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It is possible that she is a later version of an ancient earth-goddess, as the name, which means ‘she who gives all’ or ‘she who is rich in gifts’ has been applied to such a goddess also. Panku
Greek word pan meaning ‘all’, which would elevate Pan to the status of an omnipotent or all-embracing deity. His counterpart among the Roman gods was → Faunus. In late medieval speculation he was seen simply as the devil. Pañcaraksa (‘five-fold protection’) A group of five Buddhist goddesses who were invoked to grant longevity and to protect certain villages or areas. They arose through the personification of five magical protective formulae (raksa) which, it is alleged, were once uttered by → Gautama Buddha himself. Pandara (‘the white one’) A Buddhist goddess, the partner (prajña) of → Amitabha. Her element is fire and the passion of love. Iconographically, she appears in various forms. Pandora Created by → Hephaistos at the behest of → Zeus, and equipped with every seductive gift, she was despatched to earth as the first woman. With her she had a box (really a barrel: in Greek pithos) containing sorrow and misfortune.
(Pan-gu) A primeval giant in Chinese mythology. He was born from the five basic elements, and he used a hammer and chisel to form the heaven and the earth. According to another version of the myth, Pan-gu arose from the world-egg in which yin and yang were as yet undivided; and from these components he formed the earth (yin) and the heavens (yang). After the death of the giant, the sun arose from his left eye, the moon from his right eye, the rain from his sweat; his flesh decomposed and fell apart to form the arable land, and the plants grew from his hairs. Papa Papaja
→ Atea → Imdumtaja
Papas A Phrygian god, equated by the Greeks with → Zeus. He is said to have impregnated a stone which then gave birth to the hermaphrodite → Agdistis.