| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Sirtur" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Sheep goddess. Known from inscriptions and påśśing comments in texts. Syncretized with NINSUN.... |
| Goddess name "Sitala(mata) (possibly meaning mother cold')" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. One of seven SAKTIS who in later Hinduism became regarded as of evil intent, inflicting sickness. Particularly known from Bengal where she may be identified with the goddess KALI. Usually standing naked upon a lotus or riding an åśś. Alternatively symbolized by a stone on which a face is painted. Attribute: waterjar.... |
| Goddess name "Sjofn" | Norse | One of the goddesses. She delights in turning men's hearts to love. Norse |
| God name "Sogbo" | Benin | The god of thunder, lightning and fire. Benin |
| God name "Sogbo" | Fon / Benin, West Africa | storm god. The sibling of the gods LISA and MAWU, he controls thunder and lightning and is a god of fire and Rain.... |
| God name "Sogbo Fon" | Benin | A storm god of Rain |
| God name "Soko" | Nupe / Nigeria, West Africa | sky god. The name refers specifically to the dark sky at the beginning of the Rainy season which stimulates the growth of crops.... |
| God name "Soko Nupe" | Nigeria | The sky god, specifically the dark sky that precedes the beginning of the Rainy season |
| Supreme god name "Sol (1)" | Roman | Sun god. Known by the full title of Sol Indiges, meaning the indigenous Sol, which may suggest a purely Roman cult on the Quirinal Hill, but there are also inferences that this deity is of more ancient origin. Coins from southern Italy depicting the god with a radiate image date back to circa 200 BC but he rose to particular prominence during the republican period. His festival was celebrated annually on August 9. Nero had a huge statue of himself, as Sol, erected in Rome and the emperor Aurelian elevated Sol to supreme god in the Roman pantheon when Jupiter Conservator gave way to Sol Invictus (the unconquered Sun). Sol may sometimes be linked with AURORA, the goddess of dawn.... |
| Goddess name "Solbon" | Slavic | A goddess of the morning star & the evening star |
| Goddess name "Solbon" | Slavic | Goddess of the morning star and the evening star Slavic |
| Goddess name "Sul-pa-e (youthful radiance)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Fertility and astral god. Identified as the personification of the planet Jupiter and, in one list, the consort of the mother goddess NINHURSAG A.... |
| God name "Summamus" | Etruscan | storm god. Specifically a deity responsible for lightning and thunderbolts. A sanctuary was dedicated to him in Rome.... |
| 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 "Taditkara (ligbtning)" | Buddhist | Goddess of light. Color: green. Attributes: lightning in the form of a creeper. Also Vidyddhara.... |
| Goddess name "Taiaai" | Australian aboriginal | Snake god. His consorts include the snake goddesses Mantya, Tuknampa and Uka. He is revered mainly by tribal groups living on the western seaboard of the Cape York peninsula in northern queensland. Taipan has the typical attributes of many other Australian snake gods, including the Rainbow snake. He exercises judgment over life or death and possesses great wisdom, a universal characteristic of serpents. He is able to kill or cure and is the deity who originally fashioned the blood of living things during the Dreamtime. The imagery of the snake god is closely linked with aboriginal shamanism and with the healing rituals of shamans.... |
| Deities name "Take-Mika-Dzuchi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of thunder. One of the RAIJIN gods of thunder, storms and Rain, he is also one of the warrior deities who guarded Prince NINIGI on his descent from heaven to earth. A tutelary god of swordsmen and judoka artists.See also FUTSU-NUSHI-NO-KAMI.... |
| God name "Tam Kung" | Chinese | Local sea god. A deity with control over Rain and water and who extinguishes fires. His worship is restricted to a coastal region between Hong Kong and Macau. According to tradition he was an eight-year-old boy emperor, the last of the Sung Dynasty, who committed suicide by jumping over a cliff in the face of Kublai Khan's advance in AD 1276. His attendant is Ho Wang, who joined him in death. A sanctuary in Coloane Town in Macau, sited at the end of a narrow peninsula, is dedicated to him.... |
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