| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Spirit name "Pitri" | Hindu | Pitaras. An order of Divine beings in Hindu mythology inhabiting celestial regions of their own, and receiving into their society the spirits of those mortals whose funeral rites have been duly performed. |
| God name "Piyusaharana" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Obscure physician god. Identified in the texts as the eighteenth of the thirty-nine minor incarnations of the god VISNU; said to be a carrier of nectar.... |
"Plato" | Greek | His triad was To Agathon (Goodness). Nous or Eternal Wisdom (architect of the world) , and Psyche (the mundane soul). |
| Goddess name "Pleiades" | Greek | Goddesses of the Pleiades Greek |
"Pleiades" | Greek | Called daughters of Atlas by Pleione or by the Oceanid Aethra, of Erechtheus, of Cadmus or of the queen of the Amazons. Greek |
| God name "Pleione" | Greek | A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and mother of the Pleiades by Atlas. Her name means "to increase in number" and her grandson, Hermes, was the god of animal husbandry. Greek |
"Pleisthenes" | Greek | A son of Atreus, and husband of Aerope or Eriphyle, the daughter of Catreus, by whom he became the father of Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia. Greek |
"Plotçõçk" | Roman | The old Scottish form of the Roman Pluto, by which Satan is meant. |
"Pluto" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and one of the playmates of Persephone. |
| God name "Pluto" | Roman | God of the underworld. Derived from the Greek model of HADES, he abducted the daughter of CERES, PROSERPINA, to reign as his queen. The three-headed dog Cerberus was set to guard the gate of Hades and through the kingdom flowed the two rivers of death, the Cocytus and the Acheron which could be crossed only by the ferryman Charon. According to Roman tradition, the entrance to the underworld was at Avernus in Rome where the Christian church of St. Maria del Inferno was built.See also HADES.... |
| God name "Pluton" | Greek | The giver of wealth, at first a surname of Hades, the god of the lower world. Greek |
| Goddess name "Plutos" | Greek | Minor god of riches. A son of DEMETER who was abandoned in childhood and reared by the goddess of peace, EIRENE, who is sometimes depicted holding him in her lap. Plutos was blinded by ZEUS because of his discrimination in favor of the righteous.... |
"Plutus" | Greek | Sometimes also called Pluton, the personification of wealth, is described as a son of Iasion and Demeter. Greek |
"Pluvius" | Roman | The sender of Rain, a surname of Jupiter among the Romans. |
"Po" | Chinese | In the I Ching "the full manifestation of the kwei" -- the kama-manas or animal soul. Chinese |
"Po Ino Nogar" | Cambodia | The ruler of worlds and inventor of rice who was born amid the clouds. Cambodia |
"Podaleirius" | Greek | A son of Asclepius and Epione or Arsinoe, and a brother of Machaon, along with whom he led the Thessalians of Tricca against Troy (Apollodorus iii). He was, like his brother, skilled in the medical art. Greek |
"Poemander" | Greek | A son of Chaeresilaus and Stratonice, was the husband of Tanagra, a daughter of Aeolus or Aesopus, by whom he became the father of Ephippus and Leucippus. He was the reputed founder of the town of Tanagra in Boeotia which was hence called Poemandria. When Poemander inadvertently had killed his own son, he was purified by Elephenor. Greek |