Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deity name "BES" | Egypt | Guardian deity of women in labor. A dwarfish and hideous, but essentially benign deity whose ugliness wards off evil. He is generally present at births exerting a protective influence. Bes appears with a large-bearded and barely human face, a thick body, short arms and short bandy legs.... |
Book name "Baraqyal" | Hebrew | One of the Watchers who descended from heaven to cohabit with mortal women. Book of Enoch. |
"Beroe" | Greek | A Trojan woman, married to Doryclus, one of the companions of Aeneas. Iris åśśumed the appearance of Beroe when she persuaded the women to set fire to the ships of Aeneas on the coast of Sicily. |
Goddess name "Bhaga (the dispenser of fortune)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Minor Sun god. In Vedic times, the incarnation of women's good fortune in marriage. One of six ADITYAS, sons of the goddess ADITI. Consort: SIDDHI. Attributes: two lotuses, prayer wheel and trident.... |
King name "Bhrkuti-Tara" | Buddhist / Tibet | The Nepalese queen of Tibet's first great religious king, songtsen Gambo and credited with the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet and China. In the Lamaeist Tradition, Bhrkuti-Tara is incarnate in all good women. Buddhist / Tibet |
Goddess name "Bod" | Indian | The divinity invoked by Indian women who desire fecundity. Children born after an invocation to Bod must be redeemed, or else serve in the temple of the goddess. Indian |
Goddess name "Boldogåśśzony" | Pre - Christian Hungarian | Tutelary goddess. The guardian deity of women and children, she became syncretized with the Virgin Mary after Christianization.... |
"Bona Dea" | Roman | A Roman divinity, who is described as the sister, wife, or daughter of Faunus, and was herself called Fauna, Fatua, or Oma, worshipped at Rome from the earliest times as a chaste and prophetic divinity; and her worship was so exclusively confined to women. |
Goddess name "Brigantia" | Celtic | Goddess of the seasons, doctors smiths, poets, and women in childbirth Pan-Celtic |
Goddess name "Brigantia/ Bridget/ Brigit" | Pan-Celtic | The goddess of the seasons, doctors smiths, poets, & women in childbirth |
"Butes" | Greek | Son of Boreas, a Thracian, was hostile towards his step-brother Lycurgus, and therefore compelled by his father to emigrate. He accordingly went with a band of colonists to the island of Strongyle, afterwards called Naxos. But as he and his companions had no women, they made predatory excursions, and also came to Thessaly, where they carried off the women who were just celebrating a festival of Dionysus. Butes himself took Coronis; but she invoked Dionysus, who struck Butes with madness, so that he threw himself into a well. Greek |
Goddess name "Carmenta aka Carmentis" | Roman | Goddess of childbirth, prophecy, charms and spells. Her soothing words ease the pains of women in labour, heal the ills of childhood, foretell the futures of brides and that of their children. Roman |
"Chang Sien" | Chinese | A divinity worshipped by women desirous of offspring. Chinese |
God name "Chango" | Africa | A warrior god that Defense morals against enemies that want the land, wealth & women |
Monster name "Chichivache" | French | Chichivache the "sorry cow," a monster that lived only on good women- all skin and bone, because its food was so extremely scarce. The old English romancers invented another monster, which they called Bicorn, as fat as the other was lean; but, luckily, he had for food "good and enduring husbands," of which there is no lack. French |
Spirit name "Cihuateto" | Aztec | These are women that die in childbirth, gain eternal life & become spirits that accompany the Sun |
"Cleolla" | Greek | According to Hesiod, Catalogues of Women, Pleisthenes was a son of Atreus and Aerope, and Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes by Cleolla the daughter of Dias. Greek |
"Clodones" | Greek | There were revels in Parnåśśus, in Phocis, Messenia, Arcadia, even Sparta. The festivals were held on mountains, with blazing torches, in dark Winter nights. The votaries were in large part women, and were known by many names,--Maenads, Thyiads, Clodones, Mimallones, Båśśarides, etc. They were clothed in fawn skins, carried thyrsi and in their ecstasies used to hunt wild animals, tear them in pieces, and sometimes eat them raw. Greek |