Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Ops" | Greco - Roman | Goddess of harvests. Honored in an annual festival on August 25. She is also concerned with regulating the proper growth of seeds. A sanctuary is dedicated to her in the Regia in Rome.... |
God name "Orcus" | Roman | A chthonic underworld god |
God name "Orcus" | Roman | Chthonic underworld god. Modeled on the Greek god HADES.... |
God name "Orcus aka Hades or Pluton" | Roman | Orcus aka Hades or Pluton, the god of the lower world. Roman |
Spirit name "Oreades" | GrecoRoman | Animistic spirits of the mountains. Female personalities åśśigned the guardianship of mountains by the great gods. Invoked by travelers to ensure their safety.... |
Goddess name "Pacis" | Roman | An altar to Peace, envisioned as a Roman goddess. |
God name "Palaemon" | Greco - Roman | Minor sea god. Originally Melikertes, the son of Ino, Palaemon was deified by the gods when his mother hurled herself from a cliff with her son in her arms. According to versions of the legend she was either insane or escaping the wrath of Athanas, king of Thebes.... |
God name "Palemon" | Greek / Roman | A human that suffered apotheosis & became a minor sea god |
Goddess name "Pales" | Roman | Pastoral goddess. A guardian of flocks and herds. Her festival was celebrated annually in Rome on April 21.... |
God name "Pan/ Consentes" | Greek / Roman | A god of flocks, herds & of shepherds |
Goddess name "Parcae" | Greco - Roman | Goddesses of fate. Originally a pair of birth goddesses, DECIMA and NONA, later joined by a goddess of death, MORTA.... |
Goddess name "Parce" | Greek / Roman | A pair birth goddesses became the goddesses of fate |
Goddess name "Partula" | Roman | The goddess of pregnancy, who determined the time of gestation. Roman |
Goddess name "Partula" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. Concerned with parturition.... |
Goddess name "Pasithea" | Greek / Roman | A goddess of relaxation, meditation and hallucinations (the wife of Hypnos, god of sleep) |
Goddess name "Patricia" | Roman | Goddess of Luck and Fate. Roman |
God name "Penates" | Romans | The household gods of the Romans, both in regard to a private family and to the state, as the great family of citizens: hence we shall have to distinguish between private and public Penates. |
Deities name "Penates" | Roman | Hearth deities. These gods are a peculiarly Roman innovation, unknown to the Greeks. The penates, chosen individually by the head of the household, oversaw the domestic affairs of most Roman families. They were considered sufficiently important that, if a move was anticipated, they were taken to and established in the new residence a priori. They are represented in the form of small statues made of anything from clay to gold according to the wealth of the owner, and were provided with regular offerings of scraps of food.... |