A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Gods, Goddesses, Ghosts, Ghoulies,
Heroes, Villains and Things That Go Bump In The Night
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- P’an-ku, the first man, born from the primordial cosmic
egg, he died after eighteen thousand years of labour with his
chisel and mallet; then his breath became the wind and clouds,
and his beard became the streaming signs in the sky; his voice
became the thunder, his limbs the four quarters of the earth; his
head became the mountains, his flesh the soil, and his blood
became the rivers of earth; his skin and hair became the herbs
and trees, and his teeth, bones, and marrow became metals, rocks,
and precious stones. Southern China.
Cosmogony-p’an Ku and the Creation Myth
- P'an Chin Lien, the goddess of brothels and prostitution who
enjoyed drunken orgies. China
- P’i-lu Fo (Vairotchana), the highest of the Threefold
Embodiments, one of principal gods of Buddhism.
- Pa, Goddess of droughts. China
- Pa Hsien. The Eight Immortals of the Taoists.
- Pabilsag, Tutelary god of Isin The consort of the goddess
Nininsinna, he was identified with the lost city of Larak.
Mesopotamia
- Pabothkew, the Great Spirit and Creator of Mother Earth. The
Shawnee
- Pachamac, creator god and a god of the earth. Inca
- Pacha Kamaq the 'Earth-Maker', the creator god of the peoples
who lived in Peru before the Inca conquest.
- Pachamama, a dragoness fertility goddess who presided over
planting and harvesting. She caused earthquakes. After conquest
by Catholic Spain her image was replaced by the Virgin Mary.
Inca
- Pacis, an altar to Peace, envisioned as a Roman goddess.
- Paco. A minor angel.. Enochian
- Pacolet. A dwarf in the service of Lady Clerimond. He had a
winged horse, which carried off Valentine, Orson, and Clerimond
from the dungeon of Ferragus to the palace of King Pepin, and
afterwards carried Valentine to the palace of Alexander, Emperor
of Constantinople, his father. France
- Padma, Goddess who is the incarnation of Laksmi Hindu
- Padma, Snake god Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Padmantaka, God who is the guardian of the Western direction
Buddhist
- Padmapani, God, a Buddha designate Buddhist
- Padmatara, Minor goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
- Pado. A minor angel.. Enochian
- Padsmosnisa, God who is connected with the guardian deities
Buddhist
- Paean. The physician of the celestial gods; the deliverer
from any evil or calamity. Greek
- Paean. A hymn to Apollo, and applied to the god himself.
Greek
- Paeoc. A minor angel. Enochian
- Paeon, God of war Greek/Crete
- Pagan properly means “belonging to a village”.
The Christian Church fixed itself first in cities, the centres of
intelligence. Long after it had been established in towns,
idolatrous practices continued to be observed in rural districts
and villages, so pagan and villager came to mean the same
thing.
- Pagoda. 'Giver of Favorable Winds', a weather and agriculture
goddess. Cattle and sheep are sacrificed to her. Slavic
- Pah, Moon spirit Pawnee
- Pah-ah The Great Spirit of the Paiute Indians.
- Pahad, the angel who personifies fear and terror. Hebrew
- Pahtecatl, deity who represents the plants that are used for
the fermentation of pulque. Aztec
- Pahtumawas. The Great Spirit of the Lenape Indians
- Pai Chung, Agriculture god. China
- Pai Yu, God of the guitar. China
- Paico. A minor angel. Enochian
- Paiawon, a military deity at Knossos.
- Paimon. Goetic Goddess of Magic.
- Paiowa Yana Piaute, Goddess of the Evening star, she and her
daughter created the first people USA
- Pairikas, Goddesses of drought. Persia
- Paiva, sun god. Finnish
- Paivatar, Goddess of summer. Finnish
- Pajainen, the deity who killed the great bull in the legends
of Finland.
- Pajau Yan, Goddess of health and healing who was sent to live
in the moon, where she provides flowers to the newly dead to ease
their transition as they move into the underworld. Cambodian
- Pajonn. God of thunder known as the one who dwells in the
heaven. Finland
- Pak Tai. Astral god of war China/Taoist
- Paka'a, God of the wind and the inventor of the sail.
Hawaii
- Pakbangha The supreme being of the Chawte. Indonesia
- Pakhet, Bast and Sekhmet were similar feline war gods, one
for Upper Egypt and the other for Lower Egypt. Where the two
groups met, at Beni Hasan, the similarity of the goddesses lead
to a new merged form known as Pakhet.
- Pakrokitat, creator god who made people with a face at the
front and back of their heads. After a hissy fit, he decended to
the middle of the earth. The Serrano Indians, California
- Palaemon,
signifies the wrestler, as in the surname of Heracles in Lycophron but it also occurs as a
proper name of several mythical personages.
- 1. A son of Athamas and Ino, was
originally called Melicertes. When his mother, who was driven mad
by Hera, had thrown herself with her boy
from the Molurian rock into the sea, both became marine
divinities, viz. Ino became Leucothea, and Melicertes became
Palaemon. (Apollodorus iii.
Metamorphoses
by Ovid IV) According to some, Melicertes after his
apotheosis was called Glaucus whereas,
according to another version, Glaucus is said to have leaped into
the sea from his love of Melicertes. The apotheosis was effected
by the Nereides, who saved
Melicertes, and also ordered the institution of the Nemean games.
The body of Melicertes was washed by the waves, or carried by
dolphins into port Schoenus on the Corinthian isthmus. There the
body was found by his uncle Sisyphus,
who ordered it to be carried by Donacinus and Amphimachus to
Corinth, and on the command of the Nereides instituted the
Isthmian games and sacrifices of black bulls in honour of the
deified Palaemon. The Romans identified Palaemon with their own
god Portunus, or Portumnus.
- 3. A son of Hephaestus, or
Aetolus, or Lernus, was one of the Argonauts. (Apollodorus i. Argonautica)
- 4. A son of Heracles by Autonoe,
the daughter of Peireus, or by Iphinoe, the daughter of Antaeus.
(Apollodorus. ii)
- 4. One of the sons of Priam.
Greek
- Pelasgus,
the mythical ancestor of the Pelasgians, the earliest inhabitants
of Greece who established the worship of the Dodonaean Zeus,
Hephaestus, the Cabeiri, and other divinities that belong to the
earliest inhabitants of the country. Greek
- Pallene,
1. A daughter of Sithon, from whom the town of Pallene in the
peninsula of the same name was said to have derived its
name.
- 2. A daughter of the giant Alcyoneus, and one of the
Alcyonides. Greek
- Pale Fox aka Ogo. Trickster God of the Dogon people.
- Pales, a deity of shepherds, flocks and livestock. Roman
- Pali Kongju, Goddess of healing who rescues souls from the
clutches of brutal guards of Hell. Korea
- Palici.
Twin gods, originating in Sicily. They were sometimes said to
have been the sons of Zeus by Thaleia the daughter of Hephaestus, sometimes the sons of Zeus by
Aetna. While she was pregnant with the twins, Thaleia, fearing
Hera's jealousy hid in the earth and when the time came the twin
boys emerged from the ground, which explains their name 'the
Returners'. Greek
- Pallian, God Australia
- Pallas,
surname of Athena. In Homer this name always appears united with
the name Athena, but in later writers we also find Pallas alone
instead of Athena. Plato derives the surname from "to brandish",
in reference to the goddess brandishing the spear or aegis,
whereas Apollodorus derives it from the giant Pallas, who was
slain by Athena. But it is more probable that Pallas is the same
word as virgin or maiden. Another female Pallas, described as a
daughter of Triton, is mentioned under palladium. Greek
- Pallas. A name of Minerva, sometimes called Pallas Minerva.
According to fable, Pallas was one of the Titans, of giant size,
killed by Minerva, who flayed him, and used his skin for armour;
whence she was called Pallas Minerva. More likely the word Pallas
is from pallo, to brandish; and the compound means Minerva who
brandishes the spear. Greek
- Pamphyle. A sorceress who converted herself into an owl
(Apuleius). There was another Pamphyle, the daughter of Apollo,
who first taught women to embroider with silk.
- Pamulak. The creator of the universe, of vegetation and of
man. The Bagobo, Philippines
- Pan,
the great god of flocks and shepherds among the Greeks; his name
is probably connected with the verb pasco, so that his name and
character are perfectly in accordance with each other. Greek
- Pana, Goddess of the weather. Inuit
- Panacea, Goddess of health and cures. She was a daughter of
the medicine-god Asclepius.
Greek
- Panao, Creator god, also generic title for deities
controlling the natural world, they lived in the mountains.
Afghanistan
- Pana-ewa, had many bodies. He attacked Hiiaka in his fog
body, Kino-ohu, and threw around her his twisting fog-arms,
chilling her and choking her and blinding her. He wrapped her in
the severe cold mantle of heavy mists. Pacific Islands
- Pancabrahma, Collective name for the five aspects of Siva
Hindu
- Pancamukha-Patradeva, God, a beggar Buddhist
- Pancratis,
a daughter of Aloeus and Iphimedeia, in the Phthiotian Achaia. Once
when Thracian pirates, under Butes,
invaded that district, they carried off from Mount Drius the
women who were solemnizing a festival of Dionysus. Among them was Iphimedeia and her
daughter Pancratis. Greek
- Pandara, the Shakti of Amitabha, and a feminine bodhisattva.
Buddhist
- Pandora,
i. e. the giver of all, or endowed with every thing, is the name
of the first woman on earth and she plays an important role in
numerous versions of the Greek creation myths. Her name means
'all gifts' and reflects her story. Greek
- Pandora's Box. A present which seems valuable, but which is
in reality a curse; as when Midas was permitted, according to his
request, to turn whatever he touched into gold, and found his
very food became gold, and therefore uneatable. Prometheus made
an image and stole fire from heaven to endow it with life. In
revenge, Jupiter told Vulcan to make a female statue, and gave
her a box which she was to present to the man who married her.
Prometheus distrusted Jove and his gifts, but Epimetheus, his
brother, married the beautiful Pandora, and received the box.
Immediately the bridegroom opened the box all the evils that
flesh is heir to flew forth, and have ever since continued to
afflict the world. The last thing that flew from the box was
Hope. Greek
- Pandrosos,
i. e. "refreshing," was a daughter of Cecrops and Agraulos, and a sister of Erysichthon, Herse, and Aglauros. Greek
- Paneu. Seven divine brother gods. Kafir, Afghanistan
- Pang Che, Goddess of justice. China
- Pan-Gu, the Chinese creator god who was born from the Cosmic
Egg.
- Panic. On one occasion Bacchus, in
his Indian expeditions, was encompassed with an army far superior
to his own; one of his chief captains, named Pan, advised him to
command all his men at the dead of night to raise a simultaneous
shout. The shout was rolled from mountain to mountain by
innumerable echoes, and the Indians, thinking they were
surrounded on all sides, took to sudden flight. Greek
- Pansahi Mata, One of the seven mother goddesses who later
became regarded as evil Hindu
- Pantang Mayang, Goddess of love Borneo
- Pantao, the peach of immortality that grew in the garden of
Hsi wang mu, “Queen Mother of the West”. When the
fruit ripened every 3,000 years, the event was celebrated by a
sumptuous banquet attended by the Pa Hsien the “Eight
Immortals”. Taoist
- Panthera. A hypothetical beast which lived in the East.
Reynard affirmed that he had sent her majesty the queen a comb
made of panthera bone, “more lustrous than the rainbow,
more odoriferous than any perfume, a charm against every ill, and
a universal panacea.” France
- Panthomorphos. Having all shapes, and therefore mystically
the totality of manifested nature as including all beings,
things, and shapes. Greek
- Pap-nigin-gara, God of war who was lord of the boundary
stone. Mesopotamia
- Papa. Goddess of the earth Maori
- Papang. Creator and sky god who lives in the moon.
Australia
- Papas, Local god. Phyrgian, Turkey
- Papatuanuku, Chthonic mother goddess who evolved
spontaneously in the cosmic night. Polynesia
- Papaya. One of the deities who awaited the return of
Telipinus. Hittite
- Papsukkal, Messenger god as well as the gatekeeper for the
remainder of the pantheon. Akkadia
- Para. In philosophy, infinite, supreme; the final limit.
Sanskrit
- Para Brahma The supreme god of the Siva Narayanis. Northwest
India
- Parabrahman, the universal self or spirit and that which is
beyond Brahman; the self-enduring, eternal, self-sufficient cause
of all, the one essence of everything in the cosmos.
Chaldean
- Paradise
Lost. Satan rouses the panic—stricken host of fallen
angels to tell them about a rumour current in Heaven of a new
world about to be created. He calls a council to deliberate what
should be done, and they agree to send Satan to search out for
the new world. Satan, passing the gulf between Hell and Heaven
and the limbo of Vanity, enters the orb of the Sun (in the guise
of an angel) to make inquiries as to the new planet's
whereabouts; and, having obtained the necessary information,
alights on Mount Niphates, and goes to Paradise in the form of a
cormorant. Seating himself on the Tree of Life, he overhears Adam
and Eve talking about the prohibition made by God, and at once
resolves upon the nature of his attack. Gabriel sends two angels
to watch over the bower of Paradise, and Satan flees. Raphael is
sent to warn Adam of his danger, and tells him the story of
Satan's revolt and expulsion out of Heaven, and why and how this
world was made. After a time Satan returns to Paradise in the
form of a mist, and, entering the serpent, induces Eve to eat of
the forbidden fruit. Adam eats “that he may perish with the
woman whom he loved.” Satan returns to Hell to tell his
triumph, and Michael is sent to lead the guilty pair out of the
garden. Milton
- Paradise of Fools. The Hindus, Mahometans, Scandinavians, and
Roman Catholics have devised a place between Paradise and
“Purgatory” to get rid of a theological difficulty.
If there is no sin without intention, then infants and idiots
cannot commit sin, and if they die cannot be consigned to the
purgatory of evil—doers; but, not being believers or
good—doers, they cannot be placed with the saints. The
Roman Catholics place them in the Paradise of Infants and the
Paradise of Fools.
- Paradise and the Peri. The second tale in Moore's poetical
romance of Lalla
Rookh. The Peri laments her expulsion from Heaven, and is
told she will be readmitted if she will bring to the Gate of
Heaven the “gift most dear to the Almighty.” First
she went to a battle—field, where the tyrant Mahmoud,
having won a victory, promised life to a young warrior, but the
warrior struck the tyrant with a dart. The wound, however, was
not mortal, so “The tyrant lived, the hero fell.” The
Peri took to Heaven's Gate the last drop of the patriot's blood
as her offering, but the gates would not open to her. Next she
flew to Egypt, where the plague was raging, and saw a young man
dying; presently his betrothed bride sought him out, caught the
disease, and both died. The Peri took to Heaven's Gate the last
sigh of that self—sacrificed damsel, but the offering was
not good enough to open the gates to her. Lastly, she flew to
Syria, and there saw an innocent child and guilty old man. The
vesper call sounded, and the child knelt down to prayer. The old
man wept with repentance, and knelt to pray beside the child. The
Peri offered the Repentant Tear, and the gates flew open to
receive the gift.
- Paramapadatmavat. That which is of the very essence or nature
of high spirit, bordering on the unconditioned nature of the
hierarch. Buddhist
- Paramasva, great horse god usually depicted trampling four
major Hindu deities underfoot. Buddhist
- Paramesvar The supreme being of the Chamars. India
- Paramita, Descriptive name of a philosophical deity
Buddhist
- Paraskeva. "Friday". Fertility goddess associated with
spinning, water, health, and marriage. Russia
- Parasurama, Incarnation of the god of Visnu. Hindu
- Pare, Goddess of volcanoes. Polynesia
- Parendi, Minor goddess of prosperity associated with
accumulating wealth. Hindu
- Pariacaca, a god of water and rainstorms and a creator-god.
He was born a falcon but later became human. Peru
- Pariacaca, Weather god response will for rain and thunder.
Inca
- Papimany. The country of the Papimans; the country subject to
the Pope, or any priest—ridden country, as Spain.
Rabelais
- Paris.
Also called Alexander, was the second son of Priam and Hecabe. Previous to his birth Hecabe dreamed
that she had given birth to a firebrand, the flames of which
spread over the whole city. This dream was interpreted to her by
Aesacus, or according to others by Cassandra, by Apollo, or by a Sibyl, and was said to indicate
that Hecabe should give birth to a son, who should bring about
the ruin of his native city, and she was accordingly advised to
expose the child. Greek
- Pariskaravassita, Minor goddess, one of those personifying
the discipline of spiritual regeneration. Buddhist
- Parjanya, God of rain and the personification of rain clouds.
Hindu
- Parna-Savari, a healing deity. Buddhist
- Parthenos,
i. e. the virgin, a surname of Athena
at Athens, where the famous temple Parthenon was dedicated to
her. Greek
- Parthenope,
1. A daughter of Stymphalus, and by
Heracles the mother of Eueres. (Apollodorus. ii)
- 2. A daughter of Ancaeus and Samia, became by Apollo the
mother of Lycomedes.
- 3. One of the Sirens. At Naples her
tomb was shown, and a torch race was held every year in her
honour.
- 4. The wife of Oceanus, by whom
she became the mother of Europa and
Thrace. Greek
- Partula, the goddess of pregnancy, who determined the time of
gestation. Roman
- Parvati. A Hindu goddess. She is the wife of Lord Shiva and
the divine mother of Lord Ganesh and Lord Murugan. Some
communities also believe her to be the divine sister of Lord
Vishnu
- Pasiphae,
1. A daughter of Helios and Perseis, and a sister of Circe and Aeetes, was
the wife of Minos, by whom she was the
mother of Androgeos, Catreus,
Deucalion, Glaucus, Minotaurus, Acalle, Xenodice, Ariadne, and Phaedra. (Argonautica. Apollodorus i. Metamorphoses
by Ovid XV)
- 2. An oracular goddess at Thalamae in Laconia, was believed
to be a daughter of Atlas, or to be the same as Cassandra or
Daphne, the daughter of Amyclas. Greek
- Pasithea,
1. One of the Charites.
- 2. A daughter of Nereus and
Doris.
- 3. A Naiad, the wife of Erichthonius and mother of
Pandion. (Apollodorus iii,
where she is called Praxithea.) Greek
- Pasowee. A Jezebel or Aheb demon in the guise of the Queen Of
Heaven. Loony
- Pasowee, the Goddess of Endurance. Tarot
- Pasowee, goddess of health and medicine. Kiowa
- Pasowee, the Buffalo Woman. Fuji
- Pasupati, God of animals and the protector of cattle.
Hindu
- Patecatl, a god of healing and fertility, and the discoverer
of peyote. Aztec
- Patollo, Chief and war god. Baltic
- Patricia. Goddess of Luck and Fate. Roman
- Patrick and the Serpent. According to tradition, St. Patrick
cleared Ireland of its vermin; one old serpent resisted him; but
St. Patrick overcame it by cunning. He made a box, and invited
the serpent to enter it. The serpent objected, saying it was too
small; but St. Patrick insisted it was quite large enough to be
comfortable. After a long contention, the serpent got in to prove
it was too small, when St. Patrick slammed down the lid, and
threw the box into the sea. To complete this wonderful tale, the
legend says the waves of the sea are made by the writhings of
this serpent, and the noise of the sea is that of the serpent
imploring the saint to release it.
- Patrimpas , one of the trinity of gods and is the god of
spring, joy, peace, maturity, abundance, as well the care of
domestic animals, ploughed fields, and crops. Eastern Europe
- Patroclus,
1. A son of Heracles by Pyrippe. (Apollodorus. ii)
- 2. The celebrated friend of Achilles, was a son of Menoetius
of Opus, and a grandson of Actor and Aegina, whence he is called
Actorides. (Metamorphoses by Ovid VIII) His mother is commonly
called Sthenele, but some mention her under the name of Periapis
or Polymele. Greek
- Pattini, Goddess of summer and another mother goddess. Sri
Lanka
- Pau Cheng, the fifth of the ten judges in An-fu, the "palace
of darkness" or hell. China
- Pau-o-palae was clothed with a network of most delicate
ferns. She was noted because of her magic power over all the
ferns of the forest, and for her skill in using the most graceful
fronds for clothing and garlands. Pacific Islands
- Paurnamasi, the mother of Sandipani Muni, the spiritual
master of Krishna. Paurnamasi makes the arrangements for Radha
and Krishna’s pastimes. Hindu
- Pautiwa, cloud sender and sun priest of souls. Hopi
- Pava, the returning messianic god-spirit who has yet to
return. Peru
- Pavaka. One of the three personified fires, whether cosmic or
human; one of the three sons of Agni-Abhimani and Svaha.
Buddist
- Pavana, God of the winds, said to be the father of Hanumat or
Hanuman, the monkey king who becomes Rama's helper in the
Ramayana. Hindu
- Pax, a personification of peace. Roman
- Pax. The “kiss of peace.” Also a sacred utensil
used when mass is celebrated by a high dignitary. It is sometimes
a crucifix, sometimes a tablet, and sometimes a reliquary. The
pax is omitted on Maundy Thursday, from horror at the kiss of
Judas. Hebrew
- Pazuzu, a demom invoked for protection against crop
pestilence. Babylon
- Pegasus.
The famous winged horse, whose origin is thus related. When
Perseus struck off the head of Medusa, with whom Poseidon had had
intercourse in the form of a horse or a bird, there sprang forth
from her Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus. The latter obtained the
name Pegasus because he was believed to have made his appearance
near the sources of Oceanus. Greek
- Peirithous,
a son of Ixion or Zeus by Dia, of Larissa in Thessaly. He was one
of the Lapithae, and married to Hippodameia, by whom he became
the father of Polypoetes. Greek
- Peitho.
The personification of Persuasion (Suada or Suadela among the
Romans), was worshipped as a divinity at Sicyon, where she was
honoured with a temple in the agora. (The History
of Herodotus, VIII)
Peitho also occurs as a surname of other divinities, such as
Aphrodite, whose worship was said to
have been introduced at Athens by Theseus and of Artemis. Greek
- Peju'lpe Yukaghir, Guardian spirits, who look at the well
being of animals under their care and benevolent to the hunter so
long as he observes the rules and kills only when necessary
Siberia
- Pekko, God responsible for the duration and harvest in the
barley, used to make beer. In christianity you may find him with
the name of St. Peter Finnish
- Peko, God of fertility Estonia
- Pelasgus,
the mythical ancestor of the Pelasgians, the earliest inhabitants
of Greece who established the worship of the Dodonaean Zeus,
Hephaestus, the Cabeiri, and other divinities that belong to the
earliest inhabitants of the country. Greek
- Pele, a goddess of fire, lightning, dance, volcanoes and
violence. Hawaii
- Peleus,
a son of Aeacus and Endeis, was king of the Myrmidons at Phthia
in Thessaly. He was a brother of Telamon and step-brother of
Phocus, the son of Aeacus, by the Nereid Psamathe. Greek
- Pelias,
a son of Poseidon (or Cretheus) and Tyro. Greek
- Pelias. The huge spear of Achilles, which none but the hero could wield;
so called because it was cut from an ash growing on Mount Pelion,
in Thessaly. Greek
- Pelides. Son of Peleus, that is, Achilles, the hero of
Homer's Iliad, and chief of the Greek warriors that besieged
Troy.
- Pellon Pekko, the god of crops, barley, bear and brewing.
Finnish
- Pelops,a
grandson of Zeus, and son of Tantalus and Dione, the daughter of
Atlas. He was thus a great-grandson of Cronos. Some writers call
the mother of Pelops Euryanassa or Clytia. Greek
- Pemba, God Africa(west)
- Pen Annwen. Guardian of the Hallows in the Underworld.
Welsh
- Penates,
the household gods of the Romans, both in regard to a private
family and to the state, as the great family of citizens: hence
we shall have to distinguish between private and public
Penates.
- Perendi, god of thunder and the oak and the consort of
Prende. Albania
- Penelope,
a daughter of Icarius and Periboea of Sparta. According to
Didymus, Penelope was originally called Ameirace, Arnacia, or
Arnaea, and Nauplius or her own parents are said to have cast her
into the sea where she was fed by sea-birds from which she
derived her name. Greek
- Penetralis,
a surname or epithet given to the several divinities at Rome,
that were worshipped in the Penetrale, or the central part of the
house, such as Jupiter, Vesta, the Penates, etc. Greek
- Peneus,
also called Peneius, a Thessalian river god, and a son of Oceanus
and Tethys. (Theogony of Hesiod 343; Metamorphoses by Ovid i.) By
the Naiad Creusa he became the father of Hypseus, Stilbe, and
Daphne. Cyrene also is called by some his wife, and by others his
daughter, and hence Peneius is called the genitor of Aristaeus.
Greek
- Penglai-Shan, one of the 108 Daoist paradises, the one
favoured by the Eight-Immortals. China
- Penthesilea,
a daughter of Ares and Otrera, and queen of the Amazons.
Greek
- Peregrinations of the Monad. Used mainly for the post-mortem
states and conditions of the spiritual monad plus its movements
in and through the solar system guided by certain dominating
spiritual-psychological factors, both in the monad itself and in
the solar system. Encyclopedic Theosophical
- Peparethos,
A son of Dionysus by Ariadne. Greek
- Peperuna, a thunder goddess and the mother of the sun-goddess
Solntse. Her twin brother was the thunder-god Perun. Slavic
- Periboea,
l. The wife of Icarius, and mother of
Penelope.
- 2. A daughter of Eurymedon, and
by Poseidon the mother of
Nausithous.
- 3. A daughter of Acessamenus, and the mother of Pelagon by
the river god Axius.
- 4. A daughter of Alcathous, and the wife of Telamon, by whom
she became the mother of Ajax and Teucer. Some writers call her
Eriboea.
- 5. A daughter of Hipponous, and the wife of Oeneus, by whom
she became the mother of Tydeus.
- 6. The wife of king Polybus of Corinth. Greek
- Perchta. Fertility goddess who married the Sun and tells
fortues. Slavic
- Percunatele, the mother of thunder. Polish
- Pereplut, goddess of drink and changing fortune. Balkans
- Perende, god of storms, thunder and lightning. Albania
- Prende, goddess of love and consort of the thunder god
Perende. Albanian
- Peri, delicate, gentle, fairy—like beings of Eastern
mythology, begotten by fallen spirits. They direct with a wand
the pure in mind the way to heaven. These lovely creatures,
according to the Koran, are under the sovereignty of Eblis; and
Mahomet was sent for their conversion, as well as for that of
man.
-
Periclymenus, or Poriclymenus. One of the Argonauts, was a
son of Neleus and Chloris, and a brother of Nestor. Greek
- Perieres,
a son of Aeolus and Enarete, king of Messene, was the father of
Aphareus and Leucippus by Gorgophone. (Apollodorus) In some traditions
Perieres was called a son of Cynortas, and besides the sons above
mentioned he is said to have been, by Gorgophone, the father of
Tyndareos and Icarius. Greek
- Perimb, Goddess of the moon and supreme being. Brazil
- Periphas,
1. One of the sons of Aegyptus. (Apollodorus. ii.)
- 2. A son of Oeneus.
- 3. A son of Lapithes in Thessaly.
- 4. One of the. Lapithae. ( Metamorphoses by Ovid)
- 5. An Attic autochthon, previous to the time of Cecrops, was
a priest of Apollo. 6. A son of the Aetolian Ochesius, fell by
the hand of Ares in the Trojan war.
- 7. A son of Epytus, and a herald of Aeneias.
- 8. A Greek who took part in the destruction of Troy.
Greek
- Perit, Goddesses of justice. Illyrian
- Periphetes,
1. A son of Hephaestus and Anticleia, was surnamed Corynetes,
that is, Club-bearer, and was a robber at Epidaurus, who slew the
travellers he met with an iron club. Theseus at last slew him and
took his club for his own use.
- 2. A son of Copreus of Mycenae, was slain at Troy by
Hector.
- 3. A Trojan, who was slain by Teucer. Greek
- Perkons, God of thunder who brings beneficial rain and is
Fertility god. Latvia
- Perkunas, one of the trinity of gods and is the god of the
atmosphere and the "waters" of the sky, as well as the fecundity
of flora, human morality and justice. Eastern Europe
- Perkwunos, Perkunos. God of the elements. The Slavonic
Trinity was Perkunos, Rikollos, and Potrinpos. (Grumm: Deutsche
Mythologie)
- Perkun Tete, goddess of thunder and lightning identified with
the planet Venus. Each night she receives the sun, then returns
it the next morning washed and shining. Balkans
- Perse,
a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and wife of Helios, by whom she
became the mother of Aeetes and Circe. She is further called the
mother of Pasiphae, Perses and Aloeus. Homer and Apollonius
Rhodius call her Perse, while others call her Perseis. Greek
- Persephone, Goddess of death
and spring, queen of the underworld. Greek
- Perseus,
the famous Argive hero, was a son of Zeus and Danae, and a
grandson of Acrisius. Acrisius, who had no male issue, consulted
the Pythian oracle, and received the answer, that if Danae should
give birth to a son, he would kill his father. Greek
- Personal God. A personal anthropomorphic God of theology is a
purely human creation for personality is a limitation utterly
inconsistent with the nature of the boundless and eternal. This
God is merely a reflection of man.
- Perun, God of thunder, also creator Russia
- Perun, God of war, justice, thunder and lightning.
Slavic
- Peruwa, God of horses Hittite
- Peucetius. One of the sons of Lycaon, is said to have led, in conjunction
with his brother Oenotrus, an
Arcadian colony into Italy.
- Phaedra,
a daughter of Minos by Pasiphae or Crete, and the wife of
Theseus. She was the stepmother of Hippolytus, the son of
Theseus, by Antiope or Hippolyte, and having fallen in love with
him he repulsed her, whereupon she calumniated him before
Theseus. After the death of Hippolytus, his innocence became
known to his father, and Phaedra made away with herself.
Greek
- Phaea. The name of the sow of
Crommyon, which ravaged the neighbourhood, and was slain by
Theseus.
- Phaeax. A son of Poseidon and
Cercyra, from whom the Phaeacians derived their name.
- Phaenna,
a daughter of Zeus and Eurynome and one of the Charites.
Greek
- Phanothea,
was the wife of the Athenian Icarius. She was said to have
invented the hexameter. Porphyrius designates her as the Delphic
priestess of Apollo. Greek
- Phædria. Handmaid of Acrasia the enchantress. She sails
about Idle Lake in a gondola. Seeing Sir Guyon she ferries him
across the lake to the floating island, where Cymochles attacks
him. Phædria interposes, the combatants desist, and the
little wanton ferries the knight Temperance over the lake again.
Fairy Tale
- Phaethon,
that is, "the shining," occurs in Homer as an epithet or surname
of Helios, and is used by later writers as a real proper name for
Helios (Argonautica. The Aeneid Book V) but it is more commonly
known as the name of a son of Helios by the Oceanid Clymene, the
wife of Merops. Greek
- Phan Ku, God China
- Phanebal, Youthful warrior god Semitic
- Phanes, A mystic divinity in the system of the Orphics, is
also called Eros, Ericapaeus, Himerus Metis, and Protogonus. He is said to
have sprung from the mystic mundane egg, and to have been the
father of all gods, and the creator of men. Phanes means
"Manifestor" or "Revealer," and is related to the Greek words
"light" and "to shine forth." Phanes, or the personification of
longing love, is first mentioned by Hesiod (Theogony 201), where he and
Eros appear as the companions of Aphrodite. Greek
- Phantasos, God of dreams by inanimate objects Greek
- Pharis,
or Phares, a son of Hermes and the Danaid Philodameia, by whom he
became the father of Telegone. He is the reputed founder of the
town of Pharae in Messenia. Greek
- Pharmacides, Goddesses of health and drugs Greek
- Phebele, Male god who fathered man Congo
- Phegeus,
a brother of Phoroneus, and king of Psophis in Arcadia. The town
of Phegeia, which had before been called Erymanthus, was believed
to have derived its name from him. Subsequently, however, it was
changed again into Psophis. Greek
- Pheme,
the personification of gossip, rumour or report. Homer calls her
Ossa (fame) and the Romans Fama, after the Greek Pheme.
Greek
- Phemius,
1. The famous minstrel, was a son of Terpius, and entertained
with his song the suitors in the house of Odysseus in
Ithaca.
- 2. One of the suitors of Helen.
- 3. The father of Aegeus, and accordingly the grand-father of
Theseus. Greek
- Phemonoe,
a mythical Greek poetess of the ante-Homeric period, was said to
have been the daughter of Apollo, and his first priestess at
Delphi, and the inventor of the hexameter verse. Greek
- Pheres,
1. A son of Cretheus and Tyro, and brother of Aeson and Amythaon;
he was married to Periclymene, by whom he became the father of
Admetus, Lycurgus, Eidomene, and Periapis. He was believed to
have founded the town of Pherae in Thessaly.
- 2. A son of Jason and Medeia. Greek
- Philammon,
a mythical poet and musician of the ante-Homeric period, was said
to have been the son of Apollo and the nymph Chione, or Philonis,
or Leuconoe. Greek
- Philomela,
1. A daughter of king Pandion in Attica, who, being dishonoured
by her brother-in-law Tereus, was metamorphosed into a
nightingale or swallow.
- 2. The mother of Patroclus, though it should be observed that
she is commonly called Polymele.
- 3. A daughter of Actor, and the 'wife of Peleus, by whom she
is said to have been the mother of Achilles.
- 4. One of the daughters of Priam. Greek
- Philosopher's Stone. The original get rich quick scheme. The
ancient alchemists thought there was a substance which would
convert all baser metals into gold. This substance they called
the philosopher's stone.
- Philosopher's stone. According to legend, Noah was commanded
to hang up the true and genuine philosopher's stone in the ark,
to give light to every living creature therein. Hebrew
- Philter. A draught or charm to incite in another the passion
of love. The Thessalian philters were the most renowned, but both
the Greeks and Romans used these dangerous potions, which
sometimes produced insanity. Lucretius is said to have been
driven mad by a love—potion, and Caligula's death is
attributed to some philters administered to him by his wife,
Cæsonia.
- Philyra,
A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and the mother of Cheiron by
Cronus. Philyra was an Oceanid and was married to Nauplius and
was the goddess of perfume, writing, healing, beauty and paper.
Greek
- Phineus,
1. A son of Belus and Anchinoe, and brother of Aegyptus, Danaus,
and Cepheus.
- 2. One of the sons of Lycaon.
- 3. A son of Agenor, and king of Salmydessus in Thrace. Some
traditions called him a son of Phoenix and Cassiepeia, and a
grandson of Agenor, while others again call him a son of
Poseidon. Greek
- Phineus. A blind king of Thrace, who had the gift of
prophecy. Whenever he wanted to eat, the Harpies came and took
away or defiled his food.
- Phlegethon,
i. e. the flaming, a river in the lower
world, is described as a son of Cocytus; but he is more
commonly called Pyriphlegethon. It flowed with fire that burned
but did not consume fuel. In the Divine
Comedy the river is made of boiling blood and is part of the
seventh circle of hell, containing the shades of tyrants,
murderers, robbers and those guilty of sins involving violence
against others. Greek
- Phlegra, Macedonia, was where the giants attacked the gods.
Encelados was the chief of the giants.
- Phlegyas,
a king of the Lapithae, a son of Ares and Chryse, the daughter of
Halmus, succeeded Eteocles, who died without issue, in the
government of the district of Orchomenos, which he called after
himself Phlegyantis. Greek
- Phlias,
a son of Dionysus and Chthonophyle, also called Phlius, was a
native of Araithyrea in Argolis, and is mentioned as one of the
Argonauts. (Argonautica) According to Pausanias, he was a son of
Ceisus and Araithyrea, and the husband of Chthonophyle, by whom
he became the father of Androdamas and Hyginus calls him
Phliasus, and a son of Dionysus and Ariadne. Greek
- Phocus,
a son of Ornytion of Corinth, or according to others of Poseidon,
is said to have been the leader of a colony from Corinth into the
territory of Tithorea and Mount Parnassus, which derived from him
the name of Phocis. He is said to have cured Antiope of her
madness, and to have made her his wife. Greek
- Phobetus, God of dreams by animals Greek
- Phoebe,
daughter of Uranus and Ge, became by Coeus the mother of Asteria
and Leto. According to Aeschylus she was in possession of the
Delphic oracle after Themis, and prior to Apollo. Greek
- Phobos,
the personification of fear, is described as a son of Ares and
Cythereia, a brother of Deimos, and is one of the ordinary
companions of Ares. Phobus was represented on the shield of
Agamemnon, on the chest of Cypselus, with the head of a lion.
Greek
- Phoebus, God of enlightenment Greek
- Phoenix,
according to Homer the father of Europa but according to others
he was a son of Agenor by Agriope or Telephassa, and therefore a
brother of Europa. Greek
- Phoenix. Said to live a certain number of years, when it
makes in Arabia a nest of spices, sings a melodious dirge, flaps
his wings to set fire to the pile, burns itself to ashes, and
comes forth with new life, to repeat the former one.
- Phooka or Pooka. A spirit of most malignant disposition, who
hurries people to their destruction. He sometimes comes in the
form of an eagle, and sometimes in that of a horse, like the
Scottish kelpie. Irish
- Phorbas,
a son of Lapithes and Orsinome, and a brother of Periphas.
Greek
- Phorcys,
an old man ruling over the sea, or "the old man of the sea," to
whom a harbour in Ithaca was dedicated. He is described as the
father of the nymph Thoosa. Later
writers call him the son of Pontus and Gaia and a brother of Thaumas, Nereus, Eurybia, and Ceto. Greek
- Phoroneus,
a son of Inachus and the Oceanid Melia or Archia, was a brother
of Aegialeus and the ruler of Peloponnesus. Greek
- Phosphorus, the lightbearer and god of the morning star. To
dream
of seeing phosphorus is indicative of evanescent joys. For a
young woman, it foretells a brilliant but brief success with
admirers. Greek
- Phrixus,
a son of Athamas and Nephele or of Athamas and Themisto and
brother of Helle, and a grandson of Aeolus. In consequence of the
intrigues of his stepmother, Ino (others state that he offered
himself), he was to be sacrificed to Zeus but Nephele removed him
and Helle, and the two then rode away on the ram with the golden
fleece, the gift of Hermes, through the air. Greek
- Phthia. A daughter of Amphion and Niobe.
Greek
- Phthonus,
son of Dionysus and Nyx and the Greek personification of envy.
Greek
- Phusis,
the Protogeos of nature. Mother Nature was one of the first
beings to emerge at creation, a primal being of creation and
regarded as both male and female. Similar in certain aspects to
Gaia, Tethys, Eros and Phanes. Greek
- Phul Mata, Mother goddess who became one of the evil ones
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Phyi-Sgrub, Form of the god Yama Buddhist/Tibet
- Phyleus,
a son of Augeias, was expelled by his father from Ephyra, because
he gave his evidence in favour of Heracles. He then emigrated to
Dulichium. By Ctimene or Timandra Phyleus became the father of
Meges, who is hence called Phyleides. Greek
- Phynnodderee [the Hairy—one]. A Manx spirit, similar to
the Scotch “brownie,” and German
“kobold.” He is said to be an outlawed fairy, and the
offence was this: He absented himself without leave from
Fairy—court on the great levée—day of the
Harvest—moon, being in the glen of Rushen, dancing with a
pretty Manx maid whom he was courting.
- Physignathos [one who swells the checks]. King of the Frogs,
and son of Pelus [mud], slain by Troxartas, the
Mouse—king.
- Pi Hsia Yuan Chin, Goddess of birth and midwives who brings
health and good fortune to the newborn baby. China
- Pianan, Minor god of war Aztec
- Picullus, god of war and death. Prussia
- Picus, a man turned into a woodpecker by Circe for scorning
her love. His wife was Canens, a nymph, who killed herself after
he was transformed. They had one son, Faunus. Metamorphoses
XIV by Ovid Greek/Roman
- Picvu'cin, God of hunters who lives in deep ravines, and
stays near the forest. Chukchee, Siberia
- Pidraya. Goddess of Light or Mist, the eldest of the three
daughters of Ba'al, the Storm God and one of the "Perfect
Brides". Canaan
- Pien Ho. God of jade, jewelers and immortality. China
- Pienenkir. Goddess of fertility, nurturing and motherhood.
Elamite
- Pietas, the goddess of duty to the state, gods and family and
a personification of the Roman virtue of piety. Roman
- Pikuolis, one of the trinity of gods and is the god of death,
the underworld and of evil intent. Eastern Europe
- Pilirin. God of fire who taught men to make fire.
Australia
- Pillan. God of fire, thunder, and war, chief of all the gods.
Assisted by hordes of evil spirits he causes earthquakes and
volcanic eruptions, blights crops, creates storms and sends war.
Chile
- Pillars of Hercules. The opposite rocks at the entrance of
the Mediterranean Sea, one in Spain and the other on the African
continent. The tale is that they were bound together till
Hercules tore them asunder in order
to get to Gades (Cadiz). The ancients called them Calpe and
Abyla; we call them Gibraltar Rock and Mount Hacho, on which
stands the fortress of Ceuta.
- Pilnytis, God of wealth. Lithuania
- Piluitus, Fertility god. He was originally a sky or rain-god
responsible for bountiful crops. Latvia
- Pilumnus, a nature deity, brother of Picumnus. He ensured
children grew properly and stayed healthy. Ancient Romans made an
extra bed after the birth of a child in order to ensure the help
of Pilumnus. He also taught humanity how to grind grain and
sometimes identified as the husband of Danae, and therefore the father of Danaus and the ancestor of Turnus. Roman
- Pilzintecutli. Sun dod who demanded daily sacrifices of human
hearts and blood. Aztec
- Ping-Deng-Wang. "Sinful souls receive punishment starting
from the 1st Tribunal right up to the 8th Tribunal according to
the nature and severity of their sins but there are others whose
sins are much greater - such more sinful souls are sent to my
Tribunal to be judged with impartiality. If, after due
consideration. I find that the sin is not too great or serious, I
will direct that the soul be sent to the 10th Tribunal to await
rebirth. I deal with sinful souls impartially." From: White Sun -
Tao of Heaven. China
- Pinga, a goddess of the hunt, fertility and medicine. She was
also the psychopomp, bringing souls of the newly-dead to Adlivun,
the underworld. Inuit
- Pisacas, demigods created by Brahma, the creator of the
universe. People, with all parts of their bodies smeared with
mud; besmearing their friends here and there with mud; speaking,
for the sake of love, various beautiful utterances concerning
persons having sexual intercourse and the women fit for
cohabitation, instigating sex-instinct; saying indecent words and
crying aloud - should play. On that day, in the morning, the
Pisacas of dreadful sight - the followers of Nikumbha - enter all
the human beings. In the evening, they leave the body of one who
does so and is bathed and enter that of another, cursing him, who
does not do so. Then the bathed persons should worship Kes'ava.
Hindu
- Pistis. The primordial force of faith. Christian/Gnostic
- Pistis Sophia, Gnostic text that relate the Gnostic teachings
of the transfigured Jesus to the assembled disciples.
- Pistris, Pistrix, Pristis or Pristrix. The sea—monster
sent to devour Andromeda. In ancient art it is represented with a
dragon's head, the neck and head of a beast, fins for the
forelegs and the body and tail of a fish. In Christian art the
pistris was usually employed to represent the whale which
swallowed Jonah. Greek
- Pitane,
a daughter of the river god Eurotas, became by Poseidon the
mother of Evadne. From her the town of Pitana had its name.
Greek
- Pitao Cozobi Zapotec, God of corn Mexico
- Pitari, Bo benevolent, she's one of the consorts of Siva
Hindu/Puranic
- Pitri, Pitaras. An order of divine beings in Hindu mythology
inhabiting celestial regions of their own, and receiving into
their society the spirits of those mortals whose funeral rites
have been duly performed.
- Pixies. The Devonshire Robin Goodfellows; said to be the
spirits of infants who have died before baptism. The Pixy monarch
holds his court like Titania, and sends his subjects on their
several tasks. The word is a diminutive of Pix, probably the same
as Puck.
- Piyusaharana, Though obscure, this is a physician god
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Piz. A cacodemon.. Enochian
- Plataea,
a daughter of Asopus, who had a sanctuary at Plataeae which
according to some derived its name from her. Greek
- Pleiades, Goddesses of the Pleiades Greek
- Plotcock. The old Scottish form of the Roman Pluto, by which Satan is meant.
- Pleione,
a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and mother of the Pleiades by
Atlas. Her name means "to increase in number" and her grandson,
Hermes, was the god of animal husbandry. Greek
- Pleiades,
called daughters of Atlas by Pleione or by the Oceanid Aethra, of
Erechtheus, of Cadmus or of the queen of the Amazons. Greek
- Pleisthenes,
a son of Atreus, and husband of Aerope or Eriphyle, the daughter
of Catreus, by whom he became the father of Agamemnon, Menelaus,
and Anaxibia. Greek
- Pluto,
1. A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and one of the playmates of
Persephone.
- 2. A daughter of Cronos or Himantes, became by Zeus or
Tmolus, the mother of Tantalus. Greek
- Pluton. The giver of wealth, at first a surname of Hades, the god of the lower world. Greek
- Plutus,
sometimes also called Pluton, the personification of wealth, is
described as a son of Iasion and Demeter. Greek
- Pluvius, the sender of rain, a
surname of Jupiter among the
Romans.
- Pmagl. A minor angel. Enochian
- Pmox. A minor angel. Enochian
- Pmzox. A minor angel. Enochian
- Po. In the I Ching "the full manifestation of the kwei" --
the kama-manas or animal soul. Chinese
- Po I-k’ao, the stellar deity of the constellation
Tzu-wei (north circumpolar stars). Taoism. China.
- Po Ino Nogar, the ruler of worlds and inventor of rice who
was born amid the clouds. Cambodia
- Po Yan Dari, Goddess of healing and diseases. Cambodia
- Podaleirius,
a son of Asclepius and Epione or Arsinoe, and a brother of
Machaon, along with whom he led the Thessalians of Tricca against
Troy (Apollodorus iii). He
was, like his brother, skilled in the medical art. Greek
- Poemander,
a son of Chaeresilaus and Stratonice, was the husband of Tanagra,
a daughter of Aeolus or Aesopus, by whom he became the father of
Ephippus and Leucippus. He was the reputed founder of the town of
Tanagra in Boeotia which was hence called Poemandria. When
Poemander inadvertently had killed his own son, he was purified
by Elephenor. Greek
- Poena, a personification of
retaliation, is sometimes mentioned as one being, and sometimes
in the plural. They belonged to the train of Dice, and are akin to the Erinnyes. Greek
- Poeninus, the divinity of the Pennines, Britain.
Roman/Celtic
- Poldunica, Polednica, Poludnica, Lady Midday. A young girl, a
beautiful maiden or a crone who appears at the hottest part of a
summer's day. She carries a scythe and will stop people in the
field to ask difficult questions and if the person fails to
answer a question or is evasive,she will strike them with illness
or cut off their head. Germany
- Polel, one of the divine twins who, along with Lel, equates
to the Greek Pollux. Polish
- Poleramma, one of the incarnations of the goddess associated
with smallpox. India
- Polevik. 'Mistress of the Field'. Slavonic field spirit. She
is a trickster who can be propitiated through sacrificial
gifts.
- Polevoi. A spirit of the fields who appears at noon or sunset
as a hideous dwarf with grass for hair and two differently
colored eyes. He will lead astray people who wander in the
fields. If they fall asleep there, he gives them diseases or
rides over them with his horse. Poland
- Pollux, one of the Dioscuri.
Castor was famous for his skill in taming and managing horses,
and Pollux for his skill in boxing. Both had disappeared from the
earth before the Greeks went against Troy. Roman
- Pollux. The horses of Castor and Pollux. Cyllaros and
Harpagos. Seneca and Claudian give Cyllaros to Castor, but Virgil
to Pollux. The two brothers mount it alternatively on their
return from the infernal regions. Harpagos, the horse from
Harpagium in Phrygia, was common to both brothers. Roman
- Poloknalai Kafir, Goddess of animals Afghanistan
- Poltrimpt, corn god. Baltic
- Poludnitsy. Ukranian moon-goddesses.
- Polunocnica. 'Lady Midnight'. A demoness said to frighten
children at night. She seems to have originally been the third
Zorya of midnight with sisters dawn and sunset. Ukranian
- Poluvirica. A female forest spirit who appears naked, with a
long face, pendulant breasts and three braids of hair down her
back. Slavic
- Polybotes. One of the giants who fought against the gods. The
sea—god pursued him to the island of Cos, and, tearing away
part of the island, throw it on him and buried him beneath the
mass. Greek
- Polycaon,
1. A son of Lelex, brother of Myles, and husband of Messene, the
daughter of Triopas of Argos. He emigrated from Laconia to
Messenia, which country he thus called after his wife. He was the
first king of Messenia.
- 2. A son of Butes, was married to Euaechme, the daughter of
Hyllus. Greek
- Polydamna, Goddess of healing and herbs Egypt
- Polydora,
1. A daughter of Oceanus and Thetys. (Theogony of Hesiod
354)
- 2. The mother of Idas and Lynceus. (Argonautica)
- 3. A daughter of Danaus and the wife of Peneius, by whom she
became the mother of Dryops.
- 4. The daughter of Meleager and Cleopatra, was married to
Protesilaus, after whose death she was so much affected by grief
that she made away with herself.
- 5. A daughter of Peleus and Polymela, was a sister of
Achilles, and married to Sparcheius or Borus, by whom she became
the mother of Menesthius. Greek
- Polydorus,
1. A son of Cadmus and Harmonia, was king of Thebes, and husband
of Nycteis, by whom he became the father of Labdacus. (Theogony of Hesiod 978 ; Apollodorus iii)
- 2. The youngest among the sons of Priam and Laotoe, was slain
by Achilles. The tragic poets call him a son of Priam and Hecabe.
Greek
- Polyidus or Polyeidus. 1. A son of
Coeranus, a grandson of Abas and a
great-grandson of Melampus.
- Polyidus or Polyeidus. 2. A son of
the Trojan Eurydamas, and a brother
of Abas, was slain by Diomedes.
Greek
- Polymede,
a daughter of Autolycus, was married to Aeson, and by him became
the mother of Jason. Apollonius Rhodius ( Argonautica) calls her
Alcimede. Greek
- Polymela,
1. A daughter of Peleus, and the wife of Menoetius, by whom she
became the mother of Patroclus. In some traditions she is called
Philomela.
- 2. A daughter of Phylas, was married to Echecles, but became
by Hermes the mother of Eudorus.
- 3. A daughter of Aeolus, was beloved by Odysseus, but
afterwards married her brother Diores. Greek
- Polymnia, the muse of sacred hymn and eloquence. Greek
- Polyphemus,
1. The celebrated Cyclops in the
island of Thrinacia, was a son of Poseidon, and the nymph
Thoosa.
- 2. A son of Elatus or Poseidon and Hippea, was one of the
Lapithae at Larissa in Thessaly. He was married to Laonome, a
sister of Heracles, with whom he was connected by friendship. He
was also one of the Argonauts, but being left behind by them in
Mysia, he founded Cios, and fell against the Chalybes. Greek
- Polyxo,
1. A nymph married to Danaus.
- 2. The wife of Nycteus and mother of Antiope.
- 3. One of the Hyades.
- 4. The nurse of queen Hypsipyle in Lemnos, was celebrated as
a prophetess.
- 5. An Argive woman, who was married to Tlepolemus. Greek
- Pomona.
The Roman divinity of the fruit of trees, hence called Pomorum
Patrona. Her name is evidently connected with Pomum. She is
represented by the poets as having been beloved by several of the
rustic divinities, such as Silvanus, Picus, Vertumnus, and
others. Her worship must originally have been of considerable
importance, as we learn from Varro that a special priest, under
the name Pomonalis, was appointed to attend to her service. It is
not impossible that Pomona may in reality be nothing but the
personification of one of the attributes of Ops.
- Pon. Supreme creator god. Yukaghir, Siberia
- Pongo. The terrible monster of Sicily. A cross between a
“land—tiger and sea—shark.” He devoured
five hundred Sicilians, and left the island for twenty miles
round without inhabitant. This amphibious monster was slain by
the three sons of St. George.
- Pontus,
or Pontos, the Protogonoi and personification of the sea, is
described in the ancient cosmogony as a son of Gaea, and as the
father of Nereus, Thamnas, Phorcys, Ceto, and Eurybia, by his own
mother. Hyginus calls him a son of Aether and Gaea, and also
assigns to him somewhat different descendants. Greek
- Pope. A priest who knocked on the head the ox offered in
sacrifice, and cut it up, a very small part being burnt, and all
the rest distributed to those concerned in the sacrifice. Wine
was poured between the horns, but the priest first sipped it, and
all those who assisted him. After the beast had been stunned it
was stabbed, and the blood was caught in a vessel used for the
purpose, for the shedding of blood was indispensable in every
sacrifice. It was the duty of the pope to see that the victim to
be sacrificed was without spot or blemish, and to ascertain that
it had never been yoked to the plough. The head was crowned with
a fillet, and the horns gift. Apparently the Roman soldiers of
Pontius Pilate made a mockery imitation of these Roman and Greek
sacrifices.
- Por, God of the moon. Brazil
- Pore, Created the earth and all living things. Guyana
- Porphyrion. One of the giants who made war with the gods. He
hurled the island of Delos against Zens (Jupiter); but Zeus, with
the aid of Hercules, overcame him. Greek
- Porthaon. A son of Agenor and Epicaste, was king of Pleuron and
Calydon in Aetolia, and married to Euryte, by whom he became the father of
Oeneus, Agrius, Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus, and Sterope.
- Porthaon. A son of Periphetes.
- Portunus,
the protecting genius of harbours among the Romans. Greek
- Poruthu-madan. Wrestling demon and the nature spirit
associated with the air. Tamil
- Poseidon,
the god of the Mediterranean sea and he is the god of the fluid
element. Greek
- Pozemne Vile. Earth spirits who live underground in mines and
caves and hoard precious metals and jewels. Slavic
- Poshjo Akka, Goddess of Winter Saami/Lappland
- Posis Das, Sky god Greek
- Postvorta, Goddess of childbirth, midwives and the past
Roman
- Pothos,
a personification of love or desire, was represented along with
Eros and Himeros, in the temple of Aphrodite at Megara, by the
hand of Scopas. Greek
- Potina. Goddess of children's beverages. Roman
- Potrimpo, God of fertility. Baltic
- Poxlom, God of disease, also seen as a fertility god and is
often depicted been a hunter. Mayan
- Poza Mama, "I am the Gracious Goddess, Who gives the Gift of
Joy unto the heart of man: on Earth, I give the Knowledge of the
Spirit Eternal; and beyond death, I give peace, and freedom, and
reunion with those who have gone before. Nor do I demand
sacrifice, for behold: I am the Mother of All Living, and My Love
is poured out upon the Earth." Gigo
- Ppiz Hiu Tec, god of poetry. Mayan
- Praamzius, god in charge of the passage of time.
Lithuania
- Prabha, Goddess of health who hands out divine amulets.
India
- Prabhakari, goddess of brightness. Buddhist
- Prabhakari. Step number three on the path of a fully
enlightenment state. Swoyambhu Maha-chaitya
- Prabhapala. Protector of light. In Buddhism, the name of a
bodhisattva.
- Prabhasa, "shining dawn". Attendant god who answered to
Indra. Hindu
- Prabhu-pada-aghate, the kicking of Lord Jagannatha. Hare
Krishna
- Prabhavapyaya. That from which all things originate and into
which they all resolve at the end of the life cycle. A synonym
for Brahman-pradhana. Buddist
- Pracanda. Distinctive form of the goddess Durga. Hindu
- Prachetas, Pracetas. The preeminently intelligent one; a name
of Varuna, the god of water. Sanskrit
- Prachetasas, Prachetasah. The preeminently intelligent ones;
the ten prachetasas were sons of Prachinabarhis and Savarna, the
daughter of the ocean. Sanskrit
- Pradipta, transcendental goddess of light. Buddhist
- Pradyumna, a son of Krishna and Rukmini who, as a baby, was
abducted by the demon Sambara and cast into the sea and swallowed
by a fish. The fish was caught and opened and the child was found
inside. He was given to a woman in Sambara's house to raise.
Narada informed her about the true identity of the child. When
Pradyumna grew up, he battled the demon Sambara, defeated him.
Pradyumna was later killed in a drunken brawl in his father's
court at Dwaraka. Hindu
- Pradyumna, an incarnation of Kama, the god of love.
Hindu
- Prahana or prakriti, matter in its elemental state, is vyaya
(perishable) and parinamin, subject to change. However, when
Purusha and prakriti are regarded from the standpoint of the
periods of manifestation, their aspects become mayavi (illusory),
and hence in their interblending actions subject to the
modifications of manvantaric evolution. Theosophic
- Prahana, Rather important mother goddess
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Prajana, Goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
- Prajapati, Primordial being Hindu/Puranic/Vedic/Epic
- Prajnantaka, God who is Guardian of the southern direction
Buddhist
- Prajnaparamita, Goddess, a personification of the religious
text Buddhist
- Prakde Kafir, Local deity Afghanistan
- Pramatha. The tormentors, a class of demons who attend upon
Siva. Hindu
- Pramlocha, one of the nymphs sent to earth by Kamadeva or
Indra to tempt the sage Kandu from his devotions. Hindu
- Pramudita, In minor goddess Buddhist/Vajrayana
- Pranasakti, Terrifying female deity who rules the centers of
physical life Hindu
- Pranidhasnaparamita, Philosophical deity Buddhist
- Prasannatara, Rather minor goddess who tramples upon some
Hindu gods Buddhist/Mahayana
- Prasraya. Mother of the Gods. Vedic
- Pratibhanakuta, Pinnacle of Eloquence and one the names of
the 1000 Buddhas from the Blessed Age. Buddhist
- Pratisamvit, Collective name for four goddesses Buddhist
- Pratyangira, Goddess of rather terrifying aspect Hindu
- Pratyusa, Attendant god of Indra Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Praxidice or Praxadike, Goddess of exacting justice or she
who watches that justice is done to men. Greek
- Praxithea,
1. A daughter of Phrasimus and Diogeneia, was the wife of
Erechtheus, and mother of Cecrops, Pandorus, Metion, Orneus,
Procris, Creusa, Chthonia, and Oreithyia. Some call her a
daughter of Cephissus.
- 2. A daughter of Thespius.
- 3. A daughter of Leus in Athens, and a sister of Theore and
Eubule Greek
- Prayer. Not Thine will, but mine, be
done.
- Pan-religion
- Prende, Goddess of love. Albania
- Priam,
the famous king of Troy, at the time of the Trojan war. He was a
son of Laomedon and Strymo or Placia. His original name is said
to have been Podarces, i. e. "the swift-footed," which was
changed into Priamus, "the ransomed" because he was the only
surviving son of Laomedon and was ransomed by his sister Hesione,
after he had fallen into the hands of Heracles. Greek
- Priapus,
Priapos, a son of Dionysus and Aphrodite. Aphrodite, it is said,
had yielded to the embraces of Dionysus, but during his
expedition to India, she became faithless to him, and lived with
Adonis. On Dionysus return from India, she indeed went to meet
him, but soon left him again, and went to Lampsacus on the
Hellespont, to give birth to the child of the god. Greek
- Priparchis, god who weans and cares for pigs and piglets.
Slavic
- Prithvi, Goddess of the earth. Hindu
- Prithu. The favourite hero of the Indian Purânas. Vena
having been slain for his wickedness, and leaving no offspring,
the saints rubbed his right arm, and the friction brought forth
Prithu. Being told that the earth had suspended for a time its
fertility, Prithu went forth to punish it, and the Earth, under
the form of a cow, fled at his approach; but being unable to
escape, promised that in future “seed—time and
harvest should never fail.”
- Priti, goddess of love and longing. Hindu
- Priyadarsana, moon goddess. Priyadarsana declared, "Matter
itself is void. Voidness does not result from the destruction of
matter, but the nature of matter is itself voidness. Therefore,
to speak of voidness on the one hand, and of matter, or of
sensation, or of intellect, or of motivation, or of consciousness
on the other - is entirely dualistic. Consciousness itself is
voidness. Voidness does not result from the destruction of
consciousness, but the nature of consciousness is itself
voidness. Such understanding of the five compulsive aggregates
and the knowledge of them as such by means of gnosis is the
entrance into nonduality." The Dharma-Door of Nonduality
- Priyavrata, the Bhagavata-Purana states: "Priya-vrata being
dissatisfied that only half the earth was illuminated at one time
by the solar rays, followed the sun seven times round the earth
in his own flaming car of equal velocity, like another celestial
orb, resolved to turn night into day." India
- Procne,
Procne or Prokne was a daughter of Pandion and Zeuxippe. She
married Tereus and had one son: Itys. Tereus loved his wife's
sister, Philomela. He raped her, cut her tongue out and held her
captive so she could never tell anyone. Philomela wove a tapestry
that told her story and gave it to Procne. In revenge, Procne
killed her son by Tereus, Itys, and fed him to Tereus
unknowingly. Greek
- Procris,
a daughter of Erechtheus in Athens, was married to Cephalus. A
second Procris was a daughter of Thespius. Greek
- Procris. Unerring as the dart of Procris. When Procris fled
from Cephalus out of shame, Diana gave her a dog that never
failed to secure its prey, and a dart which not only never missed
aim, but which always returned of its own accord to the shooter.
Greek
- Prometheus,
is sometimes called a Titan, though in
reality he did not belong to the Titans, but was only a son of
the Titan Japetus (Theogony of Hesiod 528) by
Clymene, so that he was a brother of
Atlas, Menoetius, and Epimetheus (Theogony of Hesiod 507).
Greek
- Promethean Fire. The vital principle; the fire with which
Prometheus quickened into life his clay images. Greek
- Promethean Unguent. Made from a herb on which some of the
blood of Prometheus had fallen. Medea gave Jason some of this
unguent, which rendered his body proof against fire and warlike
instruments. Greek
- Promise of Odin. The most binding of all promises to a
Scandinavian. In making this promise the person passed his hand
through a massive silver ring kept for the purpose; or through a
sacrificial stone, like that called the “Circle of
Stennis.” Norse
- Promitor, the goddess of growing plants, particularly
cereals, and of motherly love. Roman
- Pronoia, the term for providence, usually Divine Providence,
in ancient Greek philosophy.
- Pronoia, Eros appeared, being androgynous. His masculinity is
Himeros, being fire from light. His femininity, innate to him as
well, is the soul of blood, the solution of the Pronoia... He is
very lovely in his beauty, having charm beyond all the creatures
of chaos. Then all the gods and their angels, when they beheld
Eros, became enamored. And appearing in all of them Eros set them
ablaze. Gaian creation myth
- Propator. The Forefather, the primordial or First Logos as
distinct from that from which it emanates. Gnostic
- Proserpina or Proserpine. One day, as she was amusing herself
in the meadows of Sicily, Pluto seized her and carried her off in
his chariot to the infernal regions for his bride. In her terror
she dropped some of the lilies she had been gathering, and they
turned to daffodils. Roman
- Proserpine,
in Latin Proserpina, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
- Proserpine's Divine Calidore. Sleep. In the beautiful legend
of Cupid and Psyche, by Apuleius, after Psyche had long wandered
about searching for her lost Cupid, she is sent to Prosperine for
“the casket of divine beauty,” which she was not to
open till she came into the light of day. Psyche received the
casket, but just as she was about to step on earth, she thought
how much more Cupid would love her if she was divinely beautiful;
so she opened the casket and found the calidore it contained was
sleep, which instantly filled all her limbs with drowsiness, and
she slept as it were the sleep of death. Roman
- Proteus,
the prophetic old man of the sea, occurs in the earliest legends
as a subject of Poseidon, and is described as seeing through the
whole depth of the sea, and tending the flocks (the seals) of
Poseidon. Greek
- Protologos. First Logos; the archetypal cosmic man or
synthesis of the ten Sephiroth in the Qabbalah. Hebrew
- Providentia, Goddess of forethought. Roman
- Protogenoi.
The first group of beings to come into existence at the beginning
of the universe were the Protogenoi - First Born or Primeval and
they form the very fabric of the universe and are immortal. The
Protogenoi are the gods from which all the other gods descend.
Greek
- Protogeneia,
1. A daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha. She was married to Locrus,
but had no children; Zeus, however, who carried her off, became
by her, on mount Maenalus in Arcadia, the father of Opus.
According to others she was not the mother, but a daughter of
Opus. Eridymion also is called a son of Protogeueia.
- 2. A daughter of Calydon and Aeolia. Greek
- Proxumae, were worshipped in Southern Gaul and were a group
of goddesses who were personal guardian.
- Prsni, Sutapa and his wife Prsni were instructed by Lord
Brahma to have progeny. They performed severe austerities for
twelve thousand years of the demigods to have the Lord as their
child. Pleased by their austerities the Lord appeared and granted
them this benediction. Hindu/Vedic
- Prthivi, earth and mother goddess. Hindu
- Prthu, creator god, noble king who ruled over India,
mentioned in Vedic texts. This deity is head of the solar
pantheon and introduced agriculture to humankind. Hindu
- Pryderi. The personification of anxiety and a custodian of
the cauldron of reincarnation in Caer Pedryfan in Annwn, the
Welsh underworld. Welsh
- Psamathe,
a daughter of Crotopus of Argos. She was loved by the god Apollo
and by whom she had a son Linus. Greek
- Psecas. One of Diana’s nymphs.
Greek
- Psilas. "The giver of wings," or
"the unbearded," a surname of Dionysus, under which he was worshipped at
Amyclae. Greek
- Psotnik, Psotnica, elf-like mischievious spirits. Polish
- Psycarpax [granary thief]. Son of Troxartas, King of the
Mice. The Frogking offered to carry the young prince over a lake,
but scarcely had he got midway when a water—hydra appeared,
and King Frog, to save himself, dived under water. The mouse,
being thus left on the surface, was drowned, and this catastrophe
brought about the battle of the Frogs and Mice.
- Psyche,
that is, " breath" or " the soul," occurs in the later times of
antiquity, as a personification of the human soul, and Apuleins
relates about her the following beautiful allegoric story.
Greek
- Psyche. A beautiful maiden beloved by Cupid, who visited her
every night, but left her at sunrise. Cupid bade her never seek
to know who he was, but one night curiosity overcame her
prudence, and she went to look at him. A drop of hot oil fell on
his shoulder, awoke him, and he fled. Psyche next became the
slave of Venus, who treated her most cruelly; but ultimately she
was married to Cupid, and became immortal. Greek
- Psychography. Spirit—writing; writing said by
spiritualists to be done by spirits.
- Psychopomp. A conductor of souls; applied to Charon, Apollo,
and especially to Hermes, who was the conductor of souls to Hades
or the Underworld and back again, an office assigned by
Christians to Jesus Christ after his resurrection. Greek
- Ptah, called the world into being, having dreamt creation in
his heart, and speaking it, his name meaning opener, in the sense
of opener of the mouth. Considered the god of craftsmen, and in
particular stone-based crafts. Eventually, due to the connection
of these things to tombs the craftsmen regarded him so highly as
to say that he controlled their destiny. Egypt
- Ptelea. A Hamadryad nymph of the
Oak tree.
- Pu, god of mercy. China
- Puck or Robin Goodfellow, A fairy and merry wanderer of the
night, “rough, knurly—limbed, faun—faced, and
shock—pated, a very Shetlander among the
gossamer—winged” fairies around him. Britain
- Pugu. Yet another God of the sun, this one is associated with
justice and honourable living, the defender of the oppressed and
the punisher of evil deeds. Yukaghir, Siberia
- Pudicitia, the personification of modesty and chastity.
Roman
- Pukkasi, one of the Eight dakinis, minor goddesses or female
deities, her right hand holding intestines, her left feeding them
into her mouth. Tibet
- Pukkeenegak, a goddess of children, pregnancy, childbirth and
the making of clothes. Inuit
- Punarvasu, refers to the two brightest stars in the
constellation of Gemini: Castor and
Pollux. In Malayalam Punarvasu is termed Punartham. Hindu
Zodiac
- Pundjel, a creator god who invented most of the skills used
by Australian Aborigines, including religious rites. He was very
much involved in the initiation of boys into manhood.
- Puru kupali The creator god of the Jinini. Australia
- Purandhi, Thunder, the lightning's daughter, Aja-Ekapad,
heaven's bearer, Sindhu, and the waters of the sea:
Hear all the Gods my words, Sarasvati give ear together with
Purandhi and with Holy Thoughts.
With Holy Thoughts and with Purandhi may all Gods, knowing the
Law immortal, Manu's Holy Ones,
Boon-givers, favourers, finders of light, and Heaven, with
gracious love accept my songs, my prayer, my hymn. The
Rig-Veda
- Purgatory. The Jewish Rabbi believed that the soul of the
deceased was consigned to a sort of purgatory for twelve months
after death, during which time it was allowed to visit its dead
body and the places or persons it especially loved. This
intermediate state they called by various names, as “the
bosom of Abraham,” “the garden of Eden,”
“upper Gehenna.” The Sabbath was always a free day,
and prayer was supposed to benefit those in this intermediate
state.
- Pururavas and Urvasi. An Indian myth
similar to that of “Apollo and Daphne.”
Purûravas is a legendary king who fell in love with Urvasi,
a heavenly nymph, who consented to become his wife on certain
conditions. These conditions being violated, Urvasi disappeared,
and Pururavas, inconsolable, wandered everywhere to find her.
Ultimately he succeeded, and they were indissolubly united.
- Purusa, "Cosmic Man" The great I Am and the self which
pervades the universe. His mind is the Moon, his eyes are the
Sun, and his breath is the wind. Hindu
- Purva Ashada. The Former Unsubdued. You are caring, gentle
nature and have many friends. You are a hard worker and will make
an excellent manager. You are supportive and generous and go out
of your way to help friends. You have a forgiving nature and do
not hold grudges against others. You prefer a simple life above
fame and fortune. You would make an excellent manager but would
rather not take on responsibility. Hindu Zodiac
- Purva bhadrapada, Former Beautiful Foot. You are a self
sufficient and highly resourceful person. You will be very
successful in attracting wealth. You will succeed in attracting a
lot of friends, some of them rich and powerful. You are a risk
taker and your charming personality often gets you out of tight
spots. You are a very adaptable person and can change yourself as
the situation warrants. You have very discriminating tastes.
Hindu Zodiac
- Purva Phalguni is the 11th star of the zodiac. Those born
under this constellation are marked by stout body with frequent
sweating. This people have an intuitive ability to sense others
unspoken problems, for which they extend support without being
asked.. This quality earns them a great respect and name. Most of
them are famous in one way or other and will excel in one special
field. Hindu Zodiac
- Purva shadha. The influence of Purvashadha as a birth star
makes one able to be independently wealthy, firm in friendship
and devotion, reflect on the Divine, but to a young soul, pride
and conceit. Hindu Zodiac
- Pusan, God of meeting was responsible for marriages,
journeys, roads, and the feeding of cattle. He was a psychopomp,
conducting souls to the other world. He protected travelers from
bandits and wild beasts, and protected men from being exploited
by other men. Hindu
- Pusi, the family god of Tonuia, the first ancestor. At an
opportune time Pusi would bite an enemy and bring upon him a
lingering sickness from which he would waste away. Tikopia,
Polynesia
- Puskaitis, God of fruit and is associated with blossoms.
Lithuania
- Puspa, goddess of flowers and the natural environment as well
as the Bodhisattva of vision and sight. Tibet
- Pusti, Goddess of fertility, growth and affirmation.
India
- Pusya, Goddess of fortune. After performing Sraddha one
should pass the night, with effort, in celibacy. When the
full-moon night of the Pausa be associated with Pusya, then a
person, smeared with the powder of white mustards, should anoint
his body with purified butter. Hindu
- Puta, Goddess responsible for the proper pruning of trees and
shrubs. Roman
- Puttam, a malicious imp or ghost who haunts the places where
bodies are burned. Hindu
- Pwyll. In the tale of Pwyll, the earliest reference to Annwn,
the Welsh mythological otherworld, occurs. It is ruled by Arawn,
at war with Hafgan. Arawn obtains the help of Pwyll by exchanging
kingdoms with him for a year, and Pwyll defeats Hafgan.
Welsh
- Pyerun, the thunder god. He purified the earth and made it
fertile, and he was the overseer of right and order. Slavic
- Pyramus. The lover of Thisbë. Supposing Thisbe to be
torn to pieces by a lion, he stabbed himself, and Thisbe, finding
the dead body, stabbed herself also. Both fell dead under a
mulberry—tree, which has ever since borne blood red fruit.
Greek
- Pyrrha. A daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora, and wife of Deucalion who together
with her husband escaped the Great Deluge.
- Pyrrha. A daughter of King Creon of Thebes.
- Pythia, an ancient Greek priestess at the Oracle of Apollo at
Delphi. Greek
- Python,
the famous
dragon who guarded the oracle of Delphi, is described as a
son of Gaea. He lived in the caves of mount Parnassus, but was
killed by Apollo, who then took
possession of the oracle. Greek
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