Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Phul Mata" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. A SAKTI who in later Hinduism became one of the SAPTAMATARAS regarded as of evil intent, inflicting sickness on children under seven years old. Particularly known from Bengal.... |
"Phusis" | Greek | The Protogeos of nature. Mother nature was one of the first beings to emerge at creation, a primal being of creation and regarded as both male and female. Similar in certain aspects to Gaia, Tethys, Eros and Phanes. Greek |
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 "Pienenkir" | Elamite | Goddess of fertility, nurturing and motherhood. Elamite |
Goddess name "Pinikirz" | Elamite / Iran | Mother goddess. Known only from inscriptions.... |
Goddess name "Pinikirz Elamite" | Iran | A mother goddess |
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 "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 |
"Polymede" | Greek | A daughter of Autolycus, was married to Aeson, and by him became the mother of Jason. Apollonius Rhodius ( Argonautica) calls her Alcimede. Greek |
"Polymela" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Peleus, and the wife of Menoetius, by whom she became the mother of Patroclus. In some traditions she is called Philomela. |
God name "Pontos" | Greek | God of the sea. His mother and consort is GAIA and he is the father of the sea gods NEREUS and PHORKYS.... |
"Pontus" | Greek | Or Pontos, the Protogonoi and personification of the sea, is described in the ancient cosmogony as a son of Gaea, and as the father of Nereus, Thamnas, Phorcys, Ceto, and Eurybia, by his own mother. Hyginus calls him a son of Aether and Gaea, and also åśśigns to him somewhat different descendants. Greek |
"Porphyrion" | s | One of the sons of Uråñuś and Gaia. He attempted to rape Hera and she set him against Dionysus, promising the giant Hebe's hand in marriage if he could defeat him. Zeus smote him with lightning and Heracles finally shot him with an arrow. |
God name "Posis Das" | Greek | sky god. In pre-Hellenic times the consort of the earth mother GAIA. One of the primordial partnership identified in Theogony (Hesiod). He later becomes syncretized with ZEUS.... |
Goddess name "Pradhana (most important)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. One of a group of nine NAVASAKTIS who, in southern India, rank higher than the SAPTAMATARAS.... |
Goddess name "Prahana" | Hindu | Rather important mother goddess Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
God name "Prasraya" | Vedic | Mother of the Gods. Vedic |
"Praxithea" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Phrasimus and Diogeneia, was the wife of Erechtheus, and mother of Cecrops, Pandorus, Metion, Orneus, Procris, Creusa, Chthonia, and Oreithyia. Some call her a daughter of Cephissus. |