Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Parce" | Greek / Roman | A pair birth goddesses became the goddesses of fate |
Goddess name "Pasithea" | Greek / Roman | A goddess of relaxation, meditation and hallucinations (the wife of Hypnos, god of sleep) |
Goddess name "Peitho" | Greek | Goddess of persuasion. A minor attendant of the goddess APHRODITE.... |
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.... |
God name "Peneus" | Greek | Also called Peneius, a Thessalian river god, and a son of Oceåñuś and Tethys. (Theogony of Hesiod 343; Metamorphoses by Ovid i.) By the Naiad Creusa he became the father of Hypseus, Stilbe, and Daphne. Cyrene also is called by some his wife, and by others his daughter, and hence Peneius is called the genitor of Aristaeus. Greek |
Goddess name "Perse" | Greek | Chthonic underworld goddess. The consort of the Sun god Helios and the mother of Kirke and Pasiphae,... |
Goddess name "Persephone" | Greek | Goddess of death and spring, queen of the underworld. Greek |
God name "Phanes" | Greek | A mystic divinity in the system of the Orphics, is also called Eros, Ericapaeus, Himerus Metis, and Protogonus. He is said to have sprung from the mystic mundane egg, and to have been the father of all gods, and the creator of men. Phanes means "Manifestor" or "Revealer," and is related to the Greek words "light" and "to shine forth." Phanes, or the personification of longing love, is first mentioned by Hesiod (Theogony 201), where he and Eros appear as the companions of Aphrodite. Greek |
God name "Phantasos" | Greek | God of dreams by inanimate objects Greek |
God name "Pharies" | Greek | Primordial Sun god. The first god to emerge from the cosmic egg engendered by KRONOS, he personifies light emerging from chaos. According to one tradition, his daughter is NYX, the night.... |
Goddess name "Pharmacides" | Greek | Goddesses of health and drugs Greek |
Goddess name "Philyra" | Greek | A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and the mother of Cheiron by Cronus. Philyra was an Oceanid and was married to Nauplius and was the goddess of perfume, writing, healing, beauty and paper. Greek |
God name "Phobetus" | Greek | God of dreams by animals Greek |
God name "Phoebus" | Greek | God of enlightenment Greek |
God name "Phorkys" | Greek | A Minor sea god noted by Hesiod |
God name "Phorkys" | Greek | Minor sea god. According to Hesiod, he is the son of PONTOS and GAIA. The consort of a sea-serpent, Keto, and the father of the Gorgons and Graii. Also Phorkos.... |
God name "Phosphoros" | Greek | This is the god of the morning star |
God name "Phosphoros" | Greek | God of the morning star. His mother is EOS, the dawn, and he is depicted as a naked youth running ahead of her, carrying a torch. In Roman culture he becomes Lucifer.... |