| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Saint George" | British | Saint George Patron saint of England and the Christian adaptation of the dragon slaying legends of Bel and the dragon, Apollo and Python, Osiris and Typhon, etc. British |
"Saitis" | Greek | A surname of Athena, under which she had a sanctuary on Mount Pontinus, near Lerna in Argolis. The name was traced by the Greeks to the Egyptians, among whom Athena was said to have been called Sai's. Greek |
"Salganeus" | Greek | A surname of Apollo, derived from the town of Salganeus in Boeotia. greek |
| God name "Salm of Mahram (image of Mahram)" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Local tutelary god. Correspondence of the Babylonian king Nabonidus (559-539 BC) mentions that this deity was worshiped at Taima, an important trade and religious center where he was head of the pantheon. Gods in the region were often named after local places and personified by a stone stele carved with schematic anthropomorphic features and a winged disc showing strong Egyptian influence. Also Salman.... |
| God name "Samael" | Gnostic Christian | Creator god. The blind god.See also YALDABAOTH.... |
| God name "Sampsa (sedge)" | Pre - Christian Finnish | vegetation god. He is perceived as a giver of life to seed which lies dormant through the Winter months. His unnamed consort, to whom he is wed in a form of sacred marriage which takes place at sowing time, is also his stepmother.... |
| Goddess name "Sanjna" | Hindu | Goddess of warriors Hindu daughter of the celestial architect Tvastra disguised herself as a horse and fled from her husband. When he caught her, they produced the Ashwini Kumaras, the horse-headed twins. Each day the twins bring the dawn as their chariot speeds through the sky. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Sapientia" | Roman | Goddess of wisdom Roman |
"Sarapis" | Egyptian | Serapis, an Egyptian divinity, the worship of which was introduced into Greece in the time of the Ptolemies. Apollodorus (ii) states that Serapis was the name given to Apis after his death and deification. |
| God name "Sarapis" | Late Egypt | God. Known only from the Greco-Roman period of the early Ptolemies (fourth century BC) but persisting in Europe until second or third century AD. In Egyptian religion Sarapis is a hybridization of certain aspects of OSIRIS, the underworld god, and APIS, the bull god, who symbolizes the earthly presence of PTAH. Sarapis is perceived to epitomize both the fertility of the land and the life of the sacred bull after death. In Greek mythology he takes on aspects of ZEUS, HELIOS, ASKLEPIOS and DIONYSOS. He was worshiped extensively in the Roman Empire period. A sanctuary at York in England was dedicated by a soldier of the sixth legion, and magnificent statues were discovered in the Walbrook Mithraeum in London, and at Merida in Spain. Also Seraphis (Greek).... |
| Spirit name "Sarvaga" | Sanskrit | The spirit-substance of the world, its soul. Equivalent to the anima mundi, and that which the Christians call the Holy spirit. Sanskrit |
| Spirit name "Sarvasokatamonirghatmatiage" | Buddhist | God, another spiritual meditation buddha Buddhist |
"Satan" | Christian | The Christian devil, a mere figment of theological imagination. |
| Goddess name "Satis (she who shoots; she who pours)" | Egypt | Minor goddess. A guardian of the southern (Nubian) border of Upper Egypt. The consort of the ram god KHNUM and, by implication, the mother of ANUKIS. She is depicted wearing the conical white crown of Upper Egypt, bearing tall plumes or antelope horns. Satis is described in Pyramid Texts, particularly the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, and there is reference to a sanctuary built for her at Elephantine. Also Satjit; Satet (both Egyptian).... |
| Goddess name "Saule" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Sun goddess. Also having agricultural links, she is perceived as living on a heavenly farm atop a mythical mountain and invoked to induce fertility and ripening among crops. Her consorts are the sky god DIEVS and the moon god MENESS.... |
| God name "Saxnot" | Christian | Tutelary god, at one time required to be denounced at Christian baptism Saxon |
| Deities name "Saxnot" | Saxon | Tutelary god. He is mentioned beside Woden and Thunor as one of the deities to be renounced at Christian baptism. As Saxneat he was allegedly the founder of the Saxon royal dynasty in Essex. The name may derive from the word sahsginot meaning companion of the sword. He may also equate with the German god Tyr.... |
| Angel name "Scheliel" | Christians | angels of the Mansions of the moon. |
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