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OTHER GODDESSES
Akewa - Sun
Goddess of the Toba of Argentina. Sister of all earthly women.
Akka - Eponymous
ancestral Goddess of Akkad. The Old Woman, the Grandmother or the Midwife.
Water-drawer Who brought gods to birth out of the Primal Deep.
Altan-Telgey
- Mongolian Earth goddess. Golden Surface.
Amashilamma
- Sumerian Cow Goddess.
Amma - Norse
Grandmother Goddess Who gave birth to the race of Freemen.
Anat (Anata)
- Great Goddess of the Ugaritic pantheon
had 4 separate aspects: Warrior, Mother, Virgin and Wanton. Mother of all
nations, Virgin Mistress of the gods.
Angerboda
- The Hag of the Iron Wood. aka Hel.
Apia-Fellus
- Scythian Earth Goddess
Ararat - Ancient
Anatolian World Creator Goddess, embodied the famous Mt.. Ararat in modern
Armenia.
Armathr -
Mother of Prosperity. Icelandic Goddess incarnate in a Sacred Stone.
Arinna
– Hittite/Anatolian Great Goddess, Most Sacred Goddess of the Sun.
Artimpaasa
- Scythian Love Goddess Who ruled the Moon.
Aspelenie
- Lithuanian Goddess ruled the corner of the house behind the stove. Her
animal form was a little ringed snake.
Astarte -
Phoenician Great Goddess. Lady of Byblos, one of the oldest forms of the
Great Goddess in the Middle East. Her shrine at Byblos dates back to the
Neolithic and flourished through the Bronze Age. True Sovereign of the World.
She was the creating, preserving and destroying Goddess worshipped by all
Indo-European cultures. Queen of the Stars, Mother of all Souls. Lily was Her
flower. aka Tanit. The White sow. Dove, Her bird. Womb. Her colors were red and
white, Acacia and Tamarisk are Her trees. Sometimes depicted with the head
of a lioness. In some pictures She stands small-breasted and naked on the back
of a lioness, with a lotus and a mirror in one hand and 2 snakes in the other.
Tamarisk is Her sacred tree.
Atargatis
- Philistine Fish Goddess. (Dea Syria, Derceto, Derketo) Syrian/Aramaic
Mermaid Goddess of fertilizing moisture. Beautiful and wise Vegetation Goddess,
Sky Goddess, Dolphin-crowned Sea Goddess.
Auchimalgen
- Moon Goddess, Protectress of the Araucanians of Chile.
Aunt Nancy
- Haitian voodoo Spider Woman.
Azer-Ava
- Rain bringing Sky Goddess of the Mordvins of eastern Russia.
Ba Alat (Belili,
Beltis) - Our Lady, chief deity of the Phoenicians. She was shown as a
heavily-built naked woman Whose hands supported Her mature breasts. Wise old
Lady of the Trees.
Bachue - Great
ancestral Goddess of the Chibcha from Columbia.
Beiwe - Arctic
Sun Goddess of the Saami. She made new plants grow and Protectress of reindeer.
When She was invoked, a special prayer was always said for the insane.
Bendis - Thracian
Goddess of Destruction, the Crone and the Waning Moon. Cappodocian Earth
Goddess.
Beruth - Phoenecian
High Goddess, Mother Earth.
Bila - Australian
Sun Goddess.
Biliku - Creatress
of the Earth. Andamanese Islands Goddess. Kindly and fearsome, She sometimes
appeared in a spider's form. She was the first to own fire.
Bonto - Mordvin
Creator Goddess.
Buana - Good
Mother. Cow Goddess. Milk-giving Mother of wealth and plenty.
Bugady Musun
- Siberian Mother of the Animals. Sometimes depicted as a very old, very
strong woman. In Her animal form, She was a huge female elk or a wild reindeer.
Ruler of all life, all food.
Byul-Soon
- Korean Star Goddess.
Car - Indo-European
Goddess. Mother of carnivals, charms and the alphabet.
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Cybele - Great Mother Goddess of Phrygia. 200 B.C. Depicted with a lion at Her feet. Also known as Zemelo to the Phrygians. Great Mother of the gods from Ida. Lady of the Caves. Lapis Niger (Black stone) sacred to Her. Mother of the gods. Her sanctuaries were on mountains, frequently in caves. Her animals lions. Her priests, the galli, were self-emasculated eunuchs, attired in female garb and wearing long hair, fragrant with ointment. Rose is Her sacred flower. |
Erigone -
Goddess of Justice. aka Astraea, Starry One.
Erzulie - Haitian Goddess of love, luxury, refinement.
Gwenhwyfar -
Welsh Goddess of the islands.She is said to have existed for as long as there
was surf to pound against the rocky shore. Provided the Round Table of King
Arthur's court, which made all the knights equal.
Har - Patroness
of Temple Prostitutes.
Heimarmene
- Pythagorean Goddess of Fate. Aspect of the triple Goddess with
Ananke and Dike.
Kupala - Slavonic
Water Mother Who annually renews Her virginity and vitality of nature with
baptism. Her worshipers bathed themselves in rivers and purified their souls
with the Dew of Kupala, gathered during the night of Her festival.
Lucetia (Lucina)
- Sabine Goddess, the Mother of Light. She bestowed gifts of light,
enlightenment and eyesight, especially as the Opener of eyes of newborn
children. A wreath of rue tied with a red ribbon was her healing charm.
Magog - Biblical
name of the Scythian Amazonian Goddess and Her land in the north, whence came
equestrian warriors greatly feared by the Semites. Magpie Her bird.
Mamokoriyama
- Primal Mother of the Yanomamo tribes, Who gave birth to the first
people.
Mara - Exceedingly
ancient name of the Goddess-as-Crone, the Death-bringer.
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Mary - Virgin Mother of Jesus. Myrrh sacred to Her. Our Lady of Guadalupe. Tonantzin. |
Mastor-Ava
- Earth Goddess of Russia.
Mati-Syra-Zemlya
- Moist Mother Earth worshipped by Slavic peasants even under orthodox
Christianity. Her ceremonies take place outside the church, on the anniversaries
of old pagan festivals. In August, She is invoked with libations of hemp oil.
Medea - Wise
One. Eponymous Mother Goddess of the Medes. She was the All Wise One Who dwelt
forever in Heaven.
Miti - Mother
Goddess of the Chukchi. She gave secret of magic to humans.
Nammu - Sumerian
Mother of the Universe.
Nemesis -
Goddess of Retribution
Ninhursag
- Akkadian Goddess, Mistress of Serpents. She Who gives life to the
dead.Sumerian Mountain Mother. Creatress of first human beings whom She made out
of clay. Associated with serpents and the Sacred Cow.
Ninsun
- Akkadian Goddess Who knew all Knowledge, Mother of Gilgamesh.
Ninti - Lady
of Life, Lady of the Rib. Sumerian Birth Goddess Who enabled pregnant women to
make their babies bones out of their own ribs.
Niobe
- Snowy One. Anatolian Mountain Goddess
Omphale -
Lydian Goddess of the Hub, Omphalos, the navel-stone marking the center
of the Universal Womb.
Rati - Balinese
Goddess. Erotic Delight, Goddess of Sexual passions, Mistress of the Gods.
Represented with huge breasts, a pregnant belly, a mouth twisted to one side and
shaped like a vulva. Overflowing sexuality and fertility. Lady of Heaven. Muse
of erotic poetry.
Siduri Sabitu
- Babylonian Goddess of the Wine of Eternal Life.
Sige
- Silence. Primal Creatress of Gnostics, who said Silence was the
Mother of the Great Goddess Herself. Out of Her was born the first Word, the
Logos of Creation.
Sophia - Gnostic
creation myth said Sophia was born from the primordial female power Sige. Sophia
gave birth to a male spirit, Christ, and a female spirit, Achamoth. Goddess of
Wisdom. The World Soul was born of Her smile. Seven fold mandala represents 7
branches of learning.
Stella Maris
- Star of the Sea. Epithet of Isis, Ishtar, Aphrodite, Venus, Mari-Anna
and the Virgin Mary.
Sunna - German
Sun Goddess.
Tanit
- Cathiginian name for Phoenician Great Goddess Astarte, Queen of the
Stars. Her priestesses were famous astrologers. aka Astroarche, Queen of the
Stars.
Thalassa
- Great Goddess at Rhodes and Miletus, Mother of the Telchines
(enchanters). Patroness of sex and marriage.
Uni - Etruscan
Great Mother, Triple Goddess.
Vir-Ava -
Forest Mother, form of Azer-Ava. Friendly tree Goddess Who welcomed berry
pickers and mushroom hunters.
Va-Kul - Zyrian
Mother of Waters, worshipped throughout the Middle Ages as a powerful Goddess
Whose displeasure could cause catastrophe.
Walpurga
- May Queen of Germany. Walpurisnacht was the orgiastic festival of the
Springtime. Sacred Marriage.
Wawalak – Aboriginal sister goddesses.
Yemana – Cuban Santeria goddess of the ocean, beautiful and powerful goddess of the waters – Holy Queen Sea. Goddess of rain and all sea creatures. Goddess of motherhood. Number 7 is sacred to her, also blue candles and crystals. La Diosa del Mar. Mother of Fishes. She came to Cuba with Yoruban slaves.
Zemelo - Great Mother Goddess of Phrygia.
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