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Sedna (Inuktitut: ᓴᓐᓇ, romanized: Sanna, previously Sedna or Sidne) is the goddess of the sea and marine animals in Inuit religion, also known as the Mother of the Sea or Mistress of the Sea. The story of Sedna, which is a creation myth, describes how she came to rule over Adlivun , the Inuit version of the underworld .
Atabey is an ancestral mother of the Taíno, one of two supreme ancestral spirits in Taíno mythology.She was worshipped as a zemi, which is an embodiment of nature and ancestral spirit, (not to be confused with a goddess, how she is commonly referred to in colonial terms to replace Taíno verbiage and culture) of fresh water and fertility; [1] she is the female entity who represents the ...
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In great anger Zeus grabbed Ate by the hair and flung her from Mount Olympus, and thereby Ate came to inhabit the "fields of men". [12] According to the mythographer Apollodorus , when Ate was thrown down by Zeus, Ate landed in Phrygia at a place called "the hill of the Phrygian Ate", where the city of Troy was founded. [ 13 ]
Frigg sits enthroned and facing the spear-wielding goddess Gná, flanked by two goddesses, one of whom carries her eski, a wooden box. Illustrated (1882) by Carl Emil Doepler. Frigg (/ f r ɪ ɡ /; Old Norse: ) [1] is a goddess, one of the Æsir, in Germanic mythology.
The smaller figure before "restoration" The two Knossos snake goddess figurines were found by Evans's excavators in one of a group of stone-lined and lidded cists Evans called the "Temple Repositories", since they contained a variety of objects that were presumably no longer required for use, [5] perhaps after a fire. [6]