Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Resep[A]Mukal" | Canaan / Phonecia | A war & plague god that originated in Syria |
God name "Resepa Mukal" | Syria | war and plague god who originated in Syria |
God name "Resphu" | Syria | A god of war, worshipped in the Nile Delta |
God name "Resep (A) Mukal" | Western Semitic / Canaanite / Phoenician / , originating in Syria | war and plague god. Introduced into Egypt by the XVIII Dynasty during the sixteenth century BC and rapidly achieved some prominence. His wife is Itum and he was also known as Res ep-Amukal and Res epSulman. Res ep is probably modeled on the Mesopotamian NERGAL. He is depicted as a youthful, warlike god, often with a gazelle's head springing from his forehead, and with a spear in his right hand. In Egyptian iconography he is depicted wearing the crown of Upper Egypt surmounted in front by the head of a gazelle. He has links with the Theban war god MONTU and was thought of as a guardian deity in battle by many Egyptian pharaohs; he is said to have shot firebrands with a bow and arrow. He also exerted a benign influence against disease. The influence of Res ep extended to Cyprus during the preHellenic period and at the time of Hellenization he was allied to and perhaps syncretized with APOLLO. Also Ras ap, Res ef.... |
God name "Rimmon" | Syrian | Rammon, weather god. Syrian |
God name "S ar" | Western Semitic / Syrian | God of the dawn. Generally linked with the god of evening, S ALIM.... |
God name "Sadrapa" | Western Semitic / Syrian / / Pontic | God of healing. He is depicted on reliefs as a youth holding a scorpion or snake. Known originally from Palmyra, his popularity spread to Carthage and, during the Hellenic period, to the Greek coast. Also Satrapis (Greek).... |
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 "Sar" | Syria | God of the dawn Syria |
Goddess name "Semframis and Ninus" | Assyrian | The mythical founders of the Assyrian empire of Ninus or Nineveh. Semiramis was the daughter of the fish-goddess Derceto of Ascalon in Syria. |
God name "Shamash" | Assyrians / Babylonians | Sun God and God of righteousness, law and divination. |
God name "Sulman(u)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian / / western Semitic | Chthonic and fertility deity. Also identified as a war god. Found in Assyria circa 1400 BC to 700 BC and known from Bronze Age inscriptions at Sidon.... |
Goddess name "Syria Dea" | De | the Syrian goddess, a name by which the Syrian Astarte or Aphrodite is sometimes designated. This Astarte was a Syrian divinity, resembling in many points the Greek Aphrodite, and it is not improbable that the latter was originally the Syrian Astarte, the opinions concerning whom were modified after her introduction into Greece; for there can be no doubt that the worship of Aphrodite came from the East to Cyprus, and thence was carried into the south of Greece. Lucian, De Syria Dea |
Goddess name "Tallai" | Syria | Goddess of dew who challenged Shiva to a dancing contest. Syria |
God name "Tammuz" | Assyrian | A god of Agriculture & fertility |
Deity name "Tammuz or Thammuz" | Syrian | A Syrian and Phoenician deity corresponding to Adonis. |
Goddess name "Tamti" | Assyrian | Tamtu. The personified sea,the primordial humidity, personified as a goddess equivalent to Belit, the nature Mother. Assyrian |