Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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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.... |
God name "Shou Hsing" | China | A god of longevity |
God name "Shou Lao" | Chinese | God of longevity. He originates as an astral deity but comes to head the heavenly ministry responsible for setting the span of a person's life. He is also known as Nan-ji Hsian Weng, the ancient of the South Pole. His sacred animal is the crane, embodiment of long life.... |
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 "Shouxing" | China | God of longevity. He rides a crane and holds a peach, both are symbols of long life. China |
God name "Shu" | Egypt | God of light, åśśociated with heat and dryness, often depicted as holding up the sky with his two hands, one at the place of Sunrise, the other of Sunset. Egypt |
God name "Shui-Khan" | Chinese | Chinese god who defends men against evil and forgives their wrongdoings. |
God name "Shurdi" | Illyrian / Albania | storm god. Believed to send thunder and lightning and revered into more recent times.... |
Goddess name "Si" | Chimu Indian / pre - Columbian / coastal regions of Peru | moon god. The head of the pantheon and guardian of weather and of harvests. He is depicted subtended by a sickle moon, wearing a feathered crown and an armored projection on his back. May also be represented as a goddess.... |
Goddess name "Si n" | Nordic / Icelandic | Goddess. The consort of LOKI and listed among the AESIR goddesses. Her son is Nari or Narfi. According to tradition, SKADI, the consort of NJORD, set a poisonous snake to drip poison on to a captive Loki but Sigyn collected most of the venom in a bowl and threw it away.... |
Deities name "Sia" | Egypt | God of perception. Minor deity depicted at RE's right hand where he holds the papyrus of intellect. He travels in the Sun god's barque. According to legend he was one of several deities formed in drops of blood falling from Re's śéméñ.... |
Goddess name "Siduri" | Sumeria | Minor goddess of happiness, merriment, wine making, brewing and of wisdom Sumeria |
Goddess name "Siduri" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor goddess of brewing. Also identified with wisdom.... |
Goddess name "Sif" | Nordic / Icelandic / / Germanic | corn goddess. The consort of THOR. She is mentioned in the Eddaic Lay of Lokasenna and in the Lay of Har barth. According to Snorri Sturluson she was originally a prophetess called Sibyl. She possesses great beauty and has long golden hair. Her sons are ULL and Loridi. According to tradition, LOKI cut off Sif's hair in mischief, but when confronted and threatened by Thor, he had the dwarfs make her a magical hairpiece of pure gold which, when it touched her head, became a living part of her and grew.... |
God name "Siguna" | Scandinavian | wife of Loki. She nurses him in his cavern, but sometimes, as she carries off the poison which the serpents gorge, a portion drops on the god, and his writhings cause earthquakes. Scandinavian |
Goddess name "Silewe Nazarata" | Indonesia | Goddess Understanding, of wisdom Indonesia |
God name "Silik-muludag" | Akkadian | The god among all the gods, offspring of the abstract Divine wisdom and the great unseen Divine. Akkadian |
God name "Silvåñuś" | Roman | A Latin divinity of the fields and Forests, to whom in the very earliest times the Tyrrhenian Pelasgians are said to have dedicated a grove and a festival. He is described as a god watching over the fields and husbandmen, and is also called the protector of the boundaries of fields. |