Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Penglai-Shan" | China | One of the 108 Daoist Paradises, the one favoured by the Eight-Immortals. China |
"Penthesilea" | Greek | A daughter of Ares and Otrera, and queen of the Amazons. Greek |
"Peparethos" | Greek | A son of Dionysus by Ariadne. Greek |
Goddess name "Peperuna" | Slavic | A thunder goddess and the mother of the Sun-goddess Solntse. Her twin brother was the thunder-god Perun. Slavic |
Goddess name "Perchta" | Slavic | Fertility goddess who married the Sun and tells fortues. Slavic |
"Percunatele" | Polish | The mother of thunder. Polish |
God name "Perende" | Albania | God of storms, thunder and lightning. Albania |
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.... |
Goddess name "Pereplut" | Balkans | Goddess of drink and changing fortune. Balkans |
Spirit name "Peri" | Arabia | Delicate, gentle, fairy-like beings of Eastern mythology, begotten by fallen spirits. They direct with a wand the pure in mind the way to heaven. These lovely creatures, according to the Koran, are under the sovereignty of Eblis; and Mahomet was sent for their conversion, as well as for that of man. |
"Periboea" | Greek | The wife of Icarius, and mother of Penelope. |
"Periclymenus" | Greek | Or Poriclymenus. One of the Argonauts, was a son of Neleus and Chloris, and a brother of Nestor. Greek |
King name "Perieres" | Greek | A son of Aeolus and Enarete, king of Messene, was the father of Aphareus and Leucippus by Gorgophone. (Apollodorus) In some traditions Perieres was called a son of Cynortas, and besides the sons above mentioned he is said to have been, by Gorgophone, the father of Tyndareos and Icarius. Greek |
Goddess name "Perimb" | Brazil | Goddess of the moon and supreme being. Brazil |
"Periphas" | Egypt | 1. One of the sons of Aegyptus. |
"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. |
Goddess name "Perit" | Illyrian | Goddesses of justice. Illyrian |
God name "Perkele" | Finland | The devil. Originally Perkele was not the devil but a god of thunder and can be seen as an earlier form of Ukko. Related to Baltic Perkunas and Norse Thor. |