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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)
Seated goddess, probably Persephone on her throne in the underworld, c. 480–460 BC,. (Pergamon Museum, Berlin) As a goddess of the underworld, Persephone was given euphemistically friendly names. [32] However, it is possible that some of them were the names of original goddesses:
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.
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]
Keres, goddesses of violent death, sisters of Thanatos; Lampades, torch-bearing underworld nymphs; Limos was the goddess of starvation in ancient Greek religion. She was opposed by Demeter, goddess of grain and the harvest with whom Ovid wrote Limos could never meet, and Plutus, the god of wealth and the bounty of rich harvests.[1]
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]
Primordial deities; Eros; Gaia; Nyx; Olympians; Aphrodite; Apollo; Ares; Artemis; Athena; Demeter; Dionysus; Hephaestus; Hera; Hermes; Hestia; Poseidon; Zeus ...
[348] [349] He is the son of the sky-god An [348] and his wife is an obscure, minor goddess named Mami, who is different from the mother goddess with the same name. [348] [350] As early as the Akkadian Period, Erra was already associated with Nergal [348] [349] and he eventually came to be seen as merely an aspect of him.