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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
Hakʼaz Asdzą́ą́ (Cold Woman) Náhookǫs Baʼáádí (Whirling Woman) Na'ashjé'ii Asdzáá (Spider Grandmother) Są́ (Old Age Woman) Tséghádiʼnídíinii Atʼééd (Rock Crystal Girl) Gwich'in. Tetogolee; Tahltan (Nahanni) Cenakatla'x (Salmon Woman) Tlingit. Djiyin; Gaus!tukoba'ni
The Black Madonna of Częstochowa, Poland Black Madonna of Outremeuse, Liège, in a procession Black Madonna of Guingamp Madonna at House of the Black Madonna, Prague. The term Black Madonna or Black Virgin tends to refer to statues or paintings in Western Christendom of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus, where both figures are depicted with dark skin. [1]
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.
This is a list of African spirits as well as deities found within the traditional African religions. It also covers spirits as well as deities found within the African religions—which is mostly derived from traditional African religions. Additionally, prominent mythic figures including heroes and legendary creatures may also be included in ...
Chandler adds that, for her, the daily practices have, in turn, spawned new rituals of “self-care” that go hand in hand. Even things like “setting an altar,” which creates “a spiritual ...
The Moirai themselves were depicted in Renaissance and modern art as a young girl , an older woman , and an elderly woman , but no surviving art from antiquity depicts them as such. The connection between the Fates and the variously named Triple Moon Goddess, then ultimately led to the conflation of these concepts. [ 8 ]
[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]