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Hecate was depicted variously as a single womanly form; as three women back-to-back; as a three-headed woman, sometimes with the heads of animals; or as three upper bodies of women springing from a single lower body ("we see three heads and shoulders and six hands, but the lower part of her body is single, and closely resembles that of the ...
In 1577, a lamb with three heads was born in Blandy, France, and illustrated in Ambroise Pare's Of Monsters and Prodigies. All three heads would bleat simultaneously, the center head being the largest of the three. It appears to have survived into adulthood. [29] Maine's Conant Museum had an adult sheep skeleton with two heads. [58]
As a man or woman on an open lotus, the lotus occasionally is perched on the back of seven sows. As a male deity, often with two or six arms, riding a boar. Riding a fiery chariot pulled by seven savage boars or sows. As a multi-armed woman with a different weapon in each hand, standing or sitting on the back of a boar.
Terracotta Gupta era (320–550 CE) figures from Ahichchhatra show the goddess with three heads on the front and three on the back. [7] The folk worship representation of Shashthi is a red-coloured stone about the size of a human head, typically placed beneath a banyan tree such as those usually found on the outskirts of villages. The banyan ...
Bird goddess – Vinca figures of a woman with a bird head. Cuca - A creature from Brazilian folklore and female counterpart of the Coco that is depicted as a witch with the head of an alligator. It will catch and eat children that disobey their parents. Gamayun – A Russian creature portrayed with the head of a woman and the body of a bird.
From Audrey Hepburn and Eartha Kitt to Jackie O, the head scarf has let women with a strong sense of self keep their scalps warm, their hair laid, and their heads held up high.
Various triune or triple goddesses, or deities who appeared in groupings of three, were known to ancient religion. Well-known examples include the Tridevi (Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Parvati), Triglav (Slavs), the Charites (Graces), the Horae (Seasons, of which there were three in the ancient Hellenistic reckoning), and the Moirai (Fates).
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