| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Salagrama" | Hindu | A stone credited with possessing magical properties and worn in parts of India as an amulet. Hindu |
| God name "Salagrama" | Hindu / late | Aniconic form of the god VIS'NU. A fossil ammonite shell embodying the god and forming a part of daily ritual in many Vaisnava households as well as appearing in monasteries.... |
| God name "Salevao" | Polynesian | Primordial god of rocks. He is the brother of SAVEA SI'ULEO, god of the dead, and the consort of PAPATUANUKA, the earth mother, who became pregnant and gave birth to Moa in the center of the earth. (Moa may have been the ancestor of mankind, roughly equating to Adam.)... |
| Goddess name "Salus" | Greek | The personification of health, prosperity, and the public welfare, among the Romans. In the first of these three senses she answers very closely to the Greek Hygieia, and was accordingly represented in works of art with the same attributes as the Greek goddess. In the second sense she represents prosperity in general and was invoked by the husbandmen at seed-time. In the third sense Salus is the goddess of the public welfare. |
| Goddess name "Sanju" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Harvest goddess. A littlereported deity, the consort of the war god GISH and daughter of SANU. She controls the harvesting, threshing and winnowing of grain and the safe storage of wheat and butter. She carries a golden winnow and is either depicted in human form or as a goat. Her cult is known chiefly from the village of Pronz in the southern Hindukush where she enjoyed an important sanctuary with stone seats around the icon, part of which reportedly still exists. Wooden statues depict her in human form, nude to the waist. Alternatively, she is perceived as a bird that acts as a messenger. The blood of sacrificial animals was poured over the figure. Also Sulmech; SANU.... |
| 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).... |
| Goddess name "Sariirig Sari" | Javan | Rice mother. Represented by parts of the rice plant known as indoea padi (mother of the rice). At planting, the finest grain is picked out and sown in the nursery bed in the form of the goddess, after which the rest of the grain is sown round about. At transplanting, the shoots making up the rice mother are given a similar special place in the paddy field. At harvesting, the rice mother plants are found and brought home for the following year's planting.... |
"Saronis" | Greek | A surname of Artemis at Troezene, where an annual festival was celebrated in honour of her under the name of Saronia. Greek |
| Spirit name "Sarpa-rajni" | Blavatsky | The queen of the serpents; "Before our globe became egg-shaped (and the Universe also) 'a long trail of Cosmic dust (or fire mist) moved and writhed like a serpent in Space.' The 'Spirit of God moving on chaos' was symbolized by every nation in the shape of a fiery serpent breathing fire and light upon the primordial waters, until it had incubated cosmic matter and made it åśśume the annular shape of a serpent with its tail in its mouth -- which symbolises not only Eternity and Infinitude, but also the globular shape of all the bodies formed within the Universe from that fiery mist. The Universe, as well as the earth and Man, cast off periodically, serpent-like, their old skins, to åśśume new ones after a time of rest " The secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky |
| Goddess name "Sarrahitu" | Akkadia | Goddess of fertility who started out being Tutelary goddess of the city of Su-Sin Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria |
| Goddess name "Sarrahitu/ Sarra Itu" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Babylon / Akkadia | A fertility goddess that started out being the tutelary goddess of the city of Su-Sin |
| God name "Sastra-devatas" | Hindu | The gods of Divine weapons in the Mahabharata and Ramayana, the lords behind earthquakes, tidal waves, storms of all kinds, and lightning. Hindu |
| 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 "Satyabhama (with true luster)" | Hindu - Dravidian / Tamil | Goddess. Known particularly from southern India as the second consort of KRSNA, who stands on her left; also as the secorid consort of V ISNU. Attribute: a flower.... |
| Goddess name "Sauska" | Hittite / Hurrian | Fertility goddess. Of Hurrian origin, Sauska was adopted by the Hittite state religion. She is also identified with war and is particularly renowned as a goddess of healing. She is depicted in human form with wings, standing with a lion and accompanied by two attendants. Sauska is known in detail only because she became the patron goddess of the Hittite king Hattusilis II (1420-1400 BC).... |
| Goddess name "Say" | Egypt | Minor god of destiny. Depicted wholly in human form. Say is mentioned in the Ani papyrus as being present at the ritual of the weighing of the heart, in company with funerary goddesses including Meskhenet, SEPSET and RENENUTET. In Greco-Roman times he was syncretized with the snake god Agathodaimon.... |
| Goddess name "Sekhet-Hor" | Egypt / Lower | cow goddess. The fostermother of the god HORUS and particularly invoked to safeguard cattle.... |
| God name "Selardi" | Urartian / Armenia | moon god. The counterpart of the Mesopotamian deity SIN.... |
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