| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Procris" | Greek | Unerring as the dart of Procris. When Procris fled from Cephalus out of shame, Diana gave her a dog that never failed to secure its prey, and a dart which not only never missed aim, but which always returned of its own accord to the shooter. Greek |
"Promethean Fire" | Greek | The vital principle; the fire with which Prometheus quickened into life his clay images. Greek |
"Promethean Unguent" | Greek | Made from a herb on which some of the blood of Prometheus had fallen. Medea gave Jason some of this unguent, which rendered his body proof against fire and warlike instruments. Greek |
"Prometheus" | Greek | Is sometimes called a Titan, though in reality he did not belong to the Titans, but was only a son of the Titan Japetus (Theogony of Hesiod 528) by Clymene, so that he was a brother of Atlas, Menoetius, and Epimetheus (Theogony of Hesiod 507). Greek |
| King name "Promise of Odin" | Norse | The most binding of all promises to a Scandinavian. In making this promise the person påśśed his hand through a måśśive silver ring kept for the purpose; or through a sacrificial stone, like that called the "Circle of Stennis." Norse |
| Goddess name "Promitor" | Roman | The goddess of growing plants, particularly cereals, and of motherly love. Roman |
| God name "Promitor" | Roman | Minor god of Agriculture. Responsible for the growth and harvesting of crops.... |
"Pronoia" | Greek | The term for providence, usually Divine Providence, in ancient Greek philosophy. |
| Angel name "Pronoia" | Greek | Eros appeared, being androgynous. His masculinity is Himeros, being fire from light. His femininity, innate to him as well, is the soul of blood, the solution of the Pronoia... He is very lovely in his beauty, having charm beyond all the creatures of chaos. Then all the gods and their angels, when they beheld Eros, became enamored. And appearing in all of them Eros set them ablaze. Gaian creation myth |
"Pronoia (forethought)" | Gnostic Christian | Primordial being. The feminine aspect of one of the androgynous principles born to YALDABAOTH, the prime parent, and ruling the seven heavens of chaos in Gnostic cosmogony. Also described in other Gnostic tracts as Protennoia, the voice of the thought, and alternatively the voice of LOGOS (logic), who descends to earth in human form and plays a part in the primordial salvation of the world.... |
"Propator" | Gnostic | The Forefather, the primordial or First Logos as distinct from that from which it emanates. Gnostic |
| Goddess name "Proserpina" | Roman | A goddess of seed germination & spring |
| Goddess name "Proserpina" | Roman but derived from a Greek model | Goddess of death. Abducted by the underworld god PLUTO to reign as his queen (see PERSEPHONE).... |
"Proserpina or Proserpine" | Roman | One day, as she was amusing herself in the meadows of Sicily, Pluto seized her and carried her off in his chariot to the infernal regions for his bride. In her terror she dropped some of the lilies she had been gathering, and they turned to daffodils. Roman |
"Proserpine" | Greek | In Latin Proserpina, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. |
"Proserpine's Divine Calidore" | Roman | Sleep. In the beautiful legend of Cupid and Psyche, by Apuleius, after Psyche had long wandered about searching for her lost Cupid, she is sent to Prosperine for "the casket of Divine beauty," which she was not to open till she came into the light of day. Psyche received the casket, but just as she was about to step on earth, she thought how much more Cupid would love her if she was Divinely beautiful; so she opened the casket and found the calidore it contained was sleep, which instantly filled all her limbs with drowsiness, and she slept as it were the sleep of death. Roman |
"Proteus" | Greek | The prophetic old man of the sea, occurs in the earliest legends as a subject of Poseidon, and is described as seeing through the whole depth of the sea, and tending the flocks (the seals) of Poseidon. Greek |
| God name "Proteus" | Greek | Minor sea god. Depicted as an old man who attends Triton and whose principal concern is the creatures of the oceans. He also has oracular powers. The poet cowper wrote: In ages past old Proteus, with his droves Of sea calves sought the mountains and the groves. Also known as GLAUKOS, NEREUS and PHORKYS.... |
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