Aine of Knocaine
Airmid
A healing Goddess of the Tuatha de
Danann, Goddess of medicinal plants and
keeper of the spring that brings the dead
back to life.
Amaterasu-O-Mi-Kami
She is the sun-Goddess, the central
figure of Shintoism, and the ancestral deity
of the Imperial House of Japan. She takes
pride of place in every family shrine and her
symbol, is that of the rising sun.
Anu
Anann
Dana
Dana-Ana
Ireland.
Goddess of plenty, another aspect of the
Morrigu: Mother Earth; Great Goddess;
greatest of all Goddesses.
This flowering fertility Goddess, sometimes
she formed a trinity with Badb and Macha. Her
priestesses comforted and taught the dying.
Fires were lit for her at Midsummer. Two
hills in Kerry are called the Paps of Anu.
Maiden aspect of the triple Goddess in
Ireland. Guardian of cattle and health.
Goddess of fertility, prosperity, comfort.
Connected with the Summer Solstice.
Themes: Love, Romance, Passion, Sexuality; Luck, Fertility, Beauty, Pleasure
Symbols: Roses, Copper, Turquoise, Sandalwood
Since 1300 B.C.E Aphrodite has been
worshipped as the ultimate Goddess to
inspire passion, spark romance, increase
physical pleasure, augment inner beauty and
improve sexual self-assurance. Consequently,
many artistic depictions show her naked with
erotic overtones. Aphrodite's name means
"water born" or "foam born" initiating a
connection with the oceans fertility.
Goddess of forests and hunting.
Romano-Celtic (Continental European). Known
only from inscriptions and figurines in the
Ardennes region. Depicted
riding on the back of a wild boar and
presumed to be a guardian deity of boars.
Identified by the Romans with the Goddess
Diana.
Arianrhod
Celtic Earth Goddess. She is the daughter
and/or wife of Don, sister of Gwydion.
Queen of Heaven, was known throughout the Middle East, even among the Hebrews. She was the chief local deity of the town of Sidon.
Another of her many names was Ashtoreth. Like other lunar deities, this Goddess often wore the horns of the Crescent Moon or a heifer's head with horns.
Astarte was not only a Moon Goddess of love, but a deity of prosperity. Even the women of Israel were admonished for pouring out drink offerings, burning incense, and offering Moon cakes to Astarte. Her sacred groves, where love-priestesses lived, were frequented by the men.
When the fire-and-brimstone prophets of
Israel were trying to force the one-God
worship on the people, they outwardly
succeeded only after they destroyed the
temples and cut down the groves of the Queen
of Heaven. But the Goddess went underground
to remain a part of the new religion as the
Shekinah. Christians still know her as Mary,
the Queen of Heaven.
Astrea
Themes: Protection, Victory, courage, leadership
Symbols: New Clothing, Olives, Owls, Oak
Among the Greeks, especially those dwelling in Athens, Athena was the great protectress, standing for personal discipline and prowess, especially in battles. When you find your self-control lacking, or you need the courage to withstand a storm, Athena stands ready to come to the rescue.
Grecian art
shows Athena bearing a spear, wearing a
breastplate, and accompanied by an
owl. She is also the patroness of spinners
and many other forms of crafts
people who work with their hands.
Bast
An Egyptian Cat-Goddess. She is a moon
Goddess and the Goddess of the gentle,
growing heat of the sun. She is also patron
to healers and a fertility Goddess.
Benten
One of the Shichi-fuku-jun (seven gods
of luck). She brings inspiration and talent.
wealth and romance. She is also the queen of
the Sea, and is shown either as a dragon with
a retinue of white snakes or as a beautiful
woman who has a dragon as both steed and
lover.
Symbols: flowers and owl
Themes: beauty, relationships, charity, hope
This intensely beautiful Welsh
Goddess's name means "flower face". Folktales
say that Blodeuwedd was unfaithful to her
husband. As punishment for her crime, the
same magicians that gave her the flower face
chose to be merciful and transformed her into
an owl rather than inflicting some other
punishment. She has forever remained in this
form, mourning the loss of love and reminding
people of 2 important lessons: relationships
are fragile and beauty is indeed only skin
deep.
Boann
Boann is a Goddess of bounty and
fertility, whose totem is the sacred white
cow. She was the wife of Nechtan, a water
deity. The father of her son Angus was Dagda.
To hide their union from Nechtan, Boann and
the Dagda caused the sun to stand still for
nine months, so that Angus was conceived and
born on the same day.
Branwen
Branwen is the Celtic Goddess
of love and beauty, also worshipped in Manx
and Wales. She is the sister of Bran the
Blessed and Manannan mac Lir, daughter of
Lir, and wife of the Irish king Matholwch.
After the death of her brother Bran, due to a
war caused by her husband, Branwen died of a
broken heart. She corresponds with Aphrodite
and Venus.
Brigit (Bridget, Brighid,
Brigindo)
Brigit is the Irish-Celtic Goddess of
healing and fertility, patroness of smiths,
poets and doctors, symbolized by a white
swan. She is the daughter of The Dagda, the
deity of the Tuatha de Danaan, one of the
most ancient people of Northern Europe.
Brigit is wife of Bres, king of the gods and
Ireland. Her festival is that of the Imbolc,
observed on February 1. In Kildare, Ireland,
she was served by a female priesthood. Brigit
shares attributes with the ancient Greek
Triple Goddess Hecate. The pre-Christian
Brigantes, from where her name derives,
honored her as identical to Juno, Queen of
Heaven.
So well loved is Brigit, that she was made
into a Christian saint when the Celts turned
to Christianity.
The female fertilizing force. Carrying the pollen from one place to another, she cross-fertilizes, just as the soul fertilizes mind with night-dreams. She is the center.
She
brings the opposites together by taking a
little from here and putting it there.
Transformation is no more complicated than
that. This is what she teaches. This is how
the butterfly does it. This is how the soul
does it.
Caridwen
Carmin/Carmina
Cloacina
Copia
Themes: Animals, Health
Symbols: Sheep , Hot Water
A Goddess who cares for all
domestic animals, especially sheep and
cows, Damona is sometimes portrayed as a hot
spring, alluding to a healthful,
warm quality. As fall nears we can call on
Damona to protect out pets, or to
maintain the health of the animals who
provide us with food.
Goddess of Earth's fruitfulness in general but of barley in particular, was one of the great Olympians (though herself of pre-Olympian origin) and held in peculiar honor by the others. She was severely beautiful, with hair like ripened grain. She was the daughter of Cronus and his sister Rhea, and thus herself sister of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia and Hera.
Demeter means literally 'Earth-Mother', and primordially she seems to have been Goddess of both the Earth's aspects - it's fertile surface and its dark Underworld.
Sacred to Demeter were the horse, the bee,
the poppy, the snake and the torch.
Diana
Egeria
Celtic-Saxon horse Goddess of Iron age Britain, a pre-roman gallic divinity, Goddess of horses, guardian and protectress of horses, asses, mules, and all who had to do with them.
The only Celtic deity to be included in the roman pantheon. the fact that Celtic horse troops fought with the roman armies spread and popularized the horse Goddess cult widely over the continent.
Provided by: funk & Wagnall’s standard
dictionary of folklore mythology and
legend.
Fana
Felicitas
Feronia
Fortuna
Furina
The
Egyptian love Goddess who rested in a tree at
the edge of the horizon, offering the
deceased their first taste of immortal
food.
Horta
Inari
A Fox-Goddess in charge of fertility for
crops. In mortal form she is shown carrying
sheaves of rice and riding a white-fox, but
she likes to change into a fox and play
pranks. She also likes seducing mortal
men.
Izanami-No-Kami
The Creator Goddess and consort of
Izanagi. She was burned to death by the birth
of Hi-no-Kagu-Tsuchi, a fire-god, and became
the Goddess of the Underworld.
Jana
She is shown
with necklaces of human skulls and earrings
of leg bones; she bears a sharp knife, and
dances in the graveyard. Not, perhaps, a
pretty picture of the Goddess- but certainly
a powerful one.
Losna
Menerva
Mizu-Ha-Wo-Me
The senior water Goddess, invoked
particularly by women.
Mlukukh
Morrigan
Morrigan was the Celtic goddess of war and
death who could take the shape of a crow or
raven. She is associated with the sometimes
frightening aspects of female energy, and is
wife to Dagda. As one aspect of the Celtic
Triple Goddess, Morrigan is seen washing
bloody laundry prior to battle by those
destined to die.
The full-bodied Goddess figures represent the abundance of natural food the earth provides for us. Without her bounty, we would starve and die. But many ancient cultures did not employ what is known as either/or logic, using instead what we call both/and thinking. Thus the figurines and paintings from ancient times may represent both the earth as our mother and the tribal mothers who were fertile enough to conceive and give birth.
At a time when life was much more chancy than it is now, human beings would have been happy to worship an abundant-bodied woman who represented both the fertility of the land (thus, food for her human children) and the fertility of human children (and thus, more food gatherers for the tribe).
This mother Goddess appears as the
mother of plants and animals as well as of
human beings. As the first, she is often
depicted as a plant herself, rising from the
ground, her hands shoulder-high and wide
apart. As mother of animals, she is shown
with wild beasts by her side, leaping to her
upraised arms. Some figures show the Goddess
as both mother of plants and lady of
beasts.
Munthukh
Murcida
Nantosuelta
Consort of Sucellus, she is possibly a
goddess of nature, valleys and streams. Her
symbol, the raven, suggests that she may be
associated with Irish war-Goddess
Morrigan.
Nortia
Nox
Oki-Tsu-Hime-No-Kami
The Goddess of kitchens, the consort of
Oki-tsu-Hiko-no-Kami, and responsible for
the cauldron.
Pasht
The darker aspect of Bast.
Pertunda
Renenet
An Egyptian Goddess who pronounces a
child's name, bestows her fortune, and
defines her personality.
In Myth
Rhiannon's names translates as "divine" or "great queen." She is a potent symbol of fertility, yet she is also an Otherworld and death Goddess, a bringer of dreams, and a moon deity who is symbolized by a white horse. Her father was Heveydd the Old.
In her guise as a death Goddess, Rhiannon could sing sweetly enough to lure all those in hearing to their deaths, and therefore she may be related to Germanic stories of lake and river faeries who sing seductively to lure sailors and fishermen to their deaths.
Her white horse images link her to Epona, and many scholars feel they are one and the same, or at least derived from the same archetypal roots.
Rhiannon's original name is thought to be Rigatona (Gaulish), also meaning "great queen," indicating a much higher status in the Celtic pantheon than she enjoys today. Some sources say she was once a sun Goddess.
In Magick and Ritual -- Rhiannon can aid
you in overcoming enemies, exercising
patience, working magick, moon rituals, and
enhancing dream work. Correspondences --
Mares, silver, blood, the waning moon,
jasmine, moonstones, the color
white.
Rosmerta
A Celtic Goddess of fertility and wealth,
whose cult was widely spread in Gaul. She is
the wife of the god Esus, but also of the
Gaulish Mercury. Her attributes are a
cornucopia and a stick with two snakes.
Lithuanian Goddess
who rests
in a cosmic tree, hanging the souls of the
dead like fruit on its branches.
Sekhmet
A lion Goddess of Egypt, she is the
goddess of the killing heat of the sun. She
is also known as the Eye of Ra. She is also
the patron of bonesetters.
Shannon
Irish Goddess of the river Shannon.
Sidhe Ancient Irish hill people believed to
be the spirits of the dead. Tuatha De Danann
The Tuatha De Danann ("People of the Goddess
Danu") are the Irish race of gods, founded by
the Goddess Danu. These gods, had perfected
the use of magic. From the legends of the
Tuatha De Danaans we learn that these were
deities of learning, magical skills, arts and
crafts. The three things that they revered
above all others were: the plough, the hazel
and the sun.
Strenia
Tana
Thalna
Tuchulcha
Turana
Umbria
Uni
Vanth
Themes: Love, Passion, Romance, Sexuality
Symbols: Doves, Flowers, Berries, Trees, Pine Cones Venus was originally an Italic Goddess of blossoms, hearts and flowers have slowly become attributed to her loving, passionate energies. In fact her name became the root for the word venerate - to lift up, worship or esteem.
So it is that
Venus greets pre-spring efforts for uplifting
our hearts with positive relationships.
Vesta
Vitumnus
Yama-No-Kami
The Goddess of the mountains. She protects
women in childbed because she has a secret
box from which all souls are dispensed. As a
seasonal Goddess she gives birth to the
twelve months.
