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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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of goddesses, ... (Female Divinity) Haashchʼéé Oołtʼohí (Hastséoltoi, Hastyeoltoi ...
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 ...
Goddess of fresh-water, and the mother of the rivers, springs, streams, fountains, and clouds. Theia: Θεία (Theía) Goddess of sight and the shining light of the clear blue sky. She is the consort of Hyperion, and mother of Helios, Selene, and Eos. Themis: Θέμις (Thémis) Goddess of divine law and order. Descendants of the twelve ...
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
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.
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Varahi, one of the Matrikas. The Matrikas originated from the sweat of Shiva and Parvati as forms of Parvati herself who chased the asuras and asuris away from the heavens and killed all of them completely, when the asuras and asuris conquered the heavens after defeating the devas and devis.