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Pax, goddess of peace; equivalent of Greek Eirene. Aeneas and the Penates, from a 4th-century manuscript. Penates or Di Penates, household gods. Picumnus, minor god of fertility, agriculture, matrimony, infants and children. Picus, Italic woodpecker god with oracular powers. Pietas, goddess of duty; personification of the Roman virtue pietas.
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Amas: the Aeta deity who moves to pity, love, unity, and peace of heart. [8] Dian Masalanta: the Tagalog goddess of lovers, daughter of Anagolay and Dumakulem; [7] a patron of lovers and of generation; the Spanish called the deity Alpriapo, as compared with the Western deity Priapus. [9]
Eirene was particularly well regarded by the citizens of Athens. After a naval victory over Sparta in 375 BC, the Athenians established a cult for Peace, erecting altars to her. They held an annual state sacrifice to her after 371 BC to commemorate the Common Peace of that year and set up a votive statue in her honour in the Agora of Athens.
Zorya is the personification of the dawn. She is the Slavic continuation of the Proto-Indo-European goddess of dawn *H₂éwsōs [24] and has many of her characteristics: she lives overseas on the island of Bujan, [25] opens the door for the Sun to go on its daily journey across the sky, [25] also has a golden boat. Zora can be a single figure ...
Medea is known in most stories as a sorceress and is often depicted as a priestess of the goddess Hecate. She first appears in Hesiod 's Theogony around 700 BCE, [ 2 ] but is best known from Euripides 's tragedy Medea and Apollonius of Rhodes 's epic Argonautica .
A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.
The Setre Comb, a comb from the 6th or early 7th century has runic inscriptions engraved, which may reference the goddess. The etymology of the name Nanna is a subject of scholarly debate. Scholars have debated connections between Nanna and other similarly named deities from other cultures, and the implications of the goddess' attestations.