Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Iaso" | Greek | A daughter of Asclepius or Amphiaraus, and sister of Hygieia, was worshipped as the goddess of recovery. Greek |
Goddess name "Idothea" | Greek | A goddess of the sea |
Goddess name "Ilithyia" | Greek | A goddess of childbirth Eileithyia, Eilethyia, Eleuto |
Goddess name "Ilithyia Eileithyia" | Greek | Eilethyia, Eleuto, Goddess of childbirth. Greek |
Goddess name "Inanna" | Mesopotamia | Inana, the original "Holy Virgin," as the Sumerians called her, is the first known divinity åśśociated with the planet Venus. This Sumerian goddess became identified with the Semitic goddesses Ishtar and later Astarte, Egyptian Isis, Greek Aphrodite, Etruscan Turan and the Roman Venus. Mesopotamia |
Goddess name "Ino" | Greek | Greek heroine who raised the infant Dionysus. Later she was elevated to a sea goddess under the name of Leukothea. Greek |
Goddess name "Iphigeneia" | Greek | According to the most common tradition, a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra but, according to others, a daughter of Theseus and Helena, and brought up by Clytaemnestra only as a foster-child. Agamemnon had once killed a stag in the grove of Artemis, or had boasted that the goddess herself could not hit better, or, according to another story, in the year in which Iphigeneia was born, he had vowed to sacrifice the most beautiful thing which that year might produce, but had afterwards neglected to fulfil his vow.Greek |
Goddess name "Irene" | Greek | A goddess of peace |
Goddess name "Irene aka Eirene" | Greek | Goddess of peace and of spring. Greek |
Goddess name "Iris" | Greek / Roman | Goddess of the Rainbow, or the Rainbow itself. In clåśśic mythology she is called the messenger of the gods when they intended discord, and the Rainbow is the bridge or road let down from heaven for her accommodation. When the gods meant peace they sent Mercury. Greek / Roman |
Goddess name "Iris (rainbow)" | Greek / Roman | Messenger goddess. The special attendant of the goddess HERA, Iris is a virgin goddess who forms the Rainbow bridge between heaven and earth. Depicted with wings and carrying a staff.... |
Goddess name "Itonius" | Greek | Itonia, Itonias, Itonis or Itonius, a surname of Athena, derived from the town of Iton, in the south of Phthiotis. The goddess there had a celebrated sanctuary and festivals, and is hence also called Incolaltoni. From Iton her worship spread into Boeotia and the country about lake Copais, where the Pamboeotia was celebrated, in the neighbourhood of a temple and grove of Athena. Greek |
Goddess name "Iunones" | Greek | Goddesses of femininity Roman / Greek |
Goddess name "Jaso" | Greek | Goddess of health and recovery Iaso Greek |
Goddess name "Juga Or Jugalis" | Greek | That is, the goddess of marriage, occurs as a surname of Juno, in the same sense as the Greek Zygia. |
Goddess name "Juno" | Roman | A Roman goddess of marriage and the long-suffering wife of Jupiter. Like her Greek equivalent, Hera, she was the protector of women, in particular married women. A festival took place in her honour on the calends (first) of March. Roman |
Goddess name "Jvvritas" | Roman | Goddess of youth. Modeled on the Greek goddess HEBE.... |
Goddess name "Kalligeneia" | Greek | Obscure birth goddess. Known only from ritual texts in Athens.... |