Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Atargatis" | Asia Minor | Ocean Mermaid a Goddess of Creation and Fertility. She was usually depicted with a fish tail; hence her modern identification as the Mermaid Goddess Known to the Romans as Dea Syria. She was worshipped by men performing auto-castration. Asia Minor |
Goddess name "Atropos" | Pre - Homeric Greek | Goddess of fate. According to Hesiod, one of the daughters of ZEUS and THEMIS. One of an ancient trio of MOIRAI with LACHESIS and KLOTHO. She is responsible for the final part of a mortal life, the unturning inevitability of death, and she is depicted holding a pair of scales. The name of the plant Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade) derives from her.... |
Goddess name "Baba" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Fertility goddess. Locally worshiped in Lagas, where Gudea built her a temple. Also Bau.... |
Goddess name "Badb" | Celtic / Irish | war goddess. One of the aspects of the MORRIGAN. Capable of changing shape at will. She confronts the Irish hero Cu Chulainn before a battle and terrifies him by turning into Badb Catha, the crow and harbinger of death.... |
Goddess name "Ban Chuideachaidh Moire" | Ireland | Old Goddess who appears in modern Irish legends as the midwife who åśśisted the Christian Virgin Mary with her birth, and was also a title applied to St. Bridget. A once forgotten goddess of childbirth. Ireland |
Goddess name "Bean Sidhe" | Celtic | A Banshee an goddess of death.Celtic |
Goddess name "Beju aka Bejuni" | Dongria | A shaman who accepts gifts of gold ornaments to act as a link between the living and dead and god and goddesses. Dongria |
Goddess name "Belet-Seri" | Akkadia | Goddess of the underworld, who kept track of the dead coming through Babylon / Akkadia |
Goddess name "Belet-Seri" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Chthonic underworld goddess. The recorder of the dead entering the otherworld. Known as the Scribe of the earth.... |
Goddess name "Belet-Seri/ Belitsari" | Babylon / Akkadia | The underworld goddess that kept track of the dead coming through |
Goddess name "Bera Pennu" | Northern Indian | vegetation goddess. Worshiped by the Khonds in Bengal. She was the recipient of human sacrifice to ensure good harvest, particularly of the spice turmeric, and as a protection against disease and infirmity. The sacrificial victim or meriab was youthful, often kept for years as a holy person before death and was always either the offspring of a previous sacrificial victim, or purchased from impoverished families for the purpose. He or she was generally strangled, sometimes in the fork of a tree, after days of festivities. In other instances the victim was cut up alive.... |
Goddess name "Bona Dea/ Fauna" | Roman | A goddess of fertility, great prophecy, the dispenser of healing herbs & rather prim & chaste |
Goddess name "Calounger" | Brazil | death goddess and / or Goddess of the sea Brazil |
Goddess name "Cardea" | Roman | A goddess of door hinges |
Goddess name "Carlin" | Scotland | Goddess of Winter and the spirit of the eve of Samhain (Halloween), the night the ghosts of the dead roamed the world of the living. Scotland |
Goddess name "Carna" | Roman | A nymph who lived where Rome would eventually be. Jåñuś fell in love with her and gave her power over door hinges and handles. As a goddess, she was known as Cardea. |
Goddess name "Crobh Dearg" | Ireland | the red claw. Goddess of war. Ireland |
Goddess name "Crobh Dearg/ Crove Dairg" | Irish | A war goddess |