| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Agasaya" | Semitic | The Shrieker, was a Semitic war goddess who was merged into Ishtar in her identity as warrior of the sky. |
| Goddess name "Allatu(m)" | Western Semitic | Chthonic underworld goddess. Modeled on the Mesopotamian goddess ERESKIGAL and possibly also equating with ARSAY in Canaanite mythology. Recognized by the Carthaginians as Allatu.... |
| Goddess name "Arsay" | Canaan | Minor Goddess of moonlight, moist aerth and marshes. The third daughter of Baal. Canaan |
| Goddess name "Arsay" | Western Semitic / Canaanite | Chthonic underworld goddess. According to epic creation texts, she is the third daughter of BAAL at Ugarit (Ras Samra), possibly also equating with ALLATUM.... |
| Goddess name "Bendis" | Greece | A Thracian divinity in whom the moon was worshipped. Hesychius says "that the poet Cratinus called this goddess Two Spears, either because she had to discharge two duties, one towards heaven and the other towards the earth, or because she bore two lances, or lastly, because she had two lights, the one her own and the other derived from the Sun. In Greece she was sometimes identified with Persephone, but more commonly with Artemis. |
| Goddess name "Brisaya" | Greek | Goddess of the dawn and the violet light of morning Greek |
| Goddess name "Gefjun or Gefjon" | Norse | A goddess. She is a maid, and all those who die maids become her maid-servants. She is present at ?ger's feast. Odin says she knows men's destinies as well as he does himself. Norse |
| Goddess name "Masaya" | Nicaragua | Goddess of fire volcanoes and earthquakes Nicaragua |
| Goddess name "May-day" | Roman | Polydore Virgil says that the Roman youths used to go into the fields and spend the calends of May in dancing and singing in honour of Flora, goddess of fruits and flowers. The early English consecrated May-day to Robin Hood and the Maid Marian, because the favourite outlaw died on that day. Stow says the villagers used to set up May-poles, and spend the day in archery, morris-dancing, and other amu√åǧïñåts. |
| Goddess name "Niangniang" | China | One of the Sacred Goddess of the heavenly Sages. A legend says Emperor Kangxi dedicated a temple to these female immortals in honour of good deeds they performed on his behalf. China |
| Goddess name "Okeanides" | Greek / Roman | Minor sea goddesses There were åśśigned to guard ship motions by the larger gods & invoked by seafarers, others say that they are river gods |
| Goddess name "Say" | Egypt | Minor god of destiny. Depicted wholly in human form. Say is mentioned in the Ani papyrus as being present at the ritual of the weighing of the heart, in company with funerary goddesses including Meskhenet, SEPSET and RENENUTET. In Greco-Roman times he was syncretized with the snake god Agathodaimon.... |
| Goddess name "Tiresias" | Greek | Blind as Tiresias. Tiresias the Theban by accident saw Athena bathing, and the goddess struck him with blindness by splashing water in his face. She afterwards repented doing so, and, as she could not restore his sight, conferred on him the power of soothsaying, and gave him a staff with which he could walk as safely as if he had his sight. He found death at last by drinking from the well of Tilphosa. Greek |
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