Goddess

Being a priest or priestesses is a honor but somehow the priest amasses more power than the priestess that preceded him. During the matrilinear times, everybody in the society was looked at as an equal. Living with superiors or having hierarchy in society wasn’t very much present. Nevertheless, during the time of patriarchy that was the complete opposite. There was such thing as a hierarchy, as well as someone being a ruler. Although priestess is a derived term of priest they held totally…

Athena Was the Greek virgin goddess of reason intelligent activity arts and literature. Athena was the daughter of Zeus. Athena did not have a mother. Athena was fierce and brave in battle. Athena only took part in wars that defended the state and home from outside enemies. Athena was Zeus favourite child and was allowed to use his weapons including his thunderbolt. Athena holy tree was the olive tree. Athena is the unmarried warrior daughter. Athena mom name was Metis she can turn into…

The Saptamatrikas, though varying in number across different texts, mainly consists of the seven goddesses namely, Brahamani, Vaishnavi, Maheshwari, Kaumari, Varahi, Indrani and Chamunda. The Matrikas have been dated back to third century BCE by some scholars although they only appear in iconic depictions after 1st and 2nd century CE. There are several myths concerning their creation. One, in where they are created by Shiva to drink the blood of demon Andhakasura. According to Markandeya Purana,…

principal nucleus of the majority of early societies and the goddesses were its utmost promoters. Although, this spiritual evil should not have laid claim to the label of Mother Goddess, but Mother Whore, as ancient goddess worship and prostitution were basically Siamese twins. Not surprisingly, a large amount of the early goddess characteristics took on the same likeness as the others due to people resettling; quite frequently their common intertwining has been the term ‘fertility rites.’ For…

century C.E. and is currently on exhibit at Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Venus is a three-dimensional marble, free-standing sculpture of the Roman Goddess. Her torso is nude and there is a piece of drapery tied around her waist, concealing the lower half of her body. Due to prior damage, the sculpture is currently missing both of her arms and head. The Goddess Venus symbolizes beauty and femininity, which is apparent in the gracious and sensual form in which the sculptor portrayed her.…

“No need to test me Goddess, I remember. You killed nineteen of my people and one giant.” “That's only twenty.” “You told me the giant counts for three, that makes twenty-two. See Goddess, I haven't forgotten, I remember every detail of my encounter with your divine vengeance.” Jayna said nothing at first, she was lost in thought. Had she really killed…

It is the festival of lights marked over a period of four days, celebrating life, pleasure and goodness all around the world (Subhamoy Das, 2015). There are many reasons why Dipavali is celebrate, which four out of ten reasons are: the birthday of Goddess Lakshmi, the rescued Lakshmi by Vishnu, a special day for the Jains, and the Diwali speech from Pope (Rajhans, S. G. & Das, S., 2014). People decorate their houses with lights and set off firecrackers, a lively way of celebrating…

many, this can sound a bit scary. When someone invokes they are not in control of your own actions and are acting as that spirit/entity/deity they invoked. When you invoke a deity, spirit or being, you are inviting it into yourself, and that god or goddess, spirit or entity will come through a human host, in this case, you as that is what you asked for it to do. The ritual of Drawing Down the Moon is a good example of an invocation of a deity. This can be done as a means of communicating with or…

Aphrodite is the goddess of beauty and love, she was very beautiful and lured the heart of many gods. Aphrodite loved Adonis, the god of beauty and desire. He too was very beautiful and captured the attention of many goddesses. Adonis was the mortal son of the goddess Myrrha and Cinyras, but he was adopted by the gods. He loved to hunt and spent as much of his time in the forest as he could. The myth of “Aphrodite and Adonis” or “Venus and Adonis” is the most epic love story of all love…

and goddesses were individualized and structured based on specific powers and ideals. Almost every deity in Greek culture was neither inherently good nor inherently bad. In many instances, it had to do with control and to what extent each god or goddess used their influence…