Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Saning Sari" | Java | Rice mother goddess Java |
God name "Sankha(pala)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Snake god. One of a group of seven MAHANAGAS or nagadevas. Attributes: cup and rosary. Three-eyed.... |
Goddess name "Sanu" | Kafir / Afghanistan | God of obscure affinities. The father of the goddess SANJU and an adversary of the war god GISH. Described as a Muslim, so perhaps of foreign import. Also Sanru.... |
God name "Sar" | Syria | God of the dawn Syria |
Goddess name "Sar Akka" | Swedish | Goddess midwives Swedish |
God name "Sara" | Akkadia | Minor war god Babylon / Akkadia |
Goddess name "Saraddevi" | Buddhist | Fertility and vegetation goddess åśśociated autumn Buddhist / Tibet |
Goddess name "Saraddevi (goddess of autumn)" | BuddhistLamaist / Tibet | Fertility and vegetation goddess. Associated with autumn, and an attendant of the goddess SRIDEVI. Her sacred animal is an antelope. Attributes: cup, knife and peaçõçk feather.... |
God name "Sarama" | India | The fleet one, the runner; the dog belonging to Indra and the gods, the Divine watcher "over the golden flock of stars and solar rays." She is the mother of the two dogs called Sarameyas. India |
Goddess name "Sarama (the nimble one)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Attendant goddess. She acts as a messenger to the god INDRA and guards his herds. In later Hindu texts Sarama is reputedly the mother of all dogs and is given the epithet the bitch of heaven. The Rg Veda accounts her as having punished the minor deity Panis for stealing cows.... |
Goddess name "Saranya" | Hindu | Primordial goddess Hindu / Vedic |
Goddess name "Saranyu (the fleet one)" | Hindu / Vedic | Primordial goddess of uncertain affinities. Saranyu is the daughter of the god TVASTAR, and the sister of VISVARUPA. Her consort is Vivasvat, by whom she is said to be the mother of YAMA and YAMI, the twin progenitors of the human race. Little else is known of her, but she is accounted as having an impetuous nature.See also VIVASVAN.... |
God name "Sarapis" | Late Egypt | God. Known only from the Greco-Roman period of the early Ptolemies (fourth century BC) but persisting in Europe until second or third century AD. In Egyptian religion Sarapis is a hybridization of certain aspects of OSIRIS, the underworld god, and APIS, the bull god, who symbolizes the earthly presence of PTAH. Sarapis is perceived to epitomize both the fertility of the land and the life of the sacred bull after death. In Greek mythology he takes on aspects of ZEUS, HELIOS, ASKLEPIOS and DIONYSOS. He was worshiped extensively in the Roman Empire period. A sanctuary at York in England was dedicated by a soldier of the sixth legion, and magnificent statues were discovered in the Walbrook Mithraeum in London, and at Merida in Spain. Also Seraphis (Greek).... |
Goddess name "Sarasvati" | Hindu | A sacred river in the Vedas, and as a river goddess she was often invoked to bestow vitality, renown. She is described as moving along a golden path and destroying the demon Vritra. Hindu |
Goddess name "Sarasvati Hindu," | Vedic | A goddess of astronomy, science, education, wisdom, eloquence & rivers |
Goddess name "Sarasvati The ethereal" | Hindu | The elegant one; the Divine consort or wife of Brahma, his feminine alter ego and goddess of hidden learning and esoteric wisdom. Hindu |
Goddess name "Saraswati" | Hinduism | The first of the three prominent goddesses of Hinduism, the other two being Lakshmi and Durga. Saraswati is the consort of Lord Brahma, the creator. |
God name "Saravakarmavaranavisodhani" | Buddhist | God of the richer, another deification of text Buddhist |