Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Ariadnri" | Greek | Goddess of vegetation. Possibly derived from an unnamed Minoan goddess identified on Crete. According to Homer and Hesiod she is a daughter of MINOS and a consort of DIONYSOS. Her crown, given by ZEUS, is the Corona Borealis. Tradition has it that she was wooed and then deserted by the hero Theseus.... |
Goddess name "Arianrhod" | Wales | Keeper of the circling Silver Wheel of Stars, a symbol of time and karma. Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess. Honoured at the Full moon. Wales |
Goddess name "Arianrhod" | Welsh | Arianrod, Welsh moon Goddess and one of several children of the mother Goddess Don. Her home was in the constellation Corona Borealis. |
Goddess name "Arianrhod" | Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic earth goddess. Responsible for initiation of souls in the otherworld in the tower of Caer Sidi. Mentioned in the Mabinogion texts as the possible daughter of Beli, consort of DON and mother of LLEW LLAW GYFFES and Dylan.... |
Goddess name "Arianrod" | Irish | The goddess of the moon |
Goddess name "Arinna" | Hittite | The "sun goddess of Arinna". As well as the weather God later åśśociated with the Hurrian "Teshup", Arinna, the Sun goddess and their children are all deriviations from the former Hatti Pantheon. Hittite |
Goddess name "Arinna (sun goddess)" | Hittite / Hurrian | Solar deity. May have taken androgynous form, but also identified as the consort of the weather god TESUB. Probably the head of the Hittite state pantheon. There is little detail because the religious center of Arinna is knownonly from texts. The Sun goddess was also perceived to be a paramount chthonic or earth goddess. She becomes largely syncretized with the Hurrian goddess HEBAT.... |
Goddess name "Arion" | Greek | A fabulous horse, which Poseidon begot by Demeter; for in order to escape from the pursuit of Poseidon, the goddess had metamorphosed herself into a mare, and Poseidon deceived her by åśśuming the figure of a horse. Demeter afterwards gave birth to the horse Arion, and a daughter, Despoena. |
Goddess name "Arito" | Celtic | A random winged goddess character |
Goddess name "Arito/ Artio of Muti" | Switzerland | A goddess of bears, prosperity & the harvest |
Goddess name "Arm (2)" | Celtic / Irish | Chthonic mother goddess. Closely åśśociated with fertility and the primordial mother of the TUATHA DE DANANN. Twin hills near Killarney in Munster are called The Paps of Anu. Also Ana.... |
Goddess name "Armkis [Greek]" | Egypt / Upper | Birth goddess. Minor deity with cult centers in lower Nubia and at Elephantine. She is variously the daughter of RE, and of KHNUM and SATIS. Anukis lives in the cataracts of the Lower Nile. Her portrait appears in the Temple of Rameses II at Beit-et-Wali where she suckles the pharaoh, suggesting that she is connected with birth and midwifery, but she also demonstrates a malignant aspect as a strangler (see HATHOR). Her sacred animal is the gazelle. Depicted anthropomorphically wearing a turban (modius) with ostrich feathers. Also Anuket (Egyptian).... |
Goddess name "Arnamentia" | British | Goddess of spring waters. British |
Goddess name "Arnamentia" | Wales | Arnamentia Goddess of spring waters who was once a minor solar deity. Healing and purification. Wales |
Goddess name "Arnemetia" | Roman / British | A water goddess known from inscriptions |
Goddess name "Arnemetia" | Roman / Celtic / British | water goddess. A deity known only from inscriptions.... |
Goddess name "Arom" | Kafir / Afghanistan | A minor goddess contracts |
Goddess name "Arsay" | Canaan | Minor Goddess of moonlight, moist aerth and marshes. The third daughter of Baal. Canaan |