Goddess

Hera is the Greek goddess of marriage and motherhood. She was the ideal woman. She was most famous because she was very jealous. She was mostly mad all the time or mean because her husband would go out and cheat on her. Zeus, the king of the gods, cheated on her many times. Hera would punish the women and if they had children she would punish them also. Hera is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. Hera’s husband is Zeus. Zeus is the king of the Gods. Since Hera’s husband is Zeus that makes her…

I am Artemis, the goddess of the hunt and protectors of women, and I am and will always will be a virgin goddess. I simply have no interest in men and had no desire to be with them. Contrary to many female figures on Mount Olympus, I did not need a man to satisfy my need for affection. Instead I obtained adoration for those I took care of, such as the inhabitants of the forests or the women I help guide through the transitions of their lives. Although I do not have any aspirations to be with a…

Gods and goddesses played a primary part in the Ancient Greek society and culture. Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, and eternal youth, was an essential goddess to Mount Olympus. Since she was the most attractive goddess on Mt. Olympus, which should not be shocking since she is the goddess of love, many gods and mortals were attracted to her (“Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Beauty, Love and Eternal Youth”). Along with beauty, Aphrodite possessed a magical girdle that attracted people to…

The Goddess Morrigan is a Celtic War Goddess. Archaeological evidence of her being worshipped dates back beyond the Copper age, and she was the dominant Goddess of Europe called the Great Goddess. Morrigan is not just a war Goddess, she is also a Goddess of death, life, ruler over rivers and lakes. She is the queen of phantoms, demons, shape shifters and witches. She is also one of the Celtic Goddesses of fate. She is one of a trio of War Goddesses called the Morrigan, along with Badb, Macha…

that there was a main female figure, known as the Mother Goddess or Great Goddess, whose influence is still felt today in many works of literature and art. In fact, within Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte futuristically utilizes the characters of Diana and Mary Rivers as representations of this Great Goddess in order to provide Jane with maternal figures that enforce her decision to not sacrifice herself for the sake of others. The Mother Goddess theory is a relatively new idea in the archaeology…

The 1st century Kushan statue of a Nature Goddess on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) depicts an idealized image of femininity and the personification of nature. Carved out of mottled red sandstone and standing at 63 inches tall, the Nature Goddess commands a presence of a monumental entity in comparison to the viewer and her surrounding objects. Originally found in Mathura, India, the Nature Goddess evolves out of “water cosmology,” which is a term “encompassing the…

One early spring morning Khroma the goddess of color set out to the city of Athens to trade colors with the artists in the city. Khroma was the goddess of colors, she controls and changes the colors of anything she wishes. Anytime an Athenian artist needed a new or different color for their creations, Khroma would supply them. The artist often traded a color for a more beautiful color, Khroma thought that was silly because in her eyes all colors are equally beautiful. Khroma descended from…

During the early years of civilization, women have been portrayed in many different ways from the statues in the Paleolithic period to the Goddess in Mesopotamian, plus the Queens of ancient Egypt. One thing all these cultures have in common is woman was always being a sign of fertility which makes sense being that they have the ability to carry children. Even though there has been a few women represented in these times for the most part it was a man 's world. Females did not have the same…

“Celestial Choir! Enthroned in realms of light, Columbia’s scenes of glorious toils I write” (Wheatley 362) as a poetical muse, which inspires her to write on the injustices of her society. This is followed by her personification and depiction of the “Goddess of Freedom” that is “divinely fair” as she begins her explanation of “freedom’s cause” to aid in stopping the…

If a god or goddess of my choice would give me a gift, I would want to receive a gift from Artemis truthfully because when I first heard of the essay, I instantly thought that it would be cool to get a gift from someone who has the same name as you. While thinking about what gift I want from her, I remembered that when I was younger, I got curious about the origin of my name and so after researching, I came upon Artemis, and as I read more about her, I admired her and I wanted to be her.…