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Goddess name "ASTARTE (star)" | Semitic, Phoenician, Lebanon, Syria / The goddess of the evening star, of war / of sexual love | Fertility goddess. Inscriptions from the fifth century BC in her major temple at Sidon suggest she was perceived as an emanation of BAAL SAMIN, personifying his Divine power. She is also his consort. Her animal is the sphinx, which typically appears on either side of her throne.... |
Goddess name "ASTORETH" | Philistine , Israel, Lebanon | Fertility goddess. Astoreth equates with the Syrian goddess ASTARTE, both being modeled on the Mesopotamian ISTAR. She was adopted, typically, as goddess of both love and war. She is usually depicted wearing a horned headdress.... |
Goddess name "ATTIS" | Phrygia / northwestern Turkey | vegetation god. Attis is a dying and rising fertility god modeled on the Mesopotamian DUMUZI. He is considered to have originated as a shepherd. In alternative traditions, KYBELE, the great mother, is either his mother or purely his consort. Another legend suggests he was conceived immaculately by the demigoddess NANA when she placed a ripe almond in her bosom.... |
Goddess name "Abowie" | Ghana | A goddess of healing & sterility |
Goddess name "Abundantia" | Roman | Minor fertility goddess. The personification of abundance. She continued in French mythology after the Roman occupation, as a lady who enters houses in the night, bringing prosperity.... |
Goddess name "Aditi . Adithi" | Hindu | a goddess of the sky, consciousness, the past, the future and fertility. References to her pre-date history. Hindu |
Goddess name "Ahurani (mistress of Abura)" | Zoroastrian / Persian | Fertility goddess. Invoked by ordinary people to bring prosperity and children. water libations were a key part of the ritual.... |
Goddess name "Aialila'axa" | Mexico | Goddess of the moon. She holds in her arms a rabbit, a symbol of fertility, whose profile can be seen on the face of the moon. Mexico |
Goddess name "Ain/ Aine" | Irish | A goddess of war, of fertility, love & of Midsummer Lair Derg |
Goddess name "Aine of Knockaine" | Ireland | moon Goddess who was connected with the Summer Solstice. Goddess of war, fertility, love and Midsummer Lair Derg Ireland |
Goddess name "Al Lat" | Arabic | A goddess of fertility, procreation & the earth |
Goddess name "Ala" | Nigeria | Goddess of fertility, morality and of justice. Nigeria |
Goddess name "Ala" | Ibo / eastern Nigeria, West Africa | Chthonic fertility goddess. A popular deity who is also goddess of the underworld linked with a cult of the dead (which rest in her womb). Her temple is the Mbari which contains a cult statue depicting the goddess seated with a child in her arms and adorned with the crescent moon. She is flanked by attendant deities. She enjoys a profusion of local shrines which are well supplied with votive offerings. Serious crimes including murder are considered to be offenses against her. An annual yam festival is celebrated in her honor. Also Ale, Ana, ANI.... |
Goddess name "Ala Ibo" | Nigeria | Goddess of the earth in its dual aspect of fertility and death. Nigeria |
Goddess name "Ala aka Ale" | Africa | Ana, Ani, Chthonic fertility goddess who is also goddess of the underworld linked with a cult of the dead, which rest in her womb . Ibo Eastern Nigeria, West Africa |
Goddess name "Ama-arhus" | Akkadian | Babylonian and Akkadian fertility goddess |
Goddess name "Ama-arhus" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Fertility goddess. Mentioned in texts as being among the pantheon at Uruk in Hellenistic times but also found as an earlier manifestation of the god GULA. Also Arad-Ama-arhus, Amat-Ama-arhus.... |
Goddess name "Ama-arhus/ Arad-Ama-arhus/ Amat-Ama-arhus" | Babylonia / Akkadia | A fertility goddess |