| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Selardi" | Armenia | God of the moon Armenia |
| God name "Selardi" | Urartian / Armenia | moon god. The counterpart of the Mesopotamian deity SIN.... |
| Goddess name "Selene" | Greek | Also called Mene, a female divinity presiding over the months, or Latin Luna, was the goddess of the moon, or the moon personified into a Divine being. She is called a daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and accordingly a sister of Helios and Eos (Theogony 371 ; Apollodorus; Argonautica) ; but others speak of her as a daughter of Hyperion by Euryphaessa, or of Pallas, or of Zeus and Latona, or lastly of Helios. Greek |
| Goddess name "Selene (radiant)" | Greek | moon goddess. The daughter of HYPERION (a TITAN) and sister of the Sun god HELIOS. The tutelary deity of magicians, she rides in a chariot drawn by two horses. According to legend she fell in love with the sleeping Endymion. She becomes largely syncretized with HEKATE and in Roman culture equates with the goddess LUNA.... |
| Goddess name "Selene/ Mene" | Greek | The goddess of the moon & stars |
| Goddess name "Selket" | Egypt | Goddess of scorpions, a protector of the embalmer's tent and helper of women in childbirth. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Semele (earth)" | Greco - Roman but probably of Thracian or Phrygian origin | Mother goddess. According to legend she was the mortal daughter of Cadmos and became the mother of the god DIONYSOS (BACCHUS) after a brief liaison with ZEUS (JUPITER), also in mortal guise. Semele was burned to death on Olympus, unable to withstand the presence of Zeus in godly form, but was subsequently deified by him.... |
| Goddess name "Semframis and Ninus" | Assyrian | The mythical founders of the Assyrian empire of Ninus or Nineveh. Semiramis was the daughter of the fish-goddess Derceto of Ascalon in Syria. |
| God name "Semnocosus" | Romano - Iberian | God of war. Popular locally with troops of the Roman legions who occasionally sacrificed prisoners to him.... |
| God name "Sentanta, Lugh" | Ireland | Sentanta the Sun god, Lugh, who was a warrior-hero, a sorcerer and master of crafts. Tuatha De Danann |
| God name "Senx" | BC Canada | God of the Sun who is the ruler of a lower heavens BC Canada |
| God name "Senx" | Bella Coola Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Sun god. The ruler of the lower heaven, Sonx, in which is situated the home of the gods, Nusmeta (the house of myths). The only deity to whom the Bella Coola pray and make offerings. Hunters throw small pieces of mountain goat or seal flesh into a sacrificial fire. Also Ta'ata (our father); Smai'yakila (sacred one).... |
| God name "Senx/ Ta'ata/ Sami'yaila" | Bella Coola / BC Canada | the Sun god that is the ruler of a lower heavens |
| God name "Seocosus" | Roman | God of war who was popular with various troops of the Roman legions Roman / Iberia |
| Goddess name "Sepset" | Egypt | Local funerary goddess. Known chiefly at Memphis, where she appears as an attendant at the ritual of the weighing of the heart.... |
| Goddess name "Sequana" | British | Goddess who lived beneath the rivers British |
| Goddess name "Sequana" | Gaul | Goddess of the Seine River Gaul |
| Goddess name "Sequana" | Roman / Celtic / Gallic | River goddess. The tutelary goddess of the Sequanae tribe. A pre-Roman sanctuary northwest of Dijon near the source of the Seine has yielded more than 200 wooden votive statuettes and models of limbs, heads and body organs, attesting to Sequana's importance as a goddess of healing. During the Roman occupation the site of Fontes Sequanae was sacred to her and was again considered to have healing and remedial properties. A bronze statuette of a goddess was found wearing a diadem, with arms spread and standing in a boat. The prow is in the shape of a duck, her sacred animal, with a cake in its mouth. Also found were models of dogs, an animal specifically åśśociated with healing through its affinity with the Greco-Roman physician deity AESCULAPIUS.... |