Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Pidray" | Canaanite / Phoenician | Minor fertility goddess. Mentioned in epic creation texts and treaties at Ugarit (Ras S amra) as the first daughter of BAAL. She is the consort of BAAL SAPON, the mother of Tly and may be the goddess Peraia described by the Greek writer Philo.... |
Goddess name "Pidraya" | Canaan | Goddess of Light or Mist, the eldest of the three daughters of Ba'al, the storm God and one of the "Perfect Brides". Canaan |
God name "Pien Ho" | China | God of jade, jewelers and immortality. China |
Goddess name "Pienenkir" | Elamite | Goddess of fertility, nurturing and motherhood. Elamite |
Goddess name "Pietas" | Roman | The goddess of duty to the state, gods and family and a personification of the Roman virtue of piety. Roman |
God name "Pietas" | Roman | Minor god. A sanctuary dedicated to him circa 191 BC is still in existence in Rome. He became Pietas Augusta and is åśśociated with family solidarity and patriotism.... |
God name "Pikuolis" | Europe | One of the trinity of gods and is the god of death, the underworld and of evil intent. Eastern Europe |
God name "Pilirin" | Australia | God of fire who taught men to make fire. Australia |
Spirit name "Pillan" | Chile | God of fire, thunder, and war, chief of all the gods. Assisted by hordes of evil spirits he causes earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, blights crops, creates storms and sends war. Chile |
God name "Pilnytis" | Lithuania | God of wealth. Lithuania |
God name "Piluitus" | Latvia | Fertility god. He was originally a sky or Rain-god responsible for bountiful crops. Latvia |
God name "Pilumnus (staker)" | Roman | Minor guardian god. Concerned with the protection of an infant at birth. A ceremony to honor the deity involved driving a stake into the ground.... |
Goddess name "Pinga" | Inuit | A goddess of the hunt, fertility and Medicine. She was also the psychopomp, bringing souls of the newly-dead to Adlivun, the underworld. Inuit |
Goddess name "Pinikirz" | Elamite / Iran | Mother goddess. Known only from inscriptions.... |
Goddess name "Pinikirz Elamite" | Iran | A mother goddess |
God name "Pisacas" | Hindu | Demigods created by Brahma, the creator of the universe. People, with all parts of their bodies smeared with mud; besmearing their friends here and there with mud; speaking, for the sake of love, various beautiful utterances concerning persons having sexual intercourse and the women fit for cohabitation, instigating sex-instinct; saying indecent words and crying aloud - should play. On that day, in the morning, the Pisacas of dreadful sight - the followers of Nikumbha - enter all the human beings. In the evening, they leave the body of one who does so and is bathed and enter that of another, cursing him, who does not do so. Then the bathed persons should worship Kes'ava. Hindu |
God name "Pitane" | Greek | A daughter of the river god Eurotas, became by Poseidon the mother of Evadne. From her the town of Pitana had its name. Greek |
God name "Pitao Cozobi" | Zapotec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Maize god. Worshiped by the Monte Alban culture of Zapotec-speaking peoples in the Valley of Oaxaca. Sculptures were often adorned with casts of maize ears.... |