Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Punitavati (purified)" | Hindu | Local goddess. Worshiped at Karaikkal near Ammaiyar. The deification of a Brahman businessman's wife.... |
God name "Qos" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Local weather god. Apparently known as the deification of an outcrop of black basalt on the north side of the Wadi Hesa [near Kirbet Tannur]. Also a god of Rainbows. Depicted seated on a throne flanked by bulls. Attributes include a branched thunderbolt held in the left hand. A worshiper is seen offering him an eagle.... |
Goddess name "Rosmerta (great provider)" | Roman / Celtic / British / Gallic | Fertility goddess. Consort to the god Mercury. Probably locally worshiped and often depicted carrying a basket of fruit, purse or cornucopia. She and Mercury frequently appear together. In addition to her purse, she may bear a twin-headed ax or, alternatively, she may carry Mercury's caduceus (snake-entwined wand).See also MERCURIUS.... |
God name "Rsabha (the bull)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | God. An unusual avatara of VIS'NU. Said to be similar to the Jain deity Rsabhanatha and therefore may represent an attempt to meld the two religions by absorbing Jainism locally.... |
God name "Rugievit" | Slav | Local tutelary and war god. Identified by the historian Saxo Grammaticus as inhabiting the island of Rugen, depicted with seven heads and carrying a sword.... |
God name "Sai' Al Qaum (the good and beautiful god who does not drink wine)" | Western Semitic / Nabataean | Local guardian deity. Known from two inscriptions at Palmyra which suggest him to be a protector of caravans. Attributes include a helmet. He may have developed from an Egyptian god Sai (Greek: Psais).... |
God name "Sai' Al Quan" | Nabataean / W Semitic | A local guardian God is believed to be the protector of caravans |
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 "Salm of Mahram/ Salman" | N Arabia | A local tutelary god |
"Samkarsana" | Dravidian | Local last form of Balarama Dravidian / Camille |
"Samkarsana" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | Localized form of BALARAMA. Has a complexion white like milk, wears a blue robe with a red garland and carries a nanjil (plough).... |
Goddess name "Sefkhet-Abwy" | Egypt | Local goddess, concerned with libraries and writing Egypt |
Goddess name "Sefkhet-Abwy (she who has seven horns)" | Egypt | Local goddess of libraries and writing. Probably a form of the goddess SESAT. Depicted in human form bearing a seven-pointed star or rosette on her head below a bow-shaped object.... |
God name "Semnocosus" | Romano - Iberian | God of war. Popular locally with troops of the Roman legions who occasionally sacrificed prisoners to him.... |
Goddess name "Sepset" | Egypt | Local funerary goddess from Memphis Egypt |
Goddess name "Sepset" | Egypt | Local funerary goddess. Known chiefly at Memphis, where she appears as an attendant at the ritual of the weighing of the heart.... |
God name "Shomde" | Afghanistan | Local creator god of the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan |
God name "Shomde" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Creator god of localized observance. Known from various villages in the southern Hindukush. Shomde is regarded either as equating or senior to the more generally recognized god IMRA. According to observers he provides gold, silver and silk as well as butter, cheese, cream and flour. The main sanctuary was probably at the village of Dewa and in various wooden sculptures Shomde is depicted in human form. Also Wushum; Usum.... |