| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Prajnavardhani (growth of wisdom)" | Buddhist | Deification of literature. One of a group of DHARANIS. Color: white. Attributes: staff and sword on blue lotus.... |
| Spirit name "Pranidhanaparamita" | Buddhist | Philosophical deity. spiritual offspring of RATNASAMBHAVA. Color: blue. Attributes: jewel and sword on blue lotus.... |
| God name "Pratibhanakuta (excellent intelligence)" | Buddhist | God. A BODHISATTVA or buddhadesignate. Color: yellow or red. Attribute: sword on lotus.... |
| Deities name "Pratyusa (scorching)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Attendant god. One of a group of VASU deities answering to the god INDRA. Attributes: hook, knife, Sakti and sword.... |
| Deity name "Rahu (seizer)" | Hindu | Primordial cosmic deity. The son of KASYAPA or RUDRA, according to legend he seizes the Sun and moon to generate eclipses. Rahu is depicted with four hands and a tail, or as a head alone, his body having been destroyed by VISNU. He stands upon a lion or in a chariot drawn by eight black horses. Color: dark blue. Attributes: half moon, knife, sword and trident.... |
| Goddess name "Rati" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess of sexual desire. A daughter of DAKSA (in some texts SIVA) and the consort of the god KAMADEVA. One of twelve SAKTIS åśśociated with the god VISINU in his various incarnations. Attribute: a sword.... |
| 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.... |
| Goddess name "Sadhumati (good)" | Buddhist / Vajrayana | Minor goddess. One of several deified BHUMIS recognized as different spiritual spheres through which a disciple påśśes. Color: white. Attributes: staff, and sword on a blue lotus.... |
| God name "Sagaramati (mind of the ocean)" | Buddhist | God. A BODHISATTVA or buddhadesignate. Color: white. Attributes: conch, and sword with staff.... |
| Spirit name "Samantabhadra (all-good)" | Buddhist | God. A form of VAIROCANA and a dhyanibodhisattva (spiritual meditation buddha). He sits on a throne carried by a white elephant. Color: blue, green or white. Attributes: bell, cup, jewel, lotus with prayer wheel or sword. In Tibet he is also known as Kun-tu-bzan-po.See also BO HSIAN.... |
| Deities name "Sari-Dui" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Tutelary god. One of a group of Lamaist tutelary or yi-dam deities chosen on an individual basis as personal guardians. Color: blue. Attributes: bell, jewel, lotus, prayer wheel, regal trappings, staff and sword. Threeeyed and three-headed.... |
| Spirit name "Sarvanivaranaviskambhin (remover of stain)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God. A dhyaniboddhisattva or spiritual meditation buddha. Color: white. Attributes: Book, jewel, moon disc, sword and staff.... |
| Deities name "Saxnot" | Saxon | Tutelary god. He is mentioned beside Woden and Thunor as one of the deities to be renounced at Christian baptism. As Saxneat he was allegedly the founder of the Saxon royal dynasty in Essex. The name may derive from the word sahsginot meaning companion of the sword. He may also equate with the German god Tyr.... |
| Demon name "Shong-Kui" | Taoist / Chinese | God of literature. According to tradition he committed suicide when he failed in his examinations. Also a guardian deity against demons, his attribute is a sword.... |
| Deity name "Sikhandin (with a tuft of hair)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor deity. One of a group of emancipated VIDYESVARAS (lords of knowledge) considered to be aspects of S IVA. Attributes: knife and sword.... |
| God name "Sinhanada (lion's roar)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Physician god. A variety of AVALOKITESVARA. Typically depicted with stretched earlobes and attended by a lion. Color: white. Attributes: cup, fly whisk, image of the AMITABHA on the crown, lotus, moon disc, rosary, skin, snake, sword and trident. Three-eyed. Also accounted among one of a series of Medicine buddhas or SMAN-BLA.... |
| Goddess name "Sipe Gialmo" | Bon / pre - Lamaist / Tibet | Mother goddess. The so-called queen of the world. Her animal is a mule. Attributes: banner, bowl, parasol, swastika, sword and trident. Three-eyed.... |
"Sthenius" | Greek | The powerful," or "the strengthening," a surname of Zeus, under which he had an altar in a rock near Hermione, where Aegeus concealed his sword and his shoes, which were found there by Theseus after he had lifted up the rock. Greek |
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