Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Sirtur" | Akkadia | Goddess of sheep Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria |
Goddess name "Sirtur" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Sheep goddess. Known from inscriptions and påśśing comments in texts. Syncretized with NINSUN.... |
God name "Sokar" | Egypt | A god of rebirth and rejuvination, depicted as a man with a falcon's head. He was the guardian of the necropolis at Memphis. Egypt |
God name "Sokar" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld god. Guardian deity of the necropolis at Memphis with possible fertility connotations and with strong links to OSIRIS beside whom he is also perceived as a restored god of the dead. He is also syncretized with the Memphis creator god PTAH in the Old kingdom (circa 4500 BC), where he may have originated as a god of various crafts åśśociated with the manufacture of funerary trappings. He is depicted either as a hawk on a boat, or in human form with the head of a hawk and an elaborate atef crown (see Osiris). Sokar also enjoyed a major cult at Thebes where, in an annual festival celebrating the healthy continuation of the Divine kingship, he was conveyed in an elaborate barque. Also Sokaris (Greek).... |
God name "Sopona" | Yoruba | God of smallpox Yoruba |
Goddess name "Su" | Egypt | Primordial god of the air. According to the genealogy of the priests of Heliopolis, he is the first born of the creator Sun god ATUM and by his sister TEFNUT is the father of the chthonic god GEB and the sky goddess NUT. S u is typically represented in human form standing over the supine form of Geb and holding Nut aloft with his raised arms. He can also, as one of several manifestations of the eye of RE, be represented as a lion, as can his sister.... |
Goddess name "Sul-pa-e (youthful radiance)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Fertility and astral god. Identified as the personification of the planet Jupiter and, in one list, the consort of the mother goddess NINHURSAG A.... |
God name "Sul-utula" | Mesopotamia | Rather personal tutelary god Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
God name "Sullat" | Akkadia | Minor god who was an attendant of God of the Sun Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia |
God name "Sullat" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Minor god. An attendant of the Sun god S AMAS .... |
God name "Sulman(u)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian / / western Semitic | Chthonic and fertility deity. Also identified as a war god. Found in Assyria circa 1400 BC to 700 BC and known from Bronze Age inscriptions at Sidon.... |
God name "Sulman[u]" | Mesopotamia / Babylon / Akkadia / W Semitic | A chthonic war & fertility god |
God name "Sulman[u] Mesopotamia" | Semitic | Chthonic war and fertility god Semitic |
Goddess name "Sulsaga" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Astral goddess. Sul-utula... |
God name "Sumugan" | Mesopotamia | God of the River plains Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
God name "Sumugan" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | God of the river plains. In creation mythology he is given charge by the god ENKI over the flat alluvial lands of southern Mesopotamia.... |
Goddess name "Tammuz / Dumuzi / Dumuzi-Abzu" | Mesopotamia | God of vegetation, city goddess of Kinirsha, in Eridu viewed as male, the son of Enki |
Goddess name "Tane(mahuta)" | Polynesian / including Maori | God of light. One of the children of the prime parents RANGINUI and PAPATUANUKU. Also god of trees, Forests and boat-builders, his consort is the goddess HINEAHU-ONE and he is the father of HINE-ATA-UIRA who descended to the underworld to become the goddess of death, HINE-NUI-TE-PO. In other traditions he is the consort of Hine-Nui-Te-Po, whom he joins each evening when he descends to the underworld. It was he who proposed that his parents should be pushed apart rather than slaughtered. In Maori culture Tanemahuta, like all deities, is represented only by inconspicuous, slightly worked stones or pieces of wood and not by the large totems, which are depictions of ancestors. Also KANE (Hawaiian).... |