| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Proserpine's Divine Calidore" | Roman | Sleep. In the beautiful legend of Cupid and Psyche, by Apuleius, after Psyche had long wandered about searching for her lost Cupid, she is sent to Prosperine for "the casket of Divine beauty," which she was not to open till she came into the light of day. Psyche received the casket, but just as she was about to step on earth, she thought how much more Cupid would love her if she was Divinely beautiful; so she opened the casket and found the calidore it contained was sleep, which instantly filled all her limbs with drowsiness, and she slept as it were the sleep of death. Roman |
| King name "Rhadamanthys" | Greek | A son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of king Minos of Crete, or, according to others, a son of Hephaestus. From fear of his brother he fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, and there married Alcmene. In consequence of his justice throughout life, he became, after his death, one of the judges in the lower world, and took up his abode in Elysium. Greek |
| God name "Sebitti" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Group of minor war gods. The children of the god ANU who follow the war god ERRA into battle. They are, in alternative traditions, of good or evil influence. In Greek tradition they become the Pleiades.... |
| Goddess name "Seta" | Pokot / Suk / Kenya | A goddess of the Pleiades as well as a fertility goddess |
| Goddess name "Seta Pokot" | Kenya | Goddess of the Pleiades as well as Goddess of fertility. Kenya |
"Sleipner [The slipper]" | Norse | The name of Odin's eight-footed steed. He is begotten by Loke with Svadilfare. Norse |
"Sterope" | Greek | 1. A Pleiad, the wife of Oenomaus, and according to Pausanias a daughter of Atlas. |
"Svadilfare" | Norse | A horse; the sire of Sleipner. Norse |
"Taygete" | Greek | A daughter of Atlas and Pleione, one of the Pleiades. By Zeus she became the mother of Lacedaemon and of Eurotas. Mount Taygetus, in Laconia, derived its name from her. Greek |
| King name "Tisamenus" | Greek | A son of Orestes and Hermione, was king of Argos, but was deprived of his kingdom when the Heracleidae invaded Peloponnesus. (Apollodorus. ii) He was slain in a battle against the Heracleidae (Apollodorus. ii). Greek |
| Goddess name "Trmi Mu" | Chinese | Goddess of lightning. She is said to flash her mirror at an intended victim of the god LEI KUNG'S thunderbolts to ensure his aim.... |
| Supreme god name "U Blei Nong-thaw" | Assam | The Supreme god of the Khasis. To the Khasi, life is God's greatest gift and he therefore has to account for it in the hereafter. Assam |
"Urgel" | Slavic | Satan's son who became lord of the Pleiades. Slavic |
"Xenocleia" | Greek | A Delphian priestess, who refused to give an oracular response to Heracles before he was purified of the murder of Iphitus |
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