Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Sataruri" | Hindu | Minor goddess who was the victim of incest Hindu / Puranic |
Goddess name "Sati" | Hindu | Mother goddess Hindu / Puranic / India / Epic |
Goddess name "Sati/ Sakti/ Parvati" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic / India | A mother goddess |
God name "Satrughna" | Hindu | Minor god Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
God name "Satrughna (destroyer of foes)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor god. The brother of LAKSMANA and a half-brother to the god RAMA. His mother is Sumitra. He may be depicted holding a fly whisk in each hand.See also LAKSMANA.... |
Goddess name "Satyabhama" | Dravidian | Goddess Hindu / Dravidian / Tamil |
Goddess name "Satyabhama (with true luster)" | Hindu - Dravidian / Tamil | Goddess. Known particularly from southern India as the second consort of KRSNA, who stands on her left; also as the secorid consort of V ISNU. Attribute: a flower.... |
Goddess name "Savati" | Hindu | Minor benevolent goddess of fortune. Hindu |
God name "Savitar" | Hindu / Vedic | A god of war & the Sun |
Goddess name "Savitar (impeller)" | Hindu / Puranic | Sun god. The original Vedic list of six descendants of the goddess ADITI or ADITYAS, all of whom take the role of Sun gods was, in later times, enlarged to twelve, including Savitar. The god of the rising and setting Sun. Color: golden. Attributes: club, prayer wheel and two lotuses.... |
Goddess name "Say" | Egypt | Minor god of destiny. Depicted wholly in human form. Say is mentioned in the Ani papyrus as being present at the ritual of the weighing of the heart, in company with funerary goddesses including Meskhenet, SEPSET and RENENUTET. In Greco-Roman times he was syncretized with the snake god Agathodaimon.... |
Goddess name "Sepset" | Egypt | Local funerary goddess. Known chiefly at Memphis, where she appears as an attendant at the ritual of the weighing of the heart.... |
Goddess name "Ses'at" | Egypt | Goddess of libraries and the art of writing. Known from 2500 BC, or earlier, until the end of Egyptian history circa AD 400. She is depicted anthropomorphically bearing a seven-pointed star or rosette on her head, sometimes atop a wand and below a bow-shaped object. Early in her career she was åśśociated with the ritual of stretching the cord during which boundary poles were rammed into the ground by the king before measuring out the foundations of a sanctuary. As a scribe she recorded the lists of foreign captives and their tributes. At Karnak in Upper Egypt and at Dendara she recorded the royal jubilees on a notched palm stem.See also SEFKHET-ABWY.... |
God name "Sesa" | Hindu | Snake god, he is at the Great serpent who lies in the primeval sea and encircles the world Hindu / Puranic / Vedic / Epic |
God name "Sesa(naga) (remainder)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Snake god or naga. The great serpent lying in the primeval sea and encircling the world. The son of KASYAPA and KADRU. A many-headed attendant on VIS'NU who uses the snake as a couch on which to rest between cycles of the universe. Its many hoods overshadow and protect him. Not technically a deity but important enough in literature to be included here. Also Adisesa; ANANTA.... |
God name "Sesa[naga]" | Hindu / Epic / Vedic / Puranic | A snake god / Naga, he is at the Great serpent that lies in the primeval sea & encircles the world |
God name "Shadanana-SSbraahaanya" | Hindu / Puranic | Form of the god KARTTIKEYA. The form possesses six heads and twelve arms. According to legend, the six heads arose because the fire god AGNI had an adulterous relationship with the six consorts of the risis (astral gods) who all needed to suckle the offspring. Like Karttikeya, he is usually depicted riding on a peaçõçk.... |
God name "Shadanna-Subrahmanya" | Hindu | Form of the god Kattikeya Hindu / Puranic |