Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Priapus" | Roman | God of the shade. A rural deity whose worship appears to have been restricted to the spéñïśs of the Hellespont and clearly derives from the god PRIAPOS.... |
Goddess name "Promitor" | Roman | The goddess of growing plants, particularly cereals, and of motherly love. Roman |
God name "Promitor" | Roman | Minor god of Agriculture. Responsible for the growth and harvesting of crops.... |
Goddess name "Proserpina" | Roman | A goddess of seed germination & spring |
Goddess name "Proserpina" | Roman but derived from a Greek model | Goddess of death. Abducted by the underworld god PLUTO to reign as his queen (see PERSEPHONE).... |
Goddess name "Providentia" | Roman | Goddess of forethought. Roman |
Goddess name "Providentia" | Roman | Goddess of forethought. Recognized from the reign of Tiberias in second century BC.... |
Goddess name "Proxumae" | RomanoCeltic | Generic title of a group of goddesses. Personal guardian deities.... |
Goddess name "Pudicita" | Roman | Goddess of chastity. Depicted as a matronly lady, her cult fell from popularity as the Roman Empire veered increasingly toward decadence.... |
Goddess name "Puta" | Roman | A goddess responsible for the proper pruning of trees & shrubs respond |
Goddess name "Puta" | Roman | Goddess of Agriculture. Specifically responsible for the proper pruning of trees and shrubs.... |
God name "Quirinus" | Roman | An early god of the Roman state. |
God name "Quirinus" | Roman | A god of war & the tutelary god of the Sabines |
God name "Quirinus" | Roman | God of war. One of a triad of warrior gods including JUPITER and MARS. He originated as the tutelary god of the Sabines, living on the Quirinal, one of the seven hills of Rome. His warrior status is primarily one of defense and he is depicted bearded and in a compromise of military and clerical clothing. The myrtle is sacred to him.... |
God name "Redarator" | Roman | Minor god of Agriculture. Associated with second ploughing and invoked by sacrifice, generally with TELLUS and CERES.... |
God name "Rederator" | Roman | The god of the second ploughing. Roman |
Goddess name "Regina" | Roman | The queen, a title of the goddess Juno, a Roman goddess of marriage and the long-suffering wife of Jupiter. |
Goddess name "Renenutet" | Egypt | Snake goddess. Also possessing fertility connotations, she guarded the pharaoh in the form of a cobra. There is some evidence that she enjoyed a cult in the Faiyum, the highly fertile region of the Nile valley. She is depicted either in human form or as a hooded cobra, in which case she bears close åśśociation with the goddess WADJET who is embodied in the uraeus. Her gaze has the power to conquer enemies. In her capacity as a fertility goddess she suckles infant rulers and provides good crops and harvests, linked in this capacity to OSIRIS and the more ancient grain god NEPER. She is also a magical power residing in the linen robe of the pharaoh and in the linen bandages with which he is swathed in death. At Edfu Renenutet takes the title lady of the robes. In the Greco-Roman period, she became adopted by the Greeks as the goddess Hermouthis and was syncretized with ISIS.... |