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"Pax" | Hebrew | The "kiss of peace." Also a sacred utensil used when måśś is celebrated by a high dignitary. It is sometimes a crucifix, sometimes a tablet, and sometimes a reliquary. The pax is omitted on Maundy Thursday, from horror at the kiss of Judas. Hebrew |
"Pax" | Roman | A personification of peace. Roman |
Spirit name "Pax" | Roman | spirit of peace. Became well-known as Pax Romana and Pax Augusta from the second century BC and was accorded a shrine on the Field of Mars. Depicted as a young woman bearing a cornucopia, an olive branch and a sheaf of corn.... |
"Pazuzu" | Babylon | A demom invoked for protection against crop pestilence. Babylon |
Goddess name "Pdry" | Canaan | A goddess of mist |
"Pegasus" | Greek | The famous winged horse, whose origin is thus related. When Perseus struck off the head of Medusa, with whom Poseidon had had intercourse in the form of a horse or a bird, there sprang forth from her Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus. The latter obtained the name Pegasus because he was believed to have made his appearance near the sources of Oceåñuś. Greek |
"Peirithous" | Greek | A son of Ixion or Zeus by Dia, of Larissa in Thessaly. He was one of the Lapithae, and married to Hippodameia, by whom he became the father of Polypoetes. Greek |
Hero name "Peitho" | Greek | The personification of Persuasion (Suada or Suadela among the Romans), was worshipped as a divinity at Sicyon, where she was honoured with a temple in the agora. (The History of Herodotus, VIII) Peitho also occurs as a surname of other divinities, such as Aphrodite, whose worship was said to have been introduced at Athens by Theseus and of Artemis. Greek |
Goddess name "Peitho" | Greek | Goddess of persuasion. A minor attendant of the goddess APHRODITE.... |
Spirit name "Peju'lpe" | Yukaghir / Siberia | Aes guardian spirits look at the well being of animals under their care & benevolent to the hunter so long as he observes the rules and kills only when necessary |
Deities name "Peju'lpe" | Yukaghir / southeastern Siberia | Guardian spirits. Attendant deities who look after the well-being of animals in their care. They are benevolent toward the hunter so long as he observes certain regulations and kills only when necessary.... |
Spirit name "Peju'lpe Yukaghir" | Siberia | Guardian spirits, who look at the well being of animals under their care and benevolent to the hunter so long as he observes the rules and kills only when necessary Siberia |
God name "Pekko" | Finnish | God responsible for the duration and harvest in the barley, used to make beer. In christianity you may find him with the name of St. Peter Finnish |
God name "Pekko" | Pre - Christian Finnish / Baltic regions | God of cereal crops. In Finland he is PELLON PEKKO and specifically a god of barley used in brewing beer. In Estonia he is a corn god whose image, made of wax, was kept in the corn chest. He was originally honored on a day taken over by a Christian festival for St. Peter.... |
God name "Pekko (or Pellon Pekko)" | Finland | The god of crops, especially barley and brewing. |
God name "Pekko/ Pellonpekko" | Finnish | A god of barley |
God name "Peko" | Estonia | God of fertility Estonia |
"Pelasgus" | Greek | The mythical ancestor of the Pelasgians, the earliest inhabitants of Greece who established the worship of the Dodonaean Zeus, Hephaestus, the Cabeiri, and other divinities that belong to the earliest inhabitants of the country. Greek |