| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Sarasvati" | Hindu | A sacred river in the Vedas, and as a river goddess she was often invoked to bestow vitality, renown. She is described as moving along a golden path and destroying the demon Vritra. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Sarasvati Hindu," | Vedic | A goddess of astronomy, science, education, wisdom, eloquence & rivers |
| God name "Sarigarios" | Phrygian / northwestern Turkey | River god. A Hellenized version of an Asiatic god whose daughter, NANA, is, according to some traditions, the mother of the vegetation god ATTIS. She impregnated herself with an almond seed.... |
| God name "Scamander" | Greek | An Oceanid, son of Oceåñuś and Tethys and the god of the river Scamander, in Troas, was called by the gods Xanthus. Being insulted by Achilles, he entered into a contest with the Greek hero but Hera sent out Hephaestus to åśśist Achilles, and the god of fire dried up the waters of Scamander, and frightened Scamander, until Hera ordered Hephaestus to spare the river-god. By Idaea, he fathered Teucrus.(Theogony 345.) Greek |
| Goddess name "Sequana" | British | Goddess who lived beneath the rivers British |
| Goddess name "Sequana" | Gaul | Goddess of the Seine River Gaul |
| Goddess name "Sequana" | Roman / Celtic / Gallic | River goddess. The tutelary goddess of the Sequanae tribe. A pre-Roman sanctuary northwest of Dijon near the source of the Seine has yielded more than 200 wooden votive statuettes and models of limbs, heads and body organs, attesting to Sequana's importance as a goddess of healing. During the Roman occupation the site of Fontes Sequanae was sacred to her and was again considered to have healing and remedial properties. A bronze statuette of a goddess was found wearing a diadem, with arms spread and standing in a boat. The prow is in the shape of a duck, her sacred animal, with a cake in its mouth. Also found were models of dogs, an animal specifically åśśociated with healing through its affinity with the Greco-Roman physician deity AESCULAPIUS.... |
| Goddess name "Sequana/ Sequena" | Britain | A goddess who lived beneath the rivers |
| God name "Simois" | Greek | The god of the river Simois, which flows from mount Ida, and in the plain of Troy joins the Xanthus or Scamander. He is described as a son of Oceåñuś and Tethys and as the father of Astyoche and Hieromneme. |
| Goddess name "Sinann" | Celtic | Goddess of rivers. Celtic |
| Goddess name "Sindhu" | Hindu | Goddess of rivers Hindu / Vedic |
| Goddess name "Sindhu" | Hindu / Vedic | River goddess. Identified only in the Rg Veda and of unknown source.... |
| Goddess name "Sionnan" | Ireland | Goddess of the River Shannon Ireland |
"Sirin" | Russian | A mythological creature with the head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird. According to the myth, they lived near Eden or around the Euphrates River. Russian |
| Goddess name "Somius" | Roman | Minor god of sleep. He equates with the Greek god HYPNOS. According to legend he is one of the two sons of NYX, goddess of night, and lives in a remote cave beside the Lethe river. He is depicted by Ovid dressed in black but with his robe scattered with stars, wearing a crown of poppies and holding a goblet of opium juice. His attendant is MORPHEUS and he oversees the spirits of dreams and nightmares. Particularly noted from the art of the Lacedaemonians who placed statues of Somnus and MORS side by side.... |
| Goddess name "Souconna" | Roman / Celtic | River goddess who was the guardian of the river Saone. Roman / Celtic |
| Goddess name "Souoonna" | Roman / Celtic / Gallic | River goddess. Guardian of the river Saone and known chiefly from inscriptions at Chalon.... |
| God name "Spercheius" | Greek | A river god |
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