Greek Spider Goddess, Weaver of fate.
Greek
Goddess of the Moon.
ANIMALS: Bears, Fowl, Wild Beasts.
PLANTS: Silver Fir, Amaranth, Cypress, Cedar,
Hazel, Myrtle, Willow,
Daisy, Mugwort, Date palm
Ireland.
"Boiling", "Battle Raven"; "Scald-crow"; the
cauldron of ever producing
life;
Know in Gaul as Cauth Bodva. War Goddess and
wife of net, a war God. Sister of Macha, the
Morrigu and Anu.
Mother Aspect in Ireland.
Associated with the cauldron, crows and
ravens. Life, wisdom, inspiration,
enlightenment.
Great Goddess in her Destroyer aspect;
called the Veiled One. Disease, plague,
cursing. Wheat.
Wales.
Daughter of the sea God Llyr.
Connected with Beltane and often called the
May Queen. Goddess of summer flower, love and
flowers.
One aspect of the Triple Goddess. She
represents old age or death, winter, the end
of all things, the waning Moon,
post-menstrual phases of women's lives, all
destruction that precedes regeneration
through her cauldron of rebirth. Crows and
other black creatures are sacred to her. Dogs
often accompanied her and guarded the gates
of her after-world, helping her to receive
the dead. In Celtic myth, the gatekeeper-dog
was named Dormarth (Death's Door). The Irish
Celts maintained that true curses could be
cast with the dog's help. Therefore, they use
the word cainte (dog) for a satiric Bard with
the magick power to speak curses that came
true.
Greek
Great Mother of Gods. Leading deity of
mystery and religions. Consort is Attis who
is also her grandson.
SYMBOLS: Bees, Sickle, lions, pomegranates
and the scourge.
Ireland, Wales.
"Deep sea"; "Abyss". Queen of the Heavens;
Goddess of sea and air. Sometimes called a
Goddess, sometimes a God. The equivalent of
the Irish Danu.
In Ireland, Don ruled over the Land of the
Dead. Entrances to this Other world were
always in a sidhe (shee) or burial mound.
Control of the elements, eloquence.
Greek
Feminine spirit of the trees.
Durga is one of the forms of the Goddess SHAKTI,
and the wife of SHIVA. She was born fully-grown.
Durga is famous as the many-armed, many-weaponed
goddess that slays the Buffalo-Demon
Wales, Britain.
Maiden aspect of the Goddess.
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Correspondences
Ireland.
One of the three queens of the Tuatha Da
Danann and a daughter of the Dagda.
Ireland.
Goddess of forests, woodlands & wild things;
ruler of wild beasts. She rode in a chariot
drawn by a deer. Shape-shifter.
Freyja is known as the Goddess of Love,
Fertility, and Beauty. She is also sometimes
identified as the Goddess of Battle and Death. She
was also quite accommodating in sexual matters
Greek
Moon Goddess as in Crone or Dark Mother.
Keeper of Mysteries, Often pictured as having
the head of a dog, horse or boar. PLANTS:
Willow, henbane, aconite, yew, oak, mandrake,
cyclamen, mint, cypress, date palm, sesame,
dandelion, garlic, onion.
Greek
Goddess of Marriage. If hand fasting or some
type of commitment is the issue, Hera is the
Goddess to seek. Just remember that she has a
vindictive side.
PLANTS: Apple, Willow, Orris, Pomegranate,
Myrrh.
Greek
Goddess of Home and Hearth. Building a house,
remodeling or apartment hunting, Safety in
the home and the family unit.
The Hours or Seasons. They were the
guardian goddesses of Nature and Rain:
Eunomia (Order), Dike (Justice), Capro
(Fruit) and Irene (Peace), They ruled law,
justice and peace, protected young people.
Irene's Plant is Olive.
Sumerian Goddess that later became known as
Ishtar. She was the Queen of Heaven. Also the
Goddess of Love, Procreation, and War. As Ishtar
(in Babylonian Mythology) she was the daughter of
Sin, and the Goddess of Sexuality; The Ambitious,
Dynamic Goddess of Love and War.
(Assyrian/Mesopotamian) As the star of the
morning, Ishtar represented War. As the Star of the
Evening, Ishtar represented Love and Sensual
Pleasure. She was a perpetual Virgin even though
she enjoyed sexual relations, because she regained
her virginity every time she bathed in her special
lake.
Isis is an Ancient Egyptian Goddess probably known as one of the most famous Ancient figures to date. Isis is usually portrayed as a beautiful girl with a cats head. She may have yellow, black, white or glowing skin.
In many churches you my find images of the Black Madonna. These famous "Black Madonna’s" of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches are statues of Isis with Heru converted to use as Mary and Jesus. Some of these statues are missing that arm that carried Bast the Cat Goddess. The Christians didn't like using the statues of Isis with the baby girl. The priestess of Aset were known for their erotic dance rituals. These were the forerunner or modern erotic dance and stripping.
There are many covens today devoted strictly
to the worship of the Goddess Isis.
Goddess of Mindfulness.
Oriental Lady Goddess of Serenity, good
fortune and peaceful enlightenment.
Traditionally appears as a beautiful oriental
woman, often seated or standing on a lotus
blossom. Sometimes holding a small vial or
vase, representing growth.
Ireland.
"Crow"; "Battle"; "Great Queen of Phantoms";
Mother of Life and death; a war Goddess;
Mother Death; originally a Mother Goddess;
one of the aspects of the triple Morrigu.
Also called Mania, Mana, Mene, Minne.
Associated with ravens and crows.
She was honored Lugnassadh.
After a battle, the Irish would cut off the
heads of the losers and called them Macha's
acorn crop.
Protectress in war as in peace; Cunning,
sheer physical force, sexuality, fertility,
dominance over males.
Ireland
"Beauty, Brightness"
A form of Badb who helps heroes at death.
Greek
Goddess of Victory
ANIMAL: Lynx
Celtic;
the three sisters of the Wyrd. Responsible
for weaving fate - past, present and future.
Oya as Warrior Goddess of the Wind represented
the winds of change, and her image is usually shown
this way. As the Yoruban Goddess of the
Marketplace, she created change of fortune. She was
the wife of SHANGO, God of Thunder and Fertility.
Her power is associated with Lightning, Tornadoes,
Cemeteries, and Death. Oya is tall, stately, and an
Amazon in battle. She is the Orisa of Power and
Action. Every breath we take is the gift of Oya.
Greek
Goddess of the Underworld as well as Harvest.
Daughter of Demeter PLANTS: Parsley,
narcissus, willow, pomegranate.
Greek
Cretan Universal Mother or Great Goddess.
Supreme Queen of Heaven; Great Goddess; The
Mother.
Goddess of plant life and fertility; inventor
of the arts and magick. PLANTS: Myrrh TREES:
Oak.
