| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Siva" | Hindu | The third god of the Hindu trinity: Brahma the evolver; Vishnu the preserver; and Siva the regenerator or destroyer. Hindu |
| God name "Snulk'ulxa'ls" | Bella Coola / BC Canada | An arctypical god, rather like the Christian god in as he provided a conflict of decent and evil treatment for humans |
| God name "Snulk'ulxa'ls Bella Coola" | BC Canada | Arctypical god, rather like the Christian god in as he provided a conflict of decent and evil treatment for humans BC Canada |
| Goddess name "Sodasi (girl of sixteen)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor goddess. One of a group of MAHAVIDYAS personifying the SAKTI of SIVA. Aspects include Divyaratri.... |
| God name "Sokar" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld god. Guardian deity of the necropolis at Memphis with possible fertility connotations and with strong links to OSIRIS beside whom he is also perceived as a restored god of the dead. He is also syncretized with the Memphis creator god PTAH in the Old kingdom (circa 4500 BC), where he may have originated as a god of various crafts åśśociated with the manufacture of funerary trappings. He is depicted either as a hawk on a boat, or in human form with the head of a hawk and an elaborate atef crown (see Osiris). Sokar also enjoyed a major cult at Thebes where, in an annual festival celebrating the healthy continuation of the Divine kingship, he was conveyed in an elaborate barque. Also Sokaris (Greek).... |
| Deity name "Soko" | Nigeria | A rather vague and abstract concept, referring more to a mysterious impersonal power than to a personified deity. Nupe, Nigeria |
| Supreme god name "Sol (1)" | Roman | Sun god. Known by the full title of Sol Indiges, meaning the indigenous Sol, which may suggest a purely Roman cult on the Quirinal Hill, but there are also inferences that this deity is of more ancient origin. Coins from southern Italy depicting the god with a radiate image date back to circa 200 BC but he rose to particular prominence during the republican period. His festival was celebrated annually on August 9. Nero had a huge statue of himself, as Sol, erected in Rome and the emperor Aurelian elevated Sol to supreme god in the Roman pantheon when Jupiter Conservator gave way to Sol Invictus (the unconquered Sun). Sol may sometimes be linked with AURORA, the goddess of dawn.... |
| God name "Soma" | Scandinavian | 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 |
| Goddess name "Sophrosyne" | Greek | Goddess of temperance and moderation. Greek |
"Sororia" | Greek | A surname of Juno, under which an altar is said to have been erected to her in common with Jåñuś Curiatius, when Horatius, on his return home, had slain his sister, and had been purified of the murder. Greek |
"Stratonice" | Greek | 1. One of the daughters of Thespius, and by Heracles the mother of Atromus. |
"Stymphalides" | Greek | 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 |
| God name "Su God" | Mahikari | 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 |
"Subhadra" | Hindu | An important character in the Mahabharata. She is the half-sister of Krishna, wife of Arjuna, and mother of Abhimanyu. Hindu |
| God name "Sucellos" | Celtic | The God of the Mallet. God of abundance, success, strength, authority, protection, regeneration, dogs, trees and ravens. Celtic |
| God name "Sul-utula" | Mesopotamia | Rather personal tutelary god Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
"Sumati (very wise)" | Buddhist | Deification of literature. One of a group of DHARANIS. Color: yellow. Attributes: ear of rice and staff.... |
| God name "Suparikirtitariamasri (lord with a celebrated name)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Physician god. Accounted among a series of Medicine buddhas or SMAN-BLA. Typically depicted with stretched earlobes. Color: yellow.... |
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