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Aristaeus, god of bee-keeping, cheese-making, herding, olive-growing and hunting; Artemis, goddess of the hunt, wild animals and the moon; Heracles Kynagidas; Pan, in addition to being a god of the wild and shepherds, was also a hunting god. Persephone, the goddess of life and death, also known for being Hades' wife
Theories presenting Qetesh as a "sacred harlot" are regarded as obsolete in modern scholarship due to lack of evidence, [5] and she's generally regarded as a goddess developed in Egypt possibly without a clear forerunner among Canaanite or Syrian goddesses, though given a Semitic name and associated mostly with foreign deities. [6]
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
Lion goddesses (13 C, 29 P) Lion gods (3 C, 31 P) This page was last edited on 15 September 2023, at 22:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
There, Diana, the goddess of the woods, would bathe and rest after a hunt. Actaeon, a young hunter, stumbled across the grotto and accidentally witnessed the goddess bathing without invitation. In retaliation, Diana splashed him with water from the pool, cursing him, and he transformed into a deer.
Boz Tengri – God mostly seen as the god of the ground and steppes; Aisyt – Goddess of beauty. She is also the mother goddess of the Yakut people from Siberia. Su Ana – Goddess of water. Su Ana is said to appear as a naked young woman with a fairy-like face. Su Ata – God of water. He appears as an old man with a frog-like face, greenish ...
Nuliajuk is a goddess of the Netsilik Inuit. According to Rasmussen [ 1 ] Nuliajuk lives on the bottom of the sea and controls sea mammals ( seals , walruses , and sea lions ). Whenever humans neglect to observe ritual prohibitions, she imprisons the sea-mammals within the drip-basin under her lamp (making them unavailable to hunters), so that ...
A representation of this goddess might be found in a greave from Vratsa, whose knee is shaped like a woman's head wearing an ivy wreath and having parallel gold stripes on her right cheek, while her body is covered with snakes, including lion-headed ones, as well as lions, and a dove. This iconography, as well as the goddess's divided face ...