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Adgilis Deda (ადგილის დედა) – A goddess of fertility and livestock revered by the inhabitants of the mountainous areas of northeastern Georgia (such as Khevsureti) as the patroness of certain places and of travellers. She is portrayed as a beautiful lady with silver jewellery.
A fertility deity is a god or goddess associated with fertility, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and crops. In some cases these deities are directly associated with these experiences; in others they are more abstract symbols.
Adgilis Deda (Georgian: ადგილის დედა) — literally, the "mother of locality" or "place-mother" — is a deity in the pre-Christian Georgian pantheon, especially revered by the mountaineers of northeast Georgia, such as the Khevsurs, as a protective spirit of a place (genius loci) and also as a deity of fertility to humans ...
Samdzimari (also Samdzivari; Georgian: სამძიმარი, "necklace-wearer" [1]) is a fertility and oracular goddess from Georgian mythology.She was worshipped in the historical regions of Khevsureti and Pshavi in northeastern Georgia. [1]
Dali as depicted by Svan artist Vakhtang Oniani, from a Georgian translation of the Svan ballad Givergil (Georgian: გივერგილ), published in 1969. Dali (also Daal or Dæl; Georgian: დალი) is a goddess from the mythology of the Georgian people of the Caucasus region.
Lamaria (also Lamara or Lamia; Georgian: ლამარია) is a goddess in Georgian mythology, specifically of the Svan ethnic subgroup. [1] Like many other deities of the Svan pantheon, her name is derived from a Christian figure; in her case, Mary, mother of Jesus.
Freyja, goddess of fertility, gold, death, love, beauty, war and magic; Freyr, god of fertility, rain, sunlight, life and summer; Iðunn the goddess of spring who guards the apples that keep the gods eternally young; wife of the god Bragi [4] Jörð, personification of the earth and the mother of Thor
Another myth, from the Georgian mountains, equates Tamar with the pagan deity of weather, Pirimze, who controls winter. [59] Similarly, in the highland district of Pshavi, Tamar's image fused with a pagan goddess of healing and female fertility. [60]