| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Pellon Pekko" | Finnish | A god responsible for the duration & harvest in the barley, used to make beer. Under Christianity you may find him with the name of St. Peter |
"Penelope" | Greek | A daughter of Icarius and Periboea of Sparta. According to Didymus, Penelope was originally called Ameirace, Arnacia, or Arnaea, and Nauplius or her own parents are said to have cast her into the sea where she was fed by sea-birds from which she derived her name. Greek |
"Penetralis" | Greek | A surname or epithet given to the several divinities at Rome, that were worshipped in the Penetrale, or the central part of the house, such as Jupiter, Vesta, the Penates, etc. Greek |
| God name "Perende" | Pre - Christian Albanian | storm god. In the ancient Illyrian culture his presence was announced by thunder and lightning. The name subsequently became adopted to identify God in the Christian sense.... |
"Periphetes" | Greek | 1. A son of Hephaestus and Anticleia, was surnamed Corynetes, that is, Club-bearer, and was a robber at Epidaurus, who slew the travellers he met with an iron club. Theseus at last slew him and took his club for his own use. |
"Phaea" | Greek | The name of the sow of Crommyon, which ravaged the neighbourhood, and was slain by Theseus. |
"Phaeax" | Greek | A son of Poseidon and Cercyra, from whom the Phaeacians derived their name. |
| Book name "Phaethon" | Greek | That is, "the shining," occurs in Homer as an epithet or surname of Helios, and is used by later writers as a real proper name for Helios (Argonautica. The Aeneid Book V) but it is more commonly known as the name of a son of Helios by the Oceanid Clymene, the wife of Merops. Greek |
| King name "Phegeus" | Greek | A brother of Phoroneus, and king of Psophis in Arcadia. The town of Phegeia, which had before been called Erymanthus, was believed to have derived its name from him. Subsequently, however, it was changed again into Psophis. Greek |
"Phocus" | Greek | A son of Ornytion of Corinth, or according to others of Poseidon, is said to have been the leader of a colony from Corinth into the territory of Titpéñïśa and Mount Parnåśśus, which derived from him the name of Phocis. He is said to have cured Antiope of her madness, and to have made her his wife. Greek |
| 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 |
"Plataea" | Greek | A daughter of Asopus, who had a sanctuary at Plataeae which according to some derived its name from her. 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 |
| God name "Pluton" | Greek | The giver of wealth, at first a surname of Hades, the god of the lower world. Greek |
"Pluvius" | Roman | The sender of Rain, a surname of Jupiter among the Romans. |
"Pomona" | Roman | The Roman divinity of the fruit of trees, hence called Pomorum Patrona. Her name is evidently connected with Pomum. She is represented by the poets as having been beloved by several of the rustic divinities, such as Silvåñuś, Picus, Vertumnus, and others. Her worship must originally have been of considerable importance, as we learn from Varro that a special priest, under the name Pomonalis, was appointed to attend to her service. It is not impossible that Pomona may in reality be nothing but the personification of one of the attributes of Ops. |
"Prabhapala" | Buddhist | protector of light. In Buddhism, the name of a bodhisattva. |
| God name "Prachetas" | Sanskrit | Pracetas. The preeminently intelligent one; a name of Varuna, the god of water. Sanskrit |
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