| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Si'a" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | Minor attendant goddess. The personification of the holiness of sanctuaries of BAAL S AMIN. In Hellenic times she may have become syncretized with TYCHE.... |
| Goddess name "Sipylene" | Smyrna / Anatolia / west coast of Turkey | Mother goddess. The localized name of the great mother, worshiped in the Metroon sanctuary.... |
| God name "Skeiron" | Greek | God of the Northwest wind. Greek |
| Deities name "So" | Ewe / Hua / Togo / southeastern Ghana, West Africa | weather god. An emanation of the combined personae of the deities SOGBLEN and SODZA.... |
| God name "Sodza" | Ewe / Togo, West Africa | sky god. Propitiated with yams and the sacrifice of a white sheep in an annual festival and his priests pray to him weekly to send Rain. The priests wear white robes.... |
| God name "Sogblen" | Ewe / Hua / Togo / southeastern Ghana, West Africa | Messenger god. Considered to relay the prayers of devotees to the great gods and to return with blessings or punishment. Generally benevolent, bringing the boon of fertile crops and children. He is propitiated with the sacrifice of a white sheep in an annual festival.... |
| God name "Sogbo" | Fon / Benin, West Africa | storm god. The sibling of the gods LISA and MAWU, he controls thunder and lightning and is a god of fire and Rain.... |
| God name "Soko" | Nupe / Nigeria, West Africa | sky god. The name refers specifically to the dark sky at the beginning of the Rainy season which stimulates the growth of crops.... |
| God name "Soului" | Hua / southeastern Ghana, West Africa | vegetation god. A benevolent deity who can bestow wealth as well as good harvests. He is also god of Medicine and of the sounds of music. His devotees wear white and daub white chalk on their faces. His symbol is the cowrie shell.... |
| God name "Soului Hua" | Africa | Benevolent vegetation god also in charge of Medicine and music Africa(west) |
| God name "Suku" | Ovimbundu / central Angola, West Africa | Creator god. He created the sky, the rivers and mountains, and the people on earth.... |
| God name "Sulman(u)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian / / western Semitic | Chthonic and fertility deity. Also identified as a war god. Found in Assyria circa 1400 BC to 700 BC and known from Bronze Age inscriptions at Sidon.... |
| Goddess name "Sulmanitu" | Western Semitic | Fertility goddess. Concerned with love and war; also has underworld connections. Recognized chiefly at Sidon, but included in the Ugaritic pantheon. Thought by some authors to be the immediate derivation of the biblical Shulamite woman (Vetus Testamentum song of Solomon 6:13).... |
| God name "Surya" | Hindu | God of light and war and the guardian of the southwest quadrant. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Taiaai" | Australian aboriginal | Snake god. His consorts include the snake goddesses Mantya, Tuknampa and Uka. He is revered mainly by tribal groups living on the western seaboard of the Cape York peninsula in northern queensland. Taipan has the typical attributes of many other Australian snake gods, including the Rainbow snake. He exercises judgment over life or death and possesses great wisdom, a universal characteristic of serpents. He is able to kill or cure and is the deity who originally fashioned the blood of living things during the Dreamtime. The imagery of the snake god is closely linked with aboriginal shamanism and with the healing rituals of shamans.... |
| God name "Tar" | Tiv / Nigeria, West Africa | Chthonic earth god. Engendered by the creator god AONDO, Tar is depicted as a prostrate figure with his head toward the east, comparable with the Egyptian god GEB.... |
| Goddess name "Tate Kyewimoka (mother west water)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Rain and water goddess. Appears in lightning and is said to resemble a red snake. She lives in a deep gorge with caves, in Santa Catarina, and brings the Rain from the west. Her animals include deer and ravens and she is also the goddess of the corn.... |
| God name "Tayau Sakaimoka" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Sun god. The deity of the setting Sun in the west, regarded as the åśśistant of TAYAU.... |
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