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Artemis was the goddess of marriage and childbirth. [86] The name of the small "bears" indicate the theriomorphic form of Artemis in an old pre-Greek cult. In the cult of Baubronia, the myth of the sacrifice of Iphigenia was represented in the ritual. [87] [88] [89] Boulaia, of the council, in Athens. [90] [65]
Siebog, god of love and marriage. Živa, goddess of love and fertility. Lada, goddess of beauty and fertility. Jarilo, god of fertility and springtime, sometimes regarded as god of lust and passion. The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1485), depicting Venus, the Roman goddess of sex and beauty
Here the couple is presented as one of the paradigms for marriage of Philadelphus and Arsinoe with Heracles retiring to Hebe's chambers in a scene reminiscent of a wedding. [27] Catullus in Poem 68 makes a positive reference to the legal marriage of Heracles to the virginal goddess Hebe to contrast with the poet's secret affair with a married ...
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In the Old Norse record, Ægir hosts the gods in his halls and is associated with brewing ale. Ægir is attested as married to a goddess, Rán, who also personifies the sea, and together the two produced daughters who personify waves, the Nine Daughters of Ægir and Rán, and Ægir's son is Snær, personified snow.
Vesta, a goddess of chastity usually conceived of as a virgin, was honored as Mater. A goddess known as Stata Mater was a compital deity credited with preventing fires in the city. [31] From the middle Imperial era, the reigning Empress becomes Mater castrorum et senatus et patriae, the symbolic Mother of military camps, the senate, and the ...
See: Twins in mythology Aegyptus and Danaus (); Aeolus and Boeotus (); Agenor and Belus (); Amphion and Zethus (); Apollo and Artemis/Diana (); Arsu and Azizos ...
Freyja, a goddess associated with fertility and sister of the above god; Frigg, goddess associated with prophecy, marriage, and childbirth; in one myth, she also demonstrates a more direct connection with fertility, as a king and queen pray to her for a child; Gefjun, Danish goddess of ploughing and possibly fertility