| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Singala" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Local god. Mentioned only in name by the Babylonian king Nabonidus, worshiped at Taima and influenced strongly by Egyptian culture.See also SALM OF MAHRAM.... |
| Supreme god name "Sins Sga'nagwai (power of the shining heavens)" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | Supreme god. The god who gives power to all things.... |
| Goddess name "Sipylene" | Anatolia / Symnra | Mother goddess worshiped in the Metroon sanctuary. Anatolia / Symnra |
| Goddess name "Sipylene" | Smyrna / Anatolia / west coast of Turkey | Mother goddess. The localized name of the great mother, worshiped in the Metroon sanctuary.... |
| God name "Skidbladner" | Norse | The name of the famous ship of the god Frey that could move alike on land or sea and could be made small or great at will. Norse |
| Goddess name "Sodasi" | Hindu | Minor goddess identified with Tripurasundari, the radiant light in the three eyes of Shiva. She is the source of his wisdom, soul and consciousness. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Sohobo-No-Kami" | Japan / Shinto | The goddess scarecrows, the apotheosis of an actual scarecrow known as a Kakashi |
| God name "Sohodo-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of scarecrows. Identified as the apotheosis of the actual scarecrow made by Japanese farmers and known as a kakasbi. Traditionally it is constructed from reeds and wears a round peasant hat. According to the sacred texts, though his legs do not walk he knows everything under heaven.... |
| 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 "Suijin" | Shinto / Japan | Collective name for water gods. These deities are worshiped at shrines at the sources of irrigation canals, lakes and ponds. They are depicted as snakes, eels and fish and invoked particularly by women. Chief among them is the goddess MIZU-HA-NO-ME.... |
| God name "Sukuna-Hiikrna" | Shinto / Japan | God of healing. With the god O-KUNI-NUSHI-NO-MIKOTO, he established the various methods of healing diseases and the means for control of, and protection against, wild beasts, snakes, insects, etc. He is also worshiped as a tutelary god of traders, both maritime and on land. He is the KAMI of communications and, during the Japanese Empire period, was often installed by the authorities in the temples and shrines of conquered lands. He is worshiped in Buddhism as Yakushi-Bosatsu-Hyojin.... |
| God name "Sukuna-Hikona" | Japan / Shinto | A god of healing that helped establish the methods of healing diseases as well as a means to control & protection against Bob beast, snakes, insects, et all |
| God name "Sumiyoshi-No-Kami" | Japan / Shinto | Generic name of the sea gods who are guardians of seafarers. Japan / Shinto |
| Deities name "Sumiyoshi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Sea gods. A general name for guardian deities of seafarers, including fishermen, they include the three MUNAKATA-NO-KAMI. They are the focus of special worship by the Jingu-Kogo sect, whom they escorted to Korea. They are also patrons of poets and have a purifying role. The main sanctuary is the Sumiyoshi Taisha at Osaka.... |
| God name "Sun Hou-Shi" | China | Monkey god China |
| God name "Sun Hou-Shi" | Chinese | Monkey god. He emerged from a cosmic egg conceived out of emptiness and engendered by the wind; he provides various arts and skills to mankind. According to tradition he discovered the elixir of immortality in a fruit which he consumed. Also Sun Wu-Kong.... |
| God name "Sun Hou-Shi/ Sun Wu-Kong" | China | The monkey god |
| Goddess name "Sura ksini" | Meola | Minor goddess worshiped by the demigods. Meola |
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