Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Panao" | Afghanistan | Creator god, also generic title for deities controlling the natural world, they lived in the mountains. Afghanistan |
Deities name "Panao" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Creator god. Local deity worshiped in Ashkun villages in southwestern Kafiristan. Also a generic title for deities controlling the natural world and said to live in the mountains. These include Lutkari Panao (fertility), Saramun Panao (health), Plossa Panao (rain and good health), Påśśamun Panao (rain and good health), Indermun Panao (fruit and wine), and Malek Panao (nut trees). These gods were generally worshiped in sacred open spaces where their wooden images were regularly drenched with blood sacrifices.... |
God name "Pancamukha-Patradeva" | Buddhist | God, a beggar Buddhist |
God name "Pancamukha-Patradeva" | Buddhist | God. A bowl-god. Attributes: an alms bowl in each of sixteen hands. Five-headed.... |
Demon name "Pancanana" | Hindu / Puranic | demonic deity. Regarded as a form of the god SI IVA possessing five faces, each face having three eyes. Depicted with the naked body of an ascetic, wearing a necklace of snakes. Shrines symbolize the god with a stone, its top painted red and usually placed beneath a tree. Pancanana is worshiped extensively in Hindu villages throughout Bengal where women make invocations and anoint the stones, particularly when sickness strikes. There is a belief that children in the throes of epilepsy have been seized by the god.... |
Goddess name "Pancaraksa (five-fold protection)" | Buddhist | Group of goddesses. Five tutelary or guardian deities who personify protective spells or magic formulae. They are thus known as spell goddesses.... |
Goddess name "Pandara" | Buddhist | Goddess. The SAKTI of AMITABHA and a female BODHISATTVA or buddha-designate. She originates from the Tantric syllable PAM. Color: rose. Attributes: blue lotus, cup, knife and prayer wheel.... |
God name "Paneu" | Afghanistan | Seven Divine brother gods. Kafir, Afghanistan |
Supreme god name "Paneu" | Kafir / Afghanistan | A collective term for seven gods. The Divine brothers are cast as the hunters and henchmen of the supreme goddess DISANI. Each is equipped with a golden bow and quiver. They are generally portrayed as merciless and malignant forces. Also Paradik, Purron.... |
Goddess name "Pang Che" | China | Goddess of justice. China |
Goddess name "Pansahi" | Mata | Hindu one of the seven mother goddesses that later became regarded as evil |
Goddess name "Pansahi Mata" | Hindu | One of the seven mother goddesses who later became regarded as evil Hindu |
Goddess name "Pansahi Mata" | Hindu | Mother goddess. A SAKTI and one of seven SAPTAMATARAS (mothers) who in later Hinduism became regarded as of evil intent, inflicting sickness on children under the age of seven. Particularly known from Bengal.... |
Goddess name "Pantang Mayag" | Borneo | A goddess of love |
Goddess name "Pantang Mayang" | Borneo | Goddess of love Borneo |
God name "Papang" | Australia | Creator and sky god who lives in the moon. Australia |
Goddess name "Papatuanuku" | Polynesian / including Maori | Chthonic mother goddess. According to tradition she evolved spontaneously in the cosmic night personified by TE PO and became the apotheosis of papa, the earth. In other traditions she was engendered, with the sky god RANGINUI, by a primordial androgynous being, ATEA. Paptuanuku and Ranginui are regarded as the primal parents of the pantheon who, through a prolonged period of intercourse, produced at least ten major deities as their children. In Maori culture Papatuanuku, like all deities, is represented only by inconspicuous, slightly worked stones or pieces of wood and not by the large totems, which are depictions of ancestors.... |
God name "Papsukkal" | Akkadia | Messenger god as well as the gatekeeper for the remainder of the pantheon. Akkadia |