| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Ocelus" | Roman / Celtic / British | God of healing. He becomes largely syncretized with the Roman god MARS, thus there is an inscription to Mars Ocelus at Carlisle.... |
| King name "Oebalus" | Greek | 1. A son of Cynortes, and husband of Gorgophone, by whom he became the father of Tyndareus, Peirene, and Arene, was king of Sparta. According to others he was a son of Perieres and a grandson of Cynortas, and was married to the nymph Bateia, by whom he had several children (Apollodorus iii). The patronymic Oebalides is not only applied to his descendants, but to the Spartans generally, and hence it occurs as an epithet or surname of Hyacinthus, Castor, Pollux and Helena. 2. A son of Telon by a nymph of the stream Sebethus, near Naples. Telon, originally a king of the Teleboans, had come from the island of Taphos to Capreae, in Italy and Oebalus settled in Campania. (The Aeneid Book VII) Greek |
| 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.... |
| King name "Pana-ewa" | Islands | Had many bodies. He attacked Hiiaka in his fog body, Kino-ohu, and threw around her his twisting fog-arms, chilling her and choking her and blinding her. He wrapped her in the severe cold mantle of heavy mists. Pacific Islands |
"Pau-o-palae" | Pacific Islands | Pau-o-palae was clothed with a network of most delicate ferns. She was noted because of her magic power over all the ferns of the Forest, and for her skill in using the most graceful fronds for clothing and garlands. |
"Ph?dria" | Lake | Handmaid of Acrasia the enchantress. She sails about Idle lake in a gondola. Seeing Sir Guyon she ferries him across the lake to the floating island, where Cymochles attacks him. Ph?dria interposes, the combatants desist, and the little wanton ferries the knight Temperance over the lake again. Fairy Tale |
| God name "Polybotes" | Greek | One of the giants who fought against the gods. The sea-god pursued him to the island of Cos, and, tearing away part of the island, throw it on him and buried him beneath the måśś. Greek |
| Nymph name "Polyphemus" | Greek | 1. The celebrated Cyclops in the island of Thrinacia, was a son of Poseidon, and the nymph Thoosa. |
| Nymph name "Polyphemus or Polypheme" | Greek | The celebrated Cyclops in the island of Thrinacia, was a son of Poseidon, and the nymph Thoosa. |
| Monster name "Pongo" | George | The terrible monster of Sicily. A cross between a "land-tiger and sea-shark." He devoured five hundred Sicilians, and left the island for twenty miles round without inhabitant. This amphibious monster was slain by the three sons of St. George. |
| Spirit name "Qasavara" | Islands | The gatherer of the spirits of the damned, who he then feeds to monsters. Banks islands, Vanuatu |
| Spirit name "Qat" | Islands | The Great spirit who made everything. Banks islands, Vanuatu |
| 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.... |
| Deities name "Quat" | Polynesian / Banks Islands | Creator god. As with many Polynesian deities, the god is depicted as being very inactive, sitting around all day doing nothing.... |
"Quikinna'qu" | British | The first man. He was the only survivor of an island that had been transformed into a whale by the Thunderbird. Chuckchee, British Columbia |
| 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.... |
| Goddess name "Raka (trouble) (2)" | Polynesian / Hervey Islands | God of winds. The fifth child of VARI-MA-TE-TAKERE, the primordial mother. His home is Moana-Irakau (deep ocean). He received as a gift from his mother a great basket containing the winds, which became his children, each allotted a hole in the edge of the horizon through which to blow. The mother goddess also gave him knowledge of many useful things which he påśśes on to mankind.... |
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