Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Sitatara (the white Tara')" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Goddess. Of mild disposition, she is regarded as one of the forms of the goddess TARA and an emanation of AMOGHASIDDHI or VAIROCANA. In later times she became identified as a female variety of AVALOKITESVARA PADMAPANI. By tradition she is the incarnation of a Chinese princess. Color: white. Attributes: arrow, blue or white lotus, bow, image of Amoghasiddhi, jewel, moon disc and rosary. Threeor seven-eyed.... |
God name "Siuelo" | Tonga | The fisherman's god able to walk on the sea. Tonga |
Goddess name "Sjofn" | Norse | One of the goddesses. She delights in turning men's hearts to love. Norse |
"Skadi" | Norse | A giantess; daughter of Thjåśśe and the wife of Njord. She dwells in Thrymheim, and hangs a venom serpent over Loke's face. Norse |
Goddess name "Skadi" | Nordic / Icelandic | Goddess. One of the AESIR goddesses. The daughter of the giant Thiåśśi and consort of the god NJORD. By tradition she lives apart from her husband, he preferring the coast and she the mountains. She is described as ski lady, a huntress who travels on skis and hunts game with a bow. She is constantly at odds with the god LOKI and on one occasion, when he had been captured and held down with stones, she tried to poison him by suspending a poisonous snake over his face. Loki's consort SIGYN saved him by collecting the venom in a bowl.... |
"Smyrna" | Greek | 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 |
Goddess name "Sodasi" | Hindu | 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 |
God name "Sodza" | Ewe / Togo, West Africa | sky god. Propitiated with yams and the sacrifice of a white sheep in an annual festival and his priests pray to him weekly to send Rain. The priests wear white robes.... |
God name "Sogblen" | Ewe / Hua / Togo / southeastern Ghana, West Africa | Messenger god. Considered to relay the prayers of devotees to the great gods and to return with blessings or punishment. Generally benevolent, bringing the boon of fertile crops and children. He is propitiated with the sacrifice of a white sheep in an annual festival.... |
"Sol" | Norse | Daughter of Mundilfare. She drives the horses that draw the car of the Sun. Norse |
Goddess name "Sol (2)" | Nordic / Icelandic | Sun goddess. One of the AESIR goddesses. The daughter of Nubdilfaeri (Mundilferi). She drives the horses which draw the Sun chariot across the sky.... |
"Sopdet" | Egypt | The bringer of the New Year and the Nile flood. She was depicted as a human woman with a star on her head. Egypt |
Goddess name "Sothis [Greek]" | Egypt | Astral goddess. She heralds the Nile inundation as the personification of the star Sirius which rises coincidentally in the dawn sky in July. She is depicted as a nude figure wearing the conical white crown of Lower Egypt surmounted by a star. Late in Egyptian history she becomes largely syncretized with ISIS. Also Sopdet (Egyptian).... |
God name "Soului" | Hua / southeastern Ghana, West Africa | vegetation god. A benevolent deity who can bestow wealth as well as good harvests. He is also god of Medicine and of the sounds of music. His devotees wear white and daub white chalk on their faces. His symbol is the cowrie shell.... |
"Sparta" | Greek | 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 |
Goddess name "Spermo" | Greek | The goddess of grain. She was one of the Oenotropae and had the ability to change anything into seed or wheat. Greek |
Goddess name "Spes" | Roman | Goddess of hope. Foundations of a sanctuary were commenced by the emperor Tiberius, linked with a similar building dedicated to the god JANUS. She is åśśociated with gardens and depicted as a young woman bearing a bunch of flowers.... |
God name "Spiniensis" | Roman | Minor god of Agriculture. Mentioned by the writer Fabius Pictor, he is the deity responsible for the uprooting of thorn bushes.... |