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Supreme god name "Oduduwa" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | Creator goddess. The consort, or alternatively the daughter, of the supreme god OLODUMARE. She is perceived as the substance, or matrix, of the earth which Olodumare impregnated to generate life. She is also a goddess of war and her sons include the great heroic Yoruba god OGUN. According to some traditions Oduduwa is also perceived as a god.... |
God name "Oriax" | Goethe | God of Divination and Transformation. Goethe |
God name "Oro" | Tahiti | A god of both war and peace in Polynesia. During peacetime he was called Oro-i-Te-Tea-Moe ("Oro with the spear down"). He is a son of Tangaroa and Hina-Tu-A-Uta, and father of Hoa-Tapu, Toi-Mata, Ai-Tupuai and Mahu-Fatu-Rau. Tahiti |
Goddess name "Orthia" | Sparta | a locally worshipped mother goddess of later syncretized with the more widely accepted maternal deities such as Kybele |
Goddess name "Orthia" | Sparta | Mother goddess. Locally worshiped and probably soon syncretized with the more widely recognized maternal deities of Asia Minor such as KYBELE.... |
God name "Orunmila" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | God of destiny. He accompanied the creator god OLODUMARE at the creation of the world and when the destinies of mankind were decided. He is consulted in an oracular capacity at IFA and makes decisions on such matters as choice of sacrificial animals. He is also a god of healing and in many households enjoys personal shrines which include palm nuts, fragments of ivory and sea shells.... |
Goddess name "Oshun" | Santeria | Goddess of love, maternity and marriage. Santeria |
Goddess name "Padmatara" | Buddhist | Minor goddess Buddhist / Mahayana |
Goddess name "Padmatara (lotus Tara)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. Padmosnisa... |
Goddess name "Pansahi" | Mata | Hindu one of the seven mother goddesses that later became regarded as evil |
Goddess name "Pansahi Mata" | Hindu | One of the seven mother goddesses who later became regarded as evil Hindu |
Goddess name "Pansahi Mata" | Hindu | Mother goddess. A SAKTI and one of seven SAPTAMATARAS (mothers) who in later Hinduism became regarded as of evil intent, inflicting sickness on children under the age of seven. Particularly known from Bengal.... |
Planet name "Paradise Lost" | Milton | Satan rouses the panic-stricken host of fallen angels to tell them about a rumour current in heaven of a new world about to be created. He calls a council to deliberate what should be done, and they agree to send Satan to search out for the new world. Satan, påśśing the gulf between Hell and heaven and the limbo of Vanity, enters the orb of the Sun (in the guise of an angel) to make inquiries as to the new planet's whereabouts; and, having obtained the necessary information, alights on Mount Niphates, and goes to Paradise in the form of a cormorant. Seating himself on the Tree of Life, he overhears Adam and Eve talking about the prohibition made by God, and at once resolves upon the nature of his attack. Gabriel sends two angels to watch over the bower of Paradise, and Satan flees. Raphael is sent to warn Adam of his danger, and tells him the story of Satan's revolt and expulsion out of heaven, and why and how this world was made. After a time Satan returns to Paradise in the form of a mist, and, entering the serpent, induces Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit. Adam eats "that he may perish with the woman whom he loved." Satan returns to Hell to tell his triumph, and Michael is sent to lead the guilty pair out of the garden. Milton |
"Parsva" | The 23rd tirthankava / therefore the penultimate in the line of mythical salvation teachers | Jain. Possibly a historic person who lived in the 8th century BC, he was succeeded by Mahaviva or Vardhamana, who was definitely a person in history. Parsva has been credited as the mythical founder of Jainism.... |
God name "Patrimpas" | Europe | One of the trinity of gods and is the god of spring, joy, peace, maturity, abundance, as well the care of domestic animals, ploughed fields, and crops. Eastern Europe |
God name "Pavana" | Hindu | God of the winds, said to be the father of Hanumat or Hanuman, the monkey king who becomes Rama's helper in the Ramayana. Hindu |
King name "Peleus" | Greek | A son of Aeacus and Endeis, was king of the Myrmidons at Phthia in Thessaly. He was a brother of Telamon and step-brother of Phocus, the son of Aeacus, by the Nereid Psamathe. Greek |
God name "Phantasos" | Greek | God of dreams by inanimate objects Greek |