| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Oshun" | Santeria | Goddess of love, maternity and marriage. Santeria |
| Goddess name "Ostara" | Germanic | Sun goddess. Associated with the coming of spring and one of the derivations of the term Easter, she equates with the Anglo-Saxon deity EOSTRE.... |
| Goddess name "Ostaraki (covering)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant of BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
| Goddess name "Osun" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | River goddess. The daughter of Oba Jumu and Oba Do and the consort of the god SHANGO. The guardian deity of the river Osun, revered particularly in the towns and villages along the banks of the river where sacred weapons are kept in her shrines. Also a goddess of healing. She is worshiped particularly by women and is honored in an annual festival, the Ibo-Osun, during which new cultic priestesses are selected.... |
| Goddess name "Oya" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | River goddess. The consort of the god SHANGO, she is the guardian deity of the river Niger. Also a goddess of storms and thunder. Her sacred animal is the buffalo and her presence is symbolized by its horns.... |
| Goddess name "Pa-bil-sag" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Tutelary god of Isin. The consort of the goddess NIN'INSINNA. Identified with the city of Larak (lost), texts describe Pabilsag journeying to Nippur and presenting the god ENLIL with gifts. He is given the epithet of the wild bull with multicolored legs.... |
| Goddess name "Paca-Mama (earth mother)" | Inca / pre - Columbian South America / highlands of Peru | Chthonic earth goddess. Worshiped extensively by farmers but now largely syncretized with the Christian Virgin Mary.... |
| Goddess name "Pallas" | Greek | Surname of Athena. In Homer this name always appears united with the name Athena, but in later writers we also find Pallas alone instead of Athena. Plato derives the surname from "to brandish", in reference to the goddess brandishing the spear or aegis, whereas Apollodorus derives it from the giant Pallas, who was slain by Athena. But it is more probable that Pallas is the same word as virgin or maiden. Another female Pallas, described as a daughter of Triton, is mentioned under palladium. Greek |
| 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.... |
| Goddess name "Parendi" | Hindu | Minor goddess of prosperity åśśociated with acçúɱulating wealth. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Parendi" | Hindu / Vedic | Minor goddess of prosperity. Associated with the acquisition of wealth.... |
| 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).... |
| Goddess name "Perimb" | Brazil | Goddess of the moon and supreme being. Brazil |
| Goddess name "Perit" | Illyrian | Goddesses of justice. Illyrian |
| Goddess name "Poza Mama" | Siberian | A goddess of the hearth fire |
| Goddess name "Pratisamvit (analytical science)" | Buddhist | Generic name for four goddesses. (Vajrayana). The personifications of logical analysis.... |
| Goddess name "Proserpina" | Roman but derived from a Greek model | Goddess of death. Abducted by the underworld god PLUTO to reign as his queen (see PERSEPHONE).... |
| Goddess name "Providentia" | Roman | Goddess of forethought. Recognized from the reign of Tiberias in second century BC.... |
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