| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Fata" | Italian | An Italian fay, or white lady. |
| Goddess name "Holde" | German | The gracious lady, a sky goddess who rode the winds. Snow came from the feathers of her bed. German |
| Goddess name "Huixtocihuatl (lady of Huixtorin)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Goddess of salt-makers. One of the group clåśśed as the TLALOC complex, generally involved with Rain, Agriculture and fertility.... |
| Goddess name "Inana, Istar,Ishtar" | Akkadian / Sumerian | The most important of all Mesopotamian goddesses, and a multi-faceted personality, occurring in cuneiform texts of all periods. The Sumerian name probably means "Lady of heaven";, and the Akkadian name Ishtar is related to the Syrian Astarte and the biblical Ashtaroth is usually considered as a daughter of Anzu, with her cult located in Uruk, but there are other traditions as to her ancestry, and it is probable that these reflect originally different goddesses that were identified with her. Ishtar is the subiect of a cycle of texts describing her love affair and ultimately fatal relationship with Tammuz. |
| Goddess name "Ix Zacal Nok (lady cloth-weaver)" | Mayan / Mesoameri can / Mexico | Creator goddess. The consort of the Sun god Kinich Ahau and also the inventor of weaving. She may represent another aspect of the mother goddess COLEL CAB. Also Ix Azal Uoh; Ixchel.See also AH KIN.... |
| Spirit name "Kalyb" | Britain | The "Lady of the Woods," who stole St. George from his nurse, brought him up as her own child, and endowed him with gifts. St. George enclosed her in a rock, where she was torn to pieces by spirits. Britain |
| Goddess name "Kamui-fuchi" | Ainu | Lady Hearth. A Hearth Goddess who is also known as the Supreme Ancestress and the spirit of female reproductivity and the home. Ainu, Japan |
| Goddess name "Kulisesvari (lady of the ax)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. Often depicted with a corpse. Color: white. Attribute: a staff.... |
| Demon name "Lilith" | Jewish | A rather startling young lady started out as a wife & became a demoness |
| Demon name "Lilith" | Jewish | Rather startling young lady started out as adam's first wife and became a demoness Jewish |
"Loathly Lady" | France | A lady so hideous that no one would marry her except Sir Gawain; and immediately after the marriage her ugliness - the effect of enchantment - disappeared, and she became a model of beauty. love beautifies. France |
| King name "MacCuill" | Ireland | Son of the hazel, one of the last Tuath kings, was so-called because he worshipped the hazel. Fairies danced beneath the hawthorn. Ogham tablets were of yew. Lady Wilde styled the elder a sacred tree; and the blackthorn, to which the Irishman is said to be still devoted, was a sacred tree. Ireland |
"Maugys" | Britain | A giant who keeps a bridge leading to a castle by a riverside, in which a beautiful lady is besieged. Sir Lybius, one of Arthur's knights, does battle with the giant; the contest lasts a whole summer's day, but terminates with the death of the giant and liberation of the lady. Britain |
"May Molloch" | Irish | May Molloch or The Maid of the Hairy Arms. An elf who condescends to mingle in ordinary sports, and even to direct the master of the house how to play dominoes or draughts. Like the White Lady of Avenel, May Molloch is a sort of banshee. Irish |
| Goddess name "Mictecachiuatl" | Aztec | Goddess of death and Lady of Mictlan, the underworld. Aztec |
| Goddess name "Nikkal" | Canaan | Great Lady and Fruitful. Goddess of the fruits of the earth. Canaan |
| Goddess name "Nin Mar Ki" | Babylon | gracious lady, a goddess of Babylon |
| Goddess name "Nin-s ar (lady plant)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Minor mother goddess. Nin-s.ar is linked briefly as consort to either Enlil (her father) or Enki by whom, after nine days of gestation, she gave birth to the goddess Ninkurra who, in turn, became the mother of the goddess Uttu.... |
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