Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Iphigeneia" | Greek | According to the most common tradition, a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra but, according to others, a daughter of Theseus and Helena, and brought up by Clytaemnestra only as a foster-child. Agamemnon had once killed a stag in the grove of Artemis, or had boasted that the goddess herself could not hit better, or, according to another story, in the year in which Iphigeneia was born, he had vowed to sacrifice the most beautiful thing which that year might produce, but had afterwards neglected to fulfil his vow.Greek |
Goddess name "Is'ara" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian / / western Semitic | Goddess of marriage and childbirth. Also a deity concerned with the enforcing of oaths. Known chiefly from early inscriptions and some Akkadian texts. Her Mesopotamian cult center was the Babylonian town of Kisurra, but she is also thought to have been worshiped across a wide area among Syrians, Canaanites and Hittites. Her symbol is the scorpion. Also Es ara.... |
Goddess name "Isara" | Semitic | Goddess of marriage and childbirth who dealt with the enforcement of oaths. Semitic |
Goddess name "Ishtar" | Assyrian / Babylon | A mother goddess, fertility goddess, the goddess of spring, a storm goddess, a warrior goddess and goddess of war, a goddess of the hunt, a goddess of love, goddess of marriage and childbirth, and a goddess of fate. She was also an underworld deity, her twin sister being Ereshkigal, the Goddess of death, but her dominant aspects are as the mother goddess of compåśśion and the goddess of love, sex and war. Assyrian / Babylon |
Goddess name "Isis" | Egypt | Goddess of childbirth, death, the earth, fertility, marital devotion, motherhood, healing, home, magic, the moon and the mother goddess Egypt |
Goddess name "Issaki" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | A goddess walking around with a headless child |
Goddess name "Issaki" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. Depicted carrying a headless child. Also Kerala.... |
Goddess name "Ix Chebel Yax" | Mayan | Goddess of teaching, childbirth, the moon, sexual relations, storms and water Mayan |
Goddess name "Ix Chel" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | moon goddess. Also the goddess of childbirth and Medicine and of Rain bows. A consort of the Sun god. She has a major shrine as Cozumel and small figurines of the goddess have been conventionally placed beneath the beds of women in labor. Such women are considered to be in great danger at times of lunar eclipse when the unborn child may develop deformities. Ix Chel is a guardian against disease and the Quiche Indians regard her as a goddess of fertility and sexual inter course. A goddess of weaving, believed to be the first being on earth to weave cloth, she was employed in this craft when she first attracted the attention of the Sun god. She carries her loom sticks across the sky to protect her from jaguars. Under Chris tian influence she has been largely syncretized with the Virgin Mary.See also IX CHEBEL YAX.... |
Goddess name "Juno Lucina" | Roman | The goddess of childbirth. Roman |
Goddess name "Kaltesh" | Ugric / western Siberian | Fertility goddess. A goddess concerned with childbirth and the future destiny of the infant. Consort of the sky god Nun. Her sacred animals include the hare and the goose and she may be symbolized by a birch tree.... |
Goddess name "Kaltesh Ugric" | Siberia | Goddess concerned with the birth and destiny of the child Siberia(west) |
Goddess name "Kapo" | Hawaii | Goddess of abortions, fertility, childbirth and midwives Hawaii |
Goddess name "Kiri Amma" | Sri Lanka | Goddess of healing, childhood diseases. Sri Lanka |
Goddess name "Kishimo Jin" | Japan | The reformed mother goddess of the demons who now works as a child minder. Japan |
Goddess name "Kwan Yin" | China | Goddess of childbirth, compåśśion and mercy China |
Goddess name "Laima" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Goddess of fate. Particularly concerned with guarding women at childbirth, and with the newborn. Regarded as a household goddess of prosperity and good fortune.... |
Goddess name "Lamaria" | Svan | Goddess of the fertility of the land, of childbirth and the protection of women. She is also goddess of the hearth. Svan |