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Pages in category "War goddesses" ... Women warriors in literature and culture This page was last edited on 5 October 2023, at 22:20 (UTC). ...
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 ...
Bellona (IPA: [b蓻l藞lo藧na]) was an ancient Roman goddess of war. Her main attribute is the military helmet worn on her head; she often holds a sword, spear, or shield, and brandishes a torch or whip as she rides into battle in a four-horse chariot. She had many temples throughout the Roman Empire. [1]
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 饞寢饞伅).
Kotravai (Ko峁熱篃avai), is the goddess of war and victory in the Tamil tradition. She is also the mother goddess and the goddess of fertility, agriculture, and hunters. In the latter form, she is sometimes referred to by other names and epithets in the Tamil tradition of South India and Sri Lanka, such as Atha, Mari, Suli, and Neeli.
Minerva was the goddess of wisdom, war, art, schools, justice and commerce. She was the Etruscan counterpart to Greek Athena . Like Athena, Minerva burst from the head of her father, Jupiter (Greek Zeus ), who had devoured her mother (Metis) in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent her birth.
Haashch始éé Ba始áádí (Hastsébaádi, Qastcebaad, Yebaad) (Female Divinity) Haashch始éé Oo艂t始ohí (Hastséoltoi, Hastyeoltoi, Shooting God) Hak始az Asdz膮虂膮虂 (Cold Woman) Náhook谦s Ba始áádí (Whirling Woman) Na'ashjé'ii Asdzáá (Spider Grandmother) S膮虂 (Old Age Woman) Tséghádi始nídíinii At始ééd (Rock Crystal Girl) Gwich ...
A modern reproduction af an ancient tablet depicting a naked woman standing of a horse. Images of an armed goddess might also have been representation of 士Aštart as a goddess of war and hunting, due to which she was often depicted on horseback or on a war chariot, sometimes holding an epsilon axe. [5]