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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 𒌋𒁯).
Inanna is a goddess with a multifaceted nature. She is the goddess of love, fertility, war, grain, and prosperity. [16] She is also associated with prostitution and other taboo practices such as sex change, deformity, and disguises. Her domain is so vast that she seems to embody the characteristics of several goddesses that appeared and ...
Life-death-rebirth goddesses (5 C, 11 P) P. Persephone (7 C, 21 P) U. Underworld goddesses (6 C, 55 P) Pages in category "Death goddesses" The following 56 pages are ...
Pages in category "War goddesses" ... Women warriors in literature and culture This page was last edited on 5 October 2023, at 22:20 (UTC). ...
In Greek mythology, the Keres (/ˈkɪriːz/; Ancient Greek: Κῆρες) were female death-spirits. They were the goddesses who personified violent death and who were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields. [citation needed] Although they were present during death and dying, they did not have the power to kill. All they could do was wait and ...
Ancient authors most commonly referred to the poem as the Catalogue of Women, or simply the Catalogue, but several alternate titles were also employed. [4] The tenth-century encyclopedia known as the Suda gives an expanded version, the Catalogue of Heroic Women (Γυναικῶν Ἡρωϊνῶν Κατάλογος), and another late source, the twelfth-century Byzantine poet and grammarian ...
Her poetry – which, with the exception of a single complete poem, survives only in fragments [4] – is the only contemporary source for her life. [5] The earliest surviving biography of Sappho dates to the late second or early third century AD, approximately eight centuries after her own lifetime; the next is the Suda , a tenth-century ...
Pages in category "Life-death-rebirth goddesses" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Airmed;