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Bellona (IPA: [bɛlˈloːna]) was an ancient Roman goddess of war. Her main attribute is the military helmet worn on her head; she often holds a sword, spear, or shield, and brandishes a torch or whip as she rides into battle in a four-horse chariot. She had many temples throughout the Roman Empire. [1]
The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred Years' War. The only direct ...
Inanna [a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power.Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar [b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯).
[1]: 269 Professor Sherrie Inness in Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture [32] and Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy in Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors, [33] for example, focus on figures such as Xena, from the television series Xena: Warrior Princess or Buffy Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Belldandy - Oh My Goddess! Urd - Oh My Goddess! Skuld - Oh My Goddess! Mii (May or Mei in Anglo dubbed) - Jungle De Ikou! Rongo - Jungle De Ikou! Holo - Spice and Wolf; Aqua - KonoSuba; Ristarte - Cautious Hero; Valkyrie - Cautious Hero; Hestia - Danmachi; Haruhi Suzumiya - the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya
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According to a prose summary of the now lost Cypria, Eris, acting according to the plans of Zeus and Themis to bring about the Trojan War, instigates a nekios ('feud') between the three goddesses over "beauty" (presumably over who of the three was the most beautiful), while they were attending the wedding feast of Peleus and Thetis (who would ...