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Neith, goddess of war and the hunt; Pakhet, a lioness huntress deity, whom the Greeks associated with Artemis; Wepwawet, god of hunting and war, along with funerary practices; Bastet, a cat goddess and natural hunter of reptiles and rodents. Greeks often associated her with Artemis, giving her the name Ailuros.
Pages in category "Hunting goddesses" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The name may be related to Greek árktos "bear" (from PIE *h₂ŕ̥tḱos), supported by the bear cult the goddess had in Attica and the Neolithic remains at the Arkoudiotissa Cave, as well as the story of Callisto, which was originally about Artemis (Arcadian epithet kallisto); [12] this cult was a survival of very old totemic and shamanistic ...
Maat – A goddess who personified truth, justice, and order [41] Menhit – A solar Lioness goddess who personified the brow of Ra [42] Mut – Consort of Amun, worshiped at Thebes [43] Neith – A creator and hunter goddess, Tutelary deity of the city of Sais in Lower Egypt [44] Nekhbet – A Vulture goddess, the tutelary deity of Upper Egypt ...
Diana was not only regarded as a goddess of the wilderness and the hunt, but was often worshiped as a patroness of families. She served a similar function to the hearth goddess Vesta, and was sometimes considered to be a member of the Penates, the deities most often invoked in household rituals. In this role, she was often given a name ...
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Among the Ugaritic incantations mentioning ʿAṯtartu are two where she is invoked to protect against snakebites: in the first incantation, from the text KTU 1.100, which is part of a sequence addressed to the sun-goddess Shapash to be delivered to a succession of deities, she is mentioned immediately after Anat, and the two goddesses' names ...
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