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Alisha (Sanskrit: अलीशा Alīśā; Arabic: ,علیشا أليشا Alīshā) also refer as protected from God is a cognate of the Spanish-language feminine given name Alicia, [4] a variant of the French/German-language name Alice, which comes from Old English Æthelhādas or Æðelhādas, meaning noble or nobility.
The name Ingvar is an Old Norse first name for men common in Scandinavia meaning "protected by Yngvi". [1] The feminine version of the name is Inga.. The first element of the name is derived from Proto-Norse *Ing(w)ia (Ingi-), Norse Yngvi, who is better known by the title Freyr "Lord".
[citation needed] It is a Latinized form of the given name Inge. [1] It is the male version of the name Inga, used in the same region. It means "protected by Yngvi", who is the main god for the Ingvaeones, and is probably a different name for the Germanic god Freyr. [2]
The mural crown of Cybele represents the walls of the city she protects. Tutelary deities who guard and preserve a place or a person are fundamental to ancient Roman religion. The tutelary deity of a man was his Genius, that of a woman her Juno. [3] In the Imperial era, the Genius of the Emperor was a focus of Imperial cult.
Igor (Belarusian: Ігар, romanized: Ihar; Russian: Игорь, romanized: Igor'; Serbian Cyrillic: Игор pronounced; Ukrainian: Ігор, romanized: Ihor; ) is a common East Slavic given name derived from the Norse name Ingvar, that was brought to ancient Rus' by the Norse Varangians, see Igor of Kiev.
Jacob can mean "to follow" or "to supplant" or "may God protect." In the 1990s, it was the fifth most popular name for boys, with 298,402 babies named Jacob during this decade.
In Greek mythology, Talos, also spelled Talus (/ ˈ t eɪ l ɒ s /; [1] Greek: Τάλως, Tálōs) or Talon (/ ˈ t eɪ l ɒ n, ən /; Greek: Τάλων, Tálōn), was a man of bronze who protected Crete from pirates and invaders. Despite the popular idea that he was a giant, no ancient source states this explicitly.
Raksha (Sanskrit: रक्षा, IAST: rakṣā, rakshas, rakshah) is a Sanskrit word associated with protection. [1] Raksha and its various derivatives which occur predominantly in the Vedas and their many auxiliary texts means – to protect, guard, take care of, tend, rule, govern, to keep, not to divulge, to preserve, save, keep away from, spare, to avoid, to observe or to beware of, an ...