Dictionary Of God And Godedesses

Šulman(u) 295sources of irrigation canals, lakes and ponds.They are depicted as snakes, eels and fish andinvoked particularly by women. Chief amongthem is the goddess MIZU-HA-NO-ME.Sukarasya (face of a sow)Minor goddess. Buddhist.Sukla-TaraGoddess. Buddhist (Mahayana). Considered tobe an emanation of all the DHYANIBUDDHAS(meditation buddhas), but also regarded as beingindistinguishable from the “white Tara” (see alsoTARA). Color: white.Sukra (bright)Astral god. Hindu (Epic and Puranic). The personificationof the planet Venus and the tutor ofthe demons. He may, on occasion, be representedas female, owing to the fact that he was once madeto swallow his attendant Kaca and then restorehim to life. Color: white. Rides in a golden or silverchariot drawn by eight or ten horses. Attributes:book, prayer wheel, purse, staff, treasure andwaterjar.Suksma (very small)Minor deity. Hindu (Epic and Puranic). One of agroup of emancipated VIDYESVARAS (lords ofknowledge) considered to be aspects of ŠIVA.Attributes: hatchet and trident.SukuCreator god. Ovimbundu [central Angola, WestAfrica]. He created the sky, the rivers and mountains,and the people on earth.Sukuna-HikonaGod of healing. Shinto [Japan]. With the godO-KUNI-NUSHI-NO-MIKOTO, he established thevarious methods of healing diseases and the meansfor control of, and protection against, wild beasts,snakes, insects, etc. He is also worshiped as a tutelarygod of traders, both maritime and on land. Heis the KAMI of communications and, during theJapanese Empire period, was often installed by theauthorities in the temples and shrines of conqueredlands. He is worshiped in Buddhism asYakushi-Bosatsu-Hyojin.SuleviaeGoddesses of passage. Romano-Celtic (Gallic).Collective name for female deities associated withcrossroads.SuliniMinor goddess. Hindu. Of terrible appearance.Animal: lion. Attribute: trident.SulisChthonic underworld goddess. Romano-Celtic.Also a deity concerned with knowledge andprophecy. The tutelary goddess of the thermalwaters at Bath, England, she is closely linked withthe Roman goddess MINERVA.ŠullatMinor god. Mesopotamian (Babylonian-Akkadian). An attendant of the sun god ŠAMAŠ.Šulman(u)Chthonic and fertility deity. Mesopotamian(Babylonian-Akkadian) and western Semitic. Also