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Flor y Canto Segunda Edición is a hymnal which includes 737 hymns and songs in Spanish in a variety of styles, representing music from the Americas, Mexico, Spain, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico. 'Flor y Canto' is Spanish for 'flower and song'. Flor y Canto Segunda Edición was compiled by Rodolfo López. The second edition was ...
Tōnacācihuātl was the Central Mexican form of the creator goddess common to Mesoamerican religions. [4] According to the Codex Ríos , the History of the Mexicans as Told by Their Paintings , the Histoyre du Mechique , and the Florentine Codex , Tōnacācihuātl and her counterpart Tōnacātēcuhtli resided in Ōmeyōcān , the 13th, highest ...
Mixcoatl was one of four children of Tonacatecutli, meaning "Lord of Sustenance," an aged creator god, and Cihuacoatl, a fertility goddess and the patroness of midwives. Sometimes Mixcoatl was worshipped as the "Red" aspect of the god Tezcatlipoca , the "Smoking Mirror," who was the god of sorcerers, rulers, and warriors.
Šun-Šočõnava, Mari goddess of fertility and birth; Mu-Kyldyśin, Udmurt god of fertility and earth; Zarni-Ań, Komi goddess of fertility, represented by a golden woman; Babba or Aranyanya, Hungarian goddess fertility, represented by a golden woman; Kalteš-Ekwa, Ob-Ugric goddess of fertility, represented by a golden woman
Cihuacōātl [a] was one of a number of motherhood and fertility goddesses [b] [1] in Aztec mythology. She was sometimes known as Quilaztli. [2] Cihuacōātl was especially associated with midwives, and with the sweat lodges where midwives practiced. [3]
Flora (Latin: Flōra) is a Roman goddess of flowers and spring. [1] She was one of the twelve deities of traditional Roman religion who had their own flamen, the Floralis, one of the flamines minores. Her association with spring gave her particular importance at the coming of springtime, as did her role as goddess of youth. [2]
Zhusheng Niangniang is a goddess figure derived from three goddesses recorded in the Ming dynasty novel Investiture of the Gods. The three goddesses are younger sisters of the god of wealth Zhao Gongming, named Zhao Yunxiao, Zhao Qiongxiao and Zhao Bixiao. Later on, the three goddesses were combined into three in one, known as Zhusheng Niangniang.
Ninhursag was not the tutelary goddess of any major city, her cult presence being attested first in smaller towns and villages. [22] It is possible that she was viewed originally more as a nurturing than a birth goddess. [29] Another theory posits that, along with the goddess Nintur, she was the birth goddess of wild and domesticated animals. [22]