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Sweyn Forkbeard (died 1014), pagan king of Denmark; Swithhelm, pagan king of Essex but converted to Christianity in 662; Tytila (died c. 616), semi-historical pagan king of East Anglia; Veleda, priestess and prophetess of the Bructeri tribe; Waluburg, Semnonian seeress in the service of the governor of Roman Egypt; Wehha, king of the East Angles
This is a list of goddesses, deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender. ... (Changing Woman, Turquoise Woman); Yoołgai Asdzą́ą́ (White Shell Woman)
Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation. Llewellyn Publications; 2007, ISBN 0-7387-0924-7. Earlier publishing: Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Creating Ritual in the Dianic Wiccan Tradition. Authorhouse; 2004, ISBN 1-4184-8295-1. Eisler, Riane, The Chalice and the Blade. Mountainwater, Shekhinah, Ariadne's Thread.
A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison – Celtic pagan high priestess, rock critic, author of The Keltiad series of science fiction/fantasy novels, and Strange Days – My Life With and Without Jim Morrison; Ludwig Klages, German philosopher; Sharon Knight, Celtic / rock musician, songwriter, producer; front person of the pagan rock band Pandemonaeon ...
[3] [4] Since the early 1970s, Dashu has delivered visual presentations on women's history throughout North America, Europe and Australia. [3] Dashu is the author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700–1100 (2016), the first volume of a planned 16-volume series called Secret History of the Witches. [5]
Hera, goddess of marriage, women, women's fertility, childbirth; Heracles, god of strength and athletes, had an association with male fertility as well as agriculture. Ilithyia, (also called Eileithyia) goddess of childbirth and midwifery; Pan, god of shepherds and flocks, associated with fertility, particularly that of animals
The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred Years' War. The only direct ...