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Demeter - Demeter is a Hellenic Mother Goddess, Grain and Harvest Goddess and founder of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Devana - Devana is the name of a Russian Goddess of the hunt who is said to roam the Carpathian forest.
Diana - The name Diana comes from Latin divios meaning "heavenly" or "divine".
Dionysus - Dionysus or Dionysos is the Greek God of the grape harvest, wine, revelry, festivity, processions, religious ecstasy, madness, drunken violence, epiphany, androgyny, homosexuality, transformation and rebirth after death. He brought viticulture to humanity and this was a major leap in the progress of civilization.
Eostre - Eostre is the name of a Tuetonic Goddess about whom we know very little. It is only noted in the writings of Venerable Bede that the Germanic name for the month of April, Eosturmōnaþ (Northumbrian), Ēastermōnaþ (West Saxon), Ôstarmânoth (Old High German), was named for a Goddess called Eostre or Ostara whose feast day was celebrated in the spring and further speculated by the writings of Jacob Grimm . There is little to no additional information about the Goddess, though there is quite a bit about the feast day called Eostre or more commonly Ostara. There are no stories about her and she doesn't appear as part of the family of Gods in any Germanic pantheon.
Eros - Eros is the ancient Greek personification of sexual desire. He is mentioned in myth as both the son of Aphrodite and a primordial (Protogenos) God, present in the beginning according to Parmenides1; emerged from Chaos with Gaia and Tartarus according to Hesiod2; or born, along with Gaia and Ouranos of an egg laid by Nyx according to Aristophanes3, and responsible directly or indirectly for all of creation that came after.
Erzulie - Erzuli or Erzulie is a family of Voodou Goddess/spirits or Lwa. Some believe all the Goddesses are aspects of one Goddess collectively known as Erzulie, while others hold that they are independent Goddesses all representing different aspects of the same idea similar to the Charities or the Fates.
Estsanatlehi - Estsanatlehi is a Navaho Goddess from the Arizona area. Her name means "The woman who changes" or maybe "She who renews herself". She is also called "Changing Woman" by modern worshipers and has also been called "Turquoise Woman", and "Painted Woman". Estsanatlehi ages, but then grows young again. How this occurs varies by story but many view her as the personification of the changing seasons and the eternal cycle of life. She is the sister of Yolkai Estsan.
Faunus - Faunus is the ancient Italic agricultural God who watched over the fertility of flocks and fields who was adopted by the ancient Romans and identified with the Greek God Pan. He is also associated with wolves and the protection of flocks from their predation.
Freyja - Freyja is the Norse Goddess of love, beauty, magic (seidhr), fertility, war and death. Her name means "The Lady". She is one of the Vanir, sister to Freyr, daughter to Njörðr and mother to Hnoss and Gersemi by Óðr.
Geb - Geb is the husband and brother of the sky Goddess Nut and father by Her of Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nepthys. He is imaged as a man with a goose on his head, or as a man lying beneath the arch of the sky.
Hades - Hades is the Greek God of the Underworld. The name relates to the Doric word Aidas meaning “unseen”. He was also known as Plouton meaning “rich one” as his domain also includes all of the minerals that can be found beneath the ground and the riches they represent.
Hapy - Hapy is the ancient Egyptian God of seasonal flooding which allowed the people along the Nile to grow crops.
Hathor - Hathor is the ancient Egyptian Goddess of happiness and protectress of the hearth. She is the wife of Horus and sometimes considered to be the mother of the Pharoah. Her name means "house of Horus".
Hebe - Hebe is the ancient Greek Goddess of youth, the daughter of Hera and Zeus, as well as the wife to Heracles. Hebe was the Cupbearer of Olympus, serving nectar and ambrosia to the Gods and Goddesses, until she was married to Heracles. Her successor was Zeus' lover Ganymede.
Hecate - For many modern witchcraft traditions, Hecate is a Dark Goddess and associated with the spirits of the dead, ghosts, the dark of the moon, baneful herbs, curses and black magic. For others, Hecate is the Crone Goddess, ruling over the third stage of a woman's life, that beyond her childbearing years when she can focus on deepening the skills and information collected throughout her lifetime, when knowledge and experience is refined into wisdom. Historically, Hecate has served many roles. She is an incredibly ancient Goddess with origins lost in the mists of time.
Heqet - Heqet (Or Heket, Hekit, Hequat) is the ancient Egyptian frog Goddess of fertility. She is imaged as a frog, a frog-headed woman or a frog at the end of a phallus. She is the wife of Khnum and is associated with the flooding of the nile. it is Heqet who breathes life into a newborn baby. Some claim that Her priestesses were trained in midwifery, though there is scant evidence of such. Women wore amulets of a frog sitting on a lotus during the last stages of pregnancy to encourage Her blessings.
Hera - Hera, Queen of Heaven
Hera ( Ἥρα), Hēra is one of the Olympian Gods, the Greek Sky Goddess of women and marriage and the wife of Zeus, the King of the Gods. Hera is associated with the Roman Goddess Juno.
Hermes - Hermes is the multifaceted messenger of the Gods. He is the Watcher at the Gates, a Thief in the Night, the mischievous God of Luck and the Psychopomp who guides souls to the afterworld, and also guides us through dream space.
Horus - Horus is the ancient Egyptian protector of the ruler of Egypt. The Pharaoh was considered to be the living incarnation of Horus. After Osiris was murdered by Seth, Horus fought with Seth for the rule of Egypt. In the battle he lost an eye. This Eye of Horus became an important symbol of protection. After the battle, Geb proclaimed Horus the ruler of the living.
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Noticed a few goddesses missing. Astarte, Kali, and Inanna are the three immediate ones. Would be nice to have them added. :)
Agreed!
I haven't had a chance to look through this all the way yet but does any one know about the German goddess Frau Perchta
yeah, loki and the morrigan
i noticed a few gods and goddess missing as well. I was mostly looking for Loki however. hope they all get added soon <3
Your missing trifolov
I've been looking high and low for info on Nemetona. It would be nice to see her added. :)
Could you add Persephone?
That was my # 2 thought, besides Lilith or Lilitu
The Morrígan and Her triple nature bear discussion, because that would be an easy way to mention the Celtic love of threes (like the three realms of land, sea, and sky), and a cross-reference to Brigid would be easy to add. If you put in the three goddesses with the title Morrígan, it would also be worth mentioning that the triad is not the "maiden, mother, crone" of Wicca and is more like three different queens of legend, separated in time — for example, in the Táin Bó Cuilgne (Cattle Raid of Cooley), the "Morrígan" who challenges Cú Chulainn is in the tale, but so is a place named after Macha, a warrior queen of Ireland who became one of the goddesses in the triad.
could you add Nyx?
I was just going to ask the same thing! So hard to find info on her.
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if i want to work with the goddess Athena can i still use the triple moon symbol or should I change it???
Athene doesn't really have anything to do with the moon. She's pretty terrestrial and "civilized". theoi dot com has some good information about Athene.
id say the triquatra(the protection symbol
Why would you use a Celtic symbol for a Hellenic God?
Athene's symbols are the owl, the olive, the gorgon, the helmet, spear and aegis. She has an article here. And theoi.com is a wonderful resource.
because celtic gods use hellenic writing
Some to add if you wanted: Arianrhod (Celtic), Persephone (Greek), Skadi (Norse), Hel (Norse), Loki (Norse), Airmid (Celtic), Aegir (Norse), Aradia (Greek), Bragi (Norse), Blodeuwedd (Celtic), Cernunnos (Celtic), Cerridwen (Celtic), the Morrígan (Celtic), Dagda (Celtic), Danú (Celtic), Dionysus (Greek), Maeve (Celtic), Rhiannon (Celtic), Rán (Norse), Selene (Greek), Flidais (Celtic).