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Pages in category "Underworld goddesses" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adamma (goddess)
Keres, goddesses of violent death, sisters of Thanatos; Lampades, torch-bearing underworld nymphs; Limos was the goddess of starvation in ancient Greek religion. She was opposed by Demeter, goddess of grain and the harvest with whom Ovid wrote Limos could never meet, and Plutus, the god of wealth and the bounty of rich harvests.[1]
Seated goddess, probably Persephone on her throne in the underworld, c. 480–460 BC,. (Pergamon Museum, Berlin) See Category:Epithets of Demeter. As a goddess of the underworld, Persephone was given euphemistically friendly names. [32] However, it is possible that some of them were the names of original goddesses:
Mictēcacihuātl, goddess of Mictlan (the Underworld). She is also part of the Thirteen Heavens. Miccāpetlācalli, goddess of the tomb who lived in one of nine layers of the underworld. Micapetlacalli was Nextepehua's wife. Nesoxochi, goddess of fear who lived in one of nine layers of the underworld. Nesoxochi was Iixpuzteque's wife.
An Earth god or Earth goddess is a deification of the Earth associated with a figure with chthonic or terrestrial attributes. There are many different Earth goddesses and gods in many different cultures mythology. However, Earth is usually portrayed as a goddess. Earth goddesses are often associated with the chthonic deities of the underworld. [1]
The Old Norse name Hel is identical to the name of the location over which she rules. It stems from the Proto-Germanic feminine noun *haljō-'concealed place, the underworld' (compare with Gothic halja, Old English hel or hell, Old Frisian helle, Old Saxon hellia, Old High German hella), itself a derivative of *helan-'to cover > conceal, hide' (compare with OE helan, OF hela, OS helan, OHG helan).
Asteria, Titan goddess of nocturnal oracles and the stars; Hades, god of the underworld, whose domain included night and darkness; Hecate, the goddess of boundaries, crossroads, witchcraft, and ghosts, who was commonly associated with the moon; Nyx, goddess and personification of the night; Selene, Titaness goddess and personification of the moon
"Queen of the Great Earth") [1] [2] [a] was the goddess of Kur, the land of the dead or underworld in Sumerian mythology. In later myths, she was said to rule Irkalla alongside her husband Nergal . Sometimes her name is given as Irkalla , similar to the way the name Hades was used in Greek mythology for both the underworld and its ruler, and ...