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Santas Saran

Santas (see Sandan) Sapas Canaanite Buih, who came, like Aphrodite, from santer North American [Saps.Shapash:=Babylonian Samas: the sea. a fabulous animal =Sumerian Utu] Sar (see Shar) Santeria African a sun-god sara1 Buddhist a god of the Yoruba In some accounts, Sapas is female. an arrow used in rites designed to Santi Hindu Saphon (see Mount Zaphon) ward off evil spirits (see also capa) a Sapling (see Djuskaha.Ioskeha) Sara2 Mesopotamian consort of Tivikrama Saps (see Sapas) a war god, Babylonian and Sumerian Santiago South American Sapta-Loka Hindu son of Inanna, some say a later version of Ilyapa derived from the 7 realms of the universe Sara-mama (see Saramama) the Spanish St James In some versions, the universe has Saracura South American Santoshi Mata Hindu three realms (Tri-Loka). In the version a water-hen a mother-goddess that postulates seven, Sapta-Loka, they When Anatiwa caused the flood, this Sanu1 Afghan are listed as: bird saved the ancestors of the tribes by [Sanru] 1. Bhur-Loka, the earth carrying earth to build up the mountain- a Kafir god 2. Bhuvar-Loka, the home of the sage top on which the survivors stood. father of Sanju in the sky Sarada Devi1 Hindu Sanu2 (see Sanju) 3. Jona-Loka, the home of wife of Ramakrishna Sanugi Japanese ’s children Sarada Devi2 Tibetan a bamboo-cutter 4. Marar-Loka, the home of the saints a Buddhist-Lamaist fertility-goddess He found the tiny Kaguya in the heart 5. Satya-Loka, the home of the gods and goddess of autumn and of a reed and reared her. He then found 6. Svar-Loka, the heaven of vegetation gold in the reeds and became wealthy. 7. Tapa-Loka, the home of the an attendant of Sridevi Sanzu-no-Kawa demi-gods Saraha Buddhist (see River of Three Roads) At the end of each cycle of Brahma’s a great sorcerer Sao Ch’ing Niang life, these seven worlds will also come Sarahiel (see San Chou Niang) to an end and time and the universe an angel, ruler of the Zodiacal sign Sao Chou Chinese will start all over again. Aries, the ram (see also Malchidael) the Star, home of San Chou Some accounts envisage additional Saraide British Niang realms such as -Loka, a servant of the Lady of the Sao Kang Burmese Indra-Loka, Pishasha-Loka, Ratshasha- Lake a fertility-spirit living in a lake Loka and -Loka for various She was able, by the use of Saon Greek and spirits and Soma-Loka for powers, to rescue and Lionel when a Boeotian envoy the moon and planets. they were held by . When his people were told to consult (see also Tri-Loka) Sarait Irish the oracle of Trophonius to find the Sapta Ratna Hindu daughter of Conn Ceadchathach cause of the drought that afflicted the Hindu version of the Seven mother of Cairbre and Duibhind them, he followed a swarm of bees that Treasures of Buddhism She married Conaire mac Mogha led him to a cave where the shade of Saptaksara Buddhist Lamha who succeeded her father Trophonius appeared. a form of Heruka on the throne of Ireland. When he Saoshyant Persian In this version, the god is depicted as was killed, she married his killer, [Saoshyat.Soshans.Soshyant] blue with three heads each with three Neimheadh mac Sraibhghind. a saviour-god eyes, and six arms, surrounded by Sarajas (see Pimentola) son of Vispa-Taurvairi six . Sarakka Baltic In some accounts, this saviour is born Saptamataras Hindu [Sadsta-akka] every 1,000 years from the sperm of a group of 7 minor goddesses a Lapp goddess, guardian of birth Zoroaster which is preserved in Lake Saptarshi (see Seven Rishis) daughter of Mader Akka Kasavya so that it impregnates virgins Saptashati Hindu It was said that she assisted both deer who swim in its waters. a poem of some 700 couplets in and humans. Some say that there are three honour of ’s conquest of demons Sarakuyel such saviours – Astvat-eveta, Hushedar Sapurba East Indian a (Ukhshyat-ereta) and Hushedar-mah a king of Sumatra Sarama (see Sharama) (Ukhshyat-nemah). The third such son of Sulana and Muhtabul Bahri Saramama South American deity conquers evil in the final battle to father of Nila Utama [Maize Mother.Sara-mama] allow the world to start a new cycle. He was originally known as Mencha an Inca spirit controlling the growth (see also Frashkart) Terim, the eldest of Sulana’s three of maize (see also huantaysara) Saoshyat (see Saoshyant) sons, and adopted the name Sapurba Saramana (see Salman) Sapa Inca South American when he took the throne. Saran Irish son of the sun-god Inti He was said to have killed a huge the man who killed Brandubh, Sapan Mesopotamian serpent which was ravaging the area king of Leinster the palace of Baal and adopted a maiden, Puteri Tunjung He regretted what he had done and

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Saranyu Sarpedon2

was forgiven but was punished when sardius (see carnelian) Sarki Mongol his arm fell off. Sardoine Danish one of the burkhan Saranyu (see Sharanyu) daughter of Hengist Sarmishtha Hindu Sarapiastai Greek sister of Renwein [Sarmistha] devotees of Serapis Sardon (see Adrammelech1) a princess Sarapis (see Serapis) sardrakapala Buddhist mother of Anu and Puru by Yayati Sarasraksha Hindu a tantric symbol in the form of a mother of Truvasu, some say a name for Indra as ‘thousand-eyed’ garland made of severed heads She quarrelled with her friend Sarasvant Hindu sarga1 Hindu Devayani and threw her down a well. a female water-spirit creation A king, Yayati, found Devayani and Sarasvati1 Buddhist Sarga2 Hindu married her, forcing Sarmishtha to a female Bodhisattva a minor god become a servant at his court. She had goddess of music and poetry son of (Bhima) and Disa an affair with the king and bore three She is sometimes depicted playing Sargaz (see Sarur) sons, Anu, Puru and Turvasu. Some the flute. Sargon Mesopotamian say that Turvasu was Devayani’s son. Sarasvati2 Hindu a king of Akkad Sarmistha (see Sarmishtha) [Bharati.Brahmi.Logos.Mahasarasvati. husband of Azag-Bau, some say Sarnga Hindu Queen of Love.Savitri.Shatarupa. He was abandoned at birth in a basket the bow of Vac(h).Vagdevi.Vak:=Pacific Islands but found by Akki. He was made king sarong East Indian : =Japanese Benten] by Ishtar who fell in love with him. a form of skirt worn in many parts of an early mother-goddess and goddess Sarigoys South American the Pacific of the river Sarasvati father of one of a pair of twin boys Javanese sorcerers, it is said, use a goddess of the arts and wisdom His wife was raped by the god Maire small piece of such a garment with daughter of Sagara and gave birth to twins, Ariconte and black stripes on it and cause it to wife of Vishnu and later of Brahma Tamendonare, one fathered by the expand to cover the whole body and In her earlier role as mother-goddess god, one by himself. They never found turn the wearer into a tiger. she killed the demon Ahi. out which was which. Sarpanit (see Sarpanitu) In some stories, she was born Sarikin Bakka African Sarpanitu Mesopotamian from the body of Brahma with whom the Hausa ‘lord of animals’ [Aruru.Belti(y)a.Ealur.Erua. she mated to produce the first man, He is said to be able to induce madness Sarpanit(um).Zarbanit.Zarpanit. Manu, and was so beautiful that in humans. Zarpanitu(m).Zerpanitu(m).Zirat-panitu: Brahma grew four more heads so that Sarindiel =Semitic Succoth Benoth] he could see her from all directions. a demon a goddess of childbirth The latter part of this tale is also Sariputra (see Shariputra) a name for Ishtar as a creator-goddess told of Shatarupa who some equate Sariputta Buddhist a name for Belit, in some accounts with Sarasvati. the Pali version of the Sanskrit consort of Marduk Shiva lost his temper when he was S(h)ariputra Sarpanitum (see Sarpanitu) excluded from a sacrifice by Daksha Saris British Sarpedon1 Greek and wounded many of those present in Arthurian lore, a king of Hungary son of Zeus by Europa including Sarasvati who had her nose He was killed in battle by Laris. brother of Minos and Rhadamanthus cut off. Vishnu found her too Saritiel father of Evander quarrelsome for his liking and gave a demon, ruler of the sign Sagittarius When he was expelled from Crete her to Brahma. (see also Adnachiel) by his brother Minos, after they She is credited with the invention Saritor Roman quarrelled over a boy called Miletus, of Sanskrit and sometimes identifed a god of weeds Sarpedon conquered and became with Vach. Sarkany European king of what was later called Lycia. She is depicted with either two or a Hungarian demon He was said to have lived, in the four arms, sometimes with three He has the power to turn people to form of a serpent, for three gen- heads, and riding a peacock or a swan. stone. His function is to control the erations and was revered at some (see also Sandhya.Shatarupa) weather and he can be seen riding his shrines. This was to account for his Sarasvati- Hindu horse in the thunder clouds. identification, in some accounts, with [Homage to Sarasvati] In some versions he is regarded as a his grandson of the same name. a festival of homage to Sarasvati in dragon. Sarpedon2 Greek January or February He is depicted with seven or nine a king of Lycia Saraswati Pacific Islands heads. son of Evander and Deidameia the Balinese version of Sarasvati Sarkap Indian son of Zeus by Laodamia, Saratan Arab [Beheader] some say the Zodiacal sign, Cancer a warrior-hero When Isander and Hippolochus Sarbhile (see Moninne) He earned the name Beheader from contended for the throne of Lycia, Sardian Sibyl Greek his habit of decapitating those whom Deidamia offered the child Sarpedon a prophetess he defeated in games. to bear on his chest the ring that the

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Sarpedon3 Satapatha Brahmana

two men would use as a target for He was the commander of the forces with his feet when they passed under their arrows to settle the succession. supporting Ninigi when he took the the tree in which he was sitting. He fought on the side of the Trojans throne from Onamuji. Sasabonsum (see Sasabonsam) in the war against Greece and killed In some accounts, he is described as Sasanadevata Jain Tlepolemus but was himself killed a monkey-god and was said to have one of the messenger goddesses by Patroclus. fathered a number of children on Ilzume. Sashi-mi-rig-giha Buddhist In some accounts, he is equated with Their descendants, known as miko, Tibetan earth-gods his grandfather of the same name. were shamans or attendants at shrines. Sasquatch (see Bigfoot) Sarpedon3 Greek He is now regarded as the guardian Sassu-wunnu Mesopotamian son of Poseidon of cross-roads and procreation. Ea as a sea-monster brother of Poltys Sarva (see .Rudra) Sasthi Hindu He was shot and killed by Heracles Sarvabhaksha Tibetan a goddess after his ninth Labour. a Lamaist sorcerer She is the guardian of the sixth day Sarquamiel Sarvabuddhadakini Buddhist after the birth of a child and protects a demon of the hours of the day the Tibetan name for Narokhachoma her devotees from smallpox. Sarra Itu Mesopotamian Sarvabuddhadharma-Kosavati Sasuratum Canaanite [Sarr(a)hitu] Buddhist [=Hebrew Kosharot] a Babylonian-Sumerian fertility-goddess a god of literature a group of 7 midwife-goddesses Sarrahitu (see Sarra Itu) one of the dharanis daughters of Baal British (see also Sarvakarmavaranavisodhani) Sacy-perere (see Cacy taperere) the city of the Sarvaga Hindu Sata (see Zada) It was to Sarras that returned son of Bhima and Balandhara Satabhisa Hindu the Holy Grail and where he was made Sarvakamadugha Buddhist a goddess of fortune king. Despite the fact that the Saracens a cow owned by Indra one of the naksatras were said, in some accounts, to have daughter of Surabhi daughter of Daksha taken their name from this city, some This animal is the supporter of the wife of Candra say it was in Brittany, not the Holy north corner of the heavens. Sataere German Land. In some accounts, the king of Sarvakarmavaranavisodhani Buddhist a god of agriculture regarded as a Sarras was the giant Alchendic. a god of literature manifestation of Loki Sarrhitu (see Sarra Itu) one of the dharanis Satan Hebrew Sarritor Roman (see also Sarvabuddhadharma-Kosavati) [Lord of Fire.Lord of the Underworld. a god of agriculture sarvan European Old Bendy.Old Hangie.Old Harry. Sarruma Mesopotamian or who kept their masters Old Hornie.Nick.Old Driver. [Saruma.Sharmas.Sharrumas.Sharuma] informed of what was going on Old Gentleman.Old Gooseberry.Old Ned. a Hurrian god Sarvanivaranaviskambhin Buddhist Old One.Old Poker.Prince of Darkness. son of Teshub and Hebat [=Tibetan Dip-pa-nam-sel] Sathan(as).The Adversary: Sarsaok (see Hadhayosh) a god =Arab shaitan:=Ethiopian shaytan: Sartiyas Mesopotamian one of the Dhyanibodhisattvas =Scottish Auld Hornie.Clootie. [Queen of Katapa] Sarvapayajaha Hindu Little Gude.Old Scratch.Old Serpent.] a Hittite goddess a god the devil: the personification of evil Sartziel one of the Dhyanibodhisattvas He is generally depicted with horns, a demon, ruler of the sign Scorpio, Sarvara (see Carvara) bat-like wings, a tail and cloven hooves the scorpion (see also Barbiel) Sarvasokatamonirghatamati Buddhist but some German illustrations show a saru Japanese a god crow and mediaeval pictures show him a sign (monkey) of the Zodiac one of the Dhyanibodhisattvas as a human-headed serpent. Sarube Japanese Sarvatma Hindu (see also Yazid) descendants of Saruto-hike and Uzume the totality of spiritual force, Satan2 creators of ceremonial dance represented by the a demon of sorcery Saruda-hiko (see Saruta-hiko) Sary-khan Siberian In , one of the Grand Saruma (see Sarruma) a Tartar deity of happiness Dignitaries, leader of the opposition. Sarur Mesopotamian grandson of Kudai Satang goddesses East Indian [S(h)argaz.Sharuk.Sharur] (see also Kyrgis-khan) the 7 daughters of Mahatala a Sumerian god Saryata Hindu sisters of Jata The deified weapon (a cyclone) used a king These Dayak deities are the arbiters by Ninurta which was capable of father of Sukanya of fate who take it in turns to independent action. Sasabonsam African descend to earth on to judge Saruta Japanese [Sasabonsum:=Dahomey Yehwe Zogbanu] human beings. a monkey-god a hairy forest monster of the Ashanti Satan’s Head (see Rosh ha Satan) Saruto-hiko Japanese husband of Srahman Satapatha Brahmana Hindu [Saruda-hiko] He had feet pointing both ways and a collection of stories including the an earthly deity ate any travellers he could capture story of Manu and the fish

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Sataram Sau Kompul

Sataram (see Sudrem) immolates herself on her husband’s devotion by granting her three wishes. Sataran Mesopotamian funeral pyre, stems from this incident. One of these was that she might have [Istaran] Satis Greek many children. , realising that he a god of medicine the Greek name for the Egyptian had been tricked since she could have He also acts as a judge. goddess children only if she had a husband, Satarupa (see Shatarupa) Satjit (see Sati1) restored Satyavana to life. Satavahana Hindu Satki Hindu Satyavati Hindu a king a javelin, one of the weapons of [‘truthful’] He rejected a poem sent to him by Satmas (see Ummu Sibyani) a fisher-girl Gunadhya who had written it in his Satrajit Hindu daughter of Adrika by a king own blood. The poet tore some of the father of Satyabhama second wife of Shantanu poem into small pieces and fed them Satrapis Greek mother of Vyasa by Parashara slowly, one by one, into the fire, [=Syrian Sadrapa] She bore a son, Vyasa, to Parashara. whereupon all the game animals a god of healing Later, her father allowed Satyavati to gathered round, weeping at the beauty Satrud Thai marry the aged king, Shantanu, only of the poem. The king then fell ill and the Thai version of Satrughna on the condition that any son of the was advised to eat game – but there Satrughna Hindu union should inherit Shantanu’s was no game to be found anywhere. [=Thai Satrud] throne instead of Bhishma, his son by The king quickly changed his mind a god his first wife. She produced two sons, and bought the remaining part of the son of Dasa-ratha and Sumitra both of whom died childless so she poem. brother of Lakshmana persuaded Vyasa, her son by Parashara Satavesa Persian sattva Hindu or, some say, her husband’s half- a star-spirit created by Ahura Mazda one of the 3 gunas covering the brother, that he had a duty to the ruler of the west transmigration of the soul widows to give them children and Satet (see Sati1) Saturday (see Baron Samedi) he complied. Sathan (see Satan) Saturn Roman Satyavrata Hindu Sathanas (see Satan) [Sa(e)turnus.’sower’:=Greek Cronus] [Trishanku] Sati1 Egyptian god of agriculture, vines, workers a king of Dravidia [Queen of Elephantine.Satet.Satjit: husband of Lua and, later, Ops He helped Vishnu in his struggle with =Greek Satis] father of Juno, Jupiter, Neptune, Hayagriva and, as a reward for his queen of goddesses, Picus and Pluto penance and charity, he was admitted goddess of the cataracts In some accounts, he was regarded as to heaven as an immortal. first wife of Khnum an early Italian king, ruling jointly satyr Greek In some accounts, sister of Anuket, in with Janus, who went to heaven as [fem=satyra.satyress:=Roman faun.Silvan] others her mother. Saturn when he died. god of the woodlands, part man, She is depicted with the horns of an Saturnalia Roman part goat, with a long tail antelope and wearing the white crown a festival in honour of Saturn, a fertility spirit of Upper Egypt. December 17th-19th Some say that the satyrs were sons of Sati2 Egyptian At this festival, masters and servants Hermes and brothers of the . a serpent in Sekhet-Aaru which preyed exchange roles for the day. The modern Greek callicantzani on the dead (see also Sigillaria) have many of the features of the Sati3 Hindu Saturnus (see Saturn) ancient satyrs. [Ambika.S(h)akti..Uma.‘virtuous’] Satya-bhama East Indian satyra (see satyress) an aspect of Devi or Parvati a wife of Kritarajasa satyral an incarnation of or Uma Satya-Loka Hindu a monster with parts of man, lion a name for Parvati as ‘good wife’ [Abode of Truth] and antelope daughter of Daksha and Prasuti one of the 7 realms of the universe, Satyrane British first wife of Shiva home of the gods a noble in The Faerie Queene When her father invited all the gods (see also Brahma-Loka) who rescued Una except Shiva to a sacrifice she satya-yuga (see krita-yuga) satyress immolated herself though some say Satyabhama Hindu [satyra] that it was Gauri who immolated a Tamil goddess a female version of a satyr herself to become Sati. Another story daughter of Satrajit satyrisci (see satyrisk) says that she fell in love with Shiva but a consort of and Vishnu satyrisk Greek he was not invited to the ceremony at Satyavana Hindu [plur=satyrisci] which a maiden chooses her husband. son of Dyumatsena a young satyr She neverthless became his consort husband of Savitri sau (see siau.tahu1) but burnt to death from the intensity He died, as had been prophesied, Sau Kompul Pacific Islands of her own purity. In both versions she within a year of his marriage to a dog in the Gilbert Islands was later reborn as Parvati. The Savitri and she followed him to the This animal was said to spy on enemies practice of suttee (sati), where a widow underworld. Yama rewarded her of the tyrant Sau Telur.

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Sau Telur Say

Sau Telur Pacific Islands Sauru (see Saura) Savitri3 Hindu a tyrant killed by Isokalakal Sauska Mesopotamian a princess sauba (see Saubha) [=Syrian Kubaba] daughter of Ashvapati Saubha1 Hindu a Hurrian mother-goddess wife of Satyavana [Sauba] and fertility-goddess When her husband died, as had been a flying city Sauvagine European prophesied, within a year of marriage, Saubha2 Hindu [Sauvaigne] she followed him into the under- [Dhapura.Tranga] a sword of Ogier, made by world. Yama rewarded her devotion a floating city Munifican by granting her three wishes. The This city, home of the Daityas, was said Sauvaigne (see Sauvagine) first wish restored her father-in-law, to lie to the west of the sub-continent. sauvastika (see svastika) Dyumatseni, to his throne, the second It was overthrown by Krishna. Saw Meya (see Hnit-ma-dawgyi) restored his eyesight. The third wish Saubhadra (see Abhimanyu) Sava Pacific Islands was that she might have many Saubhagya-Bhuvanesvari Buddhist brother of I’i children. Yama, realising that he had a goddess of good fortune He and his sister are regarded as the been tricked, since she could have Saubhari Hindu first to settle on Savai’i, becoming the children only if she had a husband, a hermit ancestors of the people of that island. restored Satyavana to life. Though he was old and shrivelled after Savala (see Kamadhenu) Savul (see Saul) years of asceticism, he demanded one Savali Pacific Islands Sawan (see Samhain2) of the king’s fifty daughters as a wife. a Samoan messenger-god Sawara Japanese He turned himself into a handsome Savari1 British an artist young man so that all fifty of them a king of Spain He loved Kimi, the niece of his tutor, agreed to marry him and he ended up He carried off Lidoine after the death Tenko, but when he left to learn more with a hundred and fifty sons. of her husband, Ladon. She was from Myokei, this great artist wanted sauger (see guyascutus) rescued by . Sawara to marry his daughter. Kimi, Saul Mesopotamian Savari2 Tibetan distraught at this news, disappeared [Savul] a fearsome Buddhist-Lamaist goddess, and, when Sawara returned to Tenko’s a Babylonian god one of the gauris house, she was nowhere to be found so Saule Baltic Savarkama Hindu he married a farmer’s daughter named a Latvian sun-goddess a king Kiku. When he later met Kimi, she daughter of Perkunas father of Rituparna stabbed herself to death on learning consort of Dievs and Meness Savarna (see .Sharanyu) that her beloved had married another. She drives across the sky each day in a Savarni Hindu He painted a picture of the dead Kimi chariot and, each night, she washes the son of which came to life and visited him horses in the sea. brother of Shani every night. He finally gave the picture When her husband, Meness, had an Savary European to be hung in a temple and put aside affair with Ausrine, Perkunas cut him a duke of Aquitane his wife, Kiku. in half. father of Fezon Sawoye African The berries of the shrubs on the Savea Si’uleo Pacific Islands husband of Marwe hills were said to be her tears. a god of the dead He had a terrible skin disease but when In some accounts, Saule is male and brother of Salevao he married Marwe it miraculously Meness is female. Savitar (see Savitri1) disappeared. Saules meitas Baltic Savitr (see Savitri1) He was killed by men jealous of his daughters of Saule Savitri1 Hindu wealth but Marwe used her magic to They rake up the hay mown by the [Mart(t)anda.Prajapati.Savit(a)r] restore him to life. Dievadeli in the celestial meadows. a god of the morning and evening sun Saxneat (see Saxnot) Sauna Inuit a version of Marttanda Saxnot Saxon the spirit of the west wind son of [Sahsnot.S(e)axneat.Swordbearer: Saunanda Hindu one of the Adityas =German Tiwaz:=Norse Cheru. the club of Balarama He has the power to grant immortality Heimdall.Tyr] Saupe Pacific Islands and longevity and arranges the a war-god a in the Marianas rotation of the seasons. He was later He is regarded as a manifestation of brother of Sipe assimilated into Surya. Heimdall or Tyr. To honour their ancestors and the He is depicted riding in a golden Saxo Grammaticus Danish deity Lugeilan, the brothers built chariot drawn by white horses. a writer monuments using their magic to cause In some accounts he is equated with He was the author of Gesta Danorum. stones to fly into position. Agni. Say Egyptian Saura Persian Savitri2 Hindu [Shay:=Greek Agathos Daimon] [Sauru] daughter of the sun-god a god of fate a demon, ‘misgovernment’, opposing wife of Brahma He attends the weighing of the Kshathra Varya (see also Sarasvati.Shatarupa) individual’s heart in the underworld.

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sayadaw Sceolan

sayadaw Burmese Hephaestus stopped the fight by through the hole below the cooking- a title for the head of a monastery scorching the river dry. pot when his mother disobeyed Sayadio North American Scamandrius (see Astyanax) instructions and moved the pot. an Iroquois brave Scamandros (see Scamander) Scarmiglione He was greatly grieved when his sister Scamandrous (see Scamander) [Scaramallion] died and travelled to Shadowland in scapulimancy a demon in Dante’s Inferno the hope of rescuing her. With the [scapulomancy] Scath Irish help of the keeper and Tarenyawago, from shoulder blades a realm of the afterworld from which the master of ceremonies, he captured (see also omoplatoscopy) Cuchulainn is said to have seized her spirit and took it home with him. scapulomancy (see scapulimancy) much treasure As he prepared to revivify his sister’s scarab Egyptian Scathach (see Sgathach.Skatha) corpse, a foolish brave (or, in some [scarabaeus.scarabee] scatomancy accounts, a young girl) lifted the lid of a sacred beetle: the personification divination from inspecting faeces the gourd. The trapped spirit flew off of Kephra Sceaf Norse and Sayadio fell dead from grief. scarabaeus (see scarab) [Scef(ing).Scyld.Skeaf.Skidd(r). Sayings of Confucius (see Lun Yü) scarabee (see scarab) Skiold.Skjold.Stigarde] Sayings of Odin (see Havamal) Scaramallion a king of the Danes Sayoni (see Sa-yoni) the English version of Scarmiglione son of Odin saytan (see shaytan) Scarface North American husband of Gefjon Sayuka-hime (see Sengen) [Poia] He arrived mysteriously on the shores Sazquiel a Blackfoot brave of Denmark in an open boat with a a demon of the hours of the days son of Apisuahts by Soatsaki sheaf of corn for a pillow and was sBed-byed (see Gobaka) He loved the daughter of a chief and made king. When he died, he was Scaen gates Greek she promised to marry him if he could placed in a boat which drifted out to the entrance gates to the city of Troy persuade the sun-god, Natos, to sea. where Paris shot Achilles release her from her undertaking not In some accounts he was a form Scaevola Roman to marry (or to marry Natos, in some of Heimdall. a young noble versions) and return without the scar, Sceanb Irish When the Italians besieged Rome, he caused by a bear’s claw, that disfigured wife of Craftiny entered their camp to assassinate their his face. After many tribulations, he She had an affair with Cormac Cond leader, Lars Porsena, but killed the met the sun-god’s son, Apisuahts, who Longes and her jealous husband had wrong man. When captured, he took him to his father. Scarface and him killed. plunged his hand into a blazing fire Apisuahts often hunted together and Scef (see Sceaf) without flinching and, by his bravery, when Scarface saved his companion Scefing (see Sceaf) persuaded Lars Porsena to make peace. from a flock of savage birds, the sun- Sceine (see Scena) scald (see skald) god agreed to allow him to marry his Sceiron (see Sciron) Scala Coeli beloved and removed the scar from Scena Irish a 12th C book by Honorius describing his face. [Sceine.Skena] many mythical animals In another version, Feather-woman wife of Amergin Glungheal scales (see Libra) (Soatsaki) fell in love with Morning She died on the voyage to Ireland and Scalliotta British Star (Apisuahts) and was taken up to was buried there. [Scalot] the star-country in a spider’s web. Scenmed Irish the Italian name for , home When she disobeyed instructions sister of Forgall of never to dig up the great turnip which Cuchulainn killed Forgall who had Scalot (see Scalliotta) blocked the hole through which she refused him the hand of his daughter Scamander Greek had ascended, she was banished back Emer, abducting Emer and making her [Scamandro(u)s.Skamandros. to earth, taking her son, the star-boy his wife. Scenmed raised an army and Xanthos.Xanthus] named Poia, who was called Scarface. pursued them but Cuchulainn defeated a river-god of Troy When he grew up, he sought his father her forces and killed Scenmed. father of Strymo in the star-country and, after saving his Sceolaing (see Sceolan) father of Teucer by Idaea father from death, was permitted by Sceolan Irish He was a Cretan who founded a the sun-god to return to earth without [Grey Dog.Sceolaing.Sgeolan.Skolawn] colony in Phrygia. He fell into the the scar that disfigured his face and to a hound of Finn river Xanthus, which thereafter marry the maiden he loved. After Finn’s sister (or, in other accounts, his became the Scamander, the source of teaching his people the Sun-dance, he sister-in-law or aunt) was Uirne and fertility for maidens who bathed in its returned to the star-country. she was to be married to Iollan. When waters, and fathered Teucer on a river- In some stories, a cooking-pot takes she was pregnant, Iollan’s jealous . the place of the turnip and the scar on mistress, a druidess, put a spell on He was said to have fought Achilles Poia’s face was caused when he rubbed Uirne, turning her into a bitch, with who had filled the river with corpses his cheek on the leather thong by the result that her children, Sceolan to avenge the death of Patroclus. which he and his mother were lowered and Bran, were born as hounds.

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In other accounts, Uirne was the magic bed that moved of its Sciathbhreag Irish restored to her former self by Lugaid own accord. a warrior of the Fianna Lagha, whom she married, and the Schedbarchemoth sciomancy (see ) pups were born to them at the same a demon of the moon Sciron1 Greek time as human triplets. schedim (see shedeem) [Sceiron] In some versions, Bran and Sceolan Schedius Greek an outlaw were originally owned by a giant who son of Iphitus son of Poseidon stole children. When Finn killed the brother of Epistrophius A bandit who demanded that travellers giant and rescued the children, he also He and his brother were the leaders of should wash his feet and then kicked took the giant’s bitch and her two the Phocian contingent at Troy. them over the cliff where a tortoise ate whelps. Finn kept the brindled one, Scheherazade Persian the bodies. Theseus, on his journey to Bran, and the other, called Sceolan, [Shahrazad] Athens to find his father, dealt with was left with the children’s father. wife of King Shahriyah Sciron in the same fashion. Later the hound was captured by In The Arabian Nights, she told her (see also Sciron2) invading Lochlanners and turned husband a story each night for 1001 Sciron2 Greek loose in Glen More where it became a nights, leaving the tale unfinished, to [Sceiron] wild, ravaging beast. Finn, who was escape execution, the fate of all the son of Pylas later captured by the Lochlanners, was king’s previous wives. father of Endeis left bound at the mercy of the hound Scheliel He and Nisus were both claimants for but he tamed Sceolan by showing it a moon-demon the throne of Megara. Aeacus arbitrated the golden leash he used for Bran. Schenteflurs British and gave the throne to Nisus, making When Finn was rescued by the Fianna, son of Gornemant Sciron his army commander. he took Sceolan with him and he was brother of Gurzgi, Liaze and Lascoyt In some accounts, he is the same as reunited with Bran. Scheria Greek Sciron the outlaw. (see also Sciron1) On one occasion, both Bran and an island ruled by Alcinous Sciron3 Greek Sceolan were stolen by Arthur, a son of This is where Odysseus came ashore a wind from the north-west quarter the British king, Arthur, who had come after his raft was wrecked and where Scirophoria Greek to Ireland with twenty-eight warriors to he was found by Nausicaa. a festival in honour of Athena or of seek adventure. Nine Fianna warriors Schethalim Core and Demeter, at which pigs followed them to Scotland and killed a demon were killed, held in June/July all of them, taking Arthur prisoner, Schiekron Scobelleum British and recovering the hounds. a demon associated with lust a fruitful country When Angus Og said that the Schilbung Norse The inhabitants of this country had all hounds could not kill a single pig in his brother of Nibelung the vices that afflict humanity and herd, Finn set them to work and they He quarrelled with his brother over were punished for it – the women were killed all the herd of a hundred, sharing their father’s estate; both were turned into cows and the men into including a famous black boar. killed by Siegfried. various other animals. Schacabac Persian Schionatulander British Scoithfhionn [Shacabac] [Tchionatulander] a wife of Finn mac Cool, some say in The Arabian Nights, a beggar who husband of Sigune scolopendra English was the subject of the cruel jest of He was killed by the a fabulous fish (Spenser) Barmecide’s feast when he tried to recover the pet dog scopellism Schachlil that had been stolen from Sigune. in black magic, curses written on a demon associated with the sun’s rays Schirim paper attached to stones thrown Schal-jime Russian a demon in the form of a goat into gardens, etc. a hero of the flood in Tartar lore Schlauraffenland German Scoriath Irish He became the ruler of the realm to the German version of Cockaigne father of Moriath which dead children go. Schlemihl Some versions say he was king of Schala (see Sala) a man who sold his soul to Feramorc in Munster, others of the Fir Schaltiel the devil Morca in Gaul. Covac, king of Ireland, a demon, ruler of the Zodiacal sign of Schoenius Greek had killed the father and grandfather Virgo, the virgin (see also Hamaliel) a king of Orchomenus of Maon (Lugaid Loiseach) and forced schamir Norse son of Athamas and Themisto the boy to eat parts of their hearts. a magic stone said to make the husband of Clymene The boy was either previously dumb holder invisible father of Atalanta, in some accounts or was rendered dumb by the Scharpfe Norse Schratt German experience and fled to Gaul. He fell in son of Etzel by his first wife [=Celtic Dus] love with Moriath, the daughter of brother of Porte a (see also Scrat) Scoraith, either in Munster or in Gaul, Schastel Marveil British sciapod and her father not only agreed to let the home of Klingsor a mythical one-footed man with one Maon marry his daughter but raised an It was here that slept in large foot army which invaded Ireland, killed

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Covac and installed Maon on the Scox (see Shax) Another story says that Amphitrite, throne. Scrat German annoyed when her husband Poseidon Scorpio [Schratt.Scrato:=Celtic Dus: looked at Scylla, turned her into a [Scorpion:=Akkadian Girtab:=Arab =Icelandic Skratti] monster by putting magic herbs into Aqrab:=Hebrew Akrabh] a forest-demon the water where she bathed. the eighth sign of the Zodiac, Scratchfoot European Some accounts say that she was the scorpion a hen in Reynard the Fox killed by Heracles when she stole some scorpion1 mate of Henning of Geryon’s from him but she an arachnid with a sting in its tail: She was killed by Reynard the Fox. was revivified by Phorcos. Others say (1) In Babylonian lore the scorpion Scrato (see Scrat) that she was turned into a rock. appears as Scorpion Man. screbonie North American Scyrius Greek (see separate entry) a fabulous animal a king of Scyros (2) In Egypt the scorpion was Scritta Anglo-Saxon father of Aegeus regarded as the personification of [=Celtic Dus:=German Scrat] Scyros Greek Serket and was sacred to Isis. a monster the island ruled by Lycomedes (3) In Greece, a scorpion was sent scrying Scythes Greek by Artemis or Gaea to kill Orion, [crystal-gazing.crystallomancy] son of Heracles who had boasted that he could divination from images seen in a brother of Agathyrsus and Gelonus kill any animal, and was set in the crystal ball On his way back to Greece after heavens as the constellation Scorpio Scuab Uasafach Irish seizing Geryon’s cattle, Heracles had as a reward. [Terrible Broom] his horses stolen by a snake-tailed It was said that oil extracted a battalion of the Fianna woman (Echidna, some say) who from a scorpion acted as an antidote This elite battalion was commanded returned the horses only when he slept to the poison from its sting. by Oscar and was renowned for with her. She bore him three sons. (4) The Hebrews regarded the never yielding. Scythes became the first king of scorpion as a symbol of evil. Scyld Norse Scythia. (5) In Persia this animal represents in some accounts, the same as Sceaf; Scythians (see Arimaspi) autumn and decay. Mithra is in others, his son Se-irim Hebrew depicted as a bull, the strength of Scylla1 Greek [Ceirim] life, in summer and the scorpion [Ciris.Skulla.Skulle.Skylla.‘whelp’] hairy, goatlike monsters nibbles away at the bull’s testicles daughter of Nisus sea-dog representing the fading of summer She was nursed by Carme, a slave- a monster in the form of a dog with and the onset of autumn. woman from Crete. Her father, a king fins and a beaver’s tail (6) In Toltec lore, the god Yappon of Megara had been warned that he sea-dragon and his wife Tlahuitzin were both must never cut his purple hair or his a monster, part dragon, part fish turned into scorpions when they kingdom would fall. When Minos sea-horse were killed by Yaotl. attacked Megara, the siege lasted six a monster in the form of a horse Scorpion2 (see Scorpio) months until Scylla fell in love with with a fish’s tail Scorpion Man Mesopotamian him and killed her father by cutting off sea-king [Girtablili] a lock of his hair to give to Minos who the king of the mer-people one of the Eleven Mighty Helpers seduced and then deserted her. She sea-lion created by Tiamat. drowned when she tried to swim after a monster, part lion, part fish Scota1 Irish his departing ship and her father’s sea-maid (see ) [Bera] spirit, in the form of a sea-eagle, sea-man (see merman) a Milesian queen attacked her. She was changed into a sea-nymph daughter of the pharaoh, Nectanebus lark, Ciris. a minor sea-goddess second wife of Milesius Scylla2 Greek Sea of Clear Glass Irish She died soon after reaching Ireland [Skulla.Skulle.’whelp’] an area of smooth sea which was conquered by her sons who a nymph Maeldun encountered this glass- overcame the Danaans. daughter of Zeus and Lamia smooth sea during his voyage. In some accounts she is equated daughter of Phorcos and Cratais or Sea of Death Mesopotamian with Cailleach Bheur. , some say part of the underworld ruled by Sabitu Scota2 Irish Some say she spurned the love of the Sea of Two Knives Egyptian daughter of the pharaoh, Cingris sea-god Glaucus and , who a sacred lake wife of Niul wanted Glaucus herself, turned her A symbol of the primaeval waters mother of Gaedheal into a six-headed monster with three holding the Isle of Flames. Scotia Greek rows of teeth and twelve feet sea-serpent a sea-goddess of Cyprus destroying everything that came a monster in the form of a marine Scotorum Historiae Scottish within range of the cliff on which she animal a history, written by Boece, which was fixed, opposite the whirlpool Sea Spirit1 (see Sedna) includes some Arthurian lore Charybdis. sea-spirit2 (see roane.)

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sea-unicorn victory and clothes that would protect Sebek-Osiris Egyptian a monster, part unicorn, part fish him from both fire and water. a composite of Sebek and Osiris as sea-wolf Seancha mac Aillealla Irish a god of the dead a monster, part wolf, part fish a counsellor and peacemaker In this role he was envisaged as a sea-woman (see mermaid) at the court of Conor mac crocodile with a human head. Seachnasach Irish Nessa Sebek-Ra Egyptian a king of Tara Seanchan Torpest Irish a composite of Sebek and Ra, a Seachran Irish [Seanchan Torpeist.Senchan] manifestation of the sun-god a giant a chief poet In this role he was envisaged as a man Finn mac Cool made friends with this husband of Brighid with a crocodile’s head. giant who took him to his home. His He was said to have killed ten rats Sebettu Mesopotamian family were hostile and tried to kill merely by reciting a couplet and was a group of Akkadian demons Seachran. A huge claw appeared and once carried off by the king-cat Irusan The malevolent Sebettu are the grabbed hold of him and, in his efforts for composing a satire. cause of eclipses and various disasters to escape, he accidentally knocked At the court of Guaire, king of but are opposed by the benevolent his mother in a boiling cauldron. Both Connaught, he was challenged to Sebettu. Seachran and Finn fled the scene but recite the story of the Cattle Raid of Sebile British were overtaken by Seachran’s brother Cooley. He knew this story because [Sebille] who killed Seachran. Finn avenged his he had raised the dead king, Fergus a sorceress death by killing the brother and then mac Roth, and learned the whole story a companion of resuscitated Seachran with the aid of from him before allowing him to Sebille (see Sebile) his . return to his grave. Sebitti Mesopotamian Seaghdha (see Segda) Seanchan Torpeist Babylonian war-gods seal (see Seanchan Torpest) children of Anu an or demonic device in Seang Irish Sechmet (see Sekhmet) the form of a diagram or daughter of a Scythian king Sechobochobo African picture first wife of Milesius in Zambia, a one-eyed, one-legged seal-maiden (see roane.selkie) When she died, Milesius went to forest monster Sean mac Semais Irish Egypt and married Scota. Sechol-Hor Egyptian a young man of Munster Searbhan (see Sharvan) a cow-goddess He fell dead at his engagement party Seasons (see Horae) foster-mother of Horsu, some but was carried off and restored to Seat of Danger (see Perilous Seat) say life by Cliona. When Caitlin Og, his Seat of Dread (see Perilous Seat) Second Lord of Quality betrothed, demanded a large ransom Seat Perilous (see Perilous Seat) (see Erh-lang) from Cliona, she released him. Seathrun Ceitinn Irish Second Sun Central American Seanaigh Irish a priest [Four Wind.Sun of Air] [Maol Seanaigh] He collected and distributed much the second age of the Aztec When Cellach was deposed by Guaire Irish lore. creation cycle and fled to an island, Seanaigh and Seaxneat (see Saxnot) At the end of the first era, ruled by three other young monks went with Seb Egyptian Tezcatlipoca and which lasted for him. They later accepted a bribe from in some versions, a name of Geb 676 years, the animals ate all the Guaire and killed Cellach. The dead Seba Egyptian human beings. Quetzalcoatl killed man’s brother, Muireadhach, found in some accounts, a serpent Tezcatlipoca and ruled for the period the body and, when he caught the (see also Sati2) of the Second Sun which also lasted murderers, had them put to death. Sebak (see Sebek) for 676 years. When he took over, Seanan Irish Sebastian European Quetzalcoatl created a new race of [Senan] a king of Portugal humans and, by sacrificing his own son a saint He was killed in a battle against the in the fire, brought light to the dark son of Geirgreann Moors but is said to lie sleeping, world they lived in. He is said to have performed many awaiting a call to rule Brazil. At the end of this period, Tlaloc miracles, including restoring the dead Sebek Egyptian caused a great wind to blow away all to life and banishing a monster from [Rem(i).Sebak.Sob(e)k:=Greek Sekonopis. these humans (except a few who Scattery Island where he established a Sochos.S(o)uchos] became monkeys) and took over as monastery. He was persuaded to allow a crocodile-god ruler of the Third Sun. women to join his community by the son of Neith Another version calls this period the woman, Canair who walked to the father of Khons by Hathor, some say Sun of Air and accepts that two island on the wave-tops. In some accounts he is identified with humans escaped destruction at the end Seanbheag Irish Maka or Set. of the era. (see also sun1) a man from the Otherworld He is depicted as a crocodile or as a Secret Commonwealth, The British In one story, he met Cuchulainn and crocodile with the head of a hawk. a treatise on Gaelic lore, written gave him weapons that would ensure (see also aart) by Robert Kirk

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Secular Games1 Greek She was one of the three spirits to sacrifice the son of sinless parents, a festival held every 4 years in honour controlling the forces of nature. he sailed to the Land of Wonder and of Hades When she started to eat her parents, took Segda. The youth’s life was saved Secular Games2 Roman they threw her into the sea from their when Conn was persuaded to sacrifice a festival held at intervals of 100 boat and when she clung to the sides, a cow instead. years (at the beginning of a new they cut off her fingers which became Seger (see Seker) saeculum) in honour of Dis fish, whales, etc. Segesta (see Egesta) and Proserpina In another version, she rejected Segomo Celtic Securita Roman humans in favour of animal lovers and a war-god in Gaul [Securitas] was thrown into the sea by her father In some accounts he is equated a guardian goddess protecting when he was taking her home from a with Cocidius. the empire meeting with one of these lovers. Segun North American Securitas (see Securitas) In yet another version Sedna was a the manitou of summer, in the lore of Sed1 Hebrew mortal who was carried off from a boat the Algonquin [plur=Sedim] by a petrel. Her parents tried to drive Segurant British a demon with magical powers to the bird away but it then attacked [Knight of the Dragon.Knight of whom children were sacrificed them so they threw their daughter into the Old Table] Sed2 Egyptian the sea, cutting off her fingers when a knight at Uther’s court a cannibalistic feast she tried to climb back into the boat. Segwarides British If the king was still alive after thirty Sedrat (see Sidrat al-Muntaha) a knight of King Mark’s court years on the throne he was killed and Sedu Mesopotamian Both Tristram and King Mark were eaten so that his strength would pass to [Sedhu:=Hebrew Sed] attracted to this knight’s wife. She his successor. a Babylonian spirit of the underworld preferred Tristram who seduced her Sed3 Egyptian He and the female Karibatu were and then defeated Segwarides when he a jackal-god, guardian of the installed as guardians at the entrance challenged the seducer. individual of palaces and both were depicted as Sehem Egyptian Sed4 Mesopotamian winged bull/human hybrids. divine energy personified a Semitic sun-god seelie court Scottish Sei-O-Ba Japanese Seder (see Pasch) benevolent [Seiobo:=Chinese Hsi Wang Mu] Sedim (see Sed1) Seere goddess of the west Sedanta (see Setanta) a demon Seiobo (see Sei-O-Ba) Sedeq (see Sydyk) one of the 72 Spirits of Solomon Seia Roman Sedhu (see Sedu) This being is said to be able to make a guardian-goddess of newly-planted Sedhu-Lal Hindu anything happen instantaneously and corn an attendant on the smallpox appears as a man riding a horse. Seian Horse Roman goddess, Shitala Seeta (see ) a horse apparently bringing ill-fortune Sedit North American Seeva Baltic to its owner [Coyote] [=Slav Siva] seid Norse a trickster-god of the Wintun people a Lithuanian love-goddess [seidr.seithr] Olelbis sent his brothers to earth with Seewiesken German a form of divination, using magic, orders to build a ladder from earth to a water-spirit practised by Freya and others heaven so that men could ascend to Sef Egyptian Practitioners of this art could cause the renew their youth. Sedit persuaded the a lion-god soul to leave the body, take on the form brothers to dismantle the work that ruler of yesterday of some animal and attack an enemy. they had already done but suddenly brother of Dua, some say seidberendr (see vitkar) realised that he himself was now cut Sefkhet-Awby Egyptian seide Lapp off from heaven. He tried to reach [Safekh-Aubi.Safket-Awbi.Safkhat-Awbi. a sacred object in the form of a heaven, flying on a pair of home-made Ses(h)at.Ses(h)et.Sesheta] weathered stone or tree-stump, said wings, but they shrivelled in the heat a goddess of writing and libraries to predict the future of the sun and Sedit was killed when he She is often depicted wearing a long seidean side (see sidhe gaoite) fell back to earth. dress made of panther-skin. Seider (see Pasch) Sedna North American Segais’ Well (see Well of Segais) seidhkoma Norse [Arnaknagas.Arnaknagsak.Arnakua’gsak. Segard British female magicians Arn(a)quagssaq.Arna(r)ku(su)agsak. steward to Rohand, father of Guy seidhmadr Norse Great Goddess.Immap Ukua.Nuliajoq. of Warwick male magicians Nuliajuk.‘old woman’.Sea Spirit: Segda Irish seidr (see seid1) =Greenland Nerrivik: [Seaghdha.Segda Saerlabraid] Seileni (see Silenus2) =Siberian Nuli’rahak] a prince of the Otherworld Seilinos (see Selinus) a one-eyed sea-goddess of the son of Manannan and Fand or Seilinus (see Silenus) underworld in Alaska Rigru Roisclethan Seimia (see Simi) daughter of Anguta When Conn, the high-king, was told seirenes (see siren)

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Se’irim (see Serim) Sekhet-Tchant Egyptian with Pan who gave her a white fleece Seishi Japanese [Field of Zoan] or appeared in the form of a white a deity a realm equated in some accounts ram. seistron Egyptian with Amenti Some equate her with Artemis, a priest’s staff imbued with Sekhmet (see Sakhmet) Hera, Io or Pasiphae. protective powers Sekmet (see Sakhmet) (see also Chromia) Seit Ka-doji Japanese Sekonopis (see Souchos) Selgi British an attendant on, or an aspect Sekti (see ) father of Sel of, Fudo-myoo Sel Welsh Selindung Dalima Malay Seitaka Japanese a warrior at King Arthur’s court daughter of Dewa Laksana an attendant on, or an aspect son of Selgi and Seri Bunian of, Fudo-myoo Sela African Selinus1 Greek Seithenyn Welsh in the lore of the Abaluyia, the first a king of Aegialus a man who, in some accounts, caused woman father of Helice Cantref Gwaelod to be overwhelmed daughter of Wele Selinus2 Greek by the sea sister and wife of Mwambu a river-god seithr (see seid1) She and Mwambu were born in heaven Selises British Seizam (see Tokugawa2) but Wele dropped a ladder down from a Knight of the Sejarah Melayu Malay the sky and they descended to earth Selivant British a 17th C book of history and and populated it with their offspring. a knight of King Arthur’s court myths Selamanes (see Salman) brother of Bliant Sek-ya Burmese Selardi Armenian He and Bliant looked after at a deity, lord of supernatural weapons [Selardib] Castle Blank for over a year and a half, One of his weapons was a magic drum a moon-god during the period of Lancelot’s which, when sounded, drove off the Selardib (see Selardi) madness. enemy. He gave this drum to Lan Yein Selekana African Selk (see Selket) and A-mong when they descended in the lore of the Lesotho, a girl who Selket Egyptian to earth. was thrown into a river [Selk(it).Selq(u)et.Serket(-hetu). Seker Egyptian She met the River Woman and worked Serket-hetyt.Serq(u)et:=Greek Selkis] [Closer of the Day.Seger.Sokar(i): in the underwater palace of the River a fertility-goddess and =Greek Sokaris.Soucharis] King for which she was rewarded with mortuary goddess a falcon-headed god of mercy jewellery. The daughter of the village She guards the entrails of the dead consort of Sakhmet chieftain jumped into the river, hoping and, in her role as scorpion-goddess, He is a funerary god ruling over one for similar rewards, but she refused to guards the king’s throne. She is also section of the underworld, the Western work in the palace and was eaten by said to guard the serpent, Apep. Desert. the River King, a huge crocodile. She is depicted as having the head of He is depicted as a hawk-headed Selena (see Selene) a scorpion or as a scorpion with a human, a hawk with the body of a Selenus Greek woman’s head and is personified in serpent and three human heads or a shepherd the scorpion. sometimes with four heads – one of a This handsome young man was in selkie Scottish ram, one of a bull and two of a hawk. love with Argyra and almost died of [sea-spirit.seal-maiden.silkie] Sekhauit (see Sakhmet) grief when she left him. Aphrodite one of the sea-spirits, a seal race of Sakhautet (see Sakhmet) turned the love-lorn fellow into the the Orkneys (see also roane) sekhem1 Egyptian River Selemnus. Selkis Greek a vital force inherent in the individual Selene Greek the Greek name for Selket which, in some cases, survived [Asterodia.Mene.Phoebe.Selena. Selkit (see Selket) death Seline:=Roman Luna] Sellen Sekhem (see Sakhmet) a moon-goddess and goddess a demon Sekhemtaui Egyptian of magicians Selli Greek [Power of the Two Lands] a Titaness [Helli] Wepwawet as an aspect of Osiris daughter of Hyperion and Thea the inhabitants of Dodona who made Sekhet (see Sakhmet) daughter of Pallas or Helius by bread from acorns: priests of Zeus Sekhet-Aalu (see Sekhet-Aaru) Euryphaessa, some say at Dodona Sekhet-Aaru Egyptian sister of Helius and Eos Selqet (see Selket) [Place of the Reeds.Sekhet-Aalu: She fell in love with the mortal Selquet (see Selket) =Babylonian Aralu] Endymion and put him to sleep Selu North American one of the realms of Amenti for ever so that she might visit him [Corn Mother] Sekhet-Hetep Egyptian every night. the first woman, in the lore of one of the realms of Amenti She is said to be the mother of his the Cherokee Sekhet-Hor Egyptian fifty sons. wife of Kanati a goddess protecting cattle Another story says that she slept mother of the Thunder Boys

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Selvans Roman Another story says that Dionysus Semnai Greek an Italian god, possibly a god of was born in the normal fashion but, a Titaness agriculture and forests when Semele claimed that Zeus was an Athenian goddess of the underworld Selwanga African the father, Cadmus cast both Semele mother of the Horae, some say a python-god of the Baganda and her son adrift in a chest. Semele Semnai Theai Greek Selyf Welsh died but Dionysus was saved and [Eumenides.‘venerable goddesses’] son of Cynan Whiteshank reared by Ino. (see also Zagreus) earth-goddesses at Athens He appears as one of Owain’s Semenkoror (see Samonekoaner) and Colonus companions in The Dream of Rhonabwy Semeon (see Semion) In some accounts, they became where he is killed in battle. Semetet (see Sakhmet) identified with the Furies. Semagumba (see Semagunga) Semias (see Simias) Semnocosus Roman Semagunga African Semiazas a Spanish war-god [Semagunba] [Samyasa.Samyaza] Semo Roman a high priest of Mukasa a demon leader a vegetation-god, sower of seed semangat (see sumangat) seminatrices malorum (see furiae1) He was later absorbed into Sancus semangko East Indian Seming (see Saeming) as Semo-Sancus. the ghosts of the dead in Papua Semion Irish Semo Sancus (see Sancus.Semo) Semaquiel [Semeon] Semutega African a demon, ruler of the Zodiacal sign an ancestor of the Fir Bolg in the lore of the Baganda, an Capricorn, the goat grandson of Nemed umbilical cord dedicated to Kibuka (see also Hanael) son of Stariat Sen Mag (see Senmag) Semar East Indian Semiramis1 Armenian Sena1 Hindu a Javanese god a goddess the Hindu equivalent of bacchante brother of Batara Guru She fell in love with Er and had him Sena2 (see Devasena) father of Garang and Petruk killed when he rejected her. She so Sena-pati1 Hindu He was said to live on earth to protect regretted this that she persuaded a name of Karttikeya as ‘commander the Pandawas. another lover to masquerade as Er, of armies’ Semara Pacific Islands pretending that he had returned from Sena-pati2 (see Senapati) a Balinese god of love the dead. Senach Irish Semargl Slav Another version says that Er was, in a warrior a family god, the god of fact, restored to life just as he was Fand, the wife of Manannan, had been barley about to be cremated. promised to Cuchulainn if he would Sembadra (see Subadra) Semiramis2 Mesopotamian protect her from her enemies. One of semblance [Sammuramat] his tasks was to fight Senach. an apparition (c 800 BC) In some accounts he is referred to as Semektet (see solar bark) a queen of Babylon a god of drought or frost. Semele Greek daughter of Oannes and Atargatis, Senan (see Seanan) [Keraunia.Stimula.Thyone:=Phrygian some say Senapati East Indian Zemelo:=Roman Fauna] wife of Menon and Ninus [Sena-pati] a princess of Thebes mother of Ninyas by Ninus a Javanese king daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia In some accounts, her father was an The sea-goddess Kidul took him to sister of Agave, Autonoe, Ino unnamed Syrian youth. her underwater palace where he She was the mother of Dionysus by She was abandoned as a baby and became her lover and learned to Zeus and, at the instigation of Hera in fed by doves. Found and reared by control the sea-spirits. When he the guise of Semele’s old nurse, Beroe, Simmos, a shepherd, she married returned home, walking on the foolishly demanded that he show Menon who hanged himself when surface of the sea, he became king of himself to her in all his full glory and Ninus, the king of Assyria, demanded Java. Attempts to kill him by the died before the divine light. Her Semiramis for himself. She later killed assassin, Bochor, and by Ratna Jumilah unborn baby was placed by Hermes in Ninus and was herself killed by their failed because, as a divine king, he the thigh of Zeus or, in some stories, son, Ninyas. was invulnerable. Zeus himself saved the child by In one version of her death, she died Senapus European inserting it into his own side. In either of heartbreak when she failed to a king of Abyssinia event, the child, Dionysus was born at conquer India. As a young man, he had attempted to full term and, years later, descended to Another story says that, when her invade the earthly paradise at the Tartarus and successfully demanded mother was changed into a fish, she source of the Nile and for this that Hades release the mother he had became a dove. presumption he was struck blind. He never seen. She was carried up to In some accounts, her first husband, was also harried by the Harpies and, at Olympus and, though a mortal, was Menon, is referred to as Moenones the time of Astolpho’s arrival, was received by the gods and deified by or Onnes. Others say that Onnes was dying from starvation since the Zeus. Thereafter she was known her father. Harpies snatched or fouled all his as Thyone. Semketet (see solar bark) food. Astolpho drove off the Harpies

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Senators of the Gods Septentrio

and cured the king’s blindness with a Senjemand Norse would have married him but he put to magic herb. In return, the king gave a mountain-giant sea without her. She threw herself to Astolpho a large army with which to He fell in love with Juterna-jesta who her death from the cliff-top. support in his war with preferred Torge. In a rage, Senjemand Sentait Egyptian the Saracens. shot a huge arrow that would have an ancient corn-goddess, later merged In some accounts, it was Prester killed her had not Torge thrown his with Isis John, king of Nubia, who was harried hat to deflect it. When Senjemand Sentaro Japanese by the Harpies until Astolpho drove tried to ride off, the sun came up and a man who travelled to the Land them off. he was turned to stone. of Eternal Youth Senators of the Gods Italian Senjiu-Kannon (see Senjiu Kwannon) When Sentaro prayed at the shrine of a group of great gods Senjiu Kwannon Japanese Jofuku, he received a small crane made Senboth Irish [Senj(i)u-Kannon] of paper which turned into a real bird a chieftain a name of Kwannon as ‘the that carried him to the land where all He acted as adviser to Partholan. thousand-handed one’ the inhabitants, blessed (or cursed) Sencha Irish In this version, she is depicted as having with eternal life, longed for death. a warrior at the court of Conor mac forty rather than a thousand hands, When he returned to his home, he Nessa each of which holds some object. found that he had been away for He fought alongside Conary at the Senju-Kannon (see Senjiu Kwannon) 300 years. siege of Da Derga’s hostel and was one Senkyo1 Japanese Sentraille du Lushon British of the few to escape. one of a race with a hole right a knight, attendant on Tristram Sencha mac Ailella Irish through the chest He helped Tristram to escape from the a judge and poet A senkyo who was tired or ill could be prison into which he had been thrown He was a tutor of the young Cuchulainn. carried by two others on a pole by Andred. Senchan (see Seanchan) through the hole in his chest. Senx North American Sen’dah North American Senkyo2 Japanese [Our Father.Sacred One.Sonx] [Sen’dah Old Man] a paradisal realm, home of the sennin, a sun-god of the Bella Coola Indians a trickster-god of the Kiowa on Cosmic Mountain of Canada Sen’dah Old Man (see Sen’dah) Senmag Irish Seoritsu-hime Japanese Sendai Kuji Hongi Japanese [The Old Plain] a water-goddess living in rapids a (probably) 9th C record of the early the plain where the Partholanians Sep (see Sept) ages of the gods, etc., in ten parts buried their dead Sepa (see Sept) sending (see ) senmerv Persian Separ (see Vepar) Sengalang Burong East Indian [samurv.senmurv.seymorg] Separate Heavenly Deities Japanese a bird-god of the Iban tribe of Borneo a fabulous bird [] He was the grandfather of Surong This enemy of snakes was said to be the 5 primordial gods of the Shinto Gunting and instructed him in the part bird, part mammal. pantheon rituals of the birds. (see also simurgh) These five gods, from whom all other In some accounts, he is described as senmurv (see senmerv) deities are said to be descended, are a war-god appearing in the form of Sennan Holy Well British Amanominakamushi, Amanotokotachi, a hornbill. a site where King Arthur and the , Takamimusubi and Sengann Irish kings of Cornwall gave thanks Umashiashikabihikoji. son of Dela after they had defeated the Danes Sepd Egyptian leader of the invading Fir Bolg at Vellendrucher a form of Bes as a handsome, He and his brother Gann shared the sennin Japanese lion-faced man (see also Sept(u)) province of Munster. a recluse Sepi Malosi Pacific Islands Sengen Japanese These beings appear as humans but [Sepo Malosi] [Asama.Blossom Princess.Child-Flower. they are in fact immortal. They are a Samoan war-god Fuji-hime.Ko-no-hana. said to be skilled magicians, able to This deity took the form of a bat and Kono-hana-sakuya-hime.Sakuya] perform miracles such as producing an indicated victory by flying in front of goddess of image of themselves from the mouth, the eventual winners. guardian of the cherry and walking on water and flying through (see also Taisumale) plum blossom the air. Sepo Malosi (see Sepi Malosi) daughter of Oho-yama Their home, the Cosmic Mountain, Sepset Egyptian sister of Iha-Naga is said to be supported by a turtle. a goddess of the underworld wife of Ninigi Senotlke North American She is present when the hearts of the mother of Fire Fade and Fire Flash a serpent-like monster, in the lore of dead are weighed. She married Ninigi but left him when the tribes of the northwest Sept Egyptian he became jealous, immolating herself sensum (see ntoro) [Sep] by setting fire to the wooden hut she Senta Norse the god of Sirius, the Dog-star lived in, after giving birth to three daughter of Daland (see also Sepd) sons. She loved the Flying Dutchman and Septentrio (see Aquilo)

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Septentronial Signs Set

Septentronial Signs Seri Mesopotamian father of Tullia the first 6 signs of the Zodiac a bull He was said to have been born when Septu (see Bes.Sepd) This beast, together with Hurri, was a his mother mated with Vulcan in the Sequana Celtic companion of Ishkur form of a phantom phallus rising from [Sequena] Seri Turi Malay the fire. a river-goddess of the Seine the name taken by Nila Utama when He was reared by Tarquin and his and goddess of healing in he became the first ruler of Singapore queen, Tanaquil, and married their Gaul Serida Mesopotamian daughter, becoming king when Sequena (see Sequana) [=Babylonian A-a] Tarquin was assassinated. Sequence British a Sumerian mother-goddess His daughter plotted with Tarquinius one of King Arthur’s swords Serim Semitic Superbus to kill her Arruns, her Seqinek North American [Sahirim.se’irim] husband. She then married Tarquinius an Inuit sun-spirit mythical hairy, goat-like beings who had Servius assassinated so that Ser-thup Buddhist living in desert areas: satyrs he could take the throne himself. the Tibetan version of Kanakamuni Serimnir (see Saehrimnir) A similar story of the phantom Sera Irish Serket (see Selket) phallus in the flames is told of the father of Agnoman, Partholan Serket-hetu (see Serket-hetyt) daughter of Tarchetius, mother, in that and Starn Serket-hetyt Egyptian account, of Romulus and Remus. Some versions have Sera, not Partholan, [Serket(-hetu)] In some accounts, he is identified as the husband of Dealgnaid. a name for Selket as controller of with Mastarna. Serapati East Indian breath Sesa (see Ananta.Basuki) a Javanese prince Serosevsky Russian Sesame (see Open Sesame) When an enemy force was poised to a spirit of the forest Sesanaga (see Ananta) attack, Serapati prayed to the sea- This being, which leads travellers astray, Sesat (see Sefkhet-Awby) goddess who sent a shower of rocks to can appear as an animal or a human Sese African disperse the enemy. being. an earth-god(dess) of the Ngbandi Serapeum Egyptian serou Tibetan people a temple of Serapis in Alexandria: [kee.tso’po] Sesemu (see Sezmu) a burial place for the Apis bulls the unicorn Seset (see Sefkhet-Awby) Seraph1 British serpent (see snake) Sesha (see Ananta.Basuki) [Seraphe] serpent-god Seshanaga (see Ananta.Basuki) the original name of Nascien a deified snake Seshat (see Sefkhet-Awby) seraph2 serpent-goddess seshaw Egyptian a flying serpent a deified snake magic rituals Seraphe (see Seraph1) Serpent of the Obsidian Knives Seshet (see Sefkhet-Awby) Seraphis (see Serapis) Central American Sesheta (see Sefkhet-Awby) Serapion an Aztec symbol of sacrifice Sesmu (see Sezmu) one of the Seven Sleepers He was originally regarded as one of Sesotris Egyptian Serapis1 Egyptian the four giants supporting the sky at a mythical king said to have [Asar-Hap(i).Osirap.Sarapis. the beginning of the Fifth Sun. conquered much of Africa Seraphis.Usar-Api(s).Usar-Hapi] Serpent of the Sea (see Koloowise) and Asia a god of the underworld Serpent of Wisdom (see Python2) Sesshiu Japanese the Greek version of Osir-Apis, the Serpent Skirt (see Coatlantona) an artist combination of Osiris and Apis Serpent-stone (see Copacati) At a very early age he was tied up in a consort of Isis Serpent Woman (see Cihuacoatl) temple for some misdemeanour and, Serapis was the state god during the Serqet (see Selket) using his tears for ink, and his toe for a Greek occupation. Serquet (see Selket) brush, painted rats on the floor. These He is depicted as having curly hair serra animals came to life and freed the boy and beard, sometimes with a dog at a griffin-like monster, said to breathe by gnawing through his bonds. his feet, or as a bearded, human-headed fire Sessrumnir (see Sessrymnir) serpent. In some accounts, this beast has the Sessrymnir Norse Serapis2 Greek head of a lion and the tail of a fox. [Sessrumnir.Sessymir] [=Egyptian Apis.Osiris] Seru North American the palace of Freya in Folkvang a god of the underworld, healer of the a corn-spirit of the Cherokee It was to this palace that Freya took sick wife of Kanati her share of the warriors slain in battle. Seratiel mother of Wild Boy Sessymir (see Sessrymnir) a demon, ruler of the sign Leo, Servage (see Isle of Servage) Set Egyptian the lion (see also Verchiel) Servant Rupert (see Knecht Ruprecht) [Ekhi.Iahu.Ombos.Seth(i).Seti.Sit.Sut: Serbonian Bog Greek Servius Tullius Roman =Arab Shayth:=Canaanite Baal: a morass at the mouth of the Nile, the sixth king of Rome =Greek Bapho.Typhon:=Mesopotamian home of Typhon son of Ocresia Setekh.Setes(h).Sutekh.Sutesh.Suty]

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animal-headed god of darkness, Originally a guardian spirit, this being Thebans, all of whom he killed. sky-god and storm-god was downgraded. Each of them took station opposite son of Geb and Nut or Ra and It is envisaged as a boy with claws one of the seven gates of the city with Nut instead of nails, inhabiting sheep Adrastus facing Megareus (the Neistan brother of Isis, Nephthys and pens. Gate), Amphiarus facing Lasthenes Osiris Setekh (see Sutekh) (the Homoloid Gate), Capaneus facing husband of Nepthys seterty (see adykh) Polyphontes (the Electrian Gate), When Geb abdicated, he divided the Setes (see Sutekh) Hippomedon facing Hyperbius (the kingdom leaving the south to Set. Set Setesh (see Sutakh) Oncaean Gate), Parthenopaeus facing wanted the whole of the kingdom so, Setesuyara Pacific Islands Actor (the Borrhaean Gate), Polyneices in an attempt to get the north as well, a Bali goddess of the underworld facing Eteocles (the Hypsistian Gate) he put his brother Osiris in a box and She was said to rule jointly with Batara and Tydeus facing Melanippe (the threw it into the Nile. When Isis Kala. Proetid Gate). The twin brothers tried recovered the body, Set cut it into Seth1 Irish to settle the issue in face-to-face fourteen pieces and threw them back son of Adam and Eve combat but each killed the other. into the river. Isis recovered and Irish lore says that Seth and the three In some accounts, Eteoclus is given reassembled the pieces, restoring her daughters of Cain were the first people in place of Adrastus and Mecisteus in husband to life, but he went off to rule to come to Ireland. place of Polyneices. Of the seven, only in the underworld, leaving the Seth2 (see Set) Adrastus survived the battle which northern kingdom to Horus. Sethi (see Set) ended in the defeat of the Argives. Set later fought a battle with Horus Sethlans Roman Creon, who took over Thebes, for the whole kingdom. Set was [Sethlaus:=Greek Hephaestus: refused to allow the Argives to collect castrated but, in the form of a pig, put =Roman Vulcan] the bodies of the dead for burial causing out one of Horus’ eyes. In another an Italian smith-god grave offence. Adastrus reported this to version, he gouged out both the eyes Sethlaus (see Sethlans) Theseus who marched on Thebes, and buried them. Lotus blossom Seti (see Set) captured Creon and returned the dead sprouted from the ground where the Setna Egyptian to the families. The sons of the seven eyes were buried and Horus had his a sorcerer-prince champions, known as the Epigoni, sight restored by the gods. In the end, a priest of Ptah later avenged the death of their fathers the case was put to the gods for a father of Siosire when they attacked Thebes ten years decision and Horus won. Set was then Setsubun Japanese later. transferred either to the heavens as a a festival, held on 3rd February, in Seven against Thebes Greek storm-god or the Great Bear or to the which the individual’s fortune for a play by Aeschylus desert as a war-god. the coming year is fixed Seven Ancient Elders Mesopotamian He was one of the gods protecting Settaboth South American Babylonian sages Ra in his nightly journey through a Patagonian deity (see also Setebos) These sages, who took the form of the underworld and once saved Ra Settin-ki-jash North American birds or fish, were said to have written when the serpent Apophis was about a supreme deity of the Haida down the arts of magic and divination. to swallow him. He owned the moon and the sun but Seven Brahma-rishis He is sometimes depicted as a boar they were taken from him by Ne-kilst- (see Seven Rishis) or as part ass, part pig, but, having luss who deceived him into handing Seven Caves, The (see Tulkan-Zuiva) been born prematurely and shapeless, he them over. Seven Chaban Central American can take many different animal shapes. Setu-Bandha (see Adam’s Bridge) the seventh of the 20 days of the In some accounts he is equated Sevain (see Sanam) Mayan creation cycle with Sebek (see also Bebon.Nuoni. Seven against Thebes Greek On this day the earth itself was created. Typhonian Beast) 7 champions who marched (see also Chaban) Seta African against Thebes Seven Champions a fertility-goddess of East Africa Polyneices had been banished from seven national saints consort of Tororut Thebes by his twin Eteocles with These are listed as: mother of Arawa, Ilat and Topoh whom he should have shared the (1) St Andrew (Scotland), said to Setanta Irish throne and Tydeus had been banished have lived for seven years as a swan [Sedanta] from Calydon. King Adrastus of (2) St Anthony (Italy) who used the original name of Cuchulainn Argos married his daughter Aegia water from an enchanted fountain Setebos English to Polyneices and his other daughter, to perform miracles [Settaboth] Deiplya, to Tydeus, promising to (3) St David (Wales) who was a an evil spirit in Shakespeare, restore both to their rightful king- prisoner in an enchanted garden based on Settaboth doms. He assembled a force led by the for seven years Setek European Seven to attack Thebes first. Tydeus (4) St Denis (France) who lived for [Sotek:=Czech Dedek: tried to settle the matter by seven years as a deer =Russian Dedushka ] negotiation but failed and was (5) St George (England) who was a in Slovenia, a ambushed on his way back by fifty prisoner of the king of Morocco

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Seven Flowers Seyon

(6) St James (Spain) who was struck , Vashishtha and Vishvamitra. Guardians of the Treasury, Elephants, dumb for seven years when he fell Yet another list gives ten, omitting Gemmeous Maidens, Gold Wheel, in love Vishvamitra and adding Atri, Kratu, Horses, Military Governors and Pearl. (7) St Patrick (Ireland) who dug his Pulaha and Pulastya. (see also Seven Gems) own grave with his hands when he Some accounts list fourteen: Seven Wise Masters Persian was locked in a cell Angiras, Atri, Bharadwaja, Brighu, sages who instructed Prince Lucien Seven Flowers (see Chicomexochtli) Daksha, Gorama, Jamad-agni, Kashyapa, When the prince, who had been Seven Gems Buddhist Kratu, Marichi, Pulaha, Pulastra, warned that he would die if he spoke symbols used in Chinese Buddhism Vashishtha and Vishvamitra. within seven days of returning to as These personages are often referred court, was accused of rape by a female These seven objects are given as the to as the Prajapati. (see also rishi) at the court, the Wise Masters told image of Chu Ts’ang, the image of Seven Sages, The1 British contrary tales which postponed his Chu Ping Ch’en, the image of Yü Nü, advisers to the Roman emperor execution day by day until he was able Ma the steed of the sun, Hsiang the One such group was killed by to speak and refute the charge. elephant, Chin Lun the Wheel of Herowdes, on the advice of , to Seven Wise Ones Egyptian Victory, and Ju’i Chu a pearl. cure the emperor’s blindness. deities created in the form of hawks (see also Seven Treasures) Seven Sages, The2 Greek by Mehet-Weret to help to create Seven Gods of Happiness 7 wise men of ancient Greece the world (see Ch’i-fu-shen) They are given as Bias, Chilon, Sevenfold Buddha Buddhist Seven Gods of Luck Cleobulus, Periander (or Epimenides), a group of 7 Buddhas (see Shichi Fukojin) Pittacus, Solon and Thales. This group comprises Lokesvara and Seven Hathors, The Egyptian Seven Sages, The3 Malay Vajrapani plus the five Dhyanibuddhas deities of fate seers at the court of the king (Akshobhya, Amitabha, Amoghasiddhi, 7 aspects of Hathor Seven Sages, The4 Ratnasambhara and Vairocana). These were seven maidens, attendants (see Apkallu.Seven Rishis) Seventh Heaven Hebrew of the souls of new-born babies. They Seven Seers, The (see Seven Rishis) the highest, hence the happiest, of the were later identified with the Pleiades. Seven-serpent (see Chicomecohuatl) 7 heavens postulated in the secret (see also Mothers2) Seven Sisters1 Australian lore of the rabbis Seven Judges (see Anunnaki2) [Kungarankalpa] Severa (see Sevira) Seven Kings of Cornwall British ancestral heroines of the Aborigines Severin (see Sevinus) those rulers who joined forces with To escape the attentions of Nyiru, the Sevinus European King Arthur to defeat the Danes sisters left their home and travelled [Severin] at Velendrucher south until they reached the coast. duke of Bordeaux Seven League Boots British Here they entered the sea and then brother of Eudes a pair of boots, made by Merlin, which ascended into the sky as the Pleiades. husband of Alice enabled the wearer to cover about Seven Sisters2 (see Pleiades) father of Girard and Huon 20 miles at each stride Seven Sleepers, The He was killed in battle, and his servant, Seven Macaw (see Vucub Caquix) [The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus] Sherasmin, was taken prisoner, by Seven Precious Stones Malay 7 Christians who were persecuted the Saracens. jewels held by the Seven Sages They were said to have been holed up Sevira British These jewels were used to predict the in a cave on Mount Celion for 200 [Severa] future and one of them, the moon- years until 497. They fell asleep, daughter of Macsen and Elen stone, was said to display portraits of awaiting the Resurrection. Their names first wife of the king’s enemies. are given as Constantius, Dionysius, mother of Vortimer Seven Rishis, The Hindu Joannes, Malchus, Martinianus, Sewingshields British [ Putra.Manasaputra.Prajapati. Maximianus and Serapion. a site in Northumberland where King Seven Brahma Rishis.Seven Sages. Seven Snakes (see Chicomecohuatl) Arthur and his knights are said to Seven Seers.Saptarshi] Seven Stars Mother Chinese be sleeping wise men, created from the brain a goddess of the constellation In this case, a horn had to be blown of Brahma Ursa Major and a garter severed with a sword to They are listed as Atri, Bharadwaja, Seven Stars of the North Korean waken the sleeping warriors. Gotama, Jamad-agni, Kashyapa, the Korean version of the Other sites suggested are Alderley Vashishtha and Vishwamitra. Vishnu, constellation Ursa Major Edge, Cadbury, Craig-y-Dinas, Mount in his sixth avatar as Parasurama, It is said that these stars are seven Etna, Ogof Lanciau Eryri, Ogo’r delivered the world into their hands brothers who were exceptionally good Dinas and Richmond Castle. and they now appear in the sky as the to their widowed mother and were set Sextus Tarquinius seven stars of the Plough constellation. in the heavens as a reward. (see Tarquinius Sextus) Another list gives Agastya, Angiras, Seven Treasures of Buddhism seymorg (see senmerv) Atri, Bhrigu, Kashyapa, Vashishtha and [=Hindu Sapta Ratna] Chinese Seyon Hindu Vishvamitra while another lists revered objects of a universal sovereign [Ceyon.Muruga(n).Murukan: Angiras, Brighu, Daksha, Kashyapa, These objects are listed as Divine =Hindu Skanda]

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Sezarbil Shahapet

a Tamil creator-god are regarded as the progenitors of all consorts who had had relations with son of Korrawi living things. Agni, and twelve arms. This deity is regarded as a hunter and In some accounts, this is the Shaddad Arab is depicted riding an elephant. He Tibetan name for the goddess Tara or [Shadadi] holds a spear and a garland of flowers. the Buddha’s mother, Maya. husband of Zabiba Sezarbil sGun-gi-rgyal-po Buddhist father of Antara a demon [Sung-gi-gval-po] He conquered the Sudan and married Sezmu Egyptian one of the Panchamaharajas Zabiba after freeing her from captivity. [Ses(e)mu.Sezumu] king of speech He robbed his subjects and used his a god of wine and unguents He is depicted riding a blue mule. ill-gotten wealth to build the fabulous Sezumu (see Sezmu) Sha Ho-shang Chinese city of Iram. Sforza European a priest Shaddanta Buddhist brother of Achilles of Lombardy He was originally a minister at the a royal elephant and Palamedes court of the Jade Emperor but was sent This beast had six tusks and a white He was a soldier in the army of to earth in the form of a man-eating body with a red head and feet. Godfrey at the siege of Jerusalem. monster when he broke a crystal bowl. A jealous queen persuaded a Sga’na North American When Kuan Yin lifted the punishment minister to kill the elephant and bring [Masset San] placed on him, he mended his ways her a pair of its tusks. The hunter’s a sea-god of the Haida Indians and was one of those who accompanied saw would not penetrate the tusks so He is envisaged as a killer whale. Tripitaka on his journey to India to Shaddanta pulled them out himself. Sgathach Irish learn the Buddhist doctrines. The queen, overcome with grief [Scathach] He is depicted wearing a necklace when she was given the tusks, died daughter of Eannna of skulls. that day. Her parents proposed to give her to Sha-lana North American Shaddanta-Jataka Buddhist Finn mac Cool for one year but, using a sky-god of the Haida Indians the story of the elephant Shaddanta a magic harp, she transported Finn and He was the ruler of a kingdom in the Shadday (see Shaddai) his men far away from the house while sky above the primordial waters. He shade they were asleep. threw his servant, Raven, out of the [shadow] sGeg-mo-ma Buddhist sky and the bird created the world a disembodied soul: a spirit: the Tibetan version of Lasya and mankind. a ghost Sgeimh Solais Irish Sha Shen Chinese shaden Japanese [Light of Beauty] son of Tou-shen shrine(s) or shrine hall(s) daughter of Cairbre brother of Chen Shen, Ma Shen shadow (see shade) She married the son of a Desi chieftain, and P’an Shen Shadowland North American precipitating a conflict between her He helps those who suffer from the Algonquian land of the dead father, the high-king, and the Fianna. scarlet fever. Shadrapi Mesopotamian Sgeolan (see Sceolan) Shabaqo Stone Egyptian a Phoenician god of healing Sgilti Welsh a tablet engraved with the story of Shafan (see Xaphan) [Lightfoot:=Irish Cailte] creation as told by Ptah Shaggy Beast French a warrior at King Arthur’s court shabah Muslim a monster with a green body and He could run on the tops of trees and earth-bound spirits the head of a snake on the tips of reeds without so much as Shabbathai (see Solday) This monster breathed fire which bending them and was one of the party Shabiri destroyed the crops and could shoot which accompanied in his a demon said to cause blindness in darts from the fur on its body which quest for the hand of . those who drink the water he lives in were fatal to humans. When it seized a sGra-c’an-dsin Buddhist shabti Egyptian young maiden, her lover cut off its tail [Da-chen-dsin] [shawabti.ushabti.ushebti(u)] and it died. the Tibetan version of Rahula a funerary figure in the form of a Shah Name Persian sGrol-’bum Buddhist mummy which was said to do [Book of Kings.Shah Nameh. the Tibetan name for Virudhaka as menial work for the deceased in Shahnama(h)] king of the Khumbandas the after life a 10th C book (120,000 lines) sGrol-dkar Buddhist Shacabac (see Schacabac) This work, written by Firdausi, is a the Tibetan name for White Tara Shachar Canaanite mythological history which includes sGrol-Ilang Buddhist a goddess of the dawn the exploits of the heroes Alexander the Tibetan name for Green Tara Shachipati Hindu the Great, Gayomart, Hoshang, (see also Syamatara) a name for Indra as ‘mighty lord’ Rustem and Tahmurath and the kings sGrol-ma Buddhist Shadadi (see Shadad) of the Kayanian dynasty. [Dolma] Shadanana-Subrahmanya Hindu Shah Nameh (see Shah Name) a Tibetan earth-goddess a form of Karttikeya Shahan (see Sherah) consort of sPyan-ras-gzigs In this form, the god had six heads so Shahapet Armenian This rock giantess and sPyan-ras-gzigs that he could be suckled by the six [Shvaz.Shvod]

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Shahar shaman

a spirit, ruler of the land Shakra1 Buddhist son of Suddhodana and Maya He can appear either as a man or as [Sakra:=Hindu Indra] husband of Yashodara a serpent. a god of the calendar father of Rahula Shahar (see Sahar) He helped the Buddha to In this form, he is revered in Zen Shahrevar (see Kshathra Varya) perform miracles. Buddhism and is regarded as one of Shahrijah Persian When intervention in human the seven manushibuddhas. [Shahryar] affairs is required, his throne becomes He is said to have given parts of his a sultan in The Arabian Nights very hot. body to save threatened animals and He had killed each of his many Shakra2 Hindu birds and to have given one of his eyes wives on their wedding night but the third eye of Shiva, in the centre of to a blind man. Some say that, in Scheherazade managed to avoid this his forehead various incarnations, he appeared four fate by telling him a story each night. Shakra3 Hindu times as a horse, six as an elephant and Shahryar (see Sharijah) a name for Indra as ‘powerful’ ten as a deer. Shai Egyptian Shakra4 Hindu He is depicted sitting on a lotus a god of fate the owl, a bird sacred to Indra with his right hand raised, though husband of Meshkenit shakta Hindu sometimes he is seen holding the He was depicted as a man, a goat or one who worships a skakti shuttle of a loom. When regarded as a snake. Shaktar Hindu female, ‘he’ is the fertility goddess, Shaibya Hindu the king Kalmashapada in the form of depicted holding a grain of rice and a a devoted wife a man-eating demon pot. Some images include Ananda and Her husband, being a sinner, went (see Kalmashapada) Kashyapa on his right and left through many incarnations as a bird shakti1 Hindu respectively. (see also Shenrab Miwo) or an animal before he was born again [=East Indies kesakten] Shakyasinha Buddhist as a man. Shaibya, who lived through the female aspect of a deity [Sakyasinha] all these generations, recognised him Shakti2 Hindu a name for the Buddha as ‘lion’ and they were made man and wife [Sakti.Sekti:=Cambodian Bentei Srei] Shala Canaanite again. the female aspect of Shiva: a name for a storm-goddess Shait Egyptian Devi or Sati as consort of Shiva Shalakapurusha Jain a goddess of destiny Shakti3 Hindu a spiritual leader shaitan Arab [Sakti.Sekti] It is said that sixty-three such leaders [abilii.sha(y)tan.she(i)tan.sheytan: a name for Durga, , Parvati or Uma appear during each of the earthly plur=shayatin:=Hebrew Satan] Shaktiman Hindu periods. They will include nine groups an evil spirit; a devil: one of the forms an epithet for Shiva as ‘he who of three, each comprised of a Baladeva, of the has power’ a Pratisvasudeva and a Vasudeva. These beings sometimes appear as Shakuntala Hindu Shalako North American snakes which can enter a mortal’s body. [Sakuntala] [=Zuni Niman] Shaka Japanese a moon-goddess a Zuni festival [Shaka Muni.Shaka-Nyorai] daughter of Vishvamitra and Menaka This festival, which lasts for nine days the Japanese version of Shakyamuni wife of King Dushyanta in July, celebrates the return of the Shaka Muni (see Shakyamuni) mother of the Bharatas spirits to their underground home in Shaka-nyorai (see Shaka) She was abandoned by her parents and Shipap where they will remain until Shakan (see Shakkan) was reared by the hermit Kanwa. winter returns. Shakanli North American She and her husband separated but, Shalem (see Salem) a serpent-like monster of when their son, Bharata, was born, she Shalim Canaanite the Choctaws set out to find his father. The ring by a goddess of dusk Shakara Japanese which she would be recognised was Shalott British a guardian deity lost when she was bathing but was another name for Astolat, home of Elaine one of the 28 Nijuhachi-Bushu recovered from the belly of a fish and Shalya Hindu Shakini Hindu she was then reunited with the king. a king a demoness attendant on Durga Shakuru North American He fought on the side of the Kauravas Shakespeare, William English [Atius] against the Pandavas and was killed (1564-1616) a sun-god of the Pawnee tribe in battle. a poet and playwright Shakya Buddhist Shalyat Canaanite He wrote The Rape of Lucrece, Venus a name for the historical Buddha a seven-headed monster and Adonis, etc. Shakyamuni Buddhist This beast, in some accounts the same Shakkan Mesopotamian [Amoghasiddhi.Sakyamuni.Shaka (Muni): as Lotan, was killed by Anat. [Shakan] =Chinese Shih-chia(-mu-ni):=Japanese (see also Lotan) an Akkadian god of animals Shaka(-nyorai):=Korean Sokka] shaman Asian In some accounts, he was said to have a name of Buddha as ‘the silent sage’, [chaman:female=shamanka] married his sister, Tiamat. one of the 5 Dhyanibodhisattvas, in a sacred person: a magician-priest or Shakpono (see Obaluwaye) some accounts -doctor

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Shamanism Shankpanna

Shamanism Asian Shamkara (see Shankara) a brass palace and owned a huge a religion largely based on magic, Shams (see Sams) herd of horses. He was said to sorcery and spirit-worship Shamshiel Hebrew breathe flames. shamanka Asian a prince of paradise He hanged himself to escape his [shemanka:male=shaman] Shamshu (see Shams) enemies and was deified. In some a female witch-doctor Shamur (see .Mount Samur) stories he climbed a golden chain to get Shamas (see Samas) Shan Hai Ching Chinese to heaven and became a thunder-god. Shamash (see Samas) [Book of Mountains and Seas] He is depicted with the head of Shamba1 African a book of mythology a ram. (see also Yansan) a cultural hero of the Bushongo shan-hui Chinese Shango2 West Indian He travelled widely and learned many a human-faced dog a Haitian voodoo spirit derived from a skills which he passed on to his people. Shan Kuei Chinese Yoruba god of the same name Shamba2 Hindu a mountain-god Shani Hindu [Samba:=Tamil Sama] Shan-ts’ai Tung-tzu Chinese [Manda.Sani] an incarnation of Vishnu a male attendant on Kuan Yin a god of ill-fortune son of Krishna and Shanama (see Shah Name) son of Surya and or of brother of Kama Shanamah (see Shah Name) Balarama and Revati consort of Indukari Shanewis North American brother of Savarni Brahmins whom he had mocked laid a an Iroquois woman He is regarded as the planet Saturn curse on Shamba saying that he would wife of Nekumonta personified. give birth to an iron club which would She was saved from dying of the In one account, it was his fierce gaze be the cause of his father’s death. plague by the water brought by that burned the head off the infant When this weapon eventually Nekumonta who had been told in a which Parvati (or Vishnu) appeared, Shamba smashed it and dream where to find the underground replaced with the head of an elephant. threw the pieces into the sea. His waters which, when released, formed a He is depicted as black-skinned and father died from a wound inflicted by healing spring. riding a vulture or a raven. an iron arrowhead and it turned out Shang Ch’ing Shanka-Sura Hindu that this had been made from one of (see Higher Azure Palace) in some accounts, a demon killed the pieces of the broken club Shang-lha Tibetan by Krishna recovered from the belly of a fish. a local god of good fortune Shankapala (see Shankha3) Shamba was captured by Shang-t’ai (see Ssu Ming) Shankara Hindu Duryodhana in the war with the Shang-te (see Shang Ti) [Sankara.Shamkara] Pandavas and was kept in prison until Shang Ti Chinese a manifestation of Bhairava: a name Balarama secured his release when he [Celestial Emperor.Lord of Heaven.Lord for Shiva as ‘the auspicious one’, demolished the walls of the city by on High.Shang-te.Yü Huang] ‘peace’ or ‘healer’ ploughing beneath them. a creator-god and sky-god Shankari Hindu Another story says that, for some He is regarded as a celestial emperor [Sankari] slight to the sage Durvasas, he was with his own court and ministers like a mother-goddess cursed with leprosy but was cured by the earthly institutions. one of the saptamataras Surya to whom Shamba built a temple. He allocated the planet Jupiter to Shankha1 Buddhist Shambhala Tibetan Chuang-tzu after it was vacated by the just king who will rule the earth at a land in the north, home of Mao Meng. the time of the coming of Maitreya spiritual wisdom In some accounts, he is equated shankha2 Hindu Shambhara Hindu with Yü Huang. [sankha] [Dasyu.Sambara] (see also Sheng Ti.Ti.T’ien) the horn of victory a demon of drought, one of the Shang-ti Yeh Chinese This was a conch-shell, one of the This demon carried off Krishna’s son, [= Taiwanese Pak Tai] attributes of Vishnu, which was the Pradyumna, and threw him into the a Taoist war-god twelfth object to be created at the sea where he was swallowed by a fish. shang-yang Chinese Churning of the Ocean. This fish was caught and given to a one-legged bird which was said Shankha3 Hindu Shambhara’s queen, Mahadar, who cut to cause rain [S(h)anka(pala)] it open and released the boy. Shango1 African a snake-god Shambhu (see Rudra) [Sango:=Cuban Santa Barbara: on of the mahanagas Shamhat Mesopotamian =Egyptian Amon-Ra] shankhapadua Buddhist [Ukhat] a thunder-god, war-god and god of a trumpet made from a thigh-bone, the prostitute who tamed the wild justice of the Yoruba used in ceremonial rites man, Enkidu (see also Samkhat) son of Aganju and Yemoja Shankpana African shamil Hebrew son of Ogun, some say [Sankpana.Shankpanna] a worm said to be able to split rocks consort of Oba, Oshun and Oya son of Shango The whereabouts of this creature was father of Shankpana a plague-god of the Yoruba known to the demon Asmodeus. He was a king of Oyo who lived in Shankpanna (see Shankpana)

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Shanta Sharvan

Shanta Hindu Sharabangha Hindu Sharfenebbe European daughter of Dasha-ratha a hermit a female crow wife of Risha-Shringa When his great desire to meet a god mate of Merkinau She was adopted by the king, was granted as a reward for his pious She was killed by Reynard the Fox. Lomopada, and married Risha Shringa, life, he burnt himself to death and Shargaz (see Sarur) a youth born of a doe. went to heaven. Sharin (see Sharatz) Shantanu Hindu sharada Hindu Shariputra Buddhist [Santanu] the lute, symbol of Sarasvati [Sariputra.Upatissa:=Pali Saripitta] a king Sharama1 Hindu an early disciple of the Buddha half-brother of Vyasa [Sarama] He turned himself into a garuda to husband of Ganga and Satyavati a divine bitch defeat the heretic Agnidatta who had father of Bhishma by Ganga When some Panis stole some of assumed the form of a serpent with father of Vichitravirya Indra’s cattle, he created this animal to many heads. His first wife, Ganga, bore him eight retrieve them. Instead, the dog was sharira Buddhist sons and then reverted to her normal given some milk by the Panis and a substance found in the cremation form as the river Ganges. reported that she could not find the ashes of saints He said he would marry the young cattle so Indra had to retrieve them This material, in the form of pellets, Satyavati on condition that any son of himself, killing the Panis in the is said to be indestructible. the union should inherit the throne process. Sharis Mesopotamian instead of Bhishma, one of his sons by Sharama2 Hindu [=Akkadian Ishtar] Ganga. Bhishma renounced his claim [Sarama] a Urartian goddess to the throne and the marriage went a dawn-goddess Sharmas (see Sarruma) ahead, producing two sons, both of mother of Sharamaya Sharo (see Sharatz) whom died childless. In some accounts an attendant on Sharpbeak European Shanti Hindu Indra but in others referred to as a female rook in Reynard the Fox a goddess of peace a dog. consort of Corbant Shanti-Niketa Hindu Sharamaya Hindu She was killed and eaten by Reynard. the heaven of Shanti, goddess of peace a god of the air Sharpfe German shao hui t’un fu Chinese offspring of Sharama son of Etzel [swallow-ashes charm] In some accounts the Sharamayas are brother of Orte incantations to ward off demons two dogs guarding the underworld. He and his brother, together with These incantations, written on paper, sharanga (see peacock3) Dietrich’s youngest brother, Diether, are burned and ground to ashes which Sharanyu Hindu accompanied Dietrich von Bern on are then swallowed. [Sanjna.Saranyu.Savarna] one of his forays against Ermenrich. Shapash (see Sapas) a primaeval goddess and sun- Left in charge of Elsan, they were shape goddess allowed to go riding and all three were a spirit or apparition daughter of Tvashtri killed by the traitor, Wittich. shape-changer mother by Vivasvat of the Aswins, Sharrumas (see Sarruma) a being made from fire and air, Yama and Yami Sharuk (see Ninurta.Sarur) capable of assuming any form, mother by Indra of the minor gods, Sharuma (see Sarruma) including that of a human, and of the Ribhus Sharur (see Sarur) mating with mortals The Vedic version of Sanjna. Sharvan Irish Shar Mesopotamian Sharatz Serbian [Lochlannach.Searbhan.Sharvan [(Ilu) Sar:=Babylonian Ansar] [Sharin.Sharo] the Surly] an early Syrian god of the dawn the horse of Marko a one-eyed giant the god Ansar as the Pole Star This piebald animal was given to A magic quicken berry, dropped by Shar Apsi Mesopotamian Marko by a veela or, in some stories, one of the Danaans, grew into a tree a name for Ea as ‘ruler of the reared by Marko who bought him as in the Forest of Dooros and produced deep waters’ a foal afflicted with leprosy. Other many berries which could restore Shara Armenian versions say that it came as a reward youth to the aged. The Danaans a storm-demon for three years faithful service to his decided to send Sharvan to guard the son of Armais master. Marko always tested a horse by tree to ensure that no mortals ate any Sharabda Mesopotamian swinging it round by its tail but of the fruit. a Babylonian deity, Sharatz, though a young foal, could When Grania developed a hunger slander personified not be budged. for quicken berries, Dermot asked Sharabha Hindu The horse, which was said to Sharvan for permission to take some a huge monster breathe blue flame, lived with Marko for her. When the giant refused a form of Shiva for 160 years. Dermot killed him with three This beast is envisaged as having tusks Sharaw Mesopotamian blows of Sharvan’s own iron club, and claws and a body over 100 miles a Sumerian god of Umma which was the only way he could be long supported on eight legs. Sharazad (see Scheherazade) killed.

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