| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Sefkhet-Abwy (she who has seven horns)" | Egypt | Local goddess of libraries and writing. Probably a form of the goddess SESAT. Depicted in human form bearing a seven-pointed star or rosette on her head below a bow-shaped object.... |
| 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. |
"Seker" | Egyptian | Seket. One of the aspects of Ptah, also the name of Osiris in Memphis, especially in his character of Lord of the underworld. Egyptian |
| God name "Sekhem" | Egyptian | A shrine or sanctuary or the gods of the shrine. Egyptian |
| Goddess name "Sekhet-Hor" | Egypt | The cow goddess of lower Egypt |
| Goddess name "Sekhet-Hor" | Egypt / Lower | cow goddess. The fostermother of the god HORUS and particularly invoked to safeguard cattle.... |
| Goddess name "Sekhmet" | Egypt | The lioness-headed goddess of war and destruction, the sister and wife of Ptah, was created by the fire of Re's eye. Egypt |
| God name "Selardi" | Armenia | God of the moon Armenia |
| God name "Selardi" | Urartian / Armenia | moon god. The counterpart of the Mesopotamian deity SIN.... |
| Goddess name "Selene" | Greek | Also called Mene, a female divinity presiding over the months, or Latin Luna, was the goddess of the moon, or the moon personified into a Divine being. She is called a daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and accordingly a sister of Helios and Eos (Theogony 371 ; Apollodorus; Argonautica) ; but others speak of her as a daughter of Hyperion by Euryphaessa, or of Pallas, or of Zeus and Latona, or lastly of Helios. Greek |
| 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 "Selene/ Mene" | Greek | The goddess of the moon & stars |
| King name "Selinus" | Greek | A son of Poseidon, was king of Aegialos and father of Helice. Greek |
| Goddess name "Selket" | Egypt | Goddess of scorpions, a protector of the embalmer's tent and helper of women in childbirth. Egypt |
"Semargl" | Slavic | Simargl, Semargl-Pereplut, a griffin with the body of a dog. Slavic |
"Semele" | Greek | A daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, at Thebes, and accordingly a sister of Ino, Agave, Autonoe, and Polydorus. She was beloved by Zeus and Hera, stimulated by jealousy, appeared to her in the form of her aged nurse Beroe, and induced her to pray Zeus to visit her in the same splendour and majesty with which he appeared to Hera. Greek |
| 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.... |