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Sandraudiga, goddess whose name may mean "she who dyes the sand red", suggesting she is a war deity or at least has a warrior aspect Týr , god of war, single combat, law, justice, and the thing , who later lost much of his religious importance and mythical role to the god Wōden
In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the fallen") is one of a host of female figures who decide who will die in battle. Selecting among half of those who die in battle (the other half go to the goddess Freyja 's afterlife field Fólkvangr ), the valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain ...
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This is a navigational list of deities exclusively from fictional works, organized primarily by media type then by title of the fiction work, series, franchise or author. . This list does not include deities worshipped by humans in real life that appear in fictional works unless they are distinct enough to be mentioned in a Wikipedia article separate from the articles for the entities they are ...
Hervor dying after the Battle of the Goths and Huns, by Peter Nicolai Arbo. A shield-maiden (Old Norse: skjaldmær [ˈskjɑldˌmæːr]) was a female warrior from Scandinavian folklore and mythology. The term Old Norse: skjaldmær most often shows up in fornaldarsögur such as Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks.
Bast – Lioness goddess of fertility and protection against disease. Hert-ketit-s; Ḥuntheth – A lioness goddess; Ipy (goddess) – head and feet of a lion, body of a hippo, arms of a human; Maahes – name means "he who is true beside her" Matit – A funerary cat goddess who had a cult center at Thinis
Their name is Latinized as Muiridi in the Lebor Bretnach. [7] In English, they are called the Fomorians, Fomori or Fomors. The etymology of the name is debated. The first part is generally agreed to be the Old Irish fo, meaning under, below, lower, beneath, nether, etc. The meaning of the second part is unclear.
The plot of Saint Seiya begins in 1986, [1] spanning until 1990, [2] and follows a group of five mystical warriors called Saints as they battle in the name of the goddess Athena against agents of evil who seek to rule the Earth. Their main enemy in the first arc of the story is the traitorous Gold Saint of Gemini, who has murdered the ...