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Asherah
She was closely associated in Canaanite worship with Baal. Usually a pole or tree was erected in memory of Asherah near the Baal altar. She was the goddess of fertility and the goddess of sex. Asherahs worship involved sexual excesses to bring rain and thereby quicken the ability of animals and people to reproduce. She is invoked in childbirth and at planting time. She is associated with sacred groves, and is often depicted as an unshaped piece of wood or a naked, curly-haired goddess riding a lion and holding lillies and serpents.
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Athena/Minerva
The favorite daughter of Zeus, Athena is credited with bringing skills such as weaving, pottery, horsemanship and charioteering to mankind. Athena is credited with invention of the chariot. Although expert in military tactics and the art of war, she is protective of civilization and where Ares attacks and destroys, she defends and protects.
She is also known by the name Britannia, from whence Great Britain got its name (in A.D. 43). |
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Epona
Goddess of Horses, Mother Goddess, fertility, maternity, crops and prosperity. Daughter of a mare and a man, she was able to assume the form of a human or horse at will .Horse-breeders and veterinarians may wish to consult her. |
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Hathor
Hathor is a lover of music, dance, art and inspiration. Her names means "The Dwelling of Horus". She is a protector of mothers and lovers. The Sun-God Horus lay within her breast each dusk and was reborn each dawn. She will act as a muse for those that honor her. She is often depicted with either having a cows head, or a womans head with cow horns. |
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Hel
The daughter of Loki, Hel was confined to Niflheim by the gods. She is the goddess of death and the underworld and received the spirits of the dead, which she kept them in the elder tree until it was time for them to be reborn.
Those wishing to live a long and happy life would do well to appease her. |
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Rhea/Cybele
When Cronus ate his own children, Rhea managed to rescue one son, Zeus. She hid him in the Dictean Cave in Crete and gave Cronus a stone wrapped in the clothes of the infant, which he swallowed, believing he had killed all his children. Zeus later overpowered Cronus and made his spew forth his siblings. She can assist in ease of childbirth, and soothe the pain and difficulties of menstruation. |
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Sekhmet
Wife to Ptah ("The beloved of Ptah"), Sekhmet was also regarded as the one "Great of Magic" whose knowledge of sorcery gave her a place in the service of healing. Yet she also represents the Fiery destructive heat of the Sun. She worked with Bast to destroy the enemies of the Sun God, by whom Sekhmet had to be restrained for her desire for battle was so great should could easily have wiped out the human race. |
