| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Oicles" | Greek | Or Oicleus, a son of Antiphates, grandson of Melampus and father of Amphiaraus, of Argos. Diodorus on the other hand, calls him a son of Amphiaraus, and Pausanias a son of Mantius, the brother of Antiphates. Greek |
| Spirit name "Okitsu-Hiko" | Japanese | Is a divinity in Japanese Shinto. His name literally translates to "Great Land Master", and he was originally the ruler of Izumo Province, until he was replaced by Ninigi. In compensation, he was made ruler of the unseen world of spirits and magic. He is believed a god of nation-building, farming, business and Medicine. |
| King name "Old Man" | Blackfoot | Came from the south, making the mountains, the prairies, and the Forests as he påśśed, the birds and the animals too. He traveled north making things as he went and arranging the world as we see it today. Blackfoot |
| Spirit name "Olokun" | Africa | The patron orisa of the descendants of Africans that were carried away during the Maafa, the Transatlantic Slave Trade or Middle Påśśage. Olokun works closely with Oya, deity of Sudden Change, and Egungun, Collective Ancestral spirits, to herald the way for those that påśś to ancestorship, as it plays a critical role in death (Iku), Life and the transition of human beings and spirits between these two existences. |
| Goddess name "Olosa" | s | The goddess of the Lagos Lagoon, and the principal wife of her brother Olokim, the sea-god. Like her husband she is long-haired. She sprang from the body of Yemaja and supplies her votaries with fish. Crocodiles ate Olosa's messengers, and may not be molested. They are supposed to bear to the goddess the offerings which the faithful deposit on the spéñïśs of the lagoon or throw into the sedge. |
| Angel name "Oranir" | Nazorean | One of the nine angels in charge of the Summer Equinox. Early Nazorean |
| God name "Oriax" | Goethe | God of Divination and Transformation. Goethe |
| God name "Ormuzd" | Iran | Ohrmazd, a later form of Ahura-Mazda, creator god of Iran. |
"Orneus" | Greek | A son of Erechtheus, father of Peteus, and grandfather of Menestheus; from him the town of Orneae was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
| King name "Osseo" | Hiawatha | Son of the Evening Star. When "old and ugly, broken with age, and weak with coughing," he married Oweenee, youngest of the ten daughters of a North hunter. She loved him in spite of his ugliness and decrepitude, because "all was beautiful within him." One day, as he was walking with his nine sisters-in-law and their husbands, he leaped into the hollow of an oak-tree, and came out "tall and straight and strong and handsome;" but Oweenee at the same moment was changed into a weak old woman, "wasted, wrinkled, old, and ugly;" but the love of Osse'o was not weakened. The nine brothers and sisters-in-law were all transformed into birds for mocking Osseo and Oweenee when they were ugly, and Oweenee, recovering her beauty, had a son, whose delight as he grew up was to shoot at his aunts and uncles, the birds that mocked his father and mother. Hiawatha |
| Goddess name "Ouranos" | Greek | The primordial goddess of heaven and created and was the consort of the earth mother Gaia |
| God name "Ouranos" | Greek | Primordial god of heaven. The creator and incestuous consort of the earth mother GAIA with whom he engendered six giant sonsOKEANOS, Koeos, Kreos, HYPERION, IAPETOS and KRONOSand six daughtersKlymene, RHEA, THEA, THETIS, MNEMOSYNE and Phoebethe twelve collectively being known as the TITANS. fearing their power, Ouranos hurled them into the abyss of Tartaros and chained them up.... |
| King name "Pacolet" | France | A dwarf in the service of Lady Clerimond. He had a winged horse, which carried off Valentine, Orson, and Clerimond from the dungeon of Ferragus to the palace of king Pepin, and afterwards carried Valentine to the palace of Alexander, Emperor of Constantinople, his father. France |
| God name "Padma" | Hindu | Snake god Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
| Goddess name "Padma (lotus)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | (1) Snake god. One of a group of seven MAHANAGAS. Attributes: rosary and water jar. Three-eyed.(2) Goddess. An incarnation of LAKSMI, the consort of an avatara of VIS NU. She is depicted as emanating from the padma or lotus (Nelumbium speciosum) which is the symbol of creation and one of the most important iconographic devices in Hinduism. Also KAMALA.... |
| Goddess name "Pajau Yan" | Cambodian | Goddess of health and healing who was sent to live in the moon, where she provides flowers to the newly dead to ease their transition as they move into the underworld. Cambodian |
| God name "Pakrokitat" | California | Creator god who made people with a face at the front and back of their heads. After a hissy fit, he decended to the middle of the earth. The Serrano Indians, California |
"Pallas" | Greek | A name of Minerva, sometimes called Pallas Minerva. According to fable, Pallas was one of the Titans, of giant size, killed by Minerva, who flayed him, and used his skin for armour; whence she was called Pallas Minerva. More likely the word Pallas is from pallo, to brandish; and the compound means Minerva who brandishes the spear. Greek |
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