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The name of the material known as alabaster might, through Greek, come from the name of the goddess. This association would have come about much later than when the goddess was a protective lioness goddess, however, and is useful only in deciphering the origin of the term, alabaster. [citation needed]
Goddesses depicted as cats or whose myths and iconography are associated with cats. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. A.
Toggle Greek mythology subsection. 21.1 Cappadocian. 21.2 Cretan. 21.3 Minoan. ... deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender. African mythology (sub ...
العربية; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская ...
Category: Greek feminine given names. 10 languages. ... Callisto (mythology) Carissa (name) Cassandra (name) Chara (given name) Charikleia; Chloe; Christa (given name)
Cat goddesses (3 C, 7 P) Cat gods (2 P) This page was last edited on 15 September 2023, at 22:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Cats were sacred animals and the goddess Bastet was often depicted in cat form, sometimes taking on the war-like aspect of a lioness. [5]: 220 Killing a cat was absolutely forbidden [3] and the Greek historian Herodotus reports that, whenever a household cat died, the entire family would mourn and shave their eyebrows. [3]
A beauty deity is a god or (usually) goddess associated with the concept of beauty. Classic examples in the Western culture are the Greek goddess Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart, Venus. The following is a list of beauty deities across different cultures. For some deities, beauty is only one of several aspects they represent, or a lesser one.