Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Pore" | Guyana | Created the earth and all living things. Guyana |
God name "Pore" | Guyanan Indian / South America | Creator god. Engendered the earth and all living things. Also Pura.... |
"Pore/ Pura" | Guyanan / SA | He created the earth & all living things |
God name "Posis Das" | Greek | sky god. In pre-Hellenic times the consort of the earth mother GAIA. One of the primordial partnership identified in Theogony (Hesiod). He later becomes syncretized with ZEUS.... |
Goddess name "Poza Mama" | Siberian | A goddess of the hearth fire |
Spirit name "Pozemne Vile" | Slavic | earth spirits who live underground in mines and caves and hoard precious metals and jewels. Slavic |
God name "Prajapati (lord of creatures)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Primordial being. In the Vedic legends he is described variously as the creator of the world and the creator of heaven and earth. He is an androgynous being who impregnated himself by fusing elements of mind and speech. In later epics he is the guardian deity of the sexual organ. Prajapati is also a name of the god BRAHMA in later Hinduism.... |
Nymph name "Pramlocha" | Hindu | One of the nymphs sent to earth by Kamadeva or Indra to tempt the sage Kandu from his devotions. Hindu |
God name "Priapos" | Greco - Roman / Phrygian | Fertility god. The son of DIONYSOS and APHRODITE, he was also a guardian of mariners. Priapos was not regarded as a significant deity in Greece until very late timesduring the Macedonian period, circa fourth to second century BCand was only locally popular during the Roman Empire period. He is particularly known from Phrygia and is depicted as a satyr-like creature with pronounced genitals.... |
Goddess name "Prithivi" | Hindu | A goddess of the earth |
Hero name "Prithu" | Indian | The favourite hero of the Indian Puranas. Vena having been slain for his wickedness, and leaving no offspring, the saints rubbed his right arm, and the friction brought forth Prithu. Being told that the earth had suspended for a time its fertility, Prithu went forth to punish it, and the earth, under the form of a cow, fled at his approach; but being unable to escape, promised that in future "seed-time and harvest should never fail." |
Goddess name "Prithvi" | Hindu | Goddess of the earth. Hindu |
"Priyavrata" | India | The Bhagavata-Purana states: "Priya-vrata being dissatisfied that only half the earth was illuminated at one time by the solar rays, followed the Sun seven times round the earth in his own flaming car of equal velocity, like another celestial orb, resolved to turn night into day." India |
"Procris" | Greek | Unerring as the dart of Procris. When Procris fled from Cephalus out of shame, Diana gave her a dog that never failed to secure its prey, and a dart which not only never missed aim, but which always returned of its own accord to the shooter. Greek |
Goddess name "Promitor" | Roman | The goddess of growing plants, particularly cereals, and of motherly love. Roman |
"Pronoia (forethought)" | Gnostic Christian | Primordial being. The feminine aspect of one of the androgynous principles born to YALDABAOTH, the prime parent, and ruling the seven heavens of chaos in Gnostic cosmogony. Also described in other Gnostic tracts as Protennoia, the voice of the thought, and alternatively the voice of LOGOS (logic), who descends to earth in human form and plays a part in the primordial salvation of the world.... |
"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 |
Goddess name "Prsni" | Hindu / Vedic | Primordial earth goddess. The socalled dappled cow of the Rg Veda. She is also perceived as the brightly colored soma stalk and is linked with a male counterpart, also Prsni, the dappled bull of the Sun.... |