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Fortuna is the Goddess of fate and fortune and also bringer of fertility. Janus is the God of gateways, beginnings, and transitions, said to have 2 faces. One faces the past, and the other faces the future. Saturnus; Orcus; Luna is the Goddes of the Moon. Nox is the Goddess of the night, the beginning of all things, and one of the oldest of the ...
Kabigat (Bontok mythology): the goddess of the moon who cut off the head of Chal-chal's son; her action is the origin of headhunting [6]; Bulan (Ifugao mythology): the moon deity of the night in charge of nighttime [7]
In Sabine and ancient Roman religion and myth, Luna is the divine embodiment of the Moon (Latin Lūna [ˈɫ̪uːnä]). She is often presented as the female complement of the Sun, Sol, conceived of as a god. Luna is also sometimes represented as an aspect of the Roman triple goddess (diva triformis), along with Diana and either Proserpina or Hecate.
Aradia is a central figure in Stregheria, an "ethnic Italian" form of Wicca introduced by Raven Grimassi in the 1980s. Grimassi claims that there was a historical figure called "Aradia di Toscano", whom he portrays as the founder of a revivalist religion of Italian witchcraft in the 14th century.
Andreas Alföldi interpreted an image on a late Republican coin as the Latin Diana "conceived as a threefold unity of the divine huntress, the Moon goddess and the goddess of the nether world, Hekate". [16] This coin, minted by P. Accoleius Lariscolus in 43 BCE, has been acknowledged as representing an archaic statue of Diana Nemorensis. [17]
Achlys, a primordial goddess of the clouding of eyes after death, the eternal night, and poison; Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, and wild animals, who was commonly associated with the moon; Astraeus, Titan god of the dusk, stars, planets, and the art of Astronomy and Astrology; Asteria, Titan goddess of nocturnal oracles and ...
For a brief period during Roman times, the cult of Isis, Egyptian goddess of the moon, proliferated in Benevento; also, the emperor Domitian had a temple erected in her honor. Within this cult Isis was part of a sort of Trimurti: she became identified with Hecate, goddess of the underworld, and Diana, goddess of the hunt. These deities were ...
Stregheria (Italian pronunciation: [streɡeˈriːa]) is a neo-pagan tradition similar to Wicca, with Italian and Italian American origins. [1] While most practitioners consider Stregheria to be a distinct tradition from Wicca, some academics consider it to be a form of Wicca or an offshoot. Both have similar beliefs and practices.