| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Philyra" | Greek | A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and the mother of Cheiron by Cronus. Philyra was an Oceanid and was married to Nauplius and was the goddess of perfume, writing, healing, beauty and paper. Greek |
| God name "Pleione" | Greek | A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and mother of the Pleiades by Atlas. Her name means "to increase in number" and her grandson, Hermes, was the god of animal husbandry. Greek |
| Goddess name "Rhea" | Greek | Pefa, Pea, Pefy, or Pe. The name as well as the nature of this divinity is one of the most difficult points in ancient mythology. Some consider 'Pea' to be merely another form of pa, the earth, while others connect it with pew, I flow; but thus much seems undeniable, that Rhea, like Demeter, was a goddess of the earth. According to the Hesiodic Theogony, Rhea was a daughter of Uråñuś and Ge, and accordingly a sister of Oceåñuś, Coeus, Hyperion, Crius, lapetus, Theia, Themis, and Mnemosyne. Greek |
| God name "Rhesus" | Greek | A river-god in Bithynia, one of the sons of Oceåñuś and Thetys. Greek |
| God name "Salmoneus" | Greek | A son of Aeolus by Enarete, and a brother of Sisyphus. Sangarius, a river-god, is described as the son of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and as the husband of Metope, by whom he became the father of Hecabe. (Theogony 344). Greek |
| God name "Sangarius" | Greek | A river-god, is described as the son of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and as the husband of Metope, by whom he became the father of Hecabe. The river Sangarius (in Phrygia) itself is said to have derived its name from one Sangas, who had offended Rhea, and was punished lay her by being changed into water. Greek |
| God name "Scamander" | Greek | An Oceanid, son of Oceåñuś and Tethys and the god of the river Scamander, in Troas, was called by the gods Xanthus. Being insulted by Achilles, he entered into a contest with the Greek hero but Hera sent out Hephaestus to åśśist Achilles, and the god of fire dried up the waters of Scamander, and frightened Scamander, until Hera ordered Hephaestus to spare the river-god. By Idaea, he fathered Teucrus.(Theogony 345.) Greek |
| God name "Silvåñuś" | Roman | A Latin divinity of the fields and Forests, to whom in the very earliest times the Tyrrhenian Pelasgians are said to have dedicated a grove and a festival. He is described as a god watching over the fields and husbandmen, and is also called the protector of the boundaries of fields. |
| Deities name "Silvåñuś" | Roman | Minor god of woodlands and Forests. Worship of Silvåñuś seems largely to have been limited to northern Italy. He became incorporated into the Celtic pantheon where his symbolism includes a bill-hook, pots and hammers. His sacred animal is the stag. The name was extended to embrace groups of woodland deities, the Silvani or Silvanae.... |
| God name "Simois" | Greek | The god of the river Simois, which flows from mount Ida, and in the plain of Troy joins the Xanthus or Scamander. He is described as a son of Oceåñuś and Tethys and as the father of Astyoche and Hieromneme. |
| 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 "Strymon" | Greek | A son of Oceåñuś and Tethys, was a river god of Thrace, and is called a king of Thrace. Greek |
| God name "Tannus" | British | Tinnus or Taråñuś, Thunder god equated with Thor, the Nordic God of thunder. British |
| God name "Tåñuś" | Italy | Star god and consort of Tana. Italy |
| God name "Tarvos Trigaranos" | Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Bull god. Known chiefly from a four-sided monument erected near Paris by boatmen of the Seine during the reign of the emperor Tiberius. It depicts ESUS, VulcanUS, JUPITER and Tarvos. As Tarvos Trigaranos, he is drawn as a bull with three cranes on its back and can be seen at such places as Dorchester in England. The bull may alternatively bear three horns.... |
| Goddess name "Tethys" | Greek | A Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceåñuś. She was mother of the chief rivers of the universe, such as the Nile, the Alpheus, the Maeander, and about three thousand daughters called the Oceanids. Greek |
| God name "Titans" | Greek | The sons and daughters of Uråñuś and Gaia and a race of godlike giants who were considered to be the personifications of the forces of nature. These Titans are Oceåñuś, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Japetus, Cronus, Theia, Rheia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys, to whom Apollodorus adds Dione. (Theogony 133) Greek |
| God name "Tlahuizcalaantecuhtli (lord of the dawn)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of the morning star (Venus). An incarnation or avatara of the god creator QUETZALCOATL and one of the group clåśśed as the Mixcoatl complex. The ruler of the twelfth of the thirteen heavens known at the time of the Spanish conquest, Teotl Tlatlauhcan (the place of the red god). In other traditions (described in codices Borgia and Vaticåñuś B) he is one of the four gods supporting the lowest heaven at each cardinal point; he resides in the east.... |
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