| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Ih P'eu" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic fertility god. The deity concerned with the growth of plants, and consort of the bean goddess IX KANAN. He is also god of family life, property and other wealth. The couple are invoked as a single personality with the sacrificeof turkeys and chickens at sowing time. Ih Fen may be represented sowing maize seed.... |
| Goddess name "Inkosikasi" | Africa | A Chicken hypnotist and a beneficent sky goddess. The Zulu, South Africa |
| Goddess name "Inmar Votyak" | Finnish / Ugric | A sky goddess that was taken over by the Christians and called of the Mother of God |
| Goddess name "Ix Kanan" | Mayan / Mesoamer ican / Mexico | vegetation goddess. The guardian of the bean plant. Her consort is the maize god IH P'EN. The cou ple are invoked at sowing time when turkeys and chickens are sacrificed.... |
| Goddess name "Kades" | Canaanite | Fertility goddess. Depicted naked carrying a snake and usually standing upon a lion. Taken over by the Egyptians (see QUADES ).... |
| Goddess name "Kek t Ken" | Egypt | Goddess of love Egypt |
| Goddess name "Mami" | Sumeria | Goddess of drunkenness and midwives Sumeria |
| Goddess name "Mami/ Mama" | Sumeria | A goddess of drunkenness & midwives |
| Goddess name "Mayanhuel" | Mexico | Goddess of the night sky and of drunkenness Mexico |
| Goddess name "Mokos" | Pre - Christian Slavonic European | Goddess of fertility. Identified in the Nestor Chronicle as a goddess of midwifery. Her cult was taken over by that of the Virgin Mary.... |
| Goddess name "Mujaji" | Lovedu / South Africa | Rain goddess. She is said to reside in the northern Drakensberg mountains and sends both destructive tempests and gentle generative Rain. In past times she was propitiated with sacrifices of cattle and occasionally young girls. She is represented by a lineage of mortal queens on whose fabulous reputation the author Rider Haggard based the novel She. Also Modjadji.... |
| Goddess name "Narasinha (man-lion)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Incarnation of the god Vis'nu. The fourth avatara of the god is depicted as a man-lion hybrid. According to legend, the demonic king Hiranyakasipu had taken on a dangerous invulnerability. To thwart this, VIS'NU took the form of Narasinha and hid inside a pillar of the king's palace whence he sprang, capturing Hiranyakasipu and tearing out his entrails. IconographicalIy, the scene is portrayed with the victim thrown across Narasinha's lap and the god's claws plunged into his body. Narasinha may also appear seated in a yoga position with the goddess LAKSMI on his knee.... |
| Goddess name "P'an Chin Lien" | China | The goddess of brothels and prostitution who enjoyed drunken orgies. China |
| Goddess name "RaHathor (Het-Hert, Het-Heru, Hwt-Hert, Hethara" | Egipt | meaning "House of Horus [the Elder]", was a goddess of many things, from the celestial to the alcoholic! She was a celestial goddess, The Mistress of heaven. A goddess of love, music and beauty as the Goddess of love, Cheerfulness, Music and Dance. Hathor was known as the Mother of Mothers and the Celestial Nurse who presided over women, fertility, children and childbirth. Yet Hathor was also a goddess of baser things - she was the Vengeful Eye of Ra, the Lady of Drunkenness, and a goddess of the dead as Lady of the West. |
| Goddess name "Seta" | Pokot / Suk / Kenya | A goddess of the Pleiades as well as a fertility goddess |
| Goddess name "Seta Pokot" | Kenya | Goddess of the Pleiades as well as Goddess of fertility. Kenya |
| Goddess name "Shitala" | Hindu | A goddess invoked to get rid of small pox, chicken pox and grant fertility or children. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Sif" | Norse | The wife of Thor and mother of Uller. The word denotes affinity. Sif, the golden-haired goddess, wife of Thor, betokens mother earth with her bright green gråśś. She was the goddess of the sanctity of the family and wedlock, and hence her name. Norse |
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