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The goddess Atropos, one of the Moirai. [6] Calu: Epithet of Śuri, [9] Etruscan infernal god of wolves, represented by a wolf. [10] Associated with Tinia and Selvans. [9] Catha, Cavtha, Cath: An Etruscan deity, god and goddess, not well represented in the art. She appears in the expression ati cath, "Mother Cath" [11] and also maru Cathsc ...
Mexican wolves and related subspecies are important to many tribes in the Southwestern United States, including the Apache,Akimel O'odham/Pima, Diné/Navajo, Hopi, and Havasupai. Several of these tribes have traditional stories, names and rituals associated with wolves. [55] [56] Further information: Mexican wolf § History
Tanit is often depicted while riding a lion or having a lion's head herself, showing her warrior quality, [27] [30] and is often naked or bare-breasted, as a symbol of sexuality. [31] She is also depicted winged, possibly under the influence of Egyptian artwork of Isis. Her associated animal and plants are the lion, the dove, the palm tree and ...
During the Akkadian Period, Ishtar was frequently depicted as a heavily armed warrior goddess with a lion as one of her attributes. [85] Doves were also prominent animal symbols associated with Inanna/Ishtar. [86] [87] Doves are shown on cultic objects associated with Inanna as early as the beginning of the third millennium BCE. [87]
A painting of a four-armed Sogdian goddess riding on a lion presumed to be Nana has been discovered in Bunjikat, [93] and it is possible she was commonly worshiped in this city as well. [89] Katsumi Tanabe has additionally proposed that the main goddess worshiped in a temple according to the Syriac version of Pseudo-Callisthenes constructed in ...
Goddesses depicted as lions or whose myths and iconography are associated with lions. Subcategories This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.
Hecate (/ ˈ h ɛ k ə t i / HEK-ə-tee) [a] is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, or snakes, or accompanied by dogs, [4] and in later periods depicted as three-formed or triple-bodied.
Annunitum (𒀭𒉡𒉌𒌈; also romanized as Anunītu [1]) was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with warfare. She was initially an epithet of Ishtar of Akkad exemplifying her warlike aspect, but by the late third millennium BCE she came to function as a distinct deity. She was the tutelary goddess of the cities of Akkad and Sippar-Amnanum ...