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Belldandy - Oh My Goddess! Urd - Oh My Goddess! Skuld - Oh My Goddess! Mii (May or Mei in Anglo dubbed) - Jungle De Ikou! Rongo - Jungle De Ikou! Holo - Spice and Wolf; Aqua - KonoSuba; Ristarte - Cautious Hero; Valkyrie - Cautious Hero; Hestia - Danmachi; Haruhi Suzumiya - the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya
Dea Matrona - "divine mother goddess" and goddess of the River Marne in Gaul; Divona [9] - Gallic goddess of sacred springs and rivers; Epona - fertility goddess, protector of horses; Erecura - goddess of death and fertility; Hafren - Brittonic goddess of the River Severn, also known as Sabrina; Icauna - Gallic goddess of the river Yonne
Qerhet – Goddess of the eighth nome of Lower Egypt [39] Qed-her – Gate goddess in Duat [39] Qetesh – A goddess of sexuality and sacred ecstasy from Syria and Canaan, adopted into ancient Egyptian religion in the New Kingdom [173] Raet-Tawy – A female counterpart to Ra [174] Rekhit – A goddess in Duat [175] Renpet – Goddess who ...
The noun goddess is a secondary formation, combining the Germanic god with the Latinate -ess suffix. It first appeared in Middle English, from about 1350. [3] The English word follows the linguistic precedent of a number of languages—including Egyptian, Classical Greek, and several Semitic languages—that add a feminine ending to the language's word for god.
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
Olwen, female figure often constructed as originally the Welsh Sun goddess; Sulis, British goddess whose name is related to the common Proto-Indo-European word for "Sun" and thus cognate with Helios, Sól, Sol, and Surya and who retains solar imagery, as well as a domain over healing and thermal springs. Probably the de facto solar deity of the ...
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Matres and Matronae appear depicted on both stones with inscriptions and without, both as altars and votives. All depictions are frontal; they appear almost exclusively in threes with at least one figure holding a basket of fruit in her lap and the women are either standing or sitting.