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27/11/2023

Konohanasakuya-hime is the Japanese Goddess of Volcanoes and lives upon Mount Fuji. She is also prayed to for easy childbirth. Konohanasakuya-hime is accused of infidelity after falling pregnant so readily on her wedding night. So on the night she gives birth, she sets fire to her birthing hut. When Konohanasakuya-hime and her child escape unharmed, it is seen as proof of her innocence.

27/11/2023

Tuonetar is the Finnish Goddess who is Queen of the Underworld. When someone arrives into her realm, known as Tuonela, she offers them a drink. Served in a goblet, this is actually a potion that ensures they never leave the underworld. Väinämöinen, a demi-god, manages to evade the queen and her “beer of oblivion”, escaping back to the world of the living.
Art- Tuonetar and the Beer of Oblivion by Dicenete

24/11/2023

Iris is the Greek Goddess of Rainbows. She was known as a messenger of the Gods and is often depicted as having wings. Her energies align with communication, messages and new endeavours.

23/11/2023

Circe is the Greek Goddess of Sorcery. Known for her extensive knowledge of potions and herbs, she is both revered and feared. Circe’s stories often involve her changing people into animals. The most well-known of these is when Odysseus visits her island home of Aeaea and she drugs his men via wine to turn them all into pigs.

Art- "Circe" by Wright Barker, 1889

19/11/2023

Atira is a Goddess of the North American Pawnee tribe. She is revered as a mother figure and is also known as the Corn Goddess, as corn nourishes and sustains them.
Art by LunaGoddessArt (available at https://www.etsy.com/listing/1186373523/native-pawnee-goddess-atira-and-baby)

13/11/2023

Clíodhna is the Irish Goddess of Love and Beauty, also known as the Queen of the Banshees. She is accompanied by three birds who can cure all illness. It is said one would be lulled into sleep by their birdsong and awaken fully renewed.
Clíodhna is also part of the story of the Blarney Stone. When Cormac McCarthy hit legal issues whilst building his castle, he prayed to Clíodhna. In a dream she told him to kiss the first stone he saw the next morning. He did this and after was able to eloquently argue his case, winning it and completing his castle. To honour Clíodhna, he set the stone as part of the castle where it is visited today and kissed in the hope it will also grant the person with the “gift of the gab”.
Art by Tammy Wampler

12/11/2023

Happy Diwali!
This festival of light is also the celebration of Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth and Fortune. Her energies are also connected to beauty, power and fertility.

08/11/2023

Kamrušepa is a Hittite Goddess of Magic and Healing. Adept in herbs and medicines, she also provided people with solutions for problems in farming. Kamrušepa is known for her soothing and calming energies.

06/11/2023

Estsanatlehi is a Goddess of the Navajo and Apache First Nations People. Her name translates as “the changing woman” and refers to her ability to renew herself when she ages. Estsanatlehi is married to the Sun and is connected to the cycles of the seasons and the energies of renewal. She is also revered as a mother goddess, with different stories told of how she created the first humans when she felt lonely.

02/11/2023

Yama No Kami is the Japanese Mountain Goddess. Seen as a protector of the animals within her realm she is worshipped by hunters who ask her to bless their hunt with the promise to kill no more than they need.
In the Spring Yama No Kami descends the mountain in the waters from the melting snow and transforms into Ta No Kami, the Rice Goddess, to watch over and protect crops.

01/11/2023

Happy Samhain! It is this time of year when the veil between our world and the next is the thinnest. This is when The Cailleach awakens, bringing frost and snow.
The Cailleach is a Celtic Goddess also known as The Winter Hag. She is the great creatrix who birthed and shaped the lands of Scotland. Each Samhain she awakens as the last of the crops are harvested. She walks the lands watching over the deer, accompanied by a pack of wolves. If any hunters kill more than they need, she will punish them come the warmer weather with bad crops.

30/10/2023

Hi’iaka is the Hawaiian Goddess of Song and Dance. As such she is the patron of hula dancers and is known as the first to dance the hula.
She is also linked to the energies of resurrection as when her lover is killed she brings him back to life. Thus she is also known for healing.
Art by Kathy Long

26/10/2023

Nótt is the Norse Goddess of the Night. Odin places her and her son Dagr into the sky, each with a horse and chariot. Nótt rides first with darkness and the spit of her horse becoming dew upon the lands. Dagr follows after his mother with the golden mane of his horse lighting the world.
Nótt’s energy is aligned with helping those who are lost. She can assist in helping one see their way out of darkness or simply to find something that is lost.

23/10/2023

Today is the final day of Navatri- a nine-day festival celebrating the Hindu Goddess Durga in all her forms.
Durga is venerated as both a mother and warrior goddess. Her powerful wrath can slay demons to free the oppressed and innocent. Her many arms carry weapons to aid her in doing this.
Durga is our eternal reminder that good can overcome evil.

22/10/2023

Chuang Mu is the Chinese Goddess of Beds and Bedchambers and all that occur within them. While this primarily has her oversee the more sensual aspects such as lo******ng, it also encompasses sleep, dreams and recovering from illness.
Chuang Mu’s favour can be invoked by offering her rice, tea or fresh flowers. She is celebrated each year in China at the Lantern Festival.

20/10/2023

Samovila is the Slavic Goddess of Forests and Woodlands. She protects the woodland animals and ensures waterways are clean and flowing. Samovila’s knowledge of plants and herbal medicine makes her a favorite of kitchen witches, as does her ability to shapeshift.

18/10/2023

Venus is the Roman Goddess of love, beauty, fertility and desire. Born from the sea, she was the most beautiful woman one could look upon.
Venus is the guardian of lovers and s*x workers. She can help you fall in love and heal any ailments related to s*xual function.
Her symbols are the rose and seashell.

17/10/2023

Scáthach is a Warrior Goddess in Celtic mythology. She was known as being the one who trains warriors, most notably the Irish warrior Cú Chulainn.
Scáthach lived upon the isle of Skye in a grand fortress. The arduous journey to arrive there proved that the person was worth of her training.
Like the Valkyries she is also known to collect the souls of warriors fallen on the battlefield.
Art by yoctoparsec (DeviantArt)

16/10/2023

The Valkyries are a group of Warrior Goddesses in Norse mythology. They serve Odin by gathering the souls of the most noble warriors who die upon the battlefield and taking them to him at Valhalla. Once at Valhalla the Valkyries serve them mead each evening after they spend their days preparing for the events of Ragnarök.
They are often connected to ravens and depicted as having wings to show their supernatural powers and ability to carry souls to afterlife.
Art- The Chosen Slain by K. Dielitz c1908

15/10/2023

Itzpapalotl is an Aztec Goddess in the form of a butterfly who protects women and babies during childbirth. Though she is born in the highest of heavens she is sent to the lower realms after an act of rebellion. It is here she meets her lover, Xociphili. After witnessing his death, her grief transforms her and her energies change to those of darkness.
Also known as the Obsidian Knife Butterfly or Clawed Butterfly, she could offer an end to suffering through death. However she also took the souls of still born children and women who died in childbirth into the underground paradise where she lived.

12/10/2023

The Mar’rallang are twin sisters from Australian Aboriginal dreamtime. The twin sisters were so alike they in love with the same man, Waiyungari and they both marry him. When his brother sees this as a deception he sets fire to their hut. The Mar’allang and Waiyungari escape to their skies. There their husband transforms in the red star, Antares while they become the stars around him.
Art- Dreamtime Sisters by Colleen Wallace Nungari

10/10/2023

Ashtghik is an Armenian Goddess. Originally worshipped as a goddess of creation and fertility, in later times she transformed in a maiden goddess of love, beauty and watched over fresh water sources such as springs and rivers. She was the lover of the God Vahagn and her symbol was the rose.

09/10/2023

Muso Koroni is a Fertility Goddess of the Bambara people of Mali. She was the first woman created by the gods and walked the earth as the spark of creativity that drove the creation of life upon the world. Muso Koroni can appear as a leopard or a panther.
Her power would later be demonised and her energies would be reassigned to disorder and chaos. Making her someone to be feared.
Art by

10/08/2023

Toyotama-Hime is the Japanese Goddess of the Oceans. She lived beneath the sea with her father, Watatsumi, where their natural form was as dragons. Toyotama-Hime takes on a human form after falling in love with a hunter who she sees diving one day. They marry and when she is due to give birth she asks that he build her a hut of cormorant feathers in which she can deliver the baby. Toyotama-Hime also asks that her husband not look at her while she is in labour. He breaks this promise and sees that Toyotama-Hime has shapeshifted back to her natural form as a dragon to give birth. She is so heart-broken by his betrayal that she returns to the ocean, leaving her child behind. Toyotama-Hime sends her sister to raise the baby and when he becomes as adult, he marries his aunt. Their first child becomes the first emperor of Japan.

08/08/2023

Kikimora is a Slavic Spirit who lives within homes. She can be either protective or cause mischief depending on the behaviour of those within the home she resides. If the home is not kept in order she will torment the children during the night, or move things making them hard to find. It is believed that sleep paralysis is the Kikimora sitting on your chest.
Kikimora also watches over the chickens but will stop them laying eggs if she desires. This can be avoided by placing a field stone with a natural hole within the chicken enclosure.

07/08/2023

Nehallenia is a Germanic Goddess believed to protect those who travelled across the sea. Though her worship was lost over time, a temple dedicated to her was unearthed in 1645, after a huge storm on the north coast of the Netherlands in a region known as Zeeland. The symbols of ship parts as well as the produce traded via the North Sea has led to the belief she was a protector of maritime traders. Other symbols, such as a dog and loaves used to symbolise sacrificial offerings have also connected her to the energies of death.

27/07/2023

*In loving memory of Sinead O’Connor, who passed away on Goddess Anu’s Feast Day*
Anu is the Irish Mother Goddess who birthed the mighty Tuatha de Danaan. Anu represents the energies of sovereignty, and it was believed that to be a true king of Ireland you must marry this holy mother.

26/07/2023

Ammut is the Egyptian Goddess known as the Devourer of Souls. She resides in the afterlife, close by Osiris and is an integral part of the judgment ceremony. This is when the deceased’s heart is weighed against the feather of truth upon the scales of Ma’at. If the person is deemed unworthy, Ammut eats the heart, severing their soul and stopping their progress to immortality in Aaru.
Ammut is depicted with the head of a crocodile, the body of a lion or leopard, and the rump and hindlegs of a hippopotamus. These were all animals known as being deadly and devourers of humans.
Whilst sometimes being known more as a demon than a goddess, Ammut was not worshipped but feared.

24/07/2023

Cloacina is the Roman Goddess of the sewers. Her energies align with purification and cleanliness.
When the Romans built their sewer system they knew it was paramount to maintain the health and hygiene of the city and its people. The Cloaca Maxima was the main portal where the system carried the waste and excess storm water away from the city, and it was Claocina who watched over its function.
A small temple was built over the cloaca where she could be worshipped and in BC42 it was commemorated upon a coin.

18/07/2023

Aranyani is a Hindu Goddess who protects and watches over the forests. She is born when Parvati, overwhelmed at the beauty of trees, makes a wish before a magical Kalpavriksha tree. Though Aranyani is never seen, it is believed you can hear the bells from her anklet as she dances through the trees. Though she is isolated she is never lonely and is worshipped to ensure the forest provides food for those nearby. She is celebrated in a beautiful hymn recited by Parvati.

“Goddess of wild and forest who seems to vanish from the sight. How is it that thou seek not the village? Art thou not afraid?
What time the grasshopper replies and swells the shrill cicala’s voice, Seeming to sound with tinkling bells, the Lady of the Wood exults.
And, yonder, cattle seem to graze, what seems a dwelling-place appears: Or else at eve the Lady of the Forest seems to free the wains.
Here one is calling to his cow, another there hath felled a tree: At eve the dweller in the wood fancies that somebody hath screamed.
The Goddess never slays, unless some murderous enemy approach. Man eats of savoury fruit and then takes, even as he wills, his rest.
Now have I praised the Forest Queen, sweet-scented, redolent of balm,The Mother of all sylvan things, who tills not but hath stores of food.”

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