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Selene is a character and the main protagonist of the Underworld film franchise, in which she is portrayed by Kate Beckinsale.The character is introduced in the first film, Underworld, as an elite vampire assassin known as a "Death Dealer" who hunts down the Lycans for allegedly murdering her family.
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The Goddess is a 1958 American drama film directed by John Cromwell and starring Kim Stanley and Lloyd Bridges. From a screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky , the film is an in-depth character study of the life of a troubled and lonely girl who becomes a movie star adored by millions, but is miserable in her private life.
Inanna, a goddess, and queen of Heaven, decides to descend to the Underworld, the "Land of No Return", where her sister and sworn enemy Ereshkigal resides. The text does not explicitly state her motivation, but the reactions of the gods Enlil and Nanna (a few lines later) suggest that it may have been a spontaneous decision, potentially driven ...
Inanna [a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power.Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar [b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯).
She becomes the queen of the underworld through her abduction by Hades, the god of the underworld. [1] The myth of her abduction represents her dual function as the as chthonic (underworld) and vegetation goddess: a personification of vegetation, which shoots forth in Spring and withdraws into the earth after harvest. Proserpina is the Roman ...
"Queen of the Great Earth") [1] [2] [a] was the goddess of Kur, the land of the dead or underworld in Sumerian mythology. In later myths, she was said to rule Irkalla alongside her husband Nergal . Sometimes her name is given as Irkalla , similar to the way the name Hades was used in Greek mythology for both the underworld and its ruler, and ...
Another Hurrian goddess connected to the underworld who sometimes appears in the proximity of Allani was Shuwala, though she was more commonly associated with Nabarbi. [33] Edward Lipiński argues that Shuwala was the same deity as Allani, [34] but they appear together as two distinct deities in texts from Ur [35] and Hattusa. [36]