Tag: Goddess
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Queen of heaven
Inanna[a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with beauty, sex, divine law, and political power. Originally worshiped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar[b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯). Her primary title was “the Queen of Heaven”. Inanna was worshiped in Sumer at least as early as the Uruk period (c. 4000 BCE – 3100 BCE)
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Water-spirit Mami wata
It is believed that all of ancient Africa possessed a multitude of water-spirit traditions before the first contact with Europeans.[2] Mami Wata (also Mamba Muntu, Water Mother, La Sirene) also goes by the names Mama Glo, Mama de Agua and Watramama, is a water spirit venerated in West, Central, and Southern Africa and in the Afro-American diaspora. This image—an enticing woman with long, black hair and…
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The Flaming One
TABITI “the Burning One” or “the Flaming One goddess of the primordial fire which alone existed before the creation of the universe and was the basic essence and the source of all creation. She was the most venerated of all Scythian deities. Tabiti was the primordial fire which alone existed before the creation of the…