Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Sophrosyne" | Greek | Goddess of temperance and moderation. Greek |
"Sororia" | Greek | A surname of Juno, under which an altar is said to have been erected to her in common with Jåñuś Curiatius, when Horatius, on his return home, had slain his sister, and had been purified of the murder. Greek |
Goddess name "Sors" | Roman | God of luck. Derived from the Greek model of TYCHE, he is less prominent in the pantheon than the goddess FORTUNA.... |
"Soter" | Greek | I. e. "the Saviour" occurs as the surname of Zeus in Argos. Greek |
Goddess name "Sothis [Greek]" | Egypt | Astral goddess. She heralds the Nile inundation as the personification of the star Sirius which rises coincidentally in the dawn sky in July. She is depicted as a nude figure wearing the conical white crown of Lower Egypt surmounted by a star. Late in Egyptian history she becomes largely syncretized with ISIS. Also Sopdet (Egyptian).... |
"Sparta" | Greek | A daughter of Eurotas by Clete, and wife of Lacedaemon, by whom she became the mother of Amyclas and Eurydice. From her the city of Sparta was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
Nymph name "Spartaeus" | Greek | A son of Zeus by the Rhodian nymph Himalia. Brother to Cronius, and Cytus. |
"Speio" | Greek | One of the Nereids. Greek |
God name "Spercheius" | Greek | A river god |
God name "Spercheus" | Greek | A Thessalian rivergod, became the father of Menesthius by Polydora, the daughter of Peleus. (Apollodorus iii. The History of Herodotus VII). Greek |
Goddess name "Spermo" | Greek | The goddess of grain. She was one of the Oenotropae and had the ability to change anything into seed or wheat. Greek |
"Sphinx" | Greek | A monstrous being of Greek mythology, is said to have been a daughter of Orthus and Chimaera, born in the country of the Arimi, or of Typhon and Echidna, or lastly of Typhon and Chimaera. Greek |
Nymph name "Sphragitides" | Greek | A surname of a clåśś of prophetic nymphs on mount Cithaeron in Boeotia, where they had a grotto. Greek |
"Staphylus" | Greek | A son of Dionysus and Ariadne, or of Theseus and Ariadne, was one of the Argonauts (Apollodorus i). By Chrysothemis he became the father of three daughters, Molpadia, Rhoeo, and Parthenos. Rhoeo was beloved by Apollo, and Staphylus, believing that she was with child by some one else, locked her up in a chest and threw her into the sea. Greek |
"Sterope" | Greek | 1. A Pleiad, the wife of Oenomaus, and according to Pausanias a daughter of Atlas. |
Cyclop name "Steropes" | Greek | A son of Uråñuś and Gaea, was one of the Cyclopes. (Theogony 140, Apollodorus i) Greek |
"Sthenela" | Greek | wife of Sthenelos. |
Goddess name "Sthenias" | Greek | A goddess of physical prowess & strength |