Mother goddess

Aphrodite is known as the Greek goddess of love and beauty. In some parts of Greece, she is also known as the goddess of the sea and in other parts, she is known as the goddess of warfare. Her Roman counterpart is the goddess, Venus. In many ancient tales, Aphrodite partakes in many love affairs, and has many lovers. Her functions and attributes in the original Greek tales are complicated. Artists and poets have simplified them to love and beauty. Aphrodite is known for her charming looks,…

was sleeping, Éber and the twenty-four Druids sent by the divine Brigid left mystical messages on the fields of Aongus. Soon, our happiness will be restored, as the Goddess has decided so. Soon, everything he took from you will be yours, as the Goddess has ordered so. Soon, Aongus will pay a hefty price for his greed, as the Goddess has commanded so. Aongus, do not be scared! The time for you to pay has come. You and your wife have only two choices-- die or return everything you took and…

and abandonment that the narrator feels in her poem titled “Medusa.” Through the title of the poem, Medusa, there is the feeling of dread and foreboding. The story of Medusa is very well known as it is about a woman who insulted a goddess and for her punishment the goddess turned Medusa from a very beautiful woman to a hideous looking monster with snakes for her hair and a curse of which whoever looks into her eyes turn to stone. There are many different versions of the story but it all ends…

give peace to the earth goddess. Because of the arranged marriages in the Igbo tribes, the people will give good faith and hope to the earth goddess and this is different from Christianity because they honor the god through praise and worshipping. The Igbo tribe shows the worshipping through hard work in the family and this shows with Okonkwo and his traits; his yam farm and compound he built with his family showed hard work and dedication that will appease the goddess. During the Igbo…

mental power, emotional power, and physical power respectively. Characters with great strengths in multiple fields were arranged at the top while those with little power were left at the bottom. Fortuna, the goddess of luck and fortune, tops the hierarchy due to her vast effect on others. As a goddess, Fortuna is extremely powerful and influential over lives of others. She even gifts Theseus, a very successful conqueror, power, causing her to be the strongest of all. The Queen was placed…

It is a record of the conversations between Confucius and his disciples, which were later written down by his disciples. It is one of the major parts of Four Books. Confucius’s philosophies are based on the principle of good conduct, wisdom and proper social relationships. Confucius was the person who said that country should be ruled by moral values rather than with military powers. In the Analects Confucius says, “By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them…

one could say that based on the most famous stories, these goddesses are known for being very different. Venus the roman goddess, also known as Aphrodite in Greek mythology, is recognized for being the goddess of love and beauty. She is said in many stories to be the most beautiful and desired by all. Minerva (or Athena in Greek) on the other hand, is identified as the goddess of wisdom and warfare. She is sometimes compared to be a wiser and less blood thirsty version of Ares, the god of war.…

Sargon of Akkad. As a high priestess at the temple of Ur, she wrote a hymn of praise to Ishtar, or Inanna in Sumerian, the goddess of love and war. Enheduanna wrote a hymn about the Sumerian goddess Inanna because of the similarities between her and the Akkadian goddess, Ishtar. Although the Sumerians and the Akkadians were two separate cultures, they both worshipped a goddess of love and war. These similarities between the two goddesses allowed Enheduanna to justify the conquering of Sumer by…

Another similarity between the two goddesses is that they are both daughters of gods. Both deities were daughters of Titans. Even though their parents were gods, it does not imply that they did not possess the chthonic attributes. Many of the heavenly deities such as Zeus and Hermes have such attributes (Guiley 42). However, humans did not fear them as much as they did the underground gods. In the case of Circe, her father was the god of the sun, Helios (Kristensen 65). This god also had the…

STAGE 2 RELIGIOUS STUDIES Assessment Type 2: St Brigid How does St Brigid’s message transcend time and what does it mean to you? St Brigid was one of Ireland’s patron saints, along with St Patrick and Columba. She was a strong, brave woman who was a prophetic leader with a kind heart. She changed the Irish society with her view that education had the power to transform and liberate by creating communities of prayer, education and culture for those in need. Throughout her life, St Brigid…