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Artemis/Diana
Artemis of the Golden Shafts is the Goddess of the hunt, of untamed nature, Lady of the Beasts. She is protector of the earth and environment, emphasizing the importance of balance. She understands that we must kill to live, but insists we take no more than is neccesary for our survival. She is patroness of birth and fertility. She is a great deity to call upon for a safe childbirth or successful conception! |
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Brighid
Daughter of the Dagda, another aspect of Danu. Goddess of Fire, fertility, the hearth, and all feminine arts. She is believed to originally been honored as a Sun goddess. She is also associated with healing, physicians, agriculture, inspiration, learning, poetry, divination, prophecy, smithcraft, animal husbandry, occult knowledge. Other aspects of her are Brigid the Physician and Brigid the Smith. She is also the patron of other crafts such as wool-dying, weaving and brewing. A goddess of regeneration and abundance, she was greatly beloved as a provider of plenty who brought forth the bounties of the natural world for the good of the people. She is closely connected with livestock and domesticated animals. In Ireland, she is honored by wells and springs. At the shrine at Kildare there was a perpetual flame burning for Brigit.
She is a great feminine deity to assist in any of these aspects.
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Isis
The wife of Osiris, she is goddess of marriage and fertility and motherhood. She is one of the goddesses most frequently mentioned in the hieroglyphic texts. Her hieroglyph is a throne.
When Set killed her husband, Isis found his body and restored him to life long enough to pass on his seed, so that she might give birth to Horus.
She usually is depicted carrying a papyrus sceptre, and wearing a crown adorned with horns (the Horns of Isis).
She teaches that love can overcome all, even death. |
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Nerthus
Nerthus is the Earth Goddess, who was said to have traveled through Denmark in a wagon, from which she blessed people with peace and prosperity, happiness and fertility. She is the Earth mother that rules over Midgard and was one of the Vanir Deities of the Norse pantheon. She is often considered to be the sister and wife of Njord, mother of Freyja and Frey. She is also associated with witchcraft, wealth and purification. |
