Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Diana" | Greek / Roman | A goddess of childbirth, chastity, virginity, fertility, hunting, the moon & the sky |
Goddess name "Diana" | Roman | moon goddess. Living in the Forests, she is a huntress and protector of animals, also the guardian of virginity. Generally modeled on the Greek goddess ARTEMIS, she had a sanctuary on the Aventine Hill in Rome and, under Roman rule, took over the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.... |
Goddess name "Dice/ Dike" | Greek | A goddess of justice |
Goddess name "Dictynna" | Cretan | Mother goddess. She became syncretized with the Greek goddess RHEA.... |
Goddess name "Dike" | Greek | Goddess of justice. The daughter of ZEUS. Depicted as a maiden whom men violently abuse in the streets but who is honored by the gods and who reports to her father on the misdeeds of mankind, causing Divine retribution. She is depicted on the Kypselos chest as an attractive woman strangling an ugly goddess of injustice, ADIKIA.... |
Goddess name "Discordia" | Roman | Minor goddess of dissent. Modeled on the Greek deity ERIS.... |
Goddess name "Doris" | Greek | Sea goddess. Daughter of OKEANOS and TETHYS and consort of NEREUS. In Hesiod's Theogony her children include AMPHITRITE and THETIS among many minor figures.... |
Goddess name "Dryope" | Greek | A goddess of water |
Goddess name "Ececheira" | Greek | Goddess of armistices and peace Greek |
Goddess name "Eileithyia" | Greek | Also called Eleithyia, Eilethyia, or Eleutho. The ancients derive her name from the coming or helping goddess. She was the goddess of birth, who came to the åśśistance of women in labour; and when she was kindly disposed, she furthered the birth, but when she was angry, she protracted the labour and delayed the birth. Greek |
Goddess name "Eirene" | Greek | Goddess of peace and one of the Horae Greek |
Goddess name "Eirene" | Greek | Goddess of peace. The daughter of ZEUS and THEMIS and the sister of Horae, DIKE and EUNOMIA. See also HOURS.... |
Goddess name "Elara" | Greek | A daughter of Orchomenus or Minyas, who became by Zeus the mother of the giant Tityus and Zeus, from fear of Hera, concealed her under the earth. (Apollodorus i. Argonautica) This was where she gave birth to Tityas, who some traditions state to be the son of Elara and Gaia, the earth goddess. Greek |
Goddess name "Elasii" | Greek | Goddesses of healing and epilepsy Greek |
Goddess name "Electryone" | Greek | Goddess of the moon Greek |
Goddess name "Eleithyia" | Greek | A goddess of childbirth & midwives |
Goddess name "Eleos" | Greek | Goddess of peace and mercy Greek |
Goddess name "Elpis" | Greek | The personification of hope, perhaps a child of Nyx and mother of Pheme, the goddess of rumour. Greek |