Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Renenutet" | Egypt | Snake goddess. Also possessing fertility connotations, she guarded the pharaoh in the form of a cobra. There is some evidence that she enjoyed a cult in the Faiyum, the highly fertile region of the Nile valley. She is depicted either in human form or as a hooded cobra, in which case she bears close åśśociation with the goddess WADJET who is embodied in the uraeus. Her gaze has the power to conquer enemies. In her capacity as a fertility goddess she suckles infant rulers and provides good crops and harvests, linked in this capacity to OSIRIS and the more ancient grain god NEPER. She is also a magical power residing in the linen robe of the pharaoh and in the linen bandages with which he is swathed in death. At Edfu Renenutet takes the title lady of the robes. In the Greco-Roman period, she became adopted by the Greeks as the goddess Hermouthis and was syncretized with ISIS.... |
Goddess name "Rumina" | Roman | Rumillia or Rumia, goddess who protected breastfeeding mothers, and possibly nursing infants. Her domain extended to protecting animal mothers, not just human ones. Roman |
God name "Rusina" | Roman | A protector of the fields or farmland, one of the ancient indigenous gods. Roman |
Goddess name "Sagaritis" | Greek | A nymph in whose embraces Attis became faithless to Cybele. The goddess avenged the wrong done to her by causing the tree with which the nymph's life was connected, to be cut down. Greek |
Goddess name "Samantaprabha (possessing universal splendor)" | Buddhist / Vajrayana | Minor goddess. One of several deified BHUMIS recognized as different spiritual spheres through which a disciple påśśes. Color: red. Attributes: an image of AMITABHA carried in the hand, and a staff.... |
Goddess name "Samas'" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Sun god. The patron deity of Sippar and Larsa. His consort is the mother goddess A-A. S amas derives from the god UTU in the Sumerian pantheon. He is åśśociated with justice. His symbol is the Sun disc and a star surrounded with radiating Sunbeams. He may carry a single-headed scimitar embellished with a panther head. His sanctuary is known as the E-babbar. Also åśśociated with human-headed bulls. His attendant deities include Mes aru, justice, and Kettu, righteousness. He came to much greater prominence in the pantheon at Babylon from about the eighteenth century BC.... |
Goddess name "SantoshI Mata" | Modern Hindu | Mother goddess. She first appeared in northern India in 1960 and has since developed a sizeable cult following. She is invoked to åśśist in gaining personal advancement and prosperity.... |
Goddess name "Sarra lntu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Fertility goddess. Originally the tutelary deity of the city of Su-Sin. By Hellenistic times she probably became the more important goddess Sarrahitu who is included in the pantheon at Uruk and mentioned in various cult texts where she is described as the bride and was presumably involved in a sacred marriage ceremony.... |
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 |
Goddess name "Savitar (impeller)" | Hindu / Puranic | Sun god. The original Vedic list of six descendants of the goddess ADITI or ADITYAS, all of whom take the role of Sun gods was, in later times, enlarged to twelve, including Savitar. The god of the rising and setting Sun. Color: golden. Attributes: club, prayer wheel and two lotuses.... |
God name "Selardi" | Urartian / Armenia | moon god. The counterpart of the Mesopotamian deity SIN.... |
God name "Shoney" | Scotland | Sea faeries living off the coast of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Originally a single god of the North Sea Ireland / Scotland / Manx |
God name "Shou Hsing" | China | A god of longevity |
God name "Shou-Hsing" | Chinese | Chinese god of long life and old age. He was the keeper of the Book with the life spans of men. |
God name "Sin" | Babylon | God of the moon. Babylon |
Goddess name "Sin" | Babylon / Chaldea | A moon goddess |
God name "Sin" | Dzyan | Father of the gods, creator of all things and parent of the Sun. Dzyan |