| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Securita" | Roman | Guardian goddess. She was invoked to ensure the continuing stability of the Roman empire.... |
| Goddess name "Sedna" | Inuit / Baffin Land | Sea goddess. The mother of all the creatures of the sea and invoked by fishermen.... |
| Goddess name "Sefkhet-Abwy (she who has seven horns)" | Egypt | Local goddess of libraries and writing. Probably a form of the goddess SESAT. Depicted in human form bearing a seven-pointed star or rosette on her head below a bow-shaped object.... |
| Goddess name "Selene" | Greek | Also called Mene, a female divinity presiding over the months, or Latin Luna, was the goddess of the moon, or the moon personified into a Divine being. She is called a daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and accordingly a sister of Helios and Eos (Theogony 371 ; Apollodorus; Argonautica) ; but others speak of her as a daughter of Hyperion by Euryphaessa, or of Pallas, or of Zeus and Latona, or lastly of Helios. Greek |
| Goddess name "Selene (radiant)" | Greek | moon goddess. The daughter of HYPERION (a TITAN) and sister of the Sun god HELIOS. The tutelary deity of magicians, she rides in a chariot drawn by two horses. According to legend she fell in love with the sleeping Endymion. She becomes largely syncretized with HEKATE and in Roman culture equates with the goddess LUNA.... |
| Goddess name "Semele (earth)" | Greco - Roman but probably of Thracian or Phrygian origin | Mother goddess. According to legend she was the mortal daughter of Cadmos and became the mother of the god DIONYSOS (BACCHUS) after a brief liaison with ZEUS (JUPITER), also in mortal guise. Semele was burned to death on Olympus, unable to withstand the presence of Zeus in godly form, but was subsequently deified by him.... |
| 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 "Serket(-hetyt)" | Egypt | Minor mortuary goddess. Known from the middle of the third millennium BC, she protects the throne of the king in the guise of a scorpion. She is depicted in human form wearing a headpiece in the form of a scorpion with its sting raised. In the Pyramid Texts she is the mother of the scorpion god NEHEBU-KAU. In her role as a mortuary goddess she is partly responsible for guarding the jars containing the viscera of the deceased. Although she is never identified as warding off the effect of scorpion stings, her influence has been regarded as effective against other venomous attacks. Also Selkis (Greek).... |
| 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 "She chi" | China | God of Agriculture, grain, land and soil China |
| Goddess name "Sheela Na Gig" | Celtic / Irish | Mother goddess. The primal earth mother closely åśśociated with life and death. One of the rare depictions of Irish Celtic deities that have survived into the Christian era. She is shown naked, with large breasts, with her legs apart and holding open her vag***. The image frequently adorns walls of Irish churches. Also Sheila na Cioch.... |
| God name "Sheger" | Babylon | Supplies live sheep and cattle for the god Mot to feast upon. Babylon |
| God name "Shei Nuig" | Chinese | God of Agriculture. Known as the Divine farmer. According to tradition, during his lifetime he invented the plough and taught basic Agriculture and the use of herbs. In a more destructive aspect, he is also the god of the hot winds. He is depicted with the head of an ox and is regarded by some authors as a successor to NU KUA. Also Shen Nong.... |
| 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.... |
| Supreme god name "Shei-Rab" | Bon / pre - Lamaist / Tibet | Supreme god. In the ancient religion he is the remote and barely defined creator deity. Attributes include a lotus and swastika.... |
| God name "Shen Hsui" | China | God of Medicine. China |
| God name "Shen Hsui Chih" | China | A god of Medicine |
| God name "Shen Nong" | China | God of Agriculture, plants and herbs. China |
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