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16.3.5 Folk deities and spirits (yōkai, yūrei etc.) 16.3.6 Ryukyu. ... This is a list of goddesses, deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender. African ...
The goddess Kali is regarded as the most famous female deity of all the numerous Hindu goddesses. [4] The uncommon appearance of Kali is explained as a cause of her popularity. [2]: 398 Kali is iconographically depicted as a "terrifying emaciated woman"; with black skin, long tangled hair, red eyes and a long lolling tongue. She is naked ...
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.
In some cults she is the healer goddess of women with the surnames Lousia and Thermia. [39] Artemis is the leader of the nymphs and she is hunting surrounded by them. [40] The nymphs appear during the festival of the marriage, and they are appealed by the pregnant women. [41] Artemis became goddess of marriage and childbirth.
List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
This is a list of female mystics. Bahá'í faith. Táhirih; Bahíyyih Khánum; Ásíyih Khánum; Buddhism. Alexandra David-Néel author of books on Tibetan Mysticism;
Aphrodite (/ ˌ æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t iː / ⓘ, AF-rə-DY-tee) [a] is an ancient Greek goddess associated with love, lust, beauty, pleasure, passion, procreation, and as her syncretized Roman counterpart Venus, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.
Mahadevi, as mother goddess, is an example of the later, where she subsumes all goddesses, becomes the ultimate goddess, and is sometimes just called Devi. [77] Theological texts projected Mahadevi as ultimate reality in the universe as a "powerful, creative, active, transcendent female being."