Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Ninsusinak" | Elamite | National god of the Elamite Empire and consort of the mother goddess Pinikir. Ninsusinak was god of oaths and judge of the dead. |
God name "Ninsusinak Elamite" | Iran | The National god |
Goddess name "Nrtya (dance)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Mother goddess. One of the ASTAMATARAS. Color: green or various. Attribute: staff.... |
God name "Nus ku" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of light. The son of ENLIL. Also a god of fire, he is symbolized by a lamp. Sanctuaries have been identified at Harran and Neirab.... |
Supreme god name "Orotalt" | Pre - Islamic / Arabian | Tutelary god. Thought to equate with the northern Arabian god RUDA (Ruldaiu). Mentioned by Herodotus in Hellenic times as a supreme god and possibly syncretized with DIONYSOS.... |
God name "Paean" | Greek | The physician of the celestial gods; the deliverer from any evil or calamity. Greek |
Goddess name "Pele" | Polynesian / Hawaii | Volcano goddess. According to tradition she arrived in Hawaii in a canoe, having sailed from Tahiti. She may derive locally from the more familiar Polynesian moon goddess, HINA, since one of her alternative names is Hina-Ai-Malama (Hina who devours the moon).... |
God name "Phyi-Sgrub (the external one)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | God. A form of the god YAMA who rides a buffalo or a bull. Color: blue, yellow or white. Attributes: noose, prayer wheel and staff surmounted by a skeleton.... |
Goddess name "Pienenkir" | Elamite | Goddess of fertility, nurturing and motherhood. Elamite |
Goddess name "Pinikirz" | Elamite / Iran | Mother goddess. Known only from inscriptions.... |
Goddess name "Pinikirz Elamite" | Iran | A mother goddess |
Goddess name "Pratyangira (whose speech is directed westward)" | Hindu | Goddess of terrifying aspect. She rides upon a lion. Attributes: cup, drum, flaming hair, snake noose and trident.... |
God name "Priapus" | Greek | Priapos, a son of Dionysus and Aphrodite. Aphrodite, it is said, had yielded to the embraces of Dionysus, but during his expedition to India, she became faithless to him, and lived with Adonis. On Dionysus return from India, she indeed went to meet him, but soon left him again, and went to Lampsacus on the Hellespont, to give birth to the child of the god. Greek |
Goddess name "Pukkasi" | Buddhist / Vajrayana / / Lamaist / Tibet | Goddess of terrifying appearance. One of a group of gauri. Color: yellowish white or blue. Attribute: waterjar.... |
Goddess name "Puspa (flower)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Mother goddess. One of the group of ASTAMATARAS (mothers). Color: white. Attribute: a flower.... |
God name "Qaynan" | Pre - Islamic southern Arabian | God of smithies. Known from inscriptions.... |
God name "Qos" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Local weather god. Apparently known as the deification of an outcrop of black basalt on the north side of the Wadi Hesa [near Kirbet Tannur]. Also a god of Rainbows. Depicted seated on a throne flanked by bulls. Attributes include a branched thunderbolt held in the left hand. A worshiper is seen offering him an eagle.... |
God name "Quzah (archer)" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | mountain and weather god. Probably equating to QOS and worshiped by the Idumaean tribe to the south of Judea as a storm god. Also claimed to have been known near Mecca. Attributes include a bow which shoots arrows of hail.... |