Savior  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Related e

Wikipedia Wiktionary Shop Featured: Rhombicuboctahedron by Leonardo da Vinci

Savior or Saviour may refer to:

• A person who helps people achieve salvation, or saves them from something

Religion

• Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will rule for seven, nine or nineteen years
• Maitreya
• Messiah, a saviour or liberator of a group of people, most commonly in the Abrahamic religions
  • Messiah in Judaism
  • Messiah in Christianity
    • Redeemer (Christianity)
• Zoroastrian tradition envisions three future saviors, including Saoshyant, [sou-shyuhnt] a figure of Zoroastrian eschatology who brings about the final renovation of the world, the Frashokereti
• Soter, derives from the Greek epithet σωτήρ (sōtēr), meaning a saviour, a deliverer
• The Saviour (paramilitary organization) (Спас), a militant nationalist organization in Russia

Film and television

• The Savior (1971 film), French film about a girl and a Nazi officer
• The Savior (2014 film), Arabic-language film about Jesus of Nazareth
• The Saviour (Chinese: 救世者 Jiushizhe), a 1980 film directed Ronny Yu
• The Saviour (film) 2005 Australian short film
• "The Savior" (Once Upon a Time), the first episode of the sixth season of the American fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time
• Savior (film), 1998 film starring Dennis Quaid, Stellan Skarsgård and Nastassja Kinski
• "Saviors" (House), the 21st episode of the fifth season of Fox television series House

Music

• Saviours (band), a stoner metal band

Albums

• Saviour (album), a 2002 album by the band Antimatter
• Savior (album), a 2015 album by Metro Station

Songs

• "Saviour" (Anggun song), 2005
• "Saviour" (Lights song), 2009
• "Savior" (Rise Against song), 2008
• "Savior" (Skillet song), 2003
• "Savior", a song by 30 Seconds to Mars, from their 2005 album A Beautiful Lie
• "Saviour", a song by Black Veil Brides, from their 2011 album Set the World on Fire
• "Saviour", a song by Chipmunk, from his 2009 album I Am Chipmunk
• "Saviour", a song by Dredg, from their 2009 album The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion
• "Saviour", a song by Prince from Emancipation
• "Savior", a song by Red Hot Chili Peppers from their 1999 album Californication
• "Saviour", a song by VNV Nation, from their 1999 album Empires
• "Savior", a song by Edin-Ådahl, from their 1983 album "Alibi" (English version)
• "Savior", a song by Elin Ruth Sigvardsson, from her 2007 album A Fiction
• "Savior", a song by Klute (musician), from his 2005 album No One's Listening Anymore
• "My Saviour", a song by Samael, from their 1996 album Passage

Other

• Saviour (comics), a 1988 comic book published by Trident Comics
• SAVIOUR (robot), Pakistan's first indigenous rescue robot system
• sAviOr, an alias for Ma Jae-Yoon, former professional StarCraft player in Korea

See also

• Salvador
• Salvator
• Salvatore
• Saving