Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Soma (essence)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Minor god. The deification of the sacred yellow drink soma. Also the consort of SURYA. Regarded in later Hinduism as the dikpala of the northern direction and as one of a group of VASU deities answering to the god INDRA. Attributes: hook, lotus and prayer wheel.See also CANDRA.... |
God name "Somasaaida" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | God. Aspect of the god SIVA. Of uncertain origin, but possibly representing a composite trio of Siva with his consort UMA (PARVATI) and his son SKANDA (as a boy). Four-armed. Attributes of Siva: ax, corpse and hatchet. Attribute of Uma: lotus. Attributes of Skanda: Book, headdress, mango fruit and ornament.... |
God name "Somhlth" | Ireland / Scotland / Manx | God who had no corporeal incarnation apart from pure masculine energy. Ireland / Scotland / Manx |
Goddess name "Somius" | Roman | Minor god of sleep. He equates with the Greek god HYPNOS. According to legend he is one of the two sons of NYX, goddess of night, and lives in a remote cave beside the Lethe river. He is depicted by Ovid dressed in black but with his robe scattered with stars, wearing a crown of poppies and holding a goblet of opium juice. His attendant is MORPHEUS and he oversees the spirits of dreams and nightmares. Particularly noted from the art of the Lacedaemonians who placed statues of Somnus and MORS side by side.... |
God name "Somnus" | Greek | The personification and god of sleep, the Greek Hypnos, is described by the ancients as a brother of death and as a son of night Roman |
God name "Somtus" | Egypt | God of Dendara. Egypt |
God name "Somtus/ Harsomtus" | Egypt | A god |
God name "Sopedu" | Egypt | Guardian god of the eastern border Egypt |
God name "Sopedu" | Egypt | Guardian deity. A god who protects the eastern border, usually depicted as a falcon or a Bedouin with a headdress of tall plumes. His cult was followed chiefly at Saft el-Henna in the Nile delta. Sopedu is linked in Pyramid Texts with the hawk god HORUS. He also acted as a patron deity of the turquoise mines in the Sinai with inscriptions at Serabit el-Khadim. Also Sopdu.... |
Goddess name "Sophrosyne" | Greek | Goddess of temperance and moderation. Greek |
God name "Sopona" | Yoruba | God of smallpox Yoruba |
God name "Sore-Gus" | Hottentot / S Africa | The Sun / sky god |
God name "Sore-Gus" | Hottentot / Namibia, southern Africa | sky god. The Sun god, embodied in the shape of a golden ram with long fluffy wool.... |
God name "Sore-Gus Hottentot" | Africa | God of the Sun / sky Africa(south) |
God name "Sors" | Roman | God of luck Roman |
Goddess name "Sors" | Roman | God of luck. Derived from the Greek model of TYCHE, he is less prominent in the pantheon than the goddess FORTUNA.... |
Goddess name "Soteira" | Greece | the saving goddess, occurs as a surname of several female divinities in Greece, e. g. of Artemis at Pegae in Megaris, of Persephone in Laconia, of Athena of Eunomia. |
Goddess name "Sothis" | Egypt Hellenic | The astral goddess that heralds Arias of the Nile |