| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Sif" | Norse | The wife of Thor and mother of Uller. The word denotes affinity. Sif, the golden-haired goddess, wife of Thor, betokens mother earth with her bright green gråśś. She was the goddess of the sanctity of the family and wedlock, and hence her name. Norse |
| Goddess name "Sif" | Nordic / Icelandic / / Germanic | corn goddess. The consort of THOR. She is mentioned in the Eddaic Lay of Lokasenna and in the Lay of Har barth. According to Snorri Sturluson she was originally a prophetess called Sibyl. She possesses great beauty and has long golden hair. Her sons are ULL and Loridi. According to tradition, LOKI cut off Sif's hair in mischief, but when confronted and threatened by Thor, he had the dwarfs make her a magical hairpiece of pure gold which, when it touched her head, became a living part of her and grew.... |
"Sigfather" | Norse | [Father of victory]. A name of Odin. Norse |
| God name "Siguna" | Scandinavian | wife of Loki. She nurses him in his cavern, but sometimes, as she carries off the poison which the serpents gorge, a portion drops on the god, and his writhings cause earthquakes. Scandinavian |
"Sigyn" | Norse | Loke's wife. She holds a basin to prevent the serpent's venom from dropping into Loke's face. Norse |
"Sikhandin" | Hindu | A character in the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. The son of Drupada, he fought in the Kurukshetra war on the side of the Pandavas. |
| God name "Sikhin" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Physician god. Accounted among one of a series of Medicine buddhas or SMAN-BLA. Typically depicted with stretched earlobes. Color: yellowish red. NOTE: the term also defines the symbolic use of fire.... |
| Nymph name "Silenus" | Greek | It is remarked in the article Satyrus, that the older Satyrs were generally termed Sileni, but one of these Sileni is commonly the Silenus, who always acts a prominent part in the retinue of Dionysus, from whom he is inseparable, and whom he is said to have brought up and instructed. Like the other Satyrs he is called a son of Hermes, but others call him a son of Pan by a nymph, or of Gaea. Greek |
| God name "Silik-muludag" | Akkadian | The god among all the gods, offspring of the abstract Divine wisdom and the great unseen Divine. Akkadian |
| God name "Silvåñuś" | Roman | A Latin divinity of the fields and Forests, to whom in the very earliest times the Tyrrhenian Pelasgians are said to have dedicated a grove and a festival. He is described as a god watching over the fields and husbandmen, and is also called the protector of the boundaries of fields. |
| Deities name "Silvåñuś" | Roman | Minor god of woodlands and Forests. Worship of Silvåñuś seems largely to have been limited to northern Italy. He became incorporated into the Celtic pantheon where his symbolism includes a bill-hook, pots and hammers. His sacred animal is the stag. The name was extended to embrace groups of woodland deities, the Silvani or Silvanae.... |
| God name "Silvertop" | Norse | One of the horses of the gods. Norse |
| God name "Simois" | Greek | The god of the river Simois, which flows from mount Ida, and in the plain of Troy joins the Xanthus or Scamander. He is described as a son of Oceåñuś and Tethys and as the father of Astyoche and Hieromneme. |
"Simorgh" | Persian | Gigantic bird like the hippogriff or griffin; half phoenix, half lion. Persian |
| God name "Sin" | Babylon | God of the moon. Babylon |
| Deity name "Sin" | Chaldean | deity of the moon. Chaldean |
| God name "Sin" | Dzyan | Father of the gods, creator of all things and parent of the Sun. Dzyan |
| God name "Sin" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | moon god. Derived from the older Sumerian model of NANNA. His consort is NIKKAL (NINGAL). He is symbolized by the new moon and perceived as a bull whose horns are the crescent of the moon. Cult centers are identified at Ur, Harran and Neirab. Also Suen (archaic).... |
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