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Chup-Kamui: Sung goddess, originally a moon goddess she asked the male moon god if she could be the sun and ever sense she has risen as the sun.
Kamui-Fuchi: Goddess of the hearth, visited every morning by Chup-Kamui. It is considered extremely impolite to walk through sunbeams streaming across the floor in the morning.
Turesh: Was a goddess who delivered food to the people so they did not have to work, but no one was to see her or ask her name. One day someone graded her hand and pulled her into the house to see her . From that day on the people have had to struggle for the meager food their harsh land provides.
Al-Lat: Her name is Arabic for "Goddess," the supreme reality in female form. She represented the earth and its fruits; it follows that she also ruled human generation. Solid as the earth she represented, she was considered unshakable and immovable.
Al-Uzza: Her name means "the mighty' or "the strongest." With Al-Lat and Meant, this goddess composed the great religious trinity of the ancient Arabians. Before Mohammed declared himself a prophet of male divinity he worshiped this desert goddess, but when he turned on her he destroyed her sanctuary of acacia tress south of Mecca. However her power didn't die out until a 1000 years later.
Dhat-Badan: The primary goddess of the Himyaritic Arabs of Yemen, her names mean "she of the wild goats" and "she of the sanctuary." This suggests that she was a goddess of the natural forces of the wilderness, worshiped especially in tree-circled oases.
Kalisha: Her name means "Purity," an ancient Arabian Goddess worshiped, as most other female deities of that culture, in the shape of a stone.
Menat: With Al-Lat and Al-Uzza, this goddess of fate and time was the third member of the ancient Arabian religious trinity. Menat seen as the aged woman and a force of fate and an embodiment of death. Again Mohammed destroyed the black stone worshiped for her. Although through time with the success of the masculine religion, Meant changed from a goddess to a god.
An-Zu: Goddess of chaos , pictures as sickle moon with seven-pointed star and sacred tree; her emblems also include a fish and a lozenge/vulva. Like Tiamat, she was killed in order to form the universe.
Atargatis: She descended from heaven in the form of an egg, from which the mermaid goddess emerged. During the Roman erra, she was worshipped in ecstatic dances by eunuch priets who devoted their lives to dervishlike whirlings and self-inflicted pain.
Eye Goddess: Her name is lost in time, but her image remains. Eyes are carved into many temples in Malta and across the eastern Mediterranean. The eyes sometimes appear clear, with eyelashes and all, but on some temples they dissolve into a design on spirals. It is suggested they she ruled both birth and death. Her image may survive in variations of the "eye of god" found in Mediterranean cultures.
Tanit: She was the winged goddess with a zodiac around head and the sun and moon in either hand. Ruler of the moon, sun, stars, and sky.
Atabei: Soul of the Ocean.
Guabancex: Goddess of storms, wind & water.
Itiba Tahuvava: The great ancestor, who gave birth to four sons by Caesarean ssection; these boys accidentally created the sea while playing.
Cihuacoatl: The Mexican goddess of life's trials, she invented productive labor. She also prophesied doom, wandering through the worled decked out in jewels and face paint, moaning in despair of coming disasters.
Dabaiba: "Mother of Creation," the great goddess of early Panama.
Masaya: Nicaraguan goddess of volcanoes and earthquakes was the source of oracles; she was described as having black skin, thinning hair, and long, sagging breasts.
Mu Olokukurtilisop: Name of the great preexistent goddess who parthenogenetically produced the sun, took him as her lover, birthed the moon and mated with him, and thus produced the entire skyful of stars. Still full of energy, she took all the stars as lovers, thus producing the plants and animals of our world.
A: Moon goddess, her emlem is a disk with eight light rays, a number that like the octagon is associated with the goddess of light in many cultures.
Adamu: This was the name of the female principle of matter. Her name means "red," and she represented the blood of the womb and of menstration.
Eshara: Goddess of the productive fields, she was also a war goddess who symbolized the armed defense of property that accompanies private ownership of land.
Ki: Primeval earth goddess was the original female principle of matter.
Lamamu: Her name means 'primeval sediments' and symbolized the first bits of created matter. This primeval matter was invoked at the completion of human creations, especialy buildings. She was the daughter of Tiamat the sea goddess.
Mamitu: The divine ancestor responsible for all that happens to her descendents, this destiny goddess is a sort of defined chromosome.
Ahmenti: {ah-men-tee} The Westerner; The Hidden Goddess. An Underworld goddess who welcomed the dead. Akashic records, helping with peaceful transitions into the spirit relm.
Ament: She lived in a tree on the edge of the desert and watched the gates to the afterworld.
Anuket: Her name means "embracer" she was a water goddess. Her sacred animal was the gazelle, whose speed matched that of her waters. Late in her history, she was merged with Nephthys.
Bast/Bastet/Pasht {in her dark aspect}:Cat-headed goddess; mother of all cats. Cats, especially black ones, were sacred to her and kept in her temple. The moon, pleasure, music, dance, communication with animals, intuition, healing.
Buto{boo-toe}/Ua Zit/Uatchet: Cobra goddess. Protection, hiding from evil.
Hathor: Considered self-produced. Sky and Moon goddess. The mirror and sistrum were sacred to her. Protectress of women. Joy, love, pleasure, flowers, the Moon, motherhood, beauty, music, dance, artists, astrology, prosperity, the family.
Heket{heh-ket}/Heqet: The frog-headed goddess of creation, childbirth, fertility, corn, resurrection.
Isis: {eye-sis} Great Mother and Moon Goddess . The weaver and knotter of the threads of the Tat. Magick through the tying of knots. Her sistrum had a cat image on it. Sometimes she was shown protecting winged arms. Powerful magician. All arts and crafts; civilization. The Moon, motherhood, purification, initiation, reincarnation, success, healing. Patroness of priestesses.
Maat: {may-at} Lady of the Judgement Hall; her law governed the three worlds, for even the gods had to obey her. Truth, justice, law, order, divine order, reincarnation.
Mafdet: The Lady of the Castle of Life was an early (First Dynasty) goddess whose totemic animals were the cat (or its fiercer cousin, the lion) and the mongoose; she was invoked against snakebite.
Mehurt: The goddess Neith as the sacred cow of creation, the mystic animal mother of the world. She was shown as a pregnant woman with huge breasts, or as a cow-headed woman holding the lotus of the world.
Meskhoni: Birth goddess she was symbolized by a brick with a human head.
Mut: Great Goddess, World-Mother, and the Great Sorceress. She wore a vulture headdress; three cauldrons were her symbols. Considered self-produced. Marriage, creation.
Neith: {night} The Huntress and Opener of the Ways. Her name means "I have come from myself." She is the Spirit behind the Veil of the Mysteries. Herbs, medicine, magick, healing, knowledge, rituals, meditation.
Nekhebet: {neck-meh-bet} Gurdian goddess, often in vulture form. She carried a serpent-twined scepter. Motherhood, childbirth, protection.
Nephthys: {nef-this} The Revealer; an Underworld goddess. Death and dark magick; guardian of hidden things; mystical knowledge and secrets; protection, intuition, dreams.
Nut:{noot} Mother of the Gods; friend and protector of the dead. Reincarnation, weather.
Rat:{rate} Mother of Maat. Wisdom, knowledge.
Renenet: When a child was born, this goddess was on hand to pronounce its name, define its personality and bestow its fortune.
Renpet: Her name means "the year." A newly sprouted palm was the emblem of this goddess of youth and springtime, who also symbolized the extension of measurable time into immeasurable eternity.
Saosis: The goddess, indentified with Hathor, whos was emblemized in the acacia tree in which it was said that "death and life are enclosed."
Sati/Satis/Satet: Her name means "she who runs like an arrow", was a archer goddess who personified the waterfalls of the river Nile. Her sanctuary was at Aswan, in ancient upper Egypt, on the island of Seheil.
Sekhet: {seh-ket} Lady of Flame; sister of Bast. Strength, might, violence, cultivated lands.
Sekhmet: {sek-met} The Powerful; Lion-headed goddess, crowned with a disk and coiled cobra. War and battle, physicians and bone-setters.
Selkhet: {sell-kat} Shown as a woman with a scorpion on her head, often with extended wings. Sometimes portrayed as a woman withthe lower body of a scorpion. Potectress of marriage; goddess of happy marriages and married sexual love.
Shait: This goddess was human destiny, born at the instant of birth. Invisible Shait rode through life with each person, observing all virtues and vices, crimes and secret prides. Thus it was Shait who spoke final judgment on a soul after death.
Seshat/Sesheta: Mistress of the House of Books; female equivalent of Thoth. Writing, archives, measurement, calculation, record-keeping, time, history, books, learning, inventions.
Ta-Urt{tah-oort}/Tauret: Hippoptamus goddess, sometimes an avenging deity. Her hieroglyphic sign was sa, meaning the uterine blood of the Goddess that could give eternal life. Childbirth, maternity, nursing, mothers, revenge, protection.
Tefnut: {tef-noot} An Underworld goddess of destruction and reincarnation. Moisture, dew, rain, mist, the blood.
Uadgit: The
sovereign cobra goddess of lower Egypt and the Nile delts, she joined with
Nekhebet to form the two mistresses of the land, the Neb-Ti, a political
symbol of the unification of Egypt.
Haltia: The house goddess. She was said to live in each room's roof beams, bringing good luck and health to the residents if they greeted her upon entering.
Luonnotar: 'daughter of nature.' One day a duck nested on her knee while she was resting. When she moved the three eggs fell into the primeval slime. There the eggs were transformed into the universe. After this she formed the islands and peninsulas on earth.
Mere-Ama: 'sea mother,' also called 'Vete-Ema' or 'Mier-Iema.' She was the spirit of water. Her most powerful manifestation was in eh ocean, but she also resided in the streams and brooks.
Mielikki: Goddess of the forests, protector of animals, and also goddess of the hunt. Her favorite animal was the bear-cub; when she found orphaned cubs, she would nurture them herself into adulthood.
Paivatar: She was called 'competent maid' or 'resplendent of the shaft-bow of the sky.' The spinning sun virgin who wove daylight from a rainbow arch.
Rauni: Thunder goddess, she was called by other names such as Aklco, Maan-Eno, Ravdna, and Roonikka. Wife of the oak god of thunder, she was incarnated in the row an tree or mountain ash.
Tuonetar: The queen of death. Lived in a jungle of darkness somewhere on earth, divided from the land of the living by a black-water river.
Venden Emo: The 'mother of water' was responsible for guiding fish into the nets of the hungary. She is a very ancient goddess; her worship was recorded almost 2000 years ago by Agricola.
Vellamo: The sea goddess lived underwater with her daughters, the waves, who tended cattle and raised mysterious crps on the ocean floor.
Aditit: {ahh-dee-tee} Nother of the Gods. The past and future.
Devi/Mahadevi: {deh-vee} "The Great Goddess." The goddess who is the engery within chaos, the energy for creation of all things. The Hindus say that all goddesses aare merely aspects of Devi. Shakti or female energy.
Durga: {dur-gah} The Divine Great Mother. Death-rebither, destruction-recrreation, futility-comfort, protection, power.
Gauri: {gow-ree} "The Golden One." A sky virigin deity worshipped in August festivals. The Hindus consider August the best time for marriages and naming babies. Marriage, children, growth of the soul, wealth, good fortune.
Kali/Kali Ma: {kaw-lee} The Terriable; the Black Mother; Mother of Karma. Patronesss of witches. Past, present, future. Said to command the weather by braiding or realising her hair. Regeneration, revenge, fear, dark magick, sexual activities.
Lakshmi: Goddess of love and beauty. Good fortune. prosperity, sucess, love.
Prithivi: {preh-then-vee} "The Broad One," the cosmic cow. Mother of the deities of the dawn and Fire. Birthing mental ideas and projects.
Sarasvati: {sair-as-vah-tee} The Stimulator; Mother of the Vedas, Crescent Moon, creative arts, science, music, poetry, learning, teaching.
Tara: {tah-rah} Star; Great Goddess. Knowledge, compassion, enlightenment.
Uma: {oo-mah} Mother Goddess; Daughter of the Himalayan Mountains. Light, beauty, fertility, darvest, crops, the Earth, the dark season, yoga.
Aine: {aw-ne} Faery queen of Knockiane; associated with Summer Scolstice and fruitful harvest. Moon goddess and patroness of crops and cattle.
Anu: {an-oo} Mother Earth; greatest of all goddesses. Madian aspect of the Triple Goddess. Health, fertility, prosperity, comfort.
Badb/Badhbh/Badb Catha: {bibe} "Boiling," "Battle Raven," "Scald-crow"; the cauldron of ever-producing life; known in Gaul as Cauth Bodva. War Goddess and sister of Macha, The Morrigan, and Anu. Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess in Ireland. Associated with the cauldron, crows, and ravens. Life, wisdom, inspiration, enlightenment.
Banba: {ban-bah} Her name might be derived from banua, which means "sow," thus connecting her with the Underworld goddesses, such as the Welsh Cerridwen. Repel danger.
Boann/Boannan: {boo-an} Goddess of the Riber Boyne. Other Celtic river goddesses: Siannan (Shannon), Sabrina (Severn), Sequana (Seine), Deva (Dee), Clota (Clyde), Verbeia (Wharfe), Brigantia (Braint, Brent). Healing.
Brigit: {breet} or {breed} "Power"; "Renown"; "Fiery Arrow or Power" (Breo-saighead); "High." Called the poetess. Often called the Triple Brigits, Three Blessed Ladies of Britian, the Three Mothers. Associated with Imbolc. Goddess of fire, fertility, the hearth, all feminine aarts and crafts, and martial arts. Healing, physicians, agriculture, insperation, learning, poetry, divination, prophecy, smithcraft, animal husbandry, love, Witchcraft, occult knowledge.
Danu/Danann/Dana: {danoo or thanoo} Possibly the same as the goddess Anu. Ancestress of the Tuath De Danann. Mother of the Irish gods; Great Mother; Moon Goddess. She gave her name to mthe Tuatha De Danann (People of the Goddess Danu). Patroness of wizards, rivers, water, wells, presperity and plenty, magick, wisdom.
Flidais: {flee-daz} Goddess of forests, woodlands, and wild things; ruler of wild beasts. She rode in a chariot drawn by deer. A shape-shifter.
Macha: {maax-ah} "Crow"; "Battle"; "Great Queen of Phantoms"; Mother of Life and Death; a war goddess; Mother Death. Associated with ravens and crows. She was honored at Lughnassadh. Cunning, sheer physical force, sexuality, fertility, dominance over males.
Maeve/Mab/Medb: {mayv or meeve or meev} "Drunk Woman"; "Queen wolf." A warrior queen of Connacht; also a faery queen. War deity, actually participating in the fighting; combined mother and warrior aspects of the Goddess. Physical sexuality and fertility; revenge, waar.
The Morrigan/Morrigu/Morgan: {mor-ee-gan}{moor-rig-oo} {moor-gan} Part of the trinity of war goddesses. The only thing able to separte her from the other two is her association with magick, she sang runes and cast charms before battles to strengthen her favorities.
Niamh: {nee-ahm} "Brightness"; "Beauty." A form of Badh who helps heroes at death.
Scathach/Scota/Scatha: {skath-atch} A warrior woman and prophetess who lived in alba, probably on the Isle of Skye, and tought the martial arts. Patroness of blacksmiths, healing, magick, prophecy, martial arts.
Tailtiu: Foster mother of Lugh. Connected with Lughnassadh. Goddess of The Earth, peace, and prosperity.
Amaterasu: {ah-mat-er-ah-soo} Sun Goddess; ruler of all deties. Warmth, harvest, love, fertility, wisdom, peace, light, compassion.
Benten/Benzaiten: The only Japanese goddess of good luck. Queen of the sea, snakes, and dragons. Protection from earthquakes; bringer of insperation and talent, wealth and romance.
Inari: {in-ah-ree} Very popular rice Goddess who can shape-shift into a fox. Business, prosperity, smithing, sword-blades.
Kishi-Mojin: Protectress of children; Universal Mother. Compassion, childbirth, life, balance, fertility.
Kuan Yin/Kwannon: Great Mother; Goddess of compassion and mercy. Success, mercy, purification, fertility, children, healing, enlightenment.
Matronit: In the name of god, YHWH. There was found two demi-goddesses. Each letter was given a human character: the Y of Yahweh became the father and the first H the mother, who proceeded from the father. These two produced W, the Son, the King, and finally a second H, the blameless Daughter, the essence of kingship, Makhut or the Matronit.
Grand-Aunt Tiger: The image of a primeval tigress goddess is prominent in China, Taiwan, Korea, and southern Japan. Researchers propose an ancient pan-Asian myth in which a tiger mother is the ancestral divinity. In Korea, she stalks and threatens the sun maiden Hae Soon.
Hae-Soon: The sun goddess. Originaly a girl on earth, when Grand-Aunt Tiger ate there mother and then came after the girls they praid to the heavens for help. A magical golden chain swung down just as they were about to be killed and they were pulled up into heaven. The girls were then given duties: Hae-Soon, to ride the sun, Dae-Soon, the moon, and Byul-Soon, a star.
Mama: The great smallpox goddess who leaves spirit footprints, which appear as little pimples, on the bodies of those she visits.
Mulhalmoni: Goddess of water. She is invoked by women shaman when they wish to cure eye diseases or blindness.
Ryuhwa: Daughter of the god of waters, who hatched the archer god Cumong.
Samsin Halmoni: These are the three goddesses of birth and are celebrated at birthday parties throught ones life.
Yondung Halmoni: An ancient wind goddess, but like many goddesses she is sometimes transformed into a male god. Though her female form makes historical precedence.
Alaghorn Noam Tzentel: "Mother of Mind" was the ancient Mayan goddess of thought and intellect.
Ix Chel: The snake goddess of water and the moon, of childbirth and weaving. The night-riding goddess spent her energies nursing the women of earth through pregnancy and labor, taking special care of those who visited her sacred island of Cozumel. (Mayan of the Yucatan Peninsula)
Altan-Telgey: The earth goddess bore this name, which means "golden surface," among the Mongol people.
Etugen: An ancient earth goddess, her name derived from Otuken, the holy mountain of the Tujue people. It is said that earthquakes are caused by her shaking herself to get rid of impurities.
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Cipactli: Was a Monsterous Alligator who swam through the waters of primordial Chaos. She contained all potential life in side of her. She offered her body to create life and was torn apart by two Gods. Her lower body fell through chaos to create Earth and her upper body rose to form the heavens.
Mayahuel: Her name means "strangleing one," ruler of the earth, the night sky, hallucinations, and drunkenness. She is said to have 400- brests that nursed the stars, who were fish in the oceanic heaven.
Alaisiagae: War Goddess
Freyja: {fray-yah} Vanir goddess of great power and magickal knowledge. Mistress of cats; leader of the Valkyries; shape-shifter. Inspires all sacred poetry. Love, beauty, animals, sex, enchantment, witchcraft, gold, wealth, trance, wisdom, magick, luck, the Moon, writing, protection.
Frigg: {frig} Aesir Mother Goddess; shape-shifter; knower of all things. Independence, childbirth, cunning, physical love, wisdom, foresight, destiny, magick.
Gefion: {ghev-yon} The Giver; shape-shifter. Magickal arts, prosperity, luck, crops, fortunate turn of events.
Gullveig: {gool-vauge} Vanir goddess and sorceress. "Golden Branch"; Mistress of Magick. Magick, foreseeing, prophecy, healing.
Heid: {hade} "Gleaming One"
Hel/Hella: {hell} Queen of the Dead and Ruler of the Underworld. Dark magick, revenge, rebirth in the midst of life.
Idhunn: {id-doom} Asa-goddess of long life; keeper of the golden apples. Youth, responsibility, beauty, long life.
Nanna: {nan-ah} Asa-goddess; "The Moon"; Great Mother; Earth Goddess. Love, gentleness.
Nerthus/Erce: {near-thus} Earth Mother. Peace, fertility, witchcraft, wealth, the sea, purification.
The Norns: {nornz} The Fates; The Wyrd Sisters, three women usually found at the well of Urd in Asgard: Urd [erd] (past, destiny), Verthandi [ver-than-dee] (present), Skuld [skulld] (the future). Similar to the Greek Fates. Akashic records; determining the purpose of this fate; looking into the possible future events in your life.
Ran: Vana-goddess; "The Ravager". Unpredictable and malicious. Drowning, the sea, sailors, storms, great terror.
Siff: Asa-goddess; Earth Mother. Noted for her beautiful corn-gold hair. Harvest, frutifulness, plenty, generosity.
Sjofna: {syof-nah} Goddess of love. One of the Asynjor.
Skadi: {skaw-dee} Mountians, winter, hunting, revenge, dark magick.
{Vanir: {van-yeer} One of the races of deities; the original matriarchal deties.
Vanaheim: {van-ah-hame} Land of the Vanir deities; on the same level as Asgard.
Aesir: {ay-seer} One of the races of deities in Asgard; the later patriarchal deities.
Asgard: {aws-guard} Home of the Aesir deities.
Asa-Gods: {ay-sah} The Aesir; also used to refer to both the Aesir and Vanir deities.}
Ba'alat: Her name means "Lady" or "Our Lady" and is the equivalent to that of the god Boal ("Lord.")
Bau: Sky goddess praised as "eldest of heaven" and her name means "Space." She was known as the mother goddess of Bobylonia and Phoenicia. She merged with the goddesses Gatamdug and Gula the separte identities of these goddesses became lost, with only Gula surviving.
Beruth: Her name means "earth," "mother," or "covenant" it is not known which. Her name also lives in her city 'Beirut.'
Mylitta: Her real names are Mulitta and Mu'Allidtu it was changed by the Greek historian Herodotus when he described her worship. She combined the force of flowing water and the heavenly fire into highly sexual energy personified as a nude, bearded woman riding a tortise or a billygoat.
Ri: Little is known of this ancient goddess. Only that she was a moon goddess and that her name means "light."
Aphrodite/Venus: She Who Binds Hearts Together. Symbols were golden apples, pomegranate, cockle shells, poppy, rose, the ocean, heron, dove, swan. Love, beauty, joy of physical love, passion, all forms of partnerships and relationships, fertility, continued creation, renewal.
Artemis/Diana: The Huntress; Moon Goddess of wild places and wild things; a shape-shifter. Protectress of young girls; mistress of magick; sorcery, enchantment, psychic powers, women's fertility, purification, mental healing, ,dancce, wild animals, healing, herbs, forests.
Athene/Minerva: Sacred to her were the owl, snake, and oak. Protection (both physical and psychic), writing, music, the sciences, sculptors, potters, architects, wisdom, true justice, renewal, battle strategy, peace.
Bona Dea: {bone-ah-dee-ah} "Good Goddess" worshipped only by women. Fertility.
The Carmenae: {car-men-aye} Similar to the Muses. Antevota {ann-teh-vor-tah} knew the past; Postovorta {post-vor-tah} knew the future; Egeria {eh-ger-ee-ah} foretold the fate of new babies; Caarmenta {car-men-tah} knew prophecies in general and gave the alphabet. Similar to the Fates and Norns. Determining the purpose for your life this time.
Dea Syria: Literally means "The Syrian Goddess." Used to describe Atargais, Isthar, Cybele, and Anahita, among others
Demter/Ceres: Eternal Mother; Mistress of Magick. The Goddess of the Eleusinian Mysteries in Greece. Protectress of women. Motherhood, marriage, crops, renewal, initiation, law, higher magick.
Fauna: {fawn-ah} Nature goddess whose festival were forbidden to men; they ended in orgies. May have been the original form of the god Pan. Connecting with Earth elements; communicatiion with animals; grounding yourself.
Hecate: {he-ka-tee} Dark Moon Goddess; goddess of witchcraft; Lady of the Wild Hunt. All secret powers of the relm of spirits and Nature are hers. Patroness of priestesses. Dark magick, enchantments, prophecy, charms and spells, vengence, averting evil, wisdom, victory, riches, transformation, purification, crossroads, curses, change and renewal.
Hera/Juno: {he-rah} Queen of Heaven. Symbols were the sickle, labrys, shield, golden apples, pomegranate. Protectress of all phases of feminine life. Fertility, renewal, purification, the Moon, when facing insecurity, punishment.
Hestia/Vesta: {hes-tee-ah} Virgian Goddess of the hearth and fire. Circles, discipline, dedication to duty, humility, modesty, prudence, acceptance, continuity, service to others.
Ops: {ahps} A harvest goddess who was invoked by sitting down and touching the Earth with one hand. Wealth, success.
Persephone/Proserpina/Kore: {per-sef-oh-nee} & {kor-ee} Queen of the Underworld. Sacred to her were the bat, willows, grain, corn, keys, pomegranaate, caves. Overcoming obstacles, surviving.
Tellus Mater: {tell-us-mah-ter} Ancient Earth goddess. Fertility, marriage, children, fruitfulness of the soil.
Caillech, Benie, Bric: {cal-yach} "Vield One"; Destroyer goddess of the Underworld; similar to Cerridwen and the Morrigan. Another name is Scota, from which Scotland comes. Originally Scotland was called Caledonia, or land given by Caillech. Some sources call her the Gray or Blue Hag, the Gyre Carlin, Black Annis, or the Hag of Beare. Was pictured as having a blue face, or three blue faces, and fangs. Disease, plague.
Cailleach Bheur: Scotland, the Isle of Man, southern Ireland. A blue-faced hag of the winter season. It is said she is reborn every Samhain and lays aside her rule every Beltane. Similar to Black Annis of Ireland. A mountain-mother of souther Ireland; she never aged. Similar to Cerridwen and the Morrigan; also somtimes called the Gry or Blue Hag, or the Gyre Carlin. Control of the weather, healing, initiation, great wisdom, shap-shifting.
Nicneven: {nick-neven} "Dvine"; "Brilliant." Said to ride through the night with her followers at Samhain. During the Middle Ages she was called Dame Habonde, Abundia, Satia, Bensozie, Zobiana, and Herodiana. Communication with the dead, reconnecting with the Dark Mother.
Scathach: {skath-atch} "Shadow, shade"; "The Shadowy One"; "She Who Strikes Fear." Dark Goddess; Underworld Goddess. Also a warrior woman and prophetess who lived in Alba (Scotland), probably on the Isle of Skye, and taught the marital arts. Patroness of blacksmiths, healing, magick, prophecy, maartial arts.
Anat: The great goddess of the Ugaritic pantheon had four aspects: warrior, mother, virigin, and wanton. "Mother of nations," she remaind "Virgin" in spite of being "Mistress of All Gods." Creator of her people, she could also be a blood-thirsty killer who went berserk and destroyed every living thing within reach.
Kathirat: The "wise goddess," she set the bride-price for every woman, including the mighty Ishatar. As she who decides the proper order in which all things must be done.
Shapash: "Sun Goddess," she retrieves the fertility god's plaything from the unerworld, an allegory of the return of moisture and growthto the earth's surface, of the annual defeat of drought.