| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Saturn/ Saturnus" | Roman | A god of Agriculture, seeds, astronomy, Saturn, education |
"Saturnia" | Roman | A daughter of Saturnus, and accordingly used as a surname of Juno and Vesta. Roman |
| Planet name "Saturnus" | Roman | Astral god. Identified with the planet Saturn, but thought to have originated as an agricultural deity concerned with sowing of seed. A sanctuary existed on the Roman forum from as early as 450 BC, also functioning as the imperial treasury. Saturnus was celebrated in the Saturnalia festival (December 17-19) during which masters and slaves exchanged roles and candles were given as gifts to symbolize the Winter darkness.... |
| God name "Satyr" | Greek | Generic term for woodland gods and Divine beings Roman / Greek |
| God name "Satyr" | Greco - Roman | Woodland god. Generic term for an åśśortment of Divine beings with a human torso and the legs, hair and horns of a goat. They include the god PAN and the demigod Silenus who raised the adolescent BACCHUS.... |
| Goddess name "Say" | Egypt | Minor god of destiny. Depicted wholly in human form. Say is mentioned in the Ani papyrus as being present at the ritual of the weighing of the heart, in company with funerary goddesses including Meskhenet, SEPSET and RENENUTET. In Greco-Roman times he was syncretized with the snake god Agathodaimon.... |
| Goddess name "Scabies" | Roman | Goddess invoked to cure skin diseases Roman |
| Goddess name "Secia" | Roman | Goddess of stored seeds Roman |
| Goddess name "Securita" | Roman | The guardian goddess invoked to ensure continuing stability of the Roman Empire |
| Goddess name "Securita" | Roman | Guardian goddess. She was invoked to ensure the continuing stability of the Roman empire.... |
| Monster name "Segesta" | Roman | The Trojan Phoenodamas (others call him Hippotes, Ippoteus or Ipsostratus) had three daughters. When he was to be compelled by Laomedon to expose one of them to the marine monster which was ravaging the country, he called the people together and induced them to compel Laomedon, whose guilt had brought the monster into the country, to expose his own daughter Hesione. Roman |
"Segetia" | Roman | A Roman divinity, who, together with Setia or Seja and Semonia, was invoked by the early Italians at seed time. |
| 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 "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.... |
| God name "Semnocosus" | Romano - Iberian | God of war. Popular locally with troops of the Roman legions who occasionally sacrificed prisoners to him.... |
| Goddess name "Sentia" | Roman | Goddess who heightens feelings Roman |
| God name "Seocosus" | Roman | God of war who was popular with various troops of the Roman legions Roman / Iberia |
| 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.... |
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