| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Suridara (charming)" | Hindu / Puranic | (1) Goddess. A prosperous aspect of the god SIVA. 2 Minor goddess. Buddhist (Mahayana). An attendant of BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
| Goddess name "Surya" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Sun goddess. The daughter of the Sun god SURYA. According to legend she was courted by all the gods, but won finally by the twin ASVIN gods with whom she rides in a chariot. Other legends account her consorts to include SOMA and PUSAN. She is the essence of the cosmos. Also Savitr.... |
| Goddess name "Susano-Wo ascends with her to heaven but is thrown out after trying to enter her house and committing various excesses. Amaterasu refuses to be sullied and obstinately hides herself away in a cave. It requires the combined diplomacy and craft of many other deities to persuade her to come out. The lure is the perfect divine mirror in which she sees her reflection. The birth of the two deities is considered to mark the transition between cosmic and material genesis." | Sometimes her shrines are placed adjacent to those of Susano - Wo | The Ise Naiku sanctuary is visited by about five million devotees each year and Amaterasu takes pride of place in every family shrine. She is also the tutelary goddess of the emperor. Hers tends to be a monotheistic cult in which all other deities take a subservient place. Though powerful she does not always succeed and is often subject to attack. She has been arguably identified with the god VAIROCANA in Buddhist religion.... |
| Goddess name "Sussistanako" | Mexico | Sussistanako "Thinking-Woman" A goddess of creation who thinks things into being. Mexico |
| Goddess name "Svadha (invoked witb offerings)" | Hindu | Minor goddess. The daughter of DAKSA and PRASUTI. Sometimes identified as a consort of RUDRA or AGNI.... |
| God name "Svantevit" | Pre - Christian Latvian | God of war. Mentioned by the author Saxo Grammaticus as riding upon a white horse and holding a cornucopia, he is known locally from the island of Rugen. Also a guardian deity of crops.... |
| Goddess name "Svasthavesini (entering a natural state)" | Hindu | Goddess. One of terrifying appearance. Color: scarlet. Attribute: drum. Three-eyed and three-headed.... |
| Goddess name "Syria Dea" | De | the Syrian goddess, a name by which the Syrian Astarte or Aphrodite is sometimes designated. This Astarte was a Syrian divinity, resembling in many points the Greek Aphrodite, and it is not improbable that the latter was originally the Syrian Astarte, the opinions concerning whom were modified after her introduction into Greece; for there can be no doubt that the worship of Aphrodite came from the East to Cyprus, and thence was carried into the south of Greece. Lucian, De Syria Dea |
| Planet name "T'ai Yi" | Chinese | Primordial god. The spirit of the universe who was present before the cosmos was created and who is known as the great unity. During the Sung Dynasty (AD 960-1279) he was elevated to the head of the ranks of astral gods and he is embodied in the Pole Star, otherwise identified in Chinese mythology as the Purple Planet.... |
| Goddess name "T'ao Hua Hiiinnui (peach blossom girl)" | Chinese | Goddess. The spirit of the peach blossom and the deity of the second spring month.... |
| God name "T'ao Hua Hsiennui" | China | This goddes guardian deity as well as the deity of the second spring month |
| Goddess name "T'ien Fei" | China | Goddess of sailing and seafarers and Rain. China |
| God name "Taaut" | Blavatsky | deity with four eyes, two in front and two in back, and four wings. "The eyes denote that the god sees in sleep, and sleeps in waking; the position of the wings that he flies in rest, and rests in flying" Phoenician. Isis Unveiled, by H. P. Blavatsky |
| Goddess name "Taditkara (ligbtning)" | Buddhist | Goddess of light. Color: green. Attributes: lightning in the form of a creeper. Also Vidyddhara.... |
| Goddess name "Tahc-I" | Tunica | Sun goddess and consort of the king Fisher. Tunica |
| Planet name "Tai-Sui-Jing" | Chinese | God of temporal time. The apotheosis of the planet Jupiter which orbits the Sun in a twelve-year cycle.... |
| Planet name "Tai-Sung-Jing" | China | the god of temporal time, the apotheosis of the planet Jupiter |
| Goddess name "Taiaai" | Australian aboriginal | Snake god. His consorts include the snake goddesses Mantya, Tuknampa and Uka. He is revered mainly by tribal groups living on the western seaboard of the Cape York peninsula in northern queensland. Taipan has the typical attributes of many other Australian snake gods, including the Rainbow snake. He exercises judgment over life or death and possesses great wisdom, a universal characteristic of serpents. He is able to kill or cure and is the deity who originally fashioned the blood of living things during the Dreamtime. The imagery of the snake god is closely linked with aboriginal shamanism and with the healing rituals of shamans.... |
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