Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Poeninus" | Roman / Celtic | The divinity of the Pennines, Britain. Roman / Celtic |
God name "Poeninus" | Roman / Celtic / European | mountain god. Known locally from the alpine regions and generally thought to be åśśimilated with JUPITER.... |
"Poldunica" | Germany | Polednica, Poludnica, Lady Midday. A young girl, a beautiful maiden or a crone who appears at the hottest part of a summer's day. She carries a scythe and will stop people in the field to ask difficult questions and if the person fails to answer a question or is evasive,she will strike them with illness or cut off their head. Germany |
"Polel" | Polish | One of the Divine twins who, along with Lel, equates to the Greek Pollux. Polish |
Goddess name "Poleramma" | India | One of the incarnations of the goddess åśśociated with smallpox. India |
Goddess name "Poleramma" | Telegu / India | Plague goddess. Associated with smallpox and offered blood sacrifices.... |
Goddess name "Poleramma Telegu" | India | A plague goddess åśśociated with smallpox |
Spirit name "Polevik" | Slavonic | 'Mistress of the Field'. Slavonic field spirit. She is a trickster who can be propitiated through sacrificial gifts. |
Spirit name "Polevoi" | Poland | A spirit of the fields who appears at noon or Sunset as a hideous dwarf with gråśś for hair and two differently colored eyes. He will lead astray people who wander in the fields. If they fall asleep there, he gives them diseases or rides over them with his horse. Poland |
"Pollux" | Roman | One of the Dioscuri. Castor was famous for his skill in taming and managing horses, and Pollux for his skill in boxing. Both had disappeared from the earth before the Greeks went against Troy. Roman |
"Pollux" | Roman | The horses of Castor and Pollux. Cyllaros and Harpagos. Seneca and Claudian give Cyllaros to Castor, but Virgil to Pollux. The two brothers mount it alternatively on their return from the infernal regions. Harpagos, the horse from Harpagium in Phrygia, was common to both brothers. Roman |
God name "Pollux" | Roman | horse god. See also POLYDEUKES.... |
Goddess name "Poloknalai" | Kafir / Afghanistan | A goddess of animals |
Goddess name "Poloknalai Kafir" | Afghanistan | Goddess of animals Afghanistan |
God name "Poltrimpt" | Baltic | corn god. Baltic |
Goddess name "Poludnitsy" | Slavic | Ukranian moon-goddesses. |
Goddess name "Poluknalai" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Goddess of animals. Locally revered, with the goddess DISANI, among Askun villages in the southwest of Kafiristan.... |
Demon name "Polunocnica" | Ukranian | 'Lady Midnight'. A demoness said to frighten children at night. She seems to have originally been the third Zorya of midnight with sisters dawn and Sunset. Ukranian |