Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Inkosikasi" | Africa | A Chicken hypnotist and a beneficent sky goddess. The Zulu, South Africa |
Goddess name "Shitala" | Hindu | A goddess invoked to get rid of small pox, chicken pox and grant fertility or children. Hindu |
Goddess name "Mami/ Mama" | Sumeria | A goddess of drunkenness & midwives |
Goddess name "Ashnan/ Asnan" | Sumeria | A goddess of drunkenness, wine & grains |
Goddess name "Seta" | Pokot / Suk / Kenya | A goddess of the Pleiades as well as a fertility goddess |
Goddess name "Djalai" | Malaya | A sky goddess of the Kenta, Malaya |
Goddess name "Inmar Votyak" | Finnish / Ugric | A sky goddess that was taken over by the Christians and called of the Mother of God |
Goddess name "Cavillaca" | Peru | A virgin goddess who was impregnated by Coniraya who shaped his sperm into the likeness of a fruit which Cavillaca ate. Peru |
Goddess name "Azer Ava" | Russian | Ancient Russian goddess, the name Azer-Ava translates into "forest mother" or "the friendly tree goddess". Azer-Ava lives in trees and welcomes those who venture out to pick berries and mushrooms. She is known as a goddess of fruitfulness who brings Rain and corn, and oaths are taken in her name. |
Goddess name "Asertu aka Ashera" | Canaan | Asherah, Goddess of fertility. Generally taken as identical with the Ugaritic goddess Athirat Hittite / Canaan |
Goddess name "Hikoboshi" | Shinto / Japan | Astral god. The consort of the star goddess AME-NO-TANABATA-HINE-NOMIKOTO. The two are, according to mythology, deeply in love. Their festival was merged with the Tibetan Bon festival of the dead, the Ullumbana. Also Kengyu-Sei.... |
Goddess name "Bel" | Akkadian | Bel became especially used of the Babylonian god Marduk and when found in Assyrian and neo-Babylonian personal names or mentioned in inscriptions in Mesoptamian context it can usually be taken as referring to Marduk and no other god. Similarly Belit without some disambiguation mostly refers to Bel Marduk's spouse Sarpanit. However Marduk's mother, the Sumerian goddess called Ninhursag, Ningal and Ninmah and other names in Sumerian, was often known as Belit-ili 'Lady of the Gods' in Akkadian. |
Goddess name "Ih P'eu" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic fertility god. The deity concerned with the growth of plants, and consort of the bean goddess IX KANAN. He is also god of family life, property and other wealth. The couple are invoked as a single personality with the sacrificeof turkeys and chickens at sowing time. Ih Fen may be represented sowing maize seed.... |
Goddess name "Amaunet (the hidden one)" | Egypt / Upper | Fertility goddess. Amaunet seems to have a taken a role as an early consort of AMUN, one of the eight deities of the OGDOAD and representing hidden power. In that context she is depicted anthropomorphically but with the head of a snake. She is shown in reliefs and as the subject of a notable statue from the Record Hall of Tuthmosis III at the Karnak complex of Thebes, where she was recognized as a benign protective deity especially called on at times of royal accession. As a fertility goddess she was largely eclipsed by the goddess MUT. She is sometimes equated with NEITH, the creator goddess of Sais, and her attributes may include the red crown of the Delta.... |
Goddess name "Kades" | Canaanite | Fertility goddess. Depicted naked carrying a snake and usually standing upon a lion. Taken over by the Egyptians (see QUADES ).... |
Goddess name "Gwydion" | Celtic / Welsh | God of war. His mother is DON the Welsh mother goddess. He allegedly caused a war between Gwynedd and Dyfed. He visited the court of PRYDERI, son of RHIANNON, in Dyfed, and stole his pigs. In the ensuing combat Gwydion used magic powers and slew Pryderi. He seems to have underworld links, hence the route taken by the dead, the milky Way, was named Caer Gwydion.... |
Goddess name "Mami" | Sumeria | Goddess of drunkenness and midwives Sumeria |
Goddess name "Ashnan" | Sumeria | Goddess of drunkenness, wine and grains Sumeria |