Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Orcus aka Hades or Pluton" | Roman | Orcus aka Hades or Pluton, the god of the lower world. Roman |
Spirit name "Oreades" | GrecoRoman | Animistic spirits of the mountains. Female personalities åśśigned the guardianship of mountains by the great gods. Invoked by travelers to ensure their safety.... |
"Ormandine" | Christian | The necromancer who by his magic arts threw St. David for seven years into an enchanted sleep, from which he was redeemed by St. George. Christian |
Spirit name "Osmand" | George | A necromancer who by his enchantments raised up an army to resist the Christians. six of the Champions of Christendom were enchanted by Osmand, but St. George restored them. Osmand tore off his hair in which lay his spirit of enchantment, bit his tongue in two, disembowelled himself, cut off his arms, and then died. |
"Ossipaga" | Roman | Ossipanga, Ossilago, a Roman divinity, who was prayed to, to harden and strengthen the bones of infants. |
Goddess name "Pacis" | Roman | An altar to Peace, envisioned as a Roman goddess. |
God name "Palaemon" | Greco - Roman | Minor sea god. Originally Melikertes, the son of Ino, Palaemon was deified by the gods when his mother hurled herself from a cliff with her son in her arms. According to versions of the legend she was either insane or escaping the wrath of Athanas, king of Thebes.... |
God name "Palemon" | Greek / Roman | A human that suffered apotheosis & became a minor sea god |
Deity name "Pales" | Roman | A deity of shepherds, flocks and livestock. Roman |
Goddess name "Pales" | Roman | Pastoral goddess. A guardian of flocks and herds. Her festival was celebrated annually in Rome on April 21.... |
God name "Pan/ Consentes" | Greek / Roman | A god of flocks, herds & of shepherds |
"Paradise of Fools" | Roman | The Hindus, Mahometans, Scandinavians, and Roman Catholics have devised a place between Paradise and "Purgatory" to get rid of a theological difficulty. If there is no sin without intention, then infants and idiots cannot commit sin, and if they die cannot be consigned to the purgatory of evil-doers; but, not being believers or good-doers, they cannot be placed with the saints. The Roman Catholics place them in the Paradise of infants and the Paradise of Fools. |
Goddess name "Parcae" | Greco - Roman | Goddesses of fate. Originally a pair of birth goddesses, DECIMA and NONA, later joined by a goddess of death, MORTA.... |
Goddess name "Parce" | Greek / Roman | A pair birth goddesses became the goddesses of fate |
Goddess name "Partula" | Roman | The goddess of pregnancy, who determined the time of gestation. Roman |
Goddess name "Partula" | Roman | Minor goddess of birth. Concerned with parturition.... |
Goddess name "Pasithea" | Greek / Roman | A goddess of relaxation, meditation and hallucinations (the wife of Hypnos, god of sleep) |
Goddess name "Patricia" | Roman | Goddess of Luck and Fate. Roman |