Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Chinnamastaka (decapitated)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. A headless form of DURGA. Also one of a group of ten MAHAVIDYAS, goddesses of great knowledge personifying the SAKTI of SI IVA. She may be depicted holding her head in her hands. Aspects include VIRARATRI. Attributes: scimitar, skull. Also Chinnamasta.... |
Goddess name "Chirakan Ixmucane" | Mayan | One of the new goddess formed by the four gods who made the world. Mayan |
Goddess name "Cihuacoatl aka Cihuacoatl" | Aztec | Chihucoatl, Ciucoatl, "snake woman" was one of a number of motherhood and fertility goddesses and was especially åśśociated with midwives, and with the sweatbaths where midwives practiced. Aztec |
Goddess name "Citrasena (having a bright spear)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. The SAKTI of BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
Goddess name "Cred aka Creide" | Ireland / Scotland | Fairy queen Goddess who is åśśociated with Dana's mountains, the Paps of Anu. She vowed never to sleep until she found a man who could create for her the most majestic poem ever penned. Ireland / Scotland |
Goddess name "Creiddylad aka Creudylad" | Wales | Cordelia. Connected with Beltane and often called the May queen. Goddess of summer flowers. Wales |
Goddess name "Dahud-Ahes aka Dahut" | Britain | Goddess of earthly pleasure. Britain |
Goddess name "Dali aka Deyla" | Georgia / Russia | Dalila, the hunt goddess and lady of stones and animals'. Georgia / Russia |
Goddess name "Dea Matrona / Deae Matres Deae Matrones" | British | Dea Matrona aka Deae Matres Deae Matrones, Mother goddesses, who in many areas was worshipped as a triple goddess. British |
Goddess name "Dechtere aka Dechtire" | Ireland | Goddess who alternately takes on the images of maiden, mother and crone. Ireland |
Goddess name "Devaki (divine)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. Daughter of Devaka and consort of the mythical king VASUDEVA, Devaki bore eight sons, including KRSNA and BALARAMA. Her brother Kamsa believed that the eighth child would kill him and he slaughtered the first six sons. In order to save the remaining two, VISNU implanted the seed of his avataras in Devaki's womb (in the form of hairs from his head), before transferring Balarama to the womb of the goddess ROHINI and Krsna to Yasoda, the wife of a cowherd, Nanda.... |
Goddess name "Diang" | Sudan | cow goddess and the wife of the first human, Omara, sent by the creator god. Her son is Okwa, who married the crocodile goddess Nyakaya. Shilluk, Sudan |
Goddess name "Diang" | Shilluk / Sudan | cow goddess. Living along the west bank of the Nile, the Shilluk perceive Diang as the consort of the first human, Omara, sent by the creator god. Her son is Okwa, who married the crocodile goddess NYAKAYA. Thus the three main elements of Shilluk life are contained in their religious beginningsmen (sky), cows (earth) and crocodiles (water).... |
Goddess name "Dirona aka Sirona" | Gaul | Serona, Sarona, Dirona, Sthirona. The Star Goddess of Gaul |
Goddess name "Doda aka Dodola" | Serbia | Goddess of Rain Serbia |
Goddess name "Durjata" | Buddhist | Minor goddess who waits on the god Buddhakapala Buddhist / Mahayana |
Goddess name "Durjaya (unconquerable)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant of the god BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
Goddess name "Easter aka Eastre" | Saxons | A putative goddess of the Anglo-Saxons |