Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Samkarsana" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | Localized form of BALARAMA. Has a complexion white like milk, wears a blue robe with a red garland and carries a nanjil (plough).... |
Deity name "Sams" | Pre - Islamic / Arabian | Sun deity. In the north the being is male, in the south female. Probably derived from S AMAS .... |
Deities name "Samvara (keeping out)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God. One of the emanations of AKSOBHYA and also of HEVAJIRA. In Lamaism he is a four-headed tutelary yi-dam god. His SAKTI is VAJRAVARAHI. He stands upon one or more four-armed Hindu deities including Kalaratri and BHAIRAVA. Color: blue or black. Attributes: ax, bell, cup, drum, image of Aksobhya on the crown, image of four-faced BRAHMA, knife, moon disc, skin, staff and trident.... |
God name "San Sgrub Bon" | Tibet | A god that was absorbed into a variety of Yama in Lamaism |
Goddess name "Sanjna (conscience)" | Hindu | Goddess. The daughter of TVASTAR, a consort of SURYA and, in some texts, the mother of YAMA.... |
Goddess name "Sankari" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. One of the SAPTAMATARAS.... |
Goddess name "Santa (appeased)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. A SAKTI who is one of a group of both SAPTAMATARA and ASTAMATARA mothers. Also CAMUNDA.... |
Goddess name "Santi (peace of mind)" | Hindu | Goddess. The consort of TRIVIKRAMA.... |
God name "Sapas" | Western Semitic / Canaanite | Sun god. Modeled on the Mesopotamian (Babylonian-Akkadian) god SAMAS.... |
Goddess name "Saptamatara" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Generic title of a group of mother goddesses. Seven deities of evil influence, who generally inflict disease or other harm on children. Common color: red. Attributes: cup and lotus.... |
Goddess name "Saraddevi (goddess of autumn)" | BuddhistLamaist / Tibet | Fertility and vegetation goddess. Associated with autumn, and an attendant of the goddess SRIDEVI. Her sacred animal is an antelope. Attributes: cup, knife and peaçõçk feather.... |
God name "Sarama" | India | 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 |
Goddess name "Sarama (the nimble one)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Attendant goddess. She acts as a messenger to the god INDRA and guards his herds. In later Hindu texts Sarama is reputedly the mother of all dogs and is given the epithet the bitch of heaven. The Rg Veda accounts her as having punished the minor deity Panis for stealing cows.... |
Goddess name "Saranyu (the fleet one)" | Hindu / Vedic | Primordial goddess of uncertain affinities. Saranyu is the daughter of the god TVASTAR, and the sister of VISVARUPA. Her consort is Vivasvat, by whom she is said to be the mother of YAMA and YAMI, the twin progenitors of the human race. Little else is known of her, but she is accounted as having an impetuous nature.See also VIVASVAN.... |
Deities name "Sari-Dui" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Tutelary god. One of a group of Lamaist tutelary or yi-dam deities chosen on an individual basis as personal guardians. Color: blue. Attributes: bell, jewel, lotus, prayer wheel, regal trappings, staff and sword. Threeeyed and three-headed.... |
King name "Sarpedon" | Greek | 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 åśśisted against the Lycians and afterwards he became king of the Lycians, and Zeus granted him the privilege of living three generations. |
Spirit name "Sarvasokatamonirghatamati (destroyer of sorrow)" | Buddhist | God. A dhyanibodhisattva or spiritual meditation buddha.... |
Goddess name "Sarvastramahajvala" | Jain | Messenger goddess Jain |