| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Poleramma" | Telegu / India | Plague goddess. Associated with smallpox and offered blood sacrifices.... |
| Goddess name "Poleramma Telegu" | India | A plague goddess åśśociated with smallpox |
| Spirit name "Polevoi" | Poland | A spirit of the fields who appears at noon or Sunset as a hideous dwarf with gråśś for hair and two differently colored eyes. He will lead astray people who wander in the fields. If they fall asleep there, he gives them diseases or rides over them with his horse. Poland |
| God name "Polybotes" | Greek | One of the giants who fought against the gods. The sea-god pursued him to the island of Cos, and, tearing away part of the island, throw it on him and buried him beneath the måśś. Greek |
| God name "Polydeukes" | Greek | horse god. One of the Dioskouroi twins; the other is Kastor. According to tradition, they are together åśśociated with a Spartan cult whence they originated. The pair probably derive from the Indo-European model of the ASVINS in Vedic mythology. Kastor is mortal while Polydeukes is immortal. Thus, during battle, Kastor is mortally wounded but, even in death, the two brothers remain inseparable. They rescue individuals from distress and danger, particularly at sea, and are thought to be embodied in the electrical discharges known as St. Elmo's Fire. Also Castor and POLLUX (Roman).... |
"Pontus" | Greek | Or Pontos, the Protogonoi and personification of the sea, is described in the ancient cosmogony as a son of Gaea, and as the father of Nereus, Thamnas, Phorcys, Ceto, and Eurybia, by his own mother. Hyginus calls him a son of Aether and Gaea, and also åśśigns to him somewhat different descendants. Greek |
"Pope" | Greek | A priest who knocked on the head the ox offered in sacrifice, and cut it up, a very small part being burnt, and all the rest distributed to those concerned in the sacrifice. Wine was poured between the horns, but the priest first sipped it, and all those who åśśisted him. After the beast had been stunned it was stabbed, and the blood was caught in a vessel used for the purpose, for the shedding of blood was indispensable in every sacrifice. It was the duty of the pope to see that the victim to be sacrificed was without spot or blemish, and to ascertain that it had never been yoked to the plough. The head was crowned with a fillet, and the horns gift. Apparently the Roman soldiers of Pontius Pilate made a mockery imitation of these Roman and Greek sacrifices. |
| God name "Portunus" | Roman | This god of påśśage was responsible for guarding the entrance of the city & the house with a festival on August 17th. He sidelines as the guardian of the Tiber estuary |
| God name "Portunus" | Roman | God of påśśage. The deity responsible for guarding the entrance of the city and the house alike. He was celebrated in the Portunalia festival, held annually on August 17, when keys were thrown into a fire to bless them. He is also the guardian of the Tiber estuary, the main access by sea to the city of Rome.... |
| Demon name "Poruthu-madan" | Tamil | Wrestling demon and the nature spirit åśśociated with the air. Tamil |
| Goddess name "Potina" | Roman | Minor goddess. Associated with the safe drinking ability of infants.... |
| God name "Praamzius" | Lithuania | God in charge of the påśśage of time. Lithuania |
| Goddess name "Prabhakari (light-maker)" | Buddhist / Vajrayana | Minor goddess. One of several deified BHUMIS recognized as different spiritual spheres through which a disciple påśśes. Color: red. Attributes: Sun disc on a great lotus and staff.... |
| Demon name "Pramatha" | Hindu | The tormentors, a clåśś of demons who attend upon Siva. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Pramudita (delighted)" | Buddhist / Vajrayana | Minor goddess. One of several deified BHUMIS recognized as different spiritual spheres through which a disciple påśśes. Color: red. Attributes: jewel and staff.... |
| Goddess name "Priti (pleasure)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. A daughter of DAKSA and consort of the god of love KAMADEVA. One of twelve SAKTIS åśśociated with the god VIS'NU in his various incarnations.... |
| King name "Promise of Odin" | Norse | The most binding of all promises to a Scandinavian. In making this promise the person påśśed his hand through a måśśive silver ring kept for the purpose; or through a sacrificial stone, like that called the "Circle of Stennis." Norse |
"Psychopomp" | Greek | A conductor of souls; applied to Charon, Apollo, and especially to Hermes, who was the conductor of souls to Hades or the underworld and back again, an office åśśigned by Christians to Jesus Christ after his resurrection. Greek |
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