Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Carna" | Roman | A nymph who lived where Rome would eventually be. Jåñuś fell in love with her and gave her power over door hinges and handles. As a goddess, she was known as Cardea. |
Goddess name "Carravogue" | British / Ireland | Local Crone Goddess from County Meath who was transformed into a huge snake for eating forbidden berries. Her original purpose is basically lost in modern times because her stories became so absorbed by Christian legends which attempt to make her a Celtic Eve. British / Ireland |
Goddess name "Cebhfhionn" | Ireland | Goddess of inspiration who was usually found next to the legendary Well of Knowledge from which she filled an endless vessel. Ireland |
Goddess name "Ceiuci" | Brazil | Star goddess who created all animals. Brazil |
Goddess name "Cels" | Etruscan | earth Goddess, who makes the grain grow tall. Etruscan |
Goddess name "Ceridwen" | Celtic / Welsh | Goddess of inspiration. Depicted as the hag-aspect of the mother goddess, she is the consort of TEGID FOEL. Her children are Creirwy (daughter) and Afagddu (son). She allegedly prepares the caldron of knowledge.... |
Goddess name "Cerridwen" | Welsh / Scotland | moon Goddess, Grain Goddess. Welsh Bards called themselves Cerddorion (sons of Cerridwen). Welsh / Scotland |
Goddess name "Cethlion" | Ireland | Goddess of the sea and the Formorians. Was called "crooked teeth. Ireland |
Goddess name "Challalamma" | India | Goddess of buttermilk [?] India |
Goddess name "Chanda aka Chandi" | Hindu | The goddess Durga in the form she åśśumed for the destruction of the Asura called Mahisha. Hindu |
Goddess name "Chicomecohuati" | Aztec / post Mesoamerican | Maize goddess. [Mexico]. Her festival was held in September when a young girl was sacrificed having taken on the role of the deity for a period of time during the celebrations. She was decapitated on a heap of maize fruits and her blood was collected in a large bowl before being poured over a wooden figurine of the goddess. Finally the victim's skin was flayed off and worn by a dancing priest.See also XILONEN.... |
Goddess name "Christalline" | Haiti | evil goddess of the sea Haiti |
Goddess name "Chthonia" | Greek | May mean the subterraneous, or the goddess of the earth, that is, the protectress of the fields, whence it is used as a surname of infernal divinities, such as Hecate, Nyx and Melinoe, but especially of Demeter. Greek |
Goddess name "Cihuacoatl aka Cihuacoatl" | Aztec | Chihucoatl, Ciucoatl, "snake woman" was one of a number of motherhood and fertility goddesses and was especially åśśociated with midwives, and with the sweatbaths where midwives practiced. Aztec |
Goddess name "Cihuacoatl-Quilaztli" | Aztec / Mesomerican / Mexico | Creator goddess. Using a magical vessel, she grinds bone fragments obtained from previous generations of mankind in earlier world ages into a powder. The gods then commit self-sacrifice, allowing their blood to drip into the vessel. From the resulting mix, the human race of the fifth Sun is formed.... |
Goddess name "Circe" | Greek | A mythical sorceress, whom Homer calls a fair-locked goddess, a daughter of Helios by the oceanid Perse, and a sister of Aeetes. Greek |
Goddess name "Clementia" | Roman | Minor goddess. Generally invoked to protect the common man against the emperor's absolute use of power. Under Hadrian the term cdementia temporum (mildness of the times) came into common usage.... |
Goddess name "Cliodna" | Ireland / Scotland | Sea and Otherworld Goddess who usually took the form of a sea bird and therefore symbolized the Celtic afterlife. Ireland / Scotland |