Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Rigonometis" | British | God of the Sacred Grove who also dabbles as a war god. British |
God name "Rongomai" | Polynesian / Maori | Whale god. He is the son of TANGAROA, the creator deity responsible for the oceans and the fish, and the father of KAHUKURA, the deity responsible for the appearance of the Rainbow. He is also regarded as the ancestor of several Maori clans. Various traditions are åśśociated with Rongomai. In some regions of New Zealand he is also regarded as a god of war and is thought to have discovered the magic arts during a visit to the underworld, including the power of kaiwhatu, a preventative charm against witchcraft. Rongomai is sometimes mistakenly identified with RONGOMATANE, or Rongo, though the latter is generally considered a distinct personality. As the god responsible for the well-being of whales Rongomai may take the form of a whale, a guise in which he once challenged MARU, a more widely recognized New Zealand war god. Separate mythology places him in the heavens in the form of a comet.... |
God name "Rudra (howler)" | Hindu / Vedic | weather god. An early deity, largely superseded by SIVA, who controls the gales and storms. Often linked with the fire god AGNI and the Rain god INDRA. Generally a malignant god, Rudra lives in the mountains and is deemed to be either tall or dwarf, depending on the severity of the storm. He brings death and disease to man and domestic animals through his thousand shafts, and is considered to be highly unpredictable.... |
God name "Rugievit" | Rugen Isl | Seven headed war god. Rugen Island |
God name "Rugievit" | Slav | Local tutelary and war god. Identified by the historian Saxo Grammaticus as inhabiting the island of Rugen, depicted with seven heads and carrying a sword.... |
God name "S ara" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor war god. Mainly identified with the city of Umma, north east of Unug (Uruk), and identified in some texts as the son of INANA (IS TAR).... |
Goddess name "Sakhemet aka Sachmet" | Egypt | Sakhet and Sakhmet, originally the war goddess of Upper Egypt. It was said that her breath created the desert. She was also known by some cults to be a daughter of the ancient Sun god Ra. Egypt |
Goddess name "Sakhemet/ Sachmet" | Egypt | A goddess of war |
God name "Sakumo" | Gan / Accra region, Ghana, West Africa | God of war. The guardian deity of the Gan tribe.... |
Goddess name "Sala" | Akkadia | wife of the weather god Adad and a goddess of war. Akkadia |
Goddess name "Sala" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | war goddess. A consort of ADAD, she carries a doubleheaded mace-scimitar embellished with lion heads.... |
God name "Salevao" | Polynesia | Sacred one of the bush a general village god as well as a war god. Polynesia |
Goddess name "Sanjna" | Hindu | Goddess of warriors Hindu daughter of the celestial architect Tvastra disguised herself as a horse and fled from her husband. When he caught her, they produced the Ashwini Kumaras, the horse-headed twins. Each day the twins bring the dawn as their chariot speeds through the sky. Hindu |
Goddess name "Sanju" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Harvest goddess. A littlereported deity, the consort of the war god GISH and daughter of SANU. She controls the harvesting, threshing and winnowing of grain and the safe storage of wheat and butter. She carries a golden winnow and is either depicted in human form or as a goat. Her cult is known chiefly from the village of Pronz in the southern Hindukush where she enjoyed an important sanctuary with stone seats around the icon, part of which reportedly still exists. Wooden statues depict her in human form, nude to the waist. Alternatively, she is perceived as a bird that acts as a messenger. The blood of sacrificial animals was poured over the figure. Also Sulmech; SANU.... |
Demon name "Sankhasura" | Hindu | A demon who warred against the gods, stole the Vedas and hid them at the bottom of the sea. They were rescued by Vishnu in the form of a fish. Hindu |
Goddess name "Sanu" | Kafir / Afghanistan | God of obscure affinities. The father of the goddess SANJU and an adversary of the war god GISH. Described as a Muslim, so perhaps of foreign import. Also Sanru.... |
God name "Sara" | Akkadia | Minor war god Babylon / Akkadia |
God name "Saule" | Lithuania | God of war Lithuania |