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| 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 "Ammut" | Egypt | An underworld goddess that eats the hearts of the evil |
| Goddess name "Ammut (devouress of the dead)" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld goddess. A significant deity who allegedly consumes the dead if their hearts are found weighed down with guilt in the Judgment Hall of the Two Truths during the Weighing of the Heart ceremony. Ammut has a fearsome aspect and sits alongside forty-two juror gods named in the Book of the Dead. Depicted with the head of a crocodile, the trunk and fore-limbs of a lion and the hind part of a hippopotamus.See also THOTH and MAAT.... |
| Goddess name "Amutnen" | Egypt | Goddess of milk cows. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Aphrodite" | Greek | One of the great Olympian divinities, according to the popular and poetical notions of the Greeks, the goddess of love and beauty. Some traditions stated that she had sprung from the foam of the sea, which had gathered around the mutilated parts of Uråñuś, that had been thrown into the sea by Cronus after he had unmanned his father. (Theogony of Hesiod) |
| Goddess name "Arito/ Artio of Muti" | Switzerland | A goddess of bears, prosperity & the harvest |
| Goddess name "Artio of Muti/ Arito" | Switzerland | A goddess of bears, prosperity & the harvest |
| Goddess name "Ermutu" | Egypt | Goddess of childbirth and midwives. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Inmutef (pillar of his mother)" | Egypt | Minor god. The bearer of the heavens, his cult is linked with that of the goddess HATHOR.... |
| Goddess name "Khons(u) (wanderer)" | Egypt / Upper | moon god. Recognized from at least 2500 BC but best known during the New kingdom (mid-sixteenth century BC). A significant deity at Thebes, where he is described as an offspring of AMUN and MUT. His sacred animal is the baboon. There is a Khonsu precinct as part of the Temple of Amun in the Karnak complex. From the Greco-Roman period there exists a sanctuary of Kom-ombo where Khonsu is seen as the offspring of the crocodile god SOBEK and the mother goddess HATHOR. Depicted anthropomorphically or with a falcon's head, but in either case enveloped in a close-fitting robe. He wears a crown consisting of a crescent moon subtending a full moon orb.... |
| Goddess name "Mut" | Egypt | An ancient Egyptian mother goddess with multiple aspects that changed over the centuries. Rulers of Egypt supported her worship in their own way to emphasize their own authority and right to rule. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Mut" | Egypt | The patron goddess of Thebes. In Upper Egypt she is the counterpart of SAKHMET, the Lower Egyptian goddess from Memphis. After superseding the goddess AMAUNET, she became locally the consort of the Sun god AMUN, in which capacity she is the mother of the moon god KHONSU. She was also regarded as the Divine mother of the Theban kings. Mut is depicted in human form wearing a vulture headdress sur mounted by the twin crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt. She is typically dressed in a bright red or blue patterned gown. Less frequently she is drawn with a lion's head. She enjoyed a cult center at Thebes where her sanctuary was known as the Iseru.... |
| Goddess name "Muta" | Roman | Goddess of silence. Roman |
| Goddess name "MutialAmma "PearlMother"" | Tamil | village mother goddesses represented by a stone. Tamil |
| Goddess name "Muttalamman" | Dravidian | Plague goddess, especially identified with smallpox Dravidian / Tamil |
| Goddess name "Muttalamman (pearl-mother)" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Plague goddess. Specifically identified with smallpox. Also Mutyalamma.... |
| Goddess name "Muttalamman/ Mutyalamma" | Davidian / Tamil | A plague goddess identified with smallpox |
| Goddess name "Thermuthis" | Egyptian | Egyptian fertility and harvest goddess. |
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