Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of goddesses, deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender. ... Ragana (mythology) [lt; lv]
Greek goddesses (28 C, 187 P) H. Women of Hades (1 C, 3 P) ... Pages in category "Women in Greek mythology" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
Queen of the gods, and goddess of women, marriage, childbirth, heirs, kings, and empires. She is the goddess of the sky, the wife and sister of Zeus, and the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. She was usually depicted as a regal woman in the prime of her life, wearing a diadem and veil and holding a lotus-tipped staff.
Aphrodite (/ ˌ æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t iː / ⓘ, AF-rə-DY-tee) [a] is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.
Goddesses (6 C, 8 P) Women in Greek mythology (25 C, 293 P) H. ... Pages in category "Women in mythology" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
This is a category for goddesses (i.e. female deities) and for female aspects of non-female gods. See also Category:Gods . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Goddesses .
The noun goddess is a secondary formation, combining the Germanic god with the Latinate -ess suffix. It first appeared in Middle English, from about 1350. [3] The English word follows the linguistic precedent of a number of languages—including Egyptian, Classical Greek, and several Semitic languages—that add a feminine ending to the language's word for god.
Βee goddesses, perhaps one of the Thriae, found at Camiros, Rhodes, dated to 7th century BCE (British Museum). The Thriae (/ ˈ θ r aɪ. iː /; Ancient Greek: Θριαί, romanized: Thriaí) were nymphs, three virginal sisters, one of a number of such triads in Greek mythology. [1]