Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Poleramma" | India | One of the incarnations of the goddess åśśociated with smallpox. India |
Goddess name "Poleramma" | Telegu / India | Plague goddess. Associated with smallpox and offered blood sacrifices.... |
Goddess name "Poleramma Telegu" | India | A plague goddess åśśociated with smallpox |
Spirit name "Polevik" | Slavonic | 'Mistress of the Field'. Slavonic field spirit. She is a trickster who can be propitiated through sacrificial gifts. |
Spirit name "Polevoi" | Poland | A spirit of the fields who appears at noon or Sunset as a hideous dwarf with gråśś for hair and two differently colored eyes. He will lead astray people who wander in the fields. If they fall asleep there, he gives them diseases or rides over them with his horse. Poland |
"Pollux" | Roman | One of the Dioscuri. Castor was famous for his skill in taming and managing horses, and Pollux for his skill in boxing. Both had disappeared from the earth before the Greeks went against Troy. Roman |
"Pollux" | Roman | The horses of Castor and Pollux. Cyllaros and Harpagos. Seneca and Claudian give Cyllaros to Castor, but Virgil to Pollux. The two brothers mount it alternatively on their return from the infernal regions. Harpagos, the horse from Harpagium in Phrygia, was common to both brothers. Roman |
God name "Pollux" | Roman | horse god. See also POLYDEUKES.... |
Goddess name "Poloknalai" | Kafir / Afghanistan | A goddess of animals |
Goddess name "Poloknalai Kafir" | Afghanistan | Goddess of animals Afghanistan |
God name "Poltrimpt" | Baltic | corn god. Baltic |
Goddess name "Poludnitsy" | Slavic | Ukranian moon-goddesses. |
Goddess name "Poluknalai" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Goddess of animals. Locally revered, with the goddess DISANI, among Askun villages in the southwest of Kafiristan.... |
Demon name "Polunocnica" | Ukranian | 'Lady Midnight'. A demoness said to frighten children at night. She seems to have originally been the third Zorya of midnight with sisters dawn and Sunset. Ukranian |
Spirit name "Poluvirica" | Slavic | A female Forest spirit who appears naked, with a long face, pendulant breasts and three braids of hair down her back. Slavic |
God name "Polybotes" | Greek | One of the giants who fought against the gods. The sea-god pursued him to the island of Cos, and, tearing away part of the island, throw it on him and buried him beneath the måśś. Greek |
Goddess name "Polyboulus" | Greek | A goddess of wisdom |
King name "Polycaon" | Greek | 1. A son of Lelex, brother of Myles, and husband of Messene, the daughter of Triopas of Argos. He emigrated from Laconia to Messenia, which country he thus called after his wife. He was the first king of Messenia. |