Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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King name "Shun" | China | The last of the Wu-di, the legendary Five kings who ruled ancient China. |
Goddess name "Sien Tsang" | China | Goddess of silk cultivation China |
Goddess name "Sipe Gialmo" | Burma | An ancient Goddess of Burma. Usually depicted having three eyes. |
"Smintheus" | Greek | A surname of Apollo, which is derived by some from a mouse, and by others from the town of Sminthe in Troas. The mouse was regarded by the ancients as inspired by the vapours arising from the earth, and as the symbol of prophetic power. Greek |
Supreme god name "Sol (1)" | Roman | Sun god. Known by the full title of Sol Indiges, meaning the indigenous Sol, which may suggest a purely Roman cult on the Quirinal Hill, but there are also inferences that this deity is of more ancient origin. Coins from southern Italy depicting the god with a radiate image date back to circa 200 BC but he rose to particular prominence during the republican period. His festival was celebrated annually on August 9. Nero had a huge statue of himself, as Sol, erected in Rome and the emperor Aurelian elevated Sol to supreme god in the Roman pantheon when Jupiter Conservator gave way to Sol Invictus (the unconquered Sun). Sol may sometimes be linked with AURORA, the goddess of dawn.... |
God name "Somnus" | Greek | The personification and god of sleep, the Greek Hypnos, is described by the ancients as a brother of death and as a son of night Roman |
God name "Spiniensis" | Roman | Minor god of Agriculture. Mentioned by the writer Fabius Pictor, he is the deity responsible for the uprooting of thorn bushes.... |
"Summåñuś" | Etruscan | A derivative form from summus, the highest, an ancient Roman or Etruscan divinity, who was equal or even of higher rank than Jupiter |
Goddess name "Susano-Wo ascends with her to heaven but is thrown out after trying to enter her house and committing various excesses. Amaterasu refuses to be sullied and obstinately hides herself away in a cave. It requires the combined diplomacy and craft of many other deities to persuade her to come out. The lure is the perfect divine mirror in which she sees her reflection. The birth of the two deities is considered to mark the transition between cosmic and material genesis." | Sometimes her shrines are placed adjacent to those of Susano - Wo | The Ise Naiku sanctuary is visited by about five million devotees each year and Amaterasu takes pride of place in every family shrine. She is also the tutelary goddess of the emperor. Hers tends to be a monotheistic cult in which all other deities take a subservient place. Though powerful she does not always succeed and is often subject to attack. She has been arguably identified with the god VAIROCANA in Buddhist religion.... |
Deity name "T'ai-I Tien-Tsun" | Taoist | The Celestial Worthy of the Great Unity. Taoist deity that helps devotees to achieve immortality. |
God name "T'ao Hua Hsiennui" | China | This goddes guardian deity as well as the deity of the second spring month |
Spirit name "T'ien" | Chinese | heaven, the abode of the ancestors; when applied to the human being, spirit. Chinese |
Goddess name "T'ien Fei" | China | Goddess of sailing and seafarers and Rain. China |
God name "T'ien Tsun" | Taoist | Applied as a title descriptive of high rank to various star gods. Taoist |
Deity name "Tanga-tango" | Peruvian | An ancient deity who existed before anything else. Peruvian |
Deity name "Tao Hua Hsiennui" | China | peach blossom girl. A protector at the time of marriage, and the deity of the second spring month. China |
Goddess name "Taurica" | Greece | the Taurian goddess, commonly called Artemis. Her image was believed to have been carried from Tauris by Orestes and Iphigenia, and to have been conveyed to Brauron, Sparta, or Aricia. The worship of this Taurian goddess, who was identified with Artemis and Iphigenia, was carried on with orgiastic rites and human sacrifices, and seems to have been very ancient in Greece. |
God name "Tayau (father sun)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Sun god. According to tradition, he was created by the ancient shamans, who threw the youthful son of the corn mother TATE OTEGANAKA into an oven in full ceremonial attire. He traveled underground and emerged in the east as the Sun. In late May, the Huichol sacrifice a sheep and a turkey in a ritual fire, after which they sing all night until Sunrise. Also Tau; Taverik.... |