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Pan - Greek god, protector of goatherds and shepherds. Usually depicted as goat-like in appearance, Pan prances through the fertile countryside playing his seven-reed pipe in wild abandon. His piping can be as soft and seductive as the breeze, but when he’s angered, his bellow and howl can be heard for miles. He fought with the Olympians against the Titans of Kronos and for his terrifying war cry, his name is still associated with Panic fear. His lust for the nymphs, naiads and dryads is legendary. Corresponds to the Roman god, Fannus.

Paravati - Hindu Goddess of the Himalayas, a form of Devi. She is the shakti of Shiva, his energizing force. She is sometimes called the Love Goddess. As with other Indian goddesses, she has many names or is merged with other goddesses.

Pasowee - Native American (Kiowa) Goddess of Endurance. Name means "Buffalo Woman". Like the Buffalo she survives the long winter with patience, strength and bravery. Facing her fears and teachings with an open heart and mind. She uses all of her resources and has the ability to see through all cultural stereotypes and can remove all obstacles towards your goal. Associated with bald eagles and snakes.

Penates - A group of household Divinities, Guardians of a particular House and Family. They had special patronage over the hearth and kitchen, and the head of each household served as their priest.

Persephone - Greek goddess of springtime and, after her abduction by Hades, she became the queen of the underworld for six months of each year. The mint and pomegranate is sacred to her. She is the daughter of Demeter. Persephone raised Aphrodite's child Adonis. She was also known as Kore, "the Maiden". She symbolized the sprouting seeds of springtime. Associated with the dove. Corresponds with the Roman goddess Proserpina.

Perun - Pan-Slavonic God of lightning, thunder, storm and (probably) war, and one of the eight primary deities. He was patron of nobility and of armies. His sacred day is Thursday. He is lord of the mountains and the forest (his tree is the oak). He was represented as a man with silver hair and golden moustaches, armed with stones and arrows. His images were accompanied by eight eternal flames, bonfires or at least torches, as the case may be. Note a considerable number of parallels with the Norse Thor. In Christian times he became conflated with St. Ilya (Elias).

Pluto - Roman Deity, Lord of the Underworld and Ruler of the Dead. In many ways identical to Hades, Pluto also was wed to the daughter of the primary seasonal and agrarian Goddess (Proserpina, daughter of Ceres), a circumstance which causes blights the Earth with winter when He is attended by Her, and blesses the earth with spring when She once more visits Her Mother.

Porevit - West Slavonic God of the woods; he has no idol or image, but is considered to be manifest throughout the forest primeval. His sacred day is Tuesday. Among the Baltic Slavs (whose name for himwas Prove), especially in the area around Stargard, He was considered as one of the High Gods.

Poseidon - Greek god of the sea and earthquakes and giver of horses to man: Brother of Zeus and Hera. One of the original six Olympians. His symbol is the trident which he used to cause earthquakes. Commonly called "the earth shaker" and "the earth encircler". His kingdom is the vast sea which he has populated with creatures of his own design. He rides the waves in a chariot drawn by dolphins but, curiously enough, his most honored creation is the horse. Corresponds to the Roman god Neptune.

Prince Ivan - Not a divinity as such, but there are some echoes of a connection to Kupala. Ivan figures in a cycle of tales in several different versions, in which he inlists the aid of creatures he has formerly made a pact with in an initiatory gloss, to encompass the doom of Koshchei the Deathless and the rescue of his lady, Maria Morevna or Vasilisa the Wise, depending on the version. The mythological point to the tales seems to be the need to come to terms in a harmonious way with the natural world.

Proserpina - Roman goddess of springtime, the daughter of Ceres, who each year is raped and carried off by Pluto, God of the Underworld; this symbolizes the dying-down of the earth each fall and winter; and it is whom the Mother mourns, until her return each spring. Corresponds to the Greek goddess Persephone.

Pwyll - Prince of Dyfed (southwest Wales) who marries the Goddess Rhiannon and has a son Pryderi.

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