Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Bariebdjedet" | Egypt / Lower | Ram god. Possibly concerned with arbitration, his consort is the fish goddess HATMEHYT. He is the father of HARPOKRATES. According to tradition (Chester Beatty I papyrus) he was called upon to intercede in the contest for the Egyptian kingdoms between HORUS and SETH. He is placed in some accounts in Upper Egypt on the island of Seheil at the first Nile cataract, but his cult is centered on Mendes in the Delta region of Lower Egypt [Tell et-Ruba] and is closely linked with the mother of Rameses III. He is generally depicted in anthropomorphic form, but with the head of a ram.... |
Goddess name "Changing Woman" | Cherokee | Goddess of the moon. Cherokee |
Goddess name "Cinei-new" | Siberia / Chukchee | A sea goddess and wife of Peruten, god of the sea. Siberia / Chukchee |
Goddess name "Conchenn" | Celtic | Goddess of love. Celtic |
Goddess name "Corchen" | Ireland / Manx | Ancient snake Goddess of which very little is known. Ireland / Manx |
Goddess name "Cotys" | Phrygian | The earth goddess who presided over debauchery |
Goddess name "Coyolxauhqui" | Aztec | She with the bells on her cheeks. Goddess of the moon. Aztec |
Goddess name "Dahud Ahes" | British | Goddess of debauchery British |
Goddess name "Dahud Ahes/ Dahut" | Britain | A goddess of debauchery |
Goddess name "Daphne" | Greek | Oracular goddess. A number of oracular shrines were dedicated to her in various places in Asia Minor, including Antiocheia, Mopsuestia (Cilicia), Sura and Patara (Lycia), Telmessos (Caria). Represented by the laurel Dapbne she is linked with the Dapbnepboria festivals honoring APOLLO. Tradition has it that she was changed into the laurel to avoid sexual submission to the god.... |
Goddess name "Decima" | Roman | Goddess of birth who watches over the pregnancy, one of the Parcae, the personifications of destiny. Roman |
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 "E Alom (conceiver of cbildren)" | Mayan / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Guatemalan highlands | Primeval creator goddess. The consort of E QUAHOLOM, identified in the sacred Maya Book, the Popol Vub. Her son is GUKUMATZ, the counterpart of the Aztec god QUETZALCOATL. Also Bitol.... |
Goddess name "E Quaholom (begetter of cbildren)" | Mayan / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Guatemala highlands | Primeval creator god. Identified in the sacred Maya Book the Popol Vub. The consort of the goddess E ALOM and the father of GUKUMATZ who equates with the Aztec QUETZALCOATL. Also Tzacol.... |
Goddess name "Ececheira" | Greek | Goddess of armistices and peace Greek |
Goddess name "Elihino" | Cherokee | Goddess of the earth Cherokee |
Goddess name "Emanjah" | Trinidad | Goddess of rivers and teacher of children. Trinidad |
Goddess name "Eriiys" | Greek | Chthonic goddess of wrath. According to legend she was a consort of POSEIDON by whom she bore the fabulous horse Areon. By implication she may also have been a grim maternal figure who engendered all horses. She may be equated with a wrathful DEMETER who is sometimes given the epithet Erinys. Erinys appears in the collec tive form of three Erinyes, their heads covered with snake locks and bearing torches from the underworld. In the Iliad they are described as those who beneath the earth punish dead men, whoever has sworn a false oath. In Roman mythology they are the Furies.... |