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The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred Years' War. The only direct ...
'victory'; [nǐː.kɛː]) is the goddess who personifies victory in any field, including work, studies, sports, and, of course, in war. [3] She is often portrayed in Greek art as "Winged Victory" in the motion of flight; [ 4 ] however, she can also appear without wings as "Wingless Victory" [ 5 ] when she is being portrayed as an attribute of ...
Belldandy - Oh My Goddess! Urd - Oh My Goddess! Skuld - Oh My Goddess! Mii (May or Mei in Anglo dubbed) - Jungle De Ikou! Rongo - Jungle De Ikou! Holo - Spice and Wolf; Aqua - KonoSuba; Ristarte - Cautious Hero; Valkyrie - Cautious Hero; Hestia - Danmachi; Haruhi Suzumiya - the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya
A war god in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed. They occur commonly in polytheistic religions. Unlike most gods and goddesses in polytheistic religions, monotheistic deities have traditionally been portrayed in their mythologies as commanding war in order to spread religion.
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).
This is a navigational list of deities exclusively from fictional works, organized primarily by media type then by title of the fiction work, series, franchise or author. . This list does not include deities worshipped by humans in real life that appear in fictional works unless they are distinct enough to be mentioned in a Wikipedia article separate from the articles for the entities they are ...
To evil women a joy she was. [7] A. Orchard translation (1997): Then [the sibyl] remembered the first great war in the world, when they stabbed at Gullveig with spears, and they burned her in Odin ’s hall; thrice they burned the thrice-bom girl, often, not once, but still she lived. They called her heid, when she came to the house,