| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Pajau Yan" | Cambodian | Goddess of health and healing who was sent to live in the moon, where she provides flowers to the newly dead to ease their transition as they move into the underworld. Cambodian |
| God name "Pen Anniwen" | Celtic / Welsh | underworld god. Virtually synonymous with PWYLL and PRYDERI.... |
| God name "Pen Annwen" | Welsh | An underworld god almost synonymous with Pwyll & Pryderi |
| Goddess name "Perse" | Greek | Chthonic underworld goddess. The consort of the Sun god Helios and the mother of Kirke and Pasiphae,... |
| Goddess name "Persephone" | Greek | Goddess of death and spring, queen of the underworld. Greek |
| God name "Picullus" | Roman / Celtic / Prussian | Chthonic underworld god. He becomes syncretized with the devil in Christian times.... |
| God name "Pikuolis" | Europe | One of the trinity of gods and is the god of death, the underworld and of evil intent. Eastern Europe |
| Goddess name "Pinga" | Inuit | A goddess of the hunt, fertility and Medicine. She was also the psychopomp, bringing souls of the newly-dead to Adlivun, the underworld. Inuit |
| God name "Pluto" | Roman | God of the underworld. Derived from the Greek model of HADES, he abducted the daughter of CERES, PROSERPINA, to reign as his queen. The three-headed dog Cerberus was set to guard the gate of Hades and through the kingdom flowed the two rivers of death, the Cocytus and the Acheron which could be crossed only by the ferryman Charon. According to Roman tradition, the entrance to the underworld was at Avernus in Rome where the Christian church of St. Maria del Inferno was built.See also HADES.... |
| Goddess name "Proserpina" | Roman but derived from a Greek model | Goddess of death. Abducted by the underworld god PLUTO to reign as his queen (see PERSEPHONE).... |
| God name "Pryderi" | Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic god. The son of PWYLL and RHIANNON. According to tradition, he was abducted as an infant from his cradle by a huge talon or claw, with the implication that the abduction was instigated by an adversary from the underworld, perhaps the family of Gwawl, a rejected suitor of Rhiannon. Pryderi was found in a stable and rescued by Teirnyon, who brought the child up as his son. Eventually the true parents of Pryderi were identified and he was returned to his family. His consort is Cigfa and he succeeded Pwyll to the title Lord of Dyfed.'... |
| God name "Pwyll" | Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic god. The so-called Lord of Dyfed who, according to tradition, brought the pig to Wales having received it as a gift from ARAWN, the underworld god. He earned the reward by substituting for Arawn and fighting his enemy Hafgan, in payment for an unintended slight to Arawn, whom he met one day while out hunting. His consort is RHIANNON and his son is PRYDERI.... |
| God name "Ra" | Egypt | God of the mid-day Sun, sky, earth, and the underworld. Egypt |
| God name "Rati mbati ndua" | Fiji | The god of the underworld who devours the dead |
| God name "Rati-mbati-ndua" | Fiji | The winged god of the underworld who devours the dead. Fiji |
| God name "Resheph/ Mikal/ Mekal" | Phoenicia | The god of plague & of the underworld |
| God name "Reshephi" | Phoenicia | God of plague and the underworld. Phoenicia |
| God name "Rhadamanthos" | Greek / Roman | A marriage of chthonic underworld god |
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