| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Salus (salvation)" | Roman | Minor god of health. A sanctuary dated to 302 BC on the Quirinal, one of the seven hills of Rome, is dedicated to the deity. He was also worshiped within the colonies of the empire. There is an altar at Corbridge in Northumberland, England with a votive inscription to Salus. Attributes include a bowl and a snake.... |
| Goddess name "Samas'" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Sun god. The patron deity of Sippar and Larsa. His consort is the mother goddess A-A. S amas derives from the god UTU in the Sumerian pantheon. He is åśśociated with justice. His symbol is the Sun disc and a star surrounded with radiating Sunbeams. He may carry a single-headed scimitar embellished with a panther head. His sanctuary is known as the E-babbar. Also åśśociated with human-headed bulls. His attendant deities include Mes aru, justice, and Kettu, righteousness. He came to much greater prominence in the pantheon at Babylon from about the eighteenth century BC.... |
| Goddess name "San Chou Niang Niang" | China | Mother goddess who was first deified during the Sung dynasty China |
| God name "San Sgrub Bon" | Tibet | A god that was absorbed into a variety of Yama in Lamaism |
| God name "San-Dui" | Buddhist | Tutelary god Buddhist / Tibet |
| God name "San-Guan" | Chinese | The three gods in charge of the Chinese heaven |
| God name "Sancus" | Roman | Sangus or Semo Sancus, a Roman divinity, is said to have been originally a Sabine god, and identical with Hercules and Dins Fidius. The name which is etymologically the same as Sanctus, and connected with Sancire, seems to justify this belief, and characterises Sancus as a divinity presiding over oaths. |
| Goddess name "Sandhya" | Hindu | Goddess Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
| God name "Sangarius" | Greek | A river-god, is described as the son of Oceåñuś and Tethys, and as the husband of Metope, by whom he became the father of Hecabe. The river Sangarius (in Phrygia) itself is said to have derived its name from one Sangas, who had offended Rhea, and was punished lay her by being changed into water. Greek |
| God name "Sango" | Yoruba / Nigeria | A god of thunder |
| God name "Sango Yoruba" | Nigeria | God of thunder Nigeria |
| God name "Sani" | Buddhist | Astral god Hindu / Buddhist |
| Planet name "Sani" | Chaldean | God identified with the planet Saturn and whose parents were the Sun and the shade. |
| Goddess name "Saning Sari" | Java | Rice mother goddess Java |
| Goddess name "Sanjna" | Hindu | Goddess of warriors Hindu daughter of the celestial architect Tvastra disguised herself as a horse and fled from her husband. When he caught her, they produced the Ashwini Kumaras, the horse-headed twins. Each day the twins bring the dawn as their chariot speeds through the sky. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Sanjna (conscience)" | Hindu | Goddess. The daughter of TVASTAR, a consort of SURYA and, in some texts, the mother of YAMA.... |
| Goddess name "Sanju" | Kafir / Afghanistan | A harvest goddess |
| Goddess name "Sanju" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Harvest goddess. A littlereported deity, the consort of the war god GISH and daughter of SANU. She controls the harvesting, threshing and winnowing of grain and the safe storage of wheat and butter. She carries a golden winnow and is either depicted in human form or as a goat. Her cult is known chiefly from the village of Pronz in the southern Hindukush where she enjoyed an important sanctuary with stone seats around the icon, part of which reportedly still exists. Wooden statues depict her in human form, nude to the waist. Alternatively, she is perceived as a bird that acts as a messenger. The blood of sacrificial animals was poured over the figure. Also Sulmech; SANU.... |
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