Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Pryderi" | Welsh | The personification of anxiety and a custodian of the cauldron of reincarnation in Caer Pedryfan in Annwn, the Welsh underworld. Welsh |
God name "Pryderi" | Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic god. The son of PWYLL and RHIANNON. According to tradition, he was abducted as an infant from his cradle by a huge talon or claw, with the implication that the abduction was instigated by an adversary from the underworld, perhaps the family of Gwawl, a rejected suitor of Rhiannon. Pryderi was found in a stable and rescued by Teirnyon, who brought the child up as his son. Eventually the true parents of Pryderi were identified and he was returned to his family. His consort is Cigfa and he succeeded Pwyll to the title Lord of Dyfed.'... |
"Pudicitia" | Roman | The personification of modesty and chastity. Roman |
God name "Pwyll" | Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic god. The so-called Lord of Dyfed who, according to tradition, brought the pig to Wales having received it as a gift from ARAWN, the underworld god. He earned the reward by substituting for Arawn and fighting his enemy Hafgan, in payment for an unintended slight to Arawn, whom he met one day while out hunting. His consort is RHIANNON and his son is PRYDERI.... |
"Qedem" | Hebrew | The personification of the east wind. Hebrew |
Spirit name "Qudsi" | Bahai | The personification of the 'Most Great spirit'. Bahai |
"Qudsu" | W Sumeria | the personification of holiness |
"Qudsu" | Western Semitic | Personification of holiness. Known from inscriptions at Tyre where a human figure stands naked on a lion, wearing a spiral headdress and holding lotus blossoms and serpents.... |
"Queen Maeve" | Ireland | A protagonist in the story of the Cattle Raid of Cooley. Ireland |
"Rabies" | Greek | The personification of mad rage, the Roman equivalent of the Greek Lyssa. Greek |
God name "Radegaste" | Slavonic | A tutelary god of the Slavi. The head was that of a cow, the breast was covered with an aegis, the left hand held a spear, and a çõçk surmounted its helmet. Slavonic |
"Raga" | Sanskrit | The personification of desire, påśśion, love and affection. Sanskrit |
Goddess name "Ranu Bai" | Ebonite | Goddess of fertility. Ebonite |
"Ratri" | Hindu / Vedic | The personification of night, the darkness and stillness of the night; one of the four bodies of Brahma. Hindu / Vedic |
Goddess name "Ratri" | Hindu / Vedic | Goddess of the night. Ratri is the personification of darkness bedecked with stars. Her sister is USAS, the dawn goddess, who, with Agni the fire god, chases her away. She is perceived as the guardian of eternal law and order in the cosmos and of the waves of time. Ratri is generally regarded as a benign deity who offers rest and renewed vigor, and who may be invoked to ensure safety through the hours of darkness. She deposits the gift of morning dew. However she also offers a bleaker aspect as one who brings gloom and barrenness.... |
King name "Rhacius" | Greek | Rhacius was the son of Lebes, and the leader of the first Greeks to settle in Caria, and became king of Caria. His court was located at Colophon in Ionia. With his wife Manto, daughter of the seer Teiresias, he was the father of Mopsus, a renowned seer. |
God name "Rhadamanthos" | Greek / Roman | A marriage of chthonic underworld god |
Goddess name "Rhadamanthos" | Greco - Roman | Minor chthonic underworld god. One of three judges attending the goddess of justice THEMIS evaluating the souls of the dead entering Hades.... |