| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Pratisamvit (analytical science)" | Buddhist | Generic name for four goddesses. (Vajrayana). The personifications of logical analysis.... |
| God name "Priapus" | Greek | Priapos, a son of Dionysus and Aphrodite. Aphrodite, it is said, had yielded to the embraces of Dionysus, but during his expedition to India, she became faithless to him, and lived with Adonis. On Dionysus return from India, she indeed went to meet him, but soon left him again, and went to Lampsacus on the Hellespont, to give birth to the child of the god. Greek |
| God name "Priparchis" | Slavic | God who weans and cares for pigs and piglets. Slavic |
| Goddess name "Priti (pleasure)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. A daughter of DAKSA and consort of the god of love KAMADEVA. One of twelve SAKTIS åśśociated with the god VIS'NU in his various incarnations.... |
| Goddess name "Priyadarsana (pleasant to the eye)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant of BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
| 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 |
| 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).... |
| 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.... |
| God name "Prsni" | Hindu / Vedic | Sutapa and his wife Prsni were instructed by Lord Brahma to have progeny. They performed severe austerities for twelve thousand years of the demigods to have the Lord as their child. Pleased by their austerities the Lord appeared and granted them this benediction. Hindu / Vedic |
| God name "Prthu" | Hindu | Creator god, noble king who ruled over India, mentioned in Vedic texts. This deity is head of the solar pantheon and introduced Agriculture to humankind. Hindu |
| God name "Pryderi" | Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic god. The son of PWYLL and RHIANNON. According to tradition, he was abducted as an infant from his cradle by a huge talon or claw, with the implication that the abduction was instigated by an adversary from the underworld, perhaps the family of Gwawl, a rejected suitor of Rhiannon. Pryderi was found in a stable and rescued by Teirnyon, who brought the child up as his son. Eventually the true parents of Pryderi were identified and he was returned to his family. His consort is Cigfa and he succeeded Pwyll to the title Lord of Dyfed.'... |
| God name "Ptah" | Egypt | Called the world into being, having dreamt creation in his heart, and speaking it, his name meaning opener, in the sense of opener of the mouth. Considered the god of craftsmen, and in particular stone-based crafts. Eventually, due to the connection of these things to tombs the craftsmen regarded him so highly as to say that he controlled their destiny. Egypt |
| God name "Pugu" | Siberia | Yet another God of the Sun, this one is åśśociated with justice and honourable living, the defender of the oppressed and the punisher of evil deeds. Yukaghir, Siberia |
| Goddess name "Pukkasi" | Buddhist / Vajrayana / / Lamaist / Tibet | Goddess of terrifying appearance. One of a group of gauri. Color: yellowish white or blue. Attribute: waterjar.... |
| God name "Pusi Tikopia" | Polynesia | if this God, the apotheosis of the reef eel |
| Goddess name "Puspa" | Tibet | Goddess of flowers and the natural environment as well as the Bodhisattva of vision and sight. Tibet |
| Goddess name "Puspa (flower)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Mother goddess. One of the group of ASTAMATARAS (mothers). Color: white. Attribute: a flower.... |
| Goddess name "Puspatara" | Buddhist / Mayhayana | A minor goddess |
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