| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Sirsir" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | God of mariners. The guardian of boatmen.... |
| Goddess name "Sirtur" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Sheep goddess. Known from inscriptions and påśśing comments in texts. Syncretized with NINSUN.... |
| Goddess name "Sodasi (girl of sixteen)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor goddess. One of a group of MAHAVIDYAS personifying the SAKTI of SIVA. Aspects include Divyaratri.... |
| God name "Sokar" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld god. Guardian deity of the necropolis at Memphis with possible fertility connotations and with strong links to OSIRIS beside whom he is also perceived as a restored god of the dead. He is also syncretized with the Memphis creator god PTAH in the Old kingdom (circa 4500 BC), where he may have originated as a god of various crafts åśśociated with the manufacture of funerary trappings. He is depicted either as a hawk on a boat, or in human form with the head of a hawk and an elaborate atef crown (see Osiris). Sokar also enjoyed a major cult at Thebes where, in an annual festival celebrating the healthy continuation of the Divine kingship, he was conveyed in an elaborate barque. Also Sokaris (Greek).... |
| Goddess name "Somius" | Roman | Minor god of sleep. He equates with the Greek god HYPNOS. According to legend he is one of the two sons of NYX, goddess of night, and lives in a remote cave beside the Lethe river. He is depicted by Ovid dressed in black but with his robe scattered with stars, wearing a crown of poppies and holding a goblet of opium juice. His attendant is MORPHEUS and he oversees the spirits of dreams and nightmares. Particularly noted from the art of the Lacedaemonians who placed statues of Somnus and MORS side by side.... |
| God name "Somnus" | Greek | The personification and god of sleep, the Greek Hypnos, is described by the ancients as a brother of death and as a son of night Roman |
| Goddess name "Soteira" | Greece | the saving goddess, occurs as a surname of several female divinities in Greece, e. g. of Artemis at Pegae in Megaris, of Persephone in Laconia, of Athena of Eunomia. |
| 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).... |
| Goddess name "Spadareamet" | Armenia | Chthonic goddess concerned with fertility of the earth and death, the Christians equate her name with hell Armenia |
| Goddess name "Spandaramet" | Pre - Christian Armenian | Chthonic goddess. Concerned with the fertility of the earth and with death. Under Christian influence, her name equates with hell.... |
| God name "Stribog" | Slav | God of winds. Mentioned in the Chronicle of Nestor, and the euphemism Stribog's grandchildren refers to the winds.... |
| Goddess name "Styx" | Greek | Chthonic underworld goddess. A daughter of OKEANOS and TETHYS, and mother of NIKE. The deity of the river Styx beside which the gods swear their oaths.... |
| Goddess name "Su" | Egypt | Primordial god of the air. According to the genealogy of the priests of Heliopolis, he is the first born of the creator Sun god ATUM and by his sister TEFNUT is the father of the chthonic god GEB and the sky goddess NUT. S u is typically represented in human form standing over the supine form of Geb and holding Nut aloft with his raised arms. He can also, as one of several manifestations of the eye of RE, be represented as a lion, as can his sister.... |
| God name "Suhhab" | Babylonia | One of the seven great gods, each of whom produced a race of men. Babylonia |
| Planet name "Sukra" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | This astral god was the personification of the planet Venus, he tutored demons on the side |
| Planet name "Sukra (bright)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Astral god. The personification of the planet Venus and the tutor of the demons. He may, on occasion, be represented as female, owing to the fact that he was once made to swallow his attendant Kaca and then restore him to life. Color: white. Rides in a golden or silver chariot drawn by eight or ten horses. Attributes: Book, prayer wheel, purse, staff, treasure and waterjar.... |
| Planet name "Sul-Pa-e The" | Sumeria | Astral and fertility god, a personification of the planet Jupiter Sumeria / Mia |
| 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.... |
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