| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Sasanadevata" | Jain / India | Messenger goddess. Generic name for one of a group of twenty-four who minister to the tirthankaras or saints of Jainism.... |
| God name "Shei-Lha-Odkhar" | Bon / pre - Lamaist / Tibet | God of light. In the ancient religion he is a creator deity from whom all other gods are engendered. In Lamaism he evolves into a god of wisdom.... |
| Goddess name "Sheng Mu" | China | Goddess of witchcraft. China |
| Deities name "Shiia-Tsu-Niko" | Shinto / Japan | God of winds. The most senior of his group of wind deities, he disperses the morning mists and brings soft rustling breezes. His consort is Shina-Tsu-Hime and the couple are extensively worshiped by farmers and seafarers. They were allegedly responsible for bringing about a miracle in the thirteenth century AD when they kept at bay, with off-spéñïś winds, the army of Gengis Khan. They are honored in the main IseJingu temple of Shintoism but their chief sanctuary is at Tatta, a small town in Yamamoto. Also Shina-Tobe-No-Mikoto.... |
| God name "Shou Lao" | Chinese | God of longevity. He originates as an astral deity but comes to head the heavenly ministry responsible for setting the span of a person's life. He is also known as Nan-ji Hsian Weng, the ancient of the South Pole. His sacred animal is the crane, embodiment of long life.... |
| Goddess name "Sitala(mata) (possibly meaning mother cold')" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. One of seven SAKTIS who in later Hinduism became regarded as of evil intent, inflicting sickness. Particularly known from Bengal where she may be identified with the goddess KALI. Usually standing naked upon a lotus or riding an åśś. Alternatively symbolized by a stone on which a face is painted. Attribute: waterjar.... |
"Skirner" | Norse | Skirner [The bright one]. Frey's messenger. Norse |
| God name "Sogblen" | Togo | Messenger god who carries the priests prayers to Sodza and brings back promises of good crops. Togo |
| 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.... |
| Goddess name "Sthenias" | Greek | A goddess of physical prowess & strength |
"Sthenius" | Greek | The powerful," or "the strengthening," a surname of Zeus, under which he had an altar in a rock near Hermione, where Aegeus concealed his sword and his shoes, which were found there by Theseus after he had lifted up the rock. Greek |
| God name "Sucellos" | Celtic | The God of the Mallet. God of abundance, success, strength, authority, protection, regeneration, dogs, trees and ravens. Celtic |
| God name "Sulanuth" | Hebrew | A monster in the sea ordered by God "to come up and go into Egypt, with arms ten cubits in length . . . and she went upon the roofs and uncovered the rafting and cut them and stretched forth her arm into the house and removed the lock and the bolt and opened the houses of Egypt and the swarm of animals destroyed the Egyptians" Book of Jasher |
| Goddess name "Sulis" | Roman / Celtic | She was called Brigantia by the Britons; and later Saint Brighid (after Christianity). She is also a deity concerned with knowledge and prophecy. The tutelary Goddess of the thermal waters at Bath, England, she is closely linked with the Roman Goddess Minerva. Roman / Celtic |
| Goddess name "Sulis" | Roman / Celtic | Chthonic underworld goddess. Also a deity concerned with knowledge and prophecy. The tutelary goddess of the thermal waters at Bath, England, she is closely linked with the Roman goddess MINERVA.... |
| God name "Sun Hou-Shi" | Chinese | Monkey god. He emerged from a cosmic egg conceived out of emptiness and engendered by the wind; he provides various arts and skills to mankind. According to tradition he discovered the elixir of immortality in a fruit which he consumed. Also Sun Wu-Kong.... |
| God name "Tai Shan" | Chinese | God who is the ruler of the Seventh Court of Feng-Du, the Chinese Hell. |
| God name "Tajika no mikoto" | Japan | God of strength Japan |
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