| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Aiaru" | Polynesia | Goddess who predicts death. One of the Seven Guardians of the world. Polynesia |
| Goddess name "Ala Ibo" | Nigeria | Goddess of the earth in its dual aspect of fertility and death. Nigeria |
| Goddess name "Ani-lbo" | Africa | Goddess of Birth, death, Happiness and love Africa |
| Goddess name "Anunnaki" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Children and courtiers of the god of heaven. Known from at least 2500 BC until circa 200BC (in Babylon). The Anunnaki originate as chthonic fertility deities but later feature as the seven fearsome judges of the underworld who answer to Kur and ERES KIGAL and who are responsible for påśśing sentences of death including that placed on the goddess INANA. They are often closely identified with the IGIGI.... |
| Goddess name "Atropos" | Pre - Homeric Greek | Goddess of fate. According to Hesiod, one of the daughters of ZEUS and THEMIS. One of an ancient trio of MOIRAI with LACHESIS and KLOTHO. She is responsible for the final part of a mortal life, the unturning inevitability of death, and she is depicted holding a pair of scales. The name of the plant Atropa belladonna (deadly nightshade) derives from her.... |
| Goddess name "Badb" | Celtic / Irish | war goddess. One of the aspects of the MORRIGAN. Capable of changing shape at will. She confronts the Irish hero Cu Chulainn before a battle and terrifies him by turning into Badb Catha, the crow and harbinger of death.... |
| Goddess name "Bean Sidhe" | Celtic | A Banshee an goddess of death.Celtic |
| Goddess name "Bera Pennu" | Northern Indian | vegetation goddess. Worshiped by the Khonds in Bengal. She was the recipient of human sacrifice to ensure good harvest, particularly of the spice turmeric, and as a protection against disease and infirmity. The sacrificial victim or meriab was youthful, often kept for years as a holy person before death and was always either the offspring of a previous sacrificial victim, or purchased from impoverished families for the purpose. He or she was generally strangled, sometimes in the fork of a tree, after days of festivities. In other instances the victim was cut up alive.... |
| Goddess name "Calounger" | Brazil | death goddess and / or Goddess of the sea Brazil |
| Goddess name "Crone" | Ireland | Third aspect of the Triple goddess. She signifies old age or death, Winter, the end of all things, the waning moon, post-mentrual phases of women's lives. Ireland |
| Goddess name "Dabaiba" | Panama | Mother of Creation and a goddess of thunder and lightning and in whose honour slaves were burnt to death.. Panama |
| Goddess name "Dendritis" | Greek | The goddess of the tree, occurs as a surname of Helen at Rhodes, and the following story is related to account for it. After the death of Menelaus, Helen was driven from her home by two natural sons of her husband. She fled to Rhodes, and sought the protection of her friend Polyxo, the widow of Tlepolemus. But Polyxo bore Helen a grudge, since her own husband Tlepolemus had fallen a victim in the Trojan war. Accordingly, once while Helen was bathing, Polyxo sent out her servants in the disguise of the Erinnyes, with the command to hang Helen on a tree. |
| Goddess name "Don" | Welsh | Goddess who is called a god of death Ireland / Welsh |
| Goddess name "Don/ Donn/ Dhonn" | Irish / Wales | A goddess that is called a god of death |
| Goddess name "Elphame aka Elphlane" | Scotland | Elphane, Goddess of death and disease. Scotland |
| Goddess name "Elphame/ Elphlane/ Elphane/ Queen of Elphame" | Scotland | A goddess of death & disease |
| Goddess name "Fata-Morgana" | Celtic | Goddess of the sea, illusion, enchantment, fate and death and queen of the Fortunate Isles. Celtic |
| Goddess name "Giliiie" | Pre - Christian Lithuanian | Goddess of death. She is said to enter the house of a dying person, dressed in a white gown, and suffocate them.... |
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