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This goddess was initially known as Xuannü (玄女). [4] The name has been variously translated as the "Dark Lady" [5] [6] or the "Mysterious Lady" [6] in English. In the late Tang dynasty, the Daoist master Du Guangting (850–933) created the title Jiutian Xuannü (九天玄女), adding Jiutian (meaning "[of the] Nine Heavens"), to refer to the goddess.
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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).
Anime and manga portal Shana ou Yoshitsune ( Japanese : 遮那王義経 , Hepburn : Shana Ō Yoshitsune ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hirofumi Sawada [ ja ] . It has been serialized in Kodansha 's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Magazine from May 2004 to October 2007, with its chapters collected in 22 tankōbon ...
Anat (/ ˈ ɑː n ɑː t /, / ˈ æ n æ t /), Anatu, classically Anath (/ ˈ eɪ n ə θ, ˈ eɪ ˌ n æ θ /; Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎐𐎚 ʿnt; Hebrew: עֲנָת ʿĂnāṯ; Phoenician: 𐤏𐤍𐤕, romanized: ʿNT; Greek: Αναθ, romanized: Anath; Egyptian: ꜥntjt) was a goddess associated with warfare and hunting, best known from the Ugaritic texts.
In Germanic paganism, Baduhenna is a goddess. Baduhenna is solely attested in Tacitus's Annals where Tacitus records that a sacred grove in ancient Frisia was dedicated to her, and that near this grove 900 Roman soldiers were killed in 28 CE. Scholars have analyzed the name of the goddess and linked the figure to the Germanic Matres and Matronae.
According to the Shumbha and Nishumbha story of Devi Mahatmya, Matrikas appear as Shaktis from the bodies of the gods and goddesses – Brahma, Shiva, Skanda, Vishnu, Indra, Vishnu as Varaha, Vishnu as Narasimha, Parvati as Chandi; [45] having the form of each, approached Parvati with whatever form, ornaments, vehicles the god or goddess ...
The noun goddess is a secondary formation, combining the Germanic god with the Latinate -ess suffix. It first appeared in Middle English, from about 1350. [3] The English word follows the linguistic precedent of a number of languages—including Egyptian, Classical Greek, and several Semitic languages—that add a feminine ending to the language's word for god.