| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Angel name "Ouestucati" | Nazorean | A female angel who brings the sea wind. Early Nazorean |
| Goddess name "Pallas" | Greek | Surname of Athena. In Homer this name always appears united with the name Athena, but in later writers we also find Pallas alone instead of Athena. Plato derives the surname from "to brandish", in reference to the goddess brandishing the spear or aegis, whereas Apollodorus derives it from the giant Pallas, who was slain by Athena. But it is more probable that Pallas is the same word as virgin or maiden. Another female Pallas, described as a daughter of Triton, is mentioned under palladium. Greek |
| Goddess name "Pandara" | Buddhist | Goddess. The SAKTI of AMITABHA and a female BODHISATTVA or buddha-designate. She originates from the Tantric syllable PAM. Color: rose. Attributes: blue lotus, cup, knife and prayer wheel.... |
"Pandora's Box" | Greek | A present which seems valuable, but which is in reality a curse; as when Midas was permitted, according to his request, to turn whatever he touched into gold, and found his very food became gold, and therefore uneatable. Prometheus made an image and stole fire from heaven to endow it with life. In revenge, Jupiter told Vulcan to make a female statue, and gave her a box which she was to present to the man who married her. Prometheus distrusted Jove and his gifts, but Epimetheus, his brother, married the beautiful Pandora, and received the box. Immediately the bridegroom opened the box all the evils that flesh is heir to flew forth, and have ever since continued to afflict the world. The last thing that flew from the box was Hope. Greek |
"Pasowee" | Kiowa | A female Manitou of health & Medicine |
| God name "Pemba (great thing)" | Bambara / Mande / Mali, West Africa | Creator god. He was created out of the empty or Fu and his first task was to form the egg of the world. He descended to earth as an acacia seed (Acacia albida) which first grew to a mighty tree and then died. From the wood Pemba generated human souls and a female being whom he impregnated to engender all human and animal life. His brother is the god FARO, creator of the river Niger.... |
"Phusis" | Greek | The Protogeos of nature. Mother nature was one of the first beings to emerge at creation, a primal being of creation and regarded as both male and female. Similar in certain aspects to Gaia, Tethys, Eros and Phanes. Greek |
"Pistis/ Pistis Sophia" | Gnostic Christian | The primordial female force |
| Spirit name "Poluvirica" | Slavic | A female Forest spirit who appears naked, with a long face, pendulant breasts and three braids of hair down her back. Slavic |
| Goddess name "Pukkasi" | Tibet | One of the Eight dakinis, minor goddesses or female deities, her right hand holding intestines, her left feeding them into her mouth. Tibet |
| Goddess name "Quades (the holy one)" | Western Semitic | Fertility goddess. probably originating in Syria. She epitomizes female sexuality and eroticism in the mold of ASTARTE. She was adopted by Egypt with the fertility gods MIN and RESEP and became partly åśśociated with the goddess HATHOR. She is usually depicted nude standing on the back of a lion (see also INANA and NINHURSAG A) between Min to whom she offers a lotus blossom, and Resep for whom she bears snakes. Her cult followed the typically ancient Near Eastern pattern of a sacred marriage carried out by her votary priestesses and their priests or kings.... |
| Spirit name "Raja Matangi" | Hindu | A female spirit who watches carefully over men's actions. Hindu |
| God name "Robigo" | Roman | The female version of Robigus, the god who protected crops from disease. Roman |
"Rohit" | India | The female aspect of Brahma who took the form of a red deer to escape the amorous pursuits of her father, Brahma. India |
| God name "Sakti (energy)" | Hindu, Jain / Buddhist | Personification of a god. The effective power, or creative force, of a deity in the form of a female aspect. In a more specific context, the SAKTI identifies the creative force of the god SIVA, particularly the ugra or violent aspects DURGA and KALI. The Sakti may frequently have the same characteristics and carry the same attributes as the principal god. In Tantrism, the unity of opposites is defined by the Sakti, which is the yoni or female sexuality that unites with the male lingam of Siva.... |
| God name "Sala" | Babylonian | The female consort of the Sun-god of Eridu. Babylonian |
"Salacia" | Greek | The female divinity of the sea among the Romans, and the wife of Neptune. |
| Deity name "Sams" | Greek | Sun deity who in the north is a male and in the south female. Greek |
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