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Nukuoro is an atoll in the Federated States of ... Nukuoro is famous for its carved deity sculptures, ... though some female figurines have rudimentary breasts. Some ...
Ninshubur was not the only Mesopotamian deity whose gender varied in ancient sources, other examples include Ninkasi (the deity of beer, female in earlier sources but at times male later on), the couple Ninsikila and Lisin, whose genders were in some instances switched around, [3] Uṣur-amāssu, described as a son of Adad in the god list An ...
This is a list of goddesses, deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender. African mythology (sub-Saharan) Afro-Asiatic. Ethiopian. Dhat-Badan;
Inanna, later known as Ishtar, is "the most important female deity of ancient Mesopotamia at all periods." [95] She was the Sumerian goddess of love, sexuality, prostitution, and war. [97] She was the divine personification of the planet Venus, the morning and evening star. [46]
Both of them belonged to a group of female deities invoked in love and potency incantations, which also included Ishtar, Išḫara and Gazbaba. [4] Some of these texts use formulas such as "at the command of Kanisurra and Išḫara, patron goddess of love" [ 5 ] or "at the command of Kanisurra and Išḫara, patroness of sex."
Aruru was a Mesopotamian goddess.The origin of her name is presently uncertain. While initially considered an independent deity associated with vegetation and portrayed in hymns as violent, she eventually came to be viewed as analogous Ninhursag.
Inspired by Graves and other sources was the Austrian Surrealist Wolfgang Paalen who, in his painting Pays interdit ("Forbidden Land"), draws an apocalyptic landscape dominated by a female goddess and, as symbols of the male gods, fallen, meteorite-like planets.
Mask of Dzunukwa face (Museum of Anthropology at UBC)Dzunuḵ̓wa (pronounced "zoo-noo-kwah"), also Dzoonookwa, Tsonoqua, Tsonokwa, or the Basket Ogress, is a figure in Kwakwakaʼwakw mythology and Nuu-chah-nulth mythology.