Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Patadharini (bearing a cloth)" | Buddhist | Goddess of påśśage. She watches over curtains and doorways. Color: blue. Attribute: a curtain.... |
God name "Patecatl" | Aztec | A god of healing and fertility, and the discoverer of peyote. Aztec |
God name "Patrimpas" | Europe | One of the trinity of gods and is the god of spring, joy, peace, maturity, abundance, as well the care of domestic animals, ploughed fields, and crops. Eastern Europe |
Goddess name "Pattinidevi (queen of goddesses)" | Hindu / Singhalese / Sri Lanka | Mother goddess. A deification of Kannaki, the consort of Kovolan who, according to ancient Tamil tradition, journeyed to the town of Madurai to sell a gold anklet. Through trickery she was convicted of theft and executed, but was canonized. According to another tradition, she was born from a mango pierced by a sacred arrow. In southern India and Sri Lanka a goddess of chastity and fidelity in marriage. Also a guardian against diseases, including measles and smallpox. She is åśśociated with fire-walking rituals. Attributes: cobra-hood behind the head, and a lotus.... |
"Pau-o-palae" | Pacific Islands | Pau-o-palae was clothed with a network of most delicate ferns. She was noted because of her magic power over all the ferns of the Forest, and for her skill in using the most graceful fronds for clothing and garlands. |
Spirit name "Pava" | Peru | The returning messianic god-spirit who has yet to return. Peru |
God name "Pavana" | Hindu | God of the winds, said to be the father of Hanumat or Hanuman, the monkey king who becomes Rama's helper in the Ramayana. Hindu |
Spirit name "Pax" | Roman | spirit of peace. Became well-known as Pax Romana and Pax Augusta from the second century BC and was accorded a shrine on the Field of Mars. Depicted as a young woman bearing a cornucopia, an olive branch and a sheaf of corn.... |
"Pegasus" | Greek | The famous winged horse, whose origin is thus related. When Perseus struck off the head of Medusa, with whom Poseidon had had intercourse in the form of a horse or a bird, there sprang forth from her Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus. The latter obtained the name Pegasus because he was believed to have made his appearance near the sources of Oceåñuś. Greek |
Spirit name "Peju'lpe" | Yukaghir / Siberia | Aes guardian spirits look at the well being of animals under their care & benevolent to the hunter so long as he observes the rules and kills only when necessary |
Deities name "Peju'lpe" | Yukaghir / southeastern Siberia | Guardian spirits. Attendant deities who look after the well-being of animals in their care. They are benevolent toward the hunter so long as he observes certain regulations and kills only when necessary.... |
Spirit name "Peju'lpe Yukaghir" | Siberia | Guardian spirits, who look at the well being of animals under their care and benevolent to the hunter so long as he observes the rules and kills only when necessary Siberia |
God name "Pekko" | Pre - Christian Finnish / Baltic regions | God of cereal crops. In Finland he is PELLON PEKKO and specifically a god of barley used in brewing beer. In Estonia he is a corn god whose image, made of wax, was kept in the corn chest. He was originally honored on a day taken over by a Christian festival for St. Peter.... |
God name "Pekko (or Pellon Pekko)" | Finland | The god of crops, especially barley and brewing. |
Goddess name "Pele" | Hawaii | A goddess of fire, lightning, dance, volcanoes and violence. Hawaii |
Goddess name "Pele" | Polynesian / Hawaii | Volcano goddess. According to tradition she arrived in Hawaii in a canoe, having sailed from Tahiti. She may derive locally from the more familiar Polynesian moon goddess, HINA, since one of her alternative names is Hina-Ai-Malama (Hina who devours the moon).... |
King name "Peleus" | Greek | A son of Aeacus and Endeis, was king of the Myrmidons at Phthia in Thessaly. He was a brother of Telamon and step-brother of Phocus, the son of Aeacus, by the Nereid Psamathe. Greek |
Hero name "Pelias" | Greek | The huge spear of Achilles, which none but the hero could wield; so called because it was cut from an ash growing on Mount Pelion, in Thessaly. Greek |