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She is the mother of Mixcoatl and is particularly associated with the moth Rothschildia orizaba from the family Saturniidae. [2] Some of her associations are birds and fire. [3] However, she primarily appears in the form of the Obsidian Butterfly. [4] Rothschildia orizaba, the moth genus and species with which the Itzpapalotl goddess is associated
Achlys, goddess who symbolizes the mist of death. Goddess of poisons, personification of misery and sadness. Apollo, god of diseases; Atropos, one of the moirai, who cut the thread of life. Charon, a daimon who acted as ferryman of the dead. Erebus, the primordial god of darkness, his mists encircled the underworld and filled the hollows of the ...
Neith, goddess sometimes associated with wisdom; Thoth, originally a moon deity, later became the god of knowledge and wisdom and the scribe of the gods; Sia, the deification of wisdom; Isis, goddess of wisdom, magic and kingship. She was said to be "more clever than a million gods". Seshat, goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing. Scribe of ...
moths, butterflies or bees, or alternatively a frog, hedgehog or bull's head symbolizing the uterus or fetus, representing "regeneration" [47] The first and third aspects of the goddess, according to Gimbutas, were frequently conflated to make a goddess of death-and-regeneration represented in folklore by such figures as Baba Yaga.
Gods as spirits of the deified dead; A131. Gods with animal features. A132.3. Equine god / goddess; A132.5. Bear god / goddess; A132.9. Cattle god / goddess; A161.2. King of the Gods; A177.1. Gods as Dupe or Tricksters; A192. Death or departure of the gods; A193. Gods of Dying-and-rising; A200—A299. Gods of the Upper World A210. Gods of the ...
In that cult center, she also was associated with the Nile Perch as well as being the goddess of the triad. As the goddess of creation and weaving, she was said to reweave the world on her loom daily. [40] An interior wall of the temple at Esna records an account of creation in which Neith brings forth the Nun, the first land, from the primeval ...
This category is for deities that are associated with death, the dead, and/or the afterlife. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of ...
In Ugaritic myth, Mot (spelled mt) is a personification of death.The word belongs to a set of cognates meaning 'death' in other Semitic [4] and Afro-Asiatic languages: Arabic موت mawt; Hebrew מות (mot or mavet; ancient Hebrew muth or maveth/maweth); Maltese mewt; Syriac ܡܰܘܬܳܐ (mautā); Ge'ez ሞት (mot); Canaanite, Egyptian, Berber, Aramaic, Nabataean, and Palmyrene מות (mwt ...