Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Salamander" | Greek | The nature spirits of fire, the fire elementals. The Greek salamandra was believed to have power over fire. |
"Salamis" | Greek | A daughter of Asopis, and by Poseidon the mother of Cenchreus or Cychreus. Greek |
God name "Salevao" | Polynesia | Sacred one of the bush a general village god as well as a war god. Polynesia |
God name "Salevao" | Polynesian | Primordial god of rocks. He is the brother of SAVEA SI'ULEO, god of the dead, and the consort of PAPATUANUKA, the earth mother, who became pregnant and gave birth to Moa in the center of the earth. (Moa may have been the ancestor of mankind, roughly equating to Adam.)... |
"Salganeus" | Greek | A surname of Apollo, derived from the town of Salganeus in Boeotia. greek |
Deity name "Salim" | Ugaritic | Shalim or Salem, a personification of Venus as the evening star and a deity of the dusk. Ugaritic |
God name "Salim" | Western Semitic / Syrian | God of evening. Generally linked with SAR, the god of dawn.... |
Goddess name "Salm of Mahram" | Arabia | A goddess from the pantheon of Tayma introduced to North Arabia from North Syria. |
God name "Salm of Mahram (image of Mahram)" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Local tutelary god. Correspondence of the Babylonian king Nabonidus (559-539 BC) mentions that this deity was worshiped at Taima, an important trade and religious center where he was head of the pantheon. Gods in the region were often named after local places and personified by a stone stele carved with schematic anthropomorphic features and a winged disc showing strong Egyptian influence. Also Salman.... |
God name "Salm of Mahram/ Salman" | N Arabia | A local tutelary god |
"Salmacis" | Greek | A fountain of Caria, which rendered effeminate all those who bathed therein. It was in this fountain that Hermaphroditus changed his sex. Greek |
Nymph name "Salmacis" | Greek | The nymph of the well Salmacis, near the mausoleum at Halicarnåśśus. The nymph fell in love with Hermaphroditos and tried to win his affections, but in vain. Greek |
Goddess name "Salmaone" | Greek | A mother goddess |
God name "Salmoneus" | Greek | A son of Aeolus by Enarete, and a brother of Sisyphus. Sangarius, a river-god, is described as the son of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and as the husband of Metope, by whom he became the father of Hecabe. (Theogony 344). Greek |
Goddess name "Salus" | Greek | The personification of health, prosperity, and the public welfare, among the Romans. In the first of these three senses she answers very closely to the Greek Hygieia, and was accordingly represented in works of art with the same attributes as the Greek goddess. In the second sense she represents prosperity in general and was invoked by the husbandmen at seed-time. In the third sense Salus is the goddess of the public welfare. |
God name "Salus (salvation)" | Roman | Minor god of health. A sanctuary dated to 302 BC on the Quirinal, one of the seven hills of Rome, is dedicated to the deity. He was also worshiped within the colonies of the empire. There is an altar at Corbridge in Northumberland, England with a votive inscription to Salus. Attributes include a bowl and a snake.... |
"Sama" | Islam | A devotion dance and an aid for perfection. Islam |
God name "Sama" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Obscure heroic god. Known circa first to fifth century AD. The younger brother of the god of love KAMA and equating to SAMBA, worshiped in northern India.... |