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Pages in category "Underworld goddesses" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adamma (goddess)
Persephone and Dionysos. Roman copy after a Greek original of the 4th–3rd century B.C. Marble. Hermitage.. In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone (/ p ər ˈ s ɛ f ə n iː / pər-SEF-ə-nee; Greek: Περσεφόνη, romanized: Persephónē, classical pronunciation: [per.se.pʰó.nɛː]), also called Kore (/ ˈ k ɔːr iː / KOR-ee; Greek: Κόρη, romanized: Kórē, lit.
Goddess of spring, Queen of the Underworld, wife of Hades and daughter of Demeter and Zeus. Her symbols include the pomegranate, grain, torches, wheat and the asphodelus. After her abduction by Hades, she was forced to split the year between the world of the dead with her husband and the world of the living with her mother.
An Earth god or Earth goddess is a deification of the Earth associated with a figure with chthonic or terrestrial attributes. There are many different Earth goddesses and gods in many different cultures mythology. However, Earth is usually portrayed as a goddess. Earth goddesses are often associated with the chthonic deities of the underworld. [1]
It is the only named underworld river mentioned in Homer's Iliad [18] – our earliest mythological text – and three of the Homeric Hymns. [19] Not only is it an underworld river [20] but is also, more generally, the inviolable waters upon which the gods swear oaths [21] and a goddess in her own right (the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys). [22]
Feronia, goddess concerned with wilderness, plebeians, freedmen, and liberty in a general sense. She was also an Underworld goddess. Fides, personification of loyalty. Flora, goddess of flowers, was assigned a flamen minor. Fornax, goddess probably conceived of to explain the Fornacalia, "Oven Festival." Fontus or Fons, god of wells and springs.
The Horus of the night deities – Twelve goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the first hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the second hour of night, M'k-neb-set, goddess of the third hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or ...
Primordial deities; Eros; Gaia; Nyx; Olympians; Aphrodite; Apollo; Ares; Artemis; Athena; Demeter; Dionysus; Hephaestus; Hera; Hermes; Hestia; Poseidon; Zeus ...