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List of Gods : "Sirius" - 4 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
Goddess name "Auset"	Egypt	Goddess of Sirius. Egypt
Goddess name "Nana"	Anglo-Saxon	Nanna. A pan-cultural cognomen. "Her place as queen of heaven goes back to remote antiquity. She is Venus and appears as Ashtarte (or Easter in the Anglo-Saxon), Nana and Anunitu. She is goddess of fertility and worshipped everywhere. She is daughter of Sin and also of Anu. She is also åśśociated with Sirius. She is goddess of sex and appropriates the attributes of Ninlil and Damkina and as daughter of Sin and from her descent to Hades she is represented by temple prostitution. The lion, normally the symbol of Shamash is åśśociated with her as is the dove. In this sequence, she becomes then åśśociated with Tammuz or Dumuzi, as the bringer of new life in the spring cults." The Golden Calf
"Sirius"	Greek	The dog of Orion, who followed his master when he was made a constellation. The Dog-star or the Egyptian Sothis. Greek
Goddess name "Sothis [Greek]"	Egypt	Astral goddess. She heralds the Nile inundation as the personification of the star Sirius which rises coincidentally in the dawn sky in July. She is depicted as a nude figure wearing the conical white crown of Lower Egypt surmounted by a star. Late in Egyptian history she becomes largely syncretized with ISIS. Also Sopdet (Egyptian)....

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