...d return home, it also brings with it its own dangers. Cel, previously his mother's sole heir, makes several attempts upon her life. It is in order to gain s
...ess, Merry's aunt, the sister of Essus, and mother of Cel. Andais is a war goddess, and the sadistic Queen of the [[Unseelie]] Court. Her personal guard, call
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...the Wood element, as seen by another one of his nicknames, Mùmǔ (木母, "Wood-Mother").
...elebration of gods and attempted to flirt with Cháng'é, the beautiful moon goddess, resulting in his banishment into the mortal world. He was supposed to be r
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'''Kali''' is a goddess with a long and complex history in Hinduism (although sometimes presented i
...ovement largely conceives of Kali as a straightforwardly benevolent mother-goddess. Therefore, Kali is associated with many devis goddesses as well as the dev
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...ies, their father was the dark element of Tartarus, named Erebus and their mother was Night.
...e. Her Roman equivalent was ''Nona'', (the 'Ninth'), who was originally a goddess called upon in the ninth month of pregnancy.
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[[Image:Hécate - Mallarmé.png|thumb|right|Hecate, Greek goddess of the crossroads; drawing by Stephane Mallarmé in ''Les Dieux Antiques, n
'''Hecate''', '''Hekate''' (''Hekátē''), or '''Hekat''' was originally a goddess of the wilderness and childbirth originating either from Thrace or among th
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...yer of the first-born of dragons". Vritra's mother, Danu (who was also the mother of the Danava race of Asuras), was then attacked and defeated by Indra with
...ti as taking the life-force of Vritra could be an analogy referring to the goddess being the personification of a river. In Vedic times, the Sarasvati was mai
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..., is that the carvings are remnants of a pre-Christian fertility or Mother Goddess religion. They point to what they claim are differences in materials and st
===''A Survival of a Pagan Goddess'' ===
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...ance to the Underworld on the side of the western Ocean. She is the Krone Goddess in her most terrible aspect
...head to fulfill a boastful gift to the King Polydectes, who held Perseus' mother, Danae, as his future queen against her will. Once Perseus beheaded Medusa
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...be, the goddess of youth; Hephaestus, the god of fire; and Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth;
her mother, wrapped a stone in swaddling clothes in place of the infant Zeus. Cronus t
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Annwn is associated with the [[:Category:Irish mythology|Irish]] and Welsh goddess of pleasure [[Bebhinn]], though it is unknown whether the giantess inhabits
...ueens”; they travelled with King Arthur on his funeral barge with Arthur’s mother Igraine and his [[fairy|fay]] wife '''Guinevere''' (Gwenhwyvar).
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...nto ravines if she is ignored. In Aomori she takes on the character of the mother ghost called ubume, harassing people into holding her child, which then bec
...nd I will not hurt you now. But, if you ever tell anybody -- even your own mother -- about what you have seen this night, I shall know it; and then I will ki
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...nder which she traditionally threw her staff before turning to stone. As a goddess of winter, she struck the grass into blades of ice with her hammer. In earl
...ges into a young maiden, Bride, suggesting the changing phases of an earth goddess.
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...') daughter of ''Mundilfari''. Dag as a personification of day and the sun-goddess Sól are mentioned elsewhere, but only the ''Hversu'' mentions their daught
...who was father of Álfgeir the father of Gandálf the father of Álfhild the mother of the famous Ragnar Lodbrok (by Sigurd Hring). That Álfhild's father was
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...ved allegedly recurring ghosts. One popular variant in Hawaii involves the goddess Pele, travelling the roads incognito and rewarding kind travellers.
...in which the vanishing hitchhiker was subsequently identified as the late Mother Cabrini, founder of the local Sacred Heart Orphanage, who was beatified for
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...bolgs' last king was Eochaid Mac Eirc, whose wife, Tailtiu, was the foster mother of Lugh Lamfata, the Danann hero and solar god.
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...ds he is the son of [[Zeus]] and in some he is the son of [[Hermes]]. His mother is said to be a [[nymph]]. His nature and name is alluring, particularly si
...lowers to kill her. Echo was torn to pieces and spread all over earth. The goddess of the earth, Gaia, received the pieces of Echo, whose voice remains repeat
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...ssyria, ca. 1000 BCE. Atargatis, mother of Assyrian queen Semiramis, was a goddess who loved a mortal shepherd and in the process killed him. Ashamed, she jum
...sata in Syria (2nd century CE) in ''De Dea Syria'' ("Concerning the Syrian Goddess") wrote of the Syrian temples he had visited:
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In Babylonian mythology, '''Tiamat''' is a sea goddess, and a monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos often represented as a drag
...Tiamat can also be derived from the Sumerian ''ti'', "life", and ''ama'', "mother". Burkert even attempts a linguistic connection to Tethys. The later form t
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...o by this time was goddess of ointment, initially became thought of as his mother.
...nsidered the son of Osiris, but Osiris' wife, Isis, was not considered his mother, since she too inappropriately was associated with life.
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...one day and came across a beautiful lady in the forest. She was Pressyne, mother of Melusine. He persuaded her to marry him but she agreed, only on the prom
...across Melusine in a forest in France, and proposed marriage. Just as her mother had done, she laid a condition, that he must never enter her chamber on a S
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