| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Palaemon" | Greek | Signifies the wrestler, as in the surname of Heracles in Lycophron but it also occurs as a proper name of several mythical personages. |
| God name "Palaemon" | Greco - Roman | Minor sea god. Originally Melikertes, the son of Ino, Palaemon was deified by the gods when his mother hurled herself from a cliff with her son in her arms. According to versions of the legend she was either insane or escaping the wrath of Athanas, king of Thebes.... |
| God name "Palaniyantavan" | Hindu / Dravidian / Tamil | A local god |
| God name "Palaniyantavan" | Hindu - Dravidian / Tamil | Local god. Known only from southern India and considered to be a form of SKANDA or of MURUKAN, who is an old Tamil tribal snake god.... |
| God name "Pale Fox aka Ogo" | Dogon | Pale Fox aka Ogo. Trickster God of the Dogon people. |
| God name "Palemon" | Greek / Roman | A human that suffered apotheosis & became a minor sea god |
| Deity name "Pales" | Roman | A deity of shepherds, flocks and livestock. Roman |
| Goddess name "Pales" | Roman | Pastoral goddess. A guardian of flocks and herds. Her festival was celebrated annually in Rome on April 21.... |
| Goddess name "Pali Kongju" | Korea | Goddess of healing who rescues souls from the clutches of brutal guards of Hell. Korea |
| God name "Palici" | Greek | Twin gods, originating in Sicily. They were sometimes said to have been the sons of Zeus by Thaleia the daughter of Hephaestus, sometimes the sons of Zeus by Aetna. While she was pregnant with the twins, Thaleia, fearing Hera's jealousy hid in the earth and when the time came the twin boys emerged from the ground, which explains their name 'the Returners'. Greek |
"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 |
| Goddess name "Pallas" | Greek | Surname of Athena. In Homer this name always appears united with the name Athena, but in later writers we also find Pallas alone instead of Athena. Plato derives the surname from "to brandish", in reference to the goddess brandishing the spear or aegis, whereas Apollodorus derives it from the giant Pallas, who was slain by Athena. But it is more probable that Pallas is the same word as virgin or maiden. Another female Pallas, described as a daughter of Triton, is mentioned under palladium. Greek |
| Goddess name "Pallas (Athene)" | Greek | Goddess. The full name of the deity who is thus Pallas of Athens. The origin and meaning of the word Pallas is unknown.See also ATHENA.... |
"Pallene" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Sithon, from whom the town of Pallene in the peninsula of the same name was said to have derived its name. |
| God name "Pallian" | Australia | God Australia |
"Pamphyle" | Greek | A sorceress who converted herself into an owl (Apuleius). There was another Pamphyle, the daughter of Apollo, who first taught women to embroider with silk. |
"Pamulak" | Philippines | The creator of the universe, of vegetation and of man. The Bagobo, Philippines |
| God name "Pan" | Greek | The great god of flocks and shepherds among the Greeks; his name is probably connected with the verb pasco, so that his name and character are perfectly in accordance with each other. Greek |
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