower Egypt.
- Sekhmet, the lioness-headed goddess of war and destruction,
the sister and wife of Ptah, was created by the fire of Re's
eye. Egypt
- Selardi, God of the moon Armenia
- Selene, also called Mene, a female
divinity presiding over the months, or Latin Luna, was the goddess of the moon, or the moon
personified into a divine being. She is called a daughter of
Hyperion and Theia, and accordingly a sister of Helios and
Eos (Theogony 371 ; Apollodorus; Argonautica) ; but others speak of her as
a daughter of Hyperion by Euryphaessa, or of Pallas, or of Zeus and Latona, or lastly of
Helios. Greek
- Selket, Goddess of scorpions, a protector of the
embalmer's tent and helper of women in childbirth. Egypt
- Semargl, God of barley and family. Slavic
- Semele, a daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, at Thebes, and accordingly a sister of Ino, Agave,
Autonoe, and Polydorus. She was beloved by Zeus and Hera, stimulated
by jealousy, appeared to her in the form of her aged nurse Beroe,
and induced her to pray Zeus to visit her in the same splendour
and majesty with which he appeared to Hera. Greek
- Semframis and Ninus, the mythical founders of the Assyrian
empire of Ninus or Nineveh. Semiramis was the daughter of the
fish-goddess Derceto of Ascalon in Syria.
- Selinus. A son of Poseidon, was
king of Aegialos and father of Helice.
Greek
- Senecta, Goddess of old age Greek
- Sentanta the sun god, Lugh, who was a warrior-hero, a
sorcerer and master of crafts. Tuatha De Danann
- Sentia, Goddess who heightens feelings Roman
- Senx, God of the sun who is the ruler of a lower heavens BC
Canada
- Seocosus, God of war who was popular with various troops of
the Roman legions Roman/Iberia
- Sepo Malosi, a war god and incarnate in a large bat, or
flying-fox. Savaii
- Sepset, Local funerary goddess from Memphis Egypt
- Sequana, Goddess of the Seine River Gaul
- Sequana, Goddess who lived beneath the rivers British
- Seraphim. An order of angels distinguished for fervent zeal
and religious ardour. The word means “to burn.”
Isaiah
- Serapis. The most important deity at Alexandria during the
time of Ptolemy Soter, his worship spread throughout Egypt and
into the Roman Empire. Egypt
- Serenator. A surname of the god
Jupiter
- Serat. The ordeal bridge over which everyone will have to
pass at the resurrection. It is not wider than the edge of a
scimitar, and is thrown across the gulf of hell. The faithful
will pass over in safety, but sinners will fall headlong into the
dreary realm beneath. Koran
- Serida, Mother goddess Mesopotamia/Sumeria
- Serkethetyt, Minor mortuary goddess Egypt
- Serqet, Goddess of the morning star Egypt
- Sesat, Goddess of books and knowledge Egypt
- Sesa. Snake god, he is at the Great serpent who lies in the
primeval sea and encircles the world
Hindu/Puranic/Vedic/Epic
- Sese Ngbandi, Chthonic goddess who is invoked at sunrise
every day Zaire
- Sesha. King of the serpent race, on which Vishnu reclines on
the primeval waters. It has a thousand heads, on one of which the
world rests. The coiled—up sesha is the emblem of eternity.
Hindu
- Seshat, goddess of writing and measurement, also the
patroness of mathmatics, architecture and record-keeping.
Egypt
- Sesrumner. Freyja's large-seated palace. Norse
- Sessrumnir, goddess of fertility. Germanic
- Set, the son of Seb and Nut, is the brother of Osiris, Isis,
and Nephthys; and the father of Anubis by Nephthys. Set stole the
light from the sun, resulting in autumn and winter. Egypt
- Seta Pokot, Goddess of the Pleiades as well as Goddess of
fertility. Kenya
- Seth, Lord of Lower Egypt. Desert god associated with storms.
Egypt
- Seven Macaw, God of the Big Dipper Mayan
- Seyon, Creator god Dravidian/Tamil
- Sezmu, Minor god of one of the wine and oil presses
Egypt
- Sga'na Haida, God of the sea PNW
- Shadanna-Subrahmanya, Form of the god Kattikeya
Hindu/Puranic
- Shaddai. The omnipotent, the Almighty. Hebrew
- Shades. The ghostly remnants of the dead, spooks, ghosts,
phantoms, lemures, larvae, bhutas, etc.
- Shagpona, God of smallpox Yoruba
- Shahar, the god of the dawn and twin brother of Shalim.
Canaan
- Shai, God of fate Egypt
- Shait, Goddess of justice Egypt
- Shakplana, God of plague identified with smallpox
Nigeria/Yoruba
- Shakti, force, power or energy, the personification of
God's female aspect, sometimes referred to as 'The Divine
Mother'. Hindu
- Shakuru, Spirit of war and the sun Pawnee
- Shakya-thub-pa. Sakya the mighty one: a name of Gautama
Buddha in Tibet
- Shaal. God of the Sea. Kulthea
- Shala, Goddess of storms Canaan
- Shalim, God of dusk the. Canaan
- Shamash, God of war, justice, divination and prophecy.
Babylon
- Shamish, God of the sun and the god of justice. Babylon
- Shang Chien, God of the neck. China
- Shang Kuo-Lao, One of the eight immortal beings. China
- Shang Te, Creator god and the supreme being. China
- Shango, God of storms and thunder. Nigeria
- Shango, God of war, storms, thunder and fertility.
Yoruba
- Shani, Astral god who brought misfortune. Hindu
- Shapash, Goddess of war. Ugarit
- Shapshu, Goddess of war and the sun. Canaan
- Shashaya, Goddess of the morning star. Tanzania
- Shashti, Goddess of children and childbirth Hindu
- Shaitan. An angel of high degree who was expelled from heaven
because he refused to worship Adam at his Lord's command;
often regarded as equivalent to Iblis. Koran
- Shamash. Sun God and God of righteousness, law and
divination. Assyrians and Babylonians
- Shaushka, Powerful goddess Ishtar
Hittite/Hurrian/Akkadia
- Shax. A Judeo-Christian djinn and one of the 72 pillars of
Solomon and has the power to away eyesight and hearing, and that
of finding hidden treasure.
- She chi, God of agriculture, grain, land and soil China
- Sheela Na Gig, figurative carvings of naked women displaying
an exaggerated vulva. They are found on churches, castles and
other buildings, particularly in Ireland and Britain, sometimes
together with male figures.
- Sheger, supplies live sheep and cattle for the god Mot to
feast upon. Babylon
- Shen Hsui, God of medicine. China
- Shen Nong. God of agriculture, plants and herbs. China
- Sheng Mu, Goddess of witchcraft. China
- Shenya The high god of the Angan. Zaire
- Sheol. The region of the shadow of the dead, in the Old
Testament generally translated hell or the pit. Hebrew.
- Shichifukujin, a deity of happiness, prosperity, longevity,
and wisdom. One of the seven principal deities of luck,
identified as Ebisu, Daikokuten, Bishamonten, Benzaiten,
Fukurokuju, Jurojin, and Hotei. Japan
- Shilup Chito Osh, Great Spirit Choctaw
- Shingebis, a diver who dared the North Wind to single combat.
The Indian Boreas rated him for staying in his dominions after he
had routed away the flowers, and driven off the sea—gulls
and herons. Shingebis laughed at him, and the North Wind went at
night and tried to blow down his hut and put out his fire. As he
could not do this, he defied the diver to come forth and wrestle
with him. Shingebis obeyed the summons, and sent the blusterer
howling to his home. American Indian
- Shina-Tsu-Hiko, God of the wind. Japan
- Shing Li-Kuan, One of the eight immortal beings. China
- Shing-moo, a nature goddess. She was the mother of perfect
intelligence, and gave birth to a saviour son through an
immaculate conception. China
- Shíta, a large monster who
lived somewhere in the west, and used to come to the village of
Oraíbi to devour children. Often also grown people were
eaten by the monster. The people became very much alarmed over
the matter, and especially the village chief was very much
worried over it. Finally he concluded to ask the
Pöokónghoyas for assistance. Hopi.
- Shitala, a goddess invoked to get rid of small pox, chicken
pox and grant fertility or children. Hindu
- Shito Dama, an astral spirit, bright red and shaped like a
fireball. Japan
- Shiu Fang, God of embankments China
- Shiva, the supreme God in Shaivism, a formless, timeless and
spaceless Supreme God. Hindu
- Shiwanni The god who created the heavens, and with Shiwanoka,
his wife, created the Zuni Indians. New Mexico
- Shomde. Local creator god of the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan
- Shoney, sea faeries living off the coast of Scotland and
Northern Ireland. Originally a single god of the North Sea
Ireland/Scotland/Manx
- Shoten. God of gamblers, prostitutes, merchants, speculators,
procurers, actors, and geishas. Japan
- Shou-Hsing. Chinese god of long life and old age. He was the
keeper of the book with the life spans of men.
- Shou Lao, God of longevity. China
- Shouxing, God of longevity. He rides a crane and holds a
peach, both are symbols of long life. China
- Shu, god of light, associated with heat and dryness, often
depicted as holding up the sky with his two hands, one at the
place of sunrise, the other of sunset. Egypt
- Shudala-madan, elementals which haunt graveyards, and scenes
of crime and murder and places of execution. Tamil
- Shui-Khan Chinese god who defends men against evil and
forgives their wrongdoings.
- Shui Fang, god of the wind and water. China
- Shui Yng, Agriculture god. China
- Shun, the last of the Wu-di, the legendary Five Kings who
ruled ancient China.
- Shurdi, god of hail storms. Albania
- Sharruma. Weather-god. Hurrian
- Shutu, Goddess of the south winds. Babylon
- Si, Goddess of justice Slavic
- Si Chimu, God of the moon Peru
- Si'a, Minor attendant goddess Phoenicia
- Si'duku Kamchadal, Mother spirit Siberia(East)
- Si'mskalin Kamchadal, Guardian spirit Siberia(East)
- Sia, God of perception Egypt
- Siaparamita, Philosophical deity Buddhist
- Sibika or Sivika.The weapon of Kuvera, the Vedic god of
wealth equivalent to the Greek Pluto. Sanskrit
- Si-wang-mu, lived eternally in the Jade Mountains, was Mother
Queen of the West and a deputy of heaven who could see the world
from her mountain peak and punish evil doers. China
- Sibylla, is the name by which
several prophetic women are designated who occur in various
countries and at different times in antiquity. The name is said
to signify the counsel of Zeus. Greek
- Siddhi, Minor goddess of fortune who grants favors
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Siddhapura. City of the blest, or the White Island. A sacred
city situated in the extreme north. Hindu
- Sidhat. [Long-hood]. One of Odin's names, from his
traveling in disguise with a large hat on his head hanging down
over one side of his face to conceal his missing eye. Norse
- Siddha-sena, the leader of the celestial beings of both
heaven and earth who are endowed with occult yogi powers.
Hindu
- Siddhi, Old gods who live it in the hills Ireland
- Sidskeg [Long-beard]. One of Brage's names. It is also a
name of Odin in the lay of Grimner. Norse
- Siduri, Minor goddess of happiness, merriment, wine making,
brewing and of wisdom Sumeria
- Siebog, the god of love and marriage. He is consort to the
goddess of love and marriage Sieba. Wendish
- Sien Tsang, Goddess of silk cultivation China
- Sif. The wife of Thor and mother of Uller. The word denotes
affinity. Sif, the golden-haired goddess, wife of Thor, betokens
mother earth with her bright green grass. She was the goddess of
the sanctity of the family and wedlock, and hence her name.
Norse
- Sigfather. [Father of victory]. A name of Odin. Norse
- Siguna. Wife of Loki. She nurses him in his cavern, but
sometimes, as she carries off the poison which the serpents
gorge, a portion drops on the god, and his writhings cause
earthquakes. Scandinavian
- Sigyn. Loke's wife. She holds a basin to prevent the
serpent's venom from dropping into Loke's face.
Norse
- Sikhandin, a character in the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata.
The son of Drupada, he fought in the Kurukshetra war on the side
of the Pandavas.
- Sikhin, Physician god. Buddhist/Tibet
- Sila, God of storms. Inuit
- Silewe Nazarata, Goddess Understanding, of wisdom
Indonesia
- Silik-muludag. The god among all the gods, offspring of the
abstract divine wisdom and the great unseen divine. Akkadian
- Silma Inua, Supreme god, rarely invoked or prayed to.
Inuit
- Silenus, It is remarked in the
article Satyrus, that the older
Satyrs were generally termed Sileni,
but one of these Sileni is commonly the Silenus, who always acts
a prominent part in the retinue of Dionysus, from whom he is inseparable, and
whom he is said to have brought up and instructed. Like the other
Satyrs he is called a son of Hermes,
but others call him a son of Pan by a
nymph, or of Gaea. Greek
- Silvanus, a Latin divinity of the fields and forests, to whom
in the very earliest times the Tyrrhenian Pelasgians are said to
have dedicated a grove and a festival. He is described as a god
watching over the fields and husbandmen, and is also called the
protector of the boundaries of fields.
- Silvertop. One of the horses of the gods. Norse
- Semargl, Simargl, Semargl-Pereplut, a griffin with the body
of a dog. Slavic
- Simois, the god of the river Simois, which flows from mount
Ida, and in the plain of Troy joins the Xanthus or Scamander. He
is described as a son of Oceanus and Tethys and as the father of
Astyoche and Hieromneme. Greek<.li>
- Simorgh, gigantic bird like the hippogriff or griffin; half
phoenix, half lion. Persian
- Sin, God of the moon. Babylon
- Sin, deity of the moon. Chaldean
- Sin, Patron goddess of warriors. Ireland
- Sin, father of the gods, creator of all things and parent of
the sun. Dzyan
- Sin, according to Milton, is twinkeeper with Death of the
gates of Hell. She sprang full—grown from the head of
Satan.
- Sina, Goddess of the moon. Samoa
- Sinann, Goddess of rivers. Celtic
- Sindre. One of the most famous dwarfs. Norse
- Sinir. One of the horses of the gods. Norse
- Sindgund, Goddess of healing charms. Germanic
- Sindhu, Goddess of rivers Hindu/Vedic
- Sing Bongha, the spirit of the sun. Kolarian
- Singala N., Local god Arabic
- Sinhanada, Physician god Buddhist/Tibet
- Sinis, or Sinnis a son of Polypemon,
Pemon or Poseidon by Sylea, the daughter of Corinthus. He was
surnamed according to some Pityocamptes, and according to others
Procrustes. Sinis was called the Pine-Bender because this was his
manner of executing his victims and used to ask travellers to
help him bend two pine trees to the ground. Greek
- Sinivali, Minor goddess of prosperity Hindu/Vedic
- Sinnilktok, Goddess of healing Inuit
- Sinoe, an Arcadian nymph, brought up the god Pan, who derived
from her the surname Sinoeis. Greek
- Sinon. A son of Aesimus, or Sisyphus, and a grandson of Autolycus and a relation of Odysseus
- Sins Sga'nagwai Haid, Supreme god who gives power to all
things BC Canada
- Sio Humis, Rain god Ahopui
- Siofn, Goddess listed by Snorri norse/Icelandic
- Siosp. A minor angel. Enochian
- Sionnan, Goddess of the River Shannon Ireland
- Sipe Gialmo, an ancient Goddess of Burma. Usually depicted
having three eyes.
- Sipe Gialmo, Mother goddess, the queen of the world
Tibet/Bon
- Sipylene, Mother goddess worshiped in the Metroon sanctuary.
Anatolia/Symnra
- Sirah. Hagiographies of the Prophet, including also
information on his wives. Quran
- Sirao. The high god of the north and central Nias Island.
Indonesia
- Sirara, Goddess of the Persian Gulf. In creation mythology
she is given charge over the waters of the Gulf by the god Enki
Akkadia
- Sirens, mythical beings who were
believed to have the power of enchanting and charming, by their
song, any one who heard them. When Odysseus, in his wanderings through the
Mediterranean, came near the island on the lovely beach of which
the Sirens were sitting, and endeavouring to allure him and his
companions, he, on the advice of Circe,
stuffed the ears of his companions with wax, and tied himself to
the mast of his vessel, until he was so far off that he could no
longer hear their song. Greek
- Sirin, a mythological creature with the head and chest of a
beautiful woman and the body of a bird. According to the myth,
they lived near Eden or around the Euphrates River. Russian
- Siris, Goddess of banquets and rain clouds Babylon
- Sirius, the dog of Orion, who followed his master when he was
made a constellation. The Dog-star or the Egyptian Sothis.
Greek
- Sirona, a sky Goddess and a deity of the sun.
European/Celtic
- Sirona, Goddess of beneficial hot springs. British
- Sirone, Goddess of water and protector of bathing children
Haiti/Vodun
- Sirsir, Guardian god of boatmen Babylon/Akkadia
- Sirtur, Goddess of sheep
Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia/Sumeria
- Sisp. A minor angel. Enochian
- Sisyphus, a son of Aeolus and
Enarete, whence he is called Aeolides. He was accordingly a
brother of Cretheus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes, Perieres,
Canace, Alcyone, Peisidice, Calyce and Perimede. Greek
- Sita. A furrow; Rama's wife, so named because she sprang
from a furrow made by King Janaka while plowing the ground to
prepare it for a sacrifice by him to obtain a son. Hindu
- Sitala[mata], Mother goddess of healing
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Sitapata, Goddess/Buddha designate Buddhist
- Sithon, a son of Poseidon and Assa,
or of Ares and Achiroe, the daughter of Neilus, was married to
the nymph Mendeis, by whom he became the father of Pallene and
Rhoeteia. He was king of the Hadomantes in Macedonia, or king of
Thrace. Pallene, on account of her beauty, had numerous suitors,
and Sithon, who promised her to the one who should conquer him in
single combat, slew many. Greek
- Sito, a surname of Demeter,
describing her as the giver of food or corn. Greek
- Siuelo, the fisherman's god able to walk on the sea.
Tonga
- Siva. The third god of the Hindu trinity: Brahma the evolver;
Vishnu the preserver; and Siva the regenerator or destroyer.
Hindu
- Sivini, God of the sun Armenia
- Sivottama, Minor god Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Siwa, fertility and love goddess. Slavic
- Sjofn. One of the goddesses. She delights in turning
men's hearts to love. Norse
- Skadi. A giantess; daughter of Thjasse and the wife of Njord.
She dwells in Thrymheim, and hangs a venom serpent over
Loke's face. Norse
- Skanda, God of war. India
- Skeiron. God of the Northwest Wind. Greek
- Skidbladner. The name of the famous ship of the god Frey that
could move alike on land or sea and could be made small or great
at will. Norse
- Skinfax. [Shining-mane]. The horse of Day. Norse
- Skirner [The bright one]. Frey's messenger. Norse
- Skrymer. The name of a giant; also the name assumed by
Utgard-Loke. Norse
- Skrzak, Skrzat, a little flying imp in Polish and Wendish
mythology.
- Skuld, The norn of the future. Norse
- Slaine mac Partholóin, one of the first group of
settlers of Ireland after the Flood
- Slaine mac Dela of the Fir Bolg, the first legendary High
King of Ireland
- Sleipner [The slipper]. The name of Odin's eight-footed
steed. He is begotten by Loke with Svadilfare. Norse
- Slgaiol. A sub-angelic Watchtower leader in the North.
Enochian
- Sman-Bla, the twelve heavenly generals who guard the Buddha
of Medicine. Buddhist
- Smertrios, God of war and tutelary deity of the Treveri.
Celtic
- Smintheus, a surname of Apollo, which is derived by some from
a mouse, and by others from the town of Sminthe in Troas. The
mouse was regarded by the ancients as inspired by the vapours
arising from the earth, and as the symbol of prophetic power.
Greek
- Smyrna, a daughter of Theias and Oreithya, or of Cinyras and Cenchreis: she is also called
Myrrhe, and is said to have given the name to the town of Smyrna.
(Apollodorus iii. Metamorphoses X). mentions an
Amazon who bore the same name. Greek
- Snegurochka, Goddess and winter Russia
- Snotra, The name of one of the goddesses of knowledge, wisdom
and Virtue. Norse
- Snulk'ulxa'ls Bella Coola, Arctypical god, rather
like the Christian god in as he provided a conflict of decent and
evil treatment for humans BC Canada
- So Ewe, And weather god Togo
- Sobek. Crocodile god. In the Book of the Dead, he assists in
the birth of Horus and helps to destroy Seth. Egypt
- Sodasi, Minor goddess identified with Tripurasundari, the
radiant light in the three eyes of Shiva. She is the source of
his wisdom, soul and consciousness. Hindu
- Sodza. God of the sky, prayed to weekly to send rain. Hua,
Togo
- Sofh, Goddess of education and letters. Egypt
- Sogblen. Messenger god who carries the priests prayers to
Sodza and brings back promises of good crops. Togo
- Sogbo, the god of thunder, lightning and fire. Benin
- Sokar, a god of rebirth and rejuvination, depicted as a man
with a falcon's head. He was the guardian of the necropolis
at Memphis. Egypt
- Sokmimer [Mimer of the deep]. A giant slain by Odin.
Norse
- Soko, a rather vague and abstract concept, referring more to
a mysterious impersonal power than to a personified deity. Nupe,
Nigeria
- Sokvabek. A mansion where Odin and Saga quaff from golden
beakers. Norse
- Sol, God of war and the sun. Roman
- Sol. Daughter of Mundilfare. She drives the horses that draw
the car of the sun. Norse
- Solbon, Goddess of the morning star and the evening star
Slavic
- Solbon, deity of Sun and Thunder. Askan
- Solntse. Goddess of the sun. Slavic
- Soma, in the Eastern Orthodox Church refers to the figure of
the crucified Christ hanging on the cross.
- Soma. The moon, born from the eyes of Atri, son of Brahma;
made the sovereign of plants and planets. Soma ran away with Tara
(Star), wife of Vrihaspata, preceptor of the gods, and Buddha was
their offspring. Hindu
- Soma, a plant, ritual, intoxicating drink and divinity among
Vedic and greater Persian cultures.
- To drink the Soma. To become immortal. In the Vedic hymns the
Soma is the moon—plant, the juice of which confers
immortality, and exhilarates even the gods. It is said to be
brought down from heaven by a falcon. Scandinavian
- Somaskanda, a particular form of representation of Shiva with
his consort Uma, and Skanda as a child. Hindu
- Somhlth, God who had no corporeal incarnation apart from pure
masculine energy. Ireland/Scotland/Manx
- Somnus, the personification and god of sleep, the Greek
Hypnos, is described by the ancients as a brother of Death and as
a son of Night Roman
- Somtus, god of Dendara. Egypt
- Soniznt. A sub-angelic Watchtower leader in the North..
Enochian
- Sopdet. The bringer of the New Year and the Nile flood. She
was depicted as a human woman with a star on her head. Egypt
- Sopedu, Guardian god of the eastern border Egypt
- Sophia Achamoth. In the Gnostic Pistis Sophia, the second or
inferior Sophia, the personification of the productive force in
nature. Gnostic
- Sophrosyne, Goddess of temperance and moderation. Greek
- Sopona, God of smallpox Yoruba
- Sore-Gus Hottentot, God of the sun/sky Africa(south)
- Sororia, a surname of Juno, under
which an altar is said to have been erected to her in common with
Janus Curiatius, when Horatius, on his
return home, had slain his sister, and had been purified of the
murder. Greek
- Sors, God of luck Roman
- Sosiosh, Soshyos, the deliverer of the world, who shall come
on a white horse in a tornado of fire. Zoroastrianism
- Soteira, the personification of safety or recovery was
worshipped as a divinity in Greece, and had a Temple and a statue
at Patrae.
- Soteira, "the saving goddess", occurs as a surname
of several female divinities in Greece, e. g. of Artemis at Pegae
in Megaris, of Persephone in Laconia, of Athena of Eunomia.
- Soter, i. e. "the Saviour" occurs as the surname of
Zeus in Argos. Greek
- Sothis Egypt, Astral goddess who heralds Arias of the Nile
Hellenic
- Souconna, River goddess who was the guardian of the river
Saone. Roman/Celtic
- Soului Hua, Benevolent vegetation god also in charge of
medicine and music Africa(west)
- Soxspita, that is, the "saving goddess," was a
surname of Juno at Lanuvium and at Rome. Roman
- Spadareamet, Chthonic goddess concerned with fertility of the
earth and death, the Christians equate her name with hell
Armenia
- Sparta, a daughter of Eurotas by
Clete, and wife of Lacedaemon, by whom she became the mother of
Amyclas and Eurydice. From her the city of Sparta was believed to
have derived its name. Greek
- Spartaeus. A son of Zeus by the
Rhodian nymph Himalia. Brother to Cronius, and Cytus.
- Sparti, "the sown men;" the armed men who sprang
from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus, and were believed to
be the ancestors of the five oldest families at Thebes.
- Specter, spectre. Any apparition, although most commonly
associated with the dead. Latin
- Speio, one of the Nereids. Greek
- Spercheus, a Thessalian rivergod,
became the father of Menesthius by
Polydora, the daughter of Peleus. (Apollodorus iii. The History of Herodotus VII). Greek
- Spermo, the goddess of grain. She was one of the Oenotropae
and had the ability to change anything into seed or wheat.
Greek
- Spes, the personification of hope. Roman
- Sphinx, a monstrous being of Greek mythology, is said to have
been a daughter of Orthus and Chimaera, born in the country of the Arimi,
or of Typhon and Echidna, or lastly of Typhon and Chimaera.
Greek
- Sphragitides, a surname of a class of prophetic nymphs on
mount Cithaeron in Boeotia, where they had a grotto. Greek
- Spirits). There are four sorts of elemental spirits, which
rule respectively over the four elements. The fire spirits are
Salamanders; the water spirits Undines; the air spirits Sylphs;
and the earth spirits Gnomes.
- Sraddha, the personification of faith, trust, reverence and
loyalty. Hindu
- Sraddha-deva, an epithet of Yama, the god of death and king
of the Underworld. Hindu
- Sravana, Minor benevolent goddess of fortune
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Sravistha, Minor benevolent goddess of fortune i
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Srikantha, Minor god and an aspect of Siva
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Srivasumukhi, Minor attendant goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
- Srividyavedi, Minor goddess who likes to wear a necklace of
teeth and bones Hindu
- Sri[devi], Goddess of terrible appearance and Royal attire
Buddhist/Tibet
- Sridevi, Goddess Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Ssu Cho, Agriculture god China
- Ssu ma Hsiang ju, God of wine merchants China
- Stanitakumara, Youthful appearing god Jain
- Staphylus, a son of Dionysus and Ariadne, or of Theseus and Ariadne, was one of the Argonauts
(Apollodorus i). By
Chrysothemis he became the father
of three daughters, Molpadia, Rhoeo, and Parthenos.
Rhoeo was beloved by Apollo, and
Staphylus, believing that she was with child by some one else,
locked her up in a chest and threw her into the sea. Greek
- Star-angels: "Every planet according to the esoteric
doctrine is in its composition a Septenary like man, in its
principles. That is to say, the visible planet is the physical
body of the sidereal being, the Atma or Spirit of which is the
Angel, or Rishi, or Dhyan-Chohan, or Deva, or whatever we call
it" Blavatsky: Collected Writings
- Stata Mater, a Roman divinity, who is probably identical with
Vesta.
- Stator. A Roman surname of Jupiter, describing him as staying the Romans
in their flight from an enemy, and generally as preserving the
existing order of things.
- Sterculius, a surname of Saturnus, derived from Stercus,
manure, because he had promoted agriculture by teaching the
people the use of manure. This seems to have been the original
meaning, though some Romans state that Sterculius was a surname
of Picumnus, the son of Faunus, to whom likewise improvements in
agriculture are ascribed. Roman
- Sterope, 1. A Pleiad, the wife of
Oenomaus, and according to Pausanias a daughter of Atlas.
- 2. A daughter of Pleuron and Xanthippe.
- 3. A daughter of Cepheus of Tegea.
- 4. A daughter of Acastus.
- 5. A daughter of Porthaon, and mother of the Seirens.
Greek
- Steropes, a son of Uranus and Gaea, was
one of the Cyclopes. (Theogony 140, Apollodorus i) Greek
- Sthenius, the powerful," or "the
strengthening," a surname of Zeus, under which he had an
altar in a rock near Hermione, where Aegeus concealed his sword
and his shoes, which were found there by Theseus after he had
lifted up the rock. Greek
- Sthenius, One of the horses of Poseidon. Greek
- Stilbe, a nymph of the spring, well
or fountain of the town of the Lapithai in Thessalia and a
daughter of Peneius and Creusa. She became by Apollo the mother of Lapithus and Centaurus. (Argonautica) Greek
- Stine Bheag O'Tarbat, a local mother Goddess.
Scottish
- Stratonice, 1. One of the
daughters of Thespius, and by Heracles the mother of
Atromus.
- 2. A daughter of Pleuron and Xanthippe.
- 3. The wife of Melaneus and the mother of Eurytus. Greek
- Strenua, the goddess of strength and endurance. Roman
- Stribog, the god and spirit of the winds, sky and air. The
ancestor of the winds of the eight directions. Slavic
- Stromkarl. A Norwegian musical spirit. The Strömkarl has
eleven different musical measures, to ten of which people may
dance, but the eleventh belongs to the night—spirit, his
host. If anyone plays it, tables and benches, cups and cans, old
men and women, blind and lame, babies in their cradles, and the
sick in their beds, begin to dance.
- Strymon, a son of Oceanus and Tethys, was a river god of
Thrace, and is called a king of Thrace. Greek
- Stuhac, a demonic mythical creature in Serbian
mythology.
- Stymphalides, the celebrated
rapacious birds near the Stymphalian lake in Arcadia, whence they
were driven by Heracles and compelled to take refuge in the
island of Aretias in the Euxine, where they were afterwards found
by the Argonauts. Greek
- Styx, connected with the verb to hate
or abhor, is the name of the principal river in the nether world,
around which it flows seven times. Styx is described as a
daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and as
a nymph she dwelt at the entrance of
Hades, in a lofty grotto which was supported by silver columns.
Greek
- Su God, defined contemporary troubles as an imbalance between
good and evil. Furthermore, he designated 2000 AD as a deadline
for the task. According to legend, if society does not succeed at
this task, Su God has promised to incinerate the world at this
time. Mahikari
- Su, Primordial god of the air. Egypt
- Su, the spirit of fire. Basque
- Suada, the Roman personification of persuasion, the Greek
Peitho.
- Subhadra, an important character in the Mahabharata. She is
the half-sister of Krishna, wife of Arjuna, and mother of
Abhimanyu. Hindu
- Subhaga, the best of all auspicious persons. Buddhist
- Subhamekhala, one of the attendant deities. Buddhist
- Subrahmanya, the God of war and the patron deity of the
Tamil.
- Sucellos, "The God of the Mallet". God of
abundance, success, strength, authority, protection,
regeneration, dogs, trees and ravens. Celtic
- Sudarsana, the chakra or circular weapon of Vishnu-Krishna, a
flaming weapon called the disc of the sun. Sanskrit
- Suddhodana, Primordial data who was the father of
Buddha's line Buddhist
- Sudice. Spirits of judgement that meted out fortune, destiny,
judgement and in some cases, fatality, when a child was born.
Poland
- Sudre. A dwarf who presides over the south region. Norse
- Sudrem, Weather god created from the breath of the god Imra.
Afghanistan
- Sudurjaya, goddess who was good at overcoming difficulties.
Buddhist
- Sugriva, the younger brother of Vali, the ruler of the vanara
or monkey kingdom. Hindu
- Suhhab. One of the seven great gods, each of whom produced a
race of men. Babylonia
- Suijin-sama, the god of water. Japan
- Suk. Creator goddess. Uganda
- Suk. Moon goddess. Kenya
- Suka. The bright one; applied to several Hindu mythological
characters.
- Sukarasya, Minor goddess with the face of a sow.
Buddhist
- Sukkamielli, Goddess of fertility and jolly bonking.
Finnish
- Sukla-Tara, Goddess of the waxing moon. Buddhist
- Suklang Malayon, the goddess and guardian of happy homes.
Philippines
- Sukra, Astral god, was the personification of the planet
Venus. Hindu
- Suksma, "We also find that the suksma-sarira is always
in keeping with the sthula-sarira it adapts itself to. Thus, only
a cat's suksma-sarira is present in a cat's body, and not
a human suksma-sarira. Otherwise, the cat will not mew at you; it
will talk to you, saying `Come on, it's morning. Get
up!" Puranic
- Suku. The supreme creator. Ovimbundu, Africa
- Sukunahikona, dwarf deity who assisted in building the world
and formulating protections against disease and wild animals. A
god of healing, brewing sake and hot springs. Japan
- Sul. A Goddess of hot springs who came to Brittany from
Celtic Gaul.
- Sul-Pa-e The, Astral and fertility god, a personification of
the planet Jupiter Sumeria/Mia
- Sul-utula, Rather personal tutelary god
Mesopotamia/Sumeria
- Sulanuth (Hebrew) A monster in the sea ordered by God
"to come up and go into Egypt, with arms ten cubits in
length . . . and she went upon the roofs and uncovered the
rafting and cut them and stretched forth her arm into the house
and removed the lock and the bolt and opened the houses of Egypt
and the swarm of animals destroyed the Egyptians" Book of
Jasher
- Suleviae. Guardians of the Well. Also associated with
crossroads. Celtic
- Sulini, Minor goddess appearance Hindu
- Sulis. Goddess of healing who presided over sacred, healing
springs. Roman/Celtic
- She was called Brigantia by the
Britons; and later Saint Brighid (after Christianity). She is
also a deity concerned with knowledge and prophecy. The tutelary
Goddess of the thermal waters at Bath, England, she is closely
linked with the Roman Goddess Minerva. Roman/Celtic
- Sullat, Minor god who was an attendant of God of the sun
Babylon/Mesopotamia/Akkadia
- Sulmanitu W., Goddess of fertility concerned with love and
war Semitic
- Sulman[u] Mesopotamia, Chthonic war and fertility god
Semitic
- Sulsaga, Astral goddess Sumeria
- Sumalini, Attendant minor goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
- Sumati. Benevolent, kindness; devotion, prayer. Buddhist
- Sumbha, Goddess who is the guardian of the downward direction
Buddhist
- Sumbharaja, God who is the guardian of the downward direction
Buddhist
- Sumiyoshi-No-Kami, Generic name of the sea gods who are
guardians of seafarers. Japan/Shinto
- Sumizome, spirit of the Cherry Tree and the spirit of a
murdered courtesan. Japan
- Summanus. A derivative form from
summus, the highest, an ancient Roman or Etruscan divinity, who
was equal or even of higher rank than Jupiter
- Sumugan, God of the River plains Mesopotamia/Sumeria
- Sun, called in Celtic mythology Sunna, lives in constant
dread of being devoured by the wolf Fenris. It is this contest
with the wolf to which eclipses are due. According to this
mythology, the sun has a beautiful daughter who will one day
reign in place of her mother, and the world will be wholly
renovated.
- Sun Hou-Shi, Monkey god China
- Sundara, Minor goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
- Sundara, Goddess who is a prosperous aspect of Siva, a god
Hindu/Puranic
- Suoyatar. One of the forces of evil in the Kalevala, who
gives birth to the serpent of evil or death by means of her
spittle. Finnish
- Supai, God of death Inca
- Suparnakumara, God of thunderbolts. Jain
- Sura, originally solar deities. Used in the Vedas for gods in
general, equivalent to devas. Hindu
- Surabhi, the mystical cow of plenty. Hindu
- Sura ksini, Minor goddess worshiped by the demigods.
Meola
- Surangama, "If we are able to transform a substance,
then we are equal to that of the Buddha." India
- Surarani, the mother of the gods. India
- Suresvara, God, one of the Rudra gods. Hindu
- Surt. A fire-giant in Ragnarok who contends with the gods on
the plain of Vigrid and guards Muspelheim. Norse
- Surya, Goddess of the sun. Hindu
- Surya, God of light and war and the guardian of the southwest
quadrant. Hindu
- Susanowo. God of agriculture, the sea and storms. Shinto
- Susdinak, Local god, the god of Susa. Elamite
- Sussistanako "Thinking-Woman" A goddess of creation
who thinks things into being. Mexico
- Sutalidihi. Sun spirit. Cherokee
- Sutekh, the prototype of the Egyptianized Set and an
atmospheric or storm god. Hurrian
- Suttung. The giant possessor of the poetic mead. Norse
- Suwaliyattas, God of warriors and storms. Hittite
- Suzaku, one of four occult Chinese gods, in the form of a red
phoenix he rules over the element of fire.
- Svadha, Minor goddess who helps with the destruction of
demons. Hindu
- Svadilfare. A horse; the sire of Sleipner. Norse
- Svafner. A serpent under Ygdrasil. Norse
- Svalin. [Cooler]. The shield placed before the sun.
Norse
- Svantovit, "Strong Lord". God of fertile crops and
success in war. Slavic
- Svaraghosaraja, Physician god. Buddhist
- Svarazic, Svarozic. God of the fire and the light.
Slavic
- Svarog, the Slavic Sun God and spirit of fire. His name means
bright and clear.
- Svasthavesini, a mother Goddess of pre-vedic times.
India
- Svasti, Goddess of the home. Hindu
- Svasud. [Delightful]. The name of a giant; the father of the
sun. Norse
- Svetovid, deity of war, fertility and abundance.
Polabian
- Svyatogor, a hero who fought the demon Nightingale, a
bird-headed human whose weapons were hurricanes. Slavic
- Swarga. The paradise of Indra, and also of certain deified
mortals, who rest there under the shade of the five wonderful
trees, drink the nectar of immortality called Amrita, and dance
with the heavenly nymphs.
- Syamatara, Goddess, believed to be incarnated as the Nepali
princess. Buddhist
- Sylea, mother, by Poseidon, of Sinis
and Taras. She helped Heracles gather up his wandering cattle
after he slew the giant Cacus and had three sons by him: Scythes,
Agathyrsus and Gelonus. As adults, the three sons would conquer
an area off the Black Sea called Scythia. Greek
- The Symposium, by Plato.
- Syn, Goddess of justice. Norse
- Sypave, the first woman and the mother of the whole human
race. Guarani
- Syria Dea,
"the Syrian goddess," a name by which the Syrian
Astarte or Aphrodite is sometimes designated. This Astarte was a
Syrian divinity, resembling in many points the Greek Aphrodite,
and it is not improbable that the latter was originally the
Syrian Astarte, the opinions concerning whom were modified after
her introduction into Greece; for there can be no doubt that the
worship of Aphrodite came from the East to Cyprus, and thence was
carried into the south of Greece. Lucian, De Syria Dea
- Syrinx, an Arcadian nymph, who being
pursued by Pan, fled into the river Ladon,
and at her own request was metamorphosed into a reed, of which
Pan then made his flute. ( Metamorphoses I) Greek
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