| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Perimb" | Brazil | Goddess of the moon and supreme being. Brazil |
"Periphas" | Egypt | 1. One of the sons of Aegyptus. |
"Periphetes" | Greek | 1. A son of Hephaestus and Anticleia, was surnamed Corynetes, that is, Club-bearer, and was a robber at Epidaurus, who slew the travellers he met with an iron club. Theseus at last slew him and took his club for his own use. |
| God name "Perkele" | Finland | The devil. Originally Perkele was not the devil but a god of thunder and can be seen as an earlier form of Ukko. Related to Baltic Perkunas and Norse Thor. |
| Goddess name "Perkun Tete" | Balkans | Goddess of thunder and lightning identified with the planet Venus. Each night she receives the Sun, then returns it the next morning washed and shining. Balkans |
| God name "Perkunas" | Europe | One of the trinity of gods and is the god of the atmosphere and the "waters" of the sky, as well as the fecundity of flora, human morality and justice. Eastern Europe |
| God name "Perkuno" | Baltic | The thunder god |
"Perse" | Greek | A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and wife of Helios, by whom she became the mother of Aeetes and Circe. She is further called the mother of Pasiphae, Perses and Aloeus. Homer and Apollonius Rhodius call her Perse, while others call her Perseis. 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 |
| Hero name "Perseus" | Greek | The famous Argive hero, was a son of Zeus and Danae, and a grandson of Acrisius. Acrisius, who had no male issue, consulted the Pythian oracle, and received the answer, that if Danae should give birth to a son, he would kill his father. Greek |
"Peucetius" | Italy | One of the sons of Lycaon, is said to have led, in conjunction with his brother Oenotrus, an Arcadian colony into Italy. |
"Ph?dria" | Lake | Handmaid of Acrasia the enchantress. She sails about Idle lake in a gondola. Seeing Sir Guyon she ferries him across the lake to the floating island, where Cymochles attacks him. Ph?dria interposes, the combatants desist, and the little wanton ferries the knight Temperance over the lake again. Fairy Tale |
"Phaea" | Greek | The name of the sow of Crommyon, which ravaged the neighbourhood, and was slain by Theseus. |
"Phaeax" | Greek | A son of Poseidon and Cercyra, from whom the Phaeacians derived their name. |
"Phaedra" | Greek | A daughter of Minos by Pasiphae or Crete, and the wife of Theseus. She was the stepmother of Hippolytus, the son of Theseus, by Antiope or Hippolyte, and having fallen in love with him he repulsed her, whereupon she calumniated him before Theseus. After the death of Hippolytus, his innocence became known to his father, and Phaedra made away with herself. Greek |
"Phaenna" | Greek | A daughter of Zeus and Eurynome and one of the Charites. Greek |
| Book name "Phaethon" | Greek | That is, "the shining," occurs in Homer as an epithet or surname of Helios, and is used by later writers as a real proper name for Helios (Argonautica. The Aeneid Book V) but it is more commonly known as the name of a son of Helios by the Oceanid Clymene, the wife of Merops. Greek |
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