Nut

In Egyptian religion, a goddess of the sky, vault of the heavens, often depicted as a woman arched over the earth god Geb. On five special days preceding the New Year, Nut gave birth successively to the deities Osiris, Horus, Seth, Isis, and Nephthys. These gods, with the exception of Horus, were...

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Nut

Ammut

Goddess of the netherworld, also called "Devouress of the Dead" or "Great of Death". She is often depicted with the head of a crocodile foreparts of a lion or panther and rear of a hippopotamus. She is purported to eat the heart of anyone judged unworthy to be admitted to the netherworld.

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Meretseger

The Theban cobra goddess, whose cult was centered on the mountain that dominates the Valley of the Kings. Her cult is primarily attested during the New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC).

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Hathor

Ancient Egyptian cow goddess, represented in either human or animal form, who was the goddess of the sky, women, fertility, and love. Her associations and cult centers were among the most numerous and diverse of any of the Egyptian deities. Hathor's worship originated in predynastic times (4th mi...

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Hathor

Satet

Goddess associated with the island of Elephantine at Aswan and guardian of the southern frontiers of Egypt. She was Khnum's, the creator god, companion. She was depicted as wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt, with antelope horns on either side of it.

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Nephthys

Egyptian goddess, sister of Isis, Osiris, and Seth, whose wife she was in the Osiris legend. With Isis, referred to one of the 'two kites', screeching birds that sounded like mourning women. She was a protectress of the dead. She was a goddess in the Great Ennead of Heliopolis, but seems to have ...

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Nephthys

Neith

Ancient Egyptian goddess who was the patroness of the city of Sais in the Nile River delta. Neith was worshipped as early as predynastic times (c 3000 BC), and several queens of the 1st Dynasty (c 2925-2775 BC) were named after her. She also became an important goddess in the capital city of Memp...

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Neith

Sekhmet

In Egyptian religion, a goddess of war and the destroyer of the enemies of the sun god Re. Sekhmet was associated with both disease and with healing and medicine. She was the companion of the god Ptah and was worshipped principally at Memphis. Depicted as a lioness or woman with a lioness head, s...

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Sekhmet

Bastet

The ancient Lower Egyptian goddess worshipped in the form of a lioness, and later a cat. Bastet's form was often changed after the domestication of the cat around 1500 BC. Her principal cult center was Bubastis in the Nile River delta but she also had an important cult at Memphis. In the Late and...

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Bastet

Snake Goddess

Part of the attraction of the figurines is that they can be interpreted as embodying many of the perceived, and admired, characteristics of the Minoans: their elegant, fashionable costumes, their physical gracefulness, their sensitive yet forthright personalities, their sophisticated tastes and l...

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Snake Goddess

One of the most intriguing archaeological finds in the remains of the Minoan palace at Knossos was the figure above which has been traditionally identified as the "Snake Goddess." Minoan culture flourished in the middle of the second millenium BCE. It was a palace culture that was focused on the ...

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Snake Goddess

Muse

Musalar, Yunan mitolojisindeki ilham perileridir. Yunanca “mousa”, Latince “Musa” olarak adlandırılırlar. Bazı kaynaklarda “Müzler” olarak da karşımıza çıkarlar. “Mousa” kelimesi kökeni Yunanca akıl, düşünce, yaratıcılık gücü kavramlarını içeren “men” kökünden gelmektedir. Yalnızca şairlere şiirl...

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Muse

THE MOUSAI (Muses) were the goddesses of music, song and dance, and the source of inspiration to poets. They were also goddesses of knowledge, who remembered all things that had come to pass. Later the Mousai were assigned specific artistic spheres: Kalliope (Calliope), epic poetry; Kleio (Clio),...

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Muse

The Muses, according to the earliest writers, were the inspiring goddesses of song, and, according to later noticus, divinities presiding over the different kinds of poetry, and over the arts and sciences. They were originally regarded as the nymphs of inspiring wells, near which they were worshi...

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Muse

Demeter

Demeter was the Olympian goddess of agriculture, grain and bread who sustained mankind with the earth's rich bounty. She presided over the foremost of the Mystery Cults which promised its intiates the path to a blessed afterlife in the realm of Elysium. Demeter was depicted as a mature woman, oft...

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Demeter

Homeros destanlarında "güzel saçlı kraliçe", "güzel örgülü Demeter" diye anılan toprak ve bereket tanrıçası Demeter (adını "Ge-meter" toprak ana olarak açıklayanlar vardır) Hesiodos'a göre Kronos'la Rheia'nın kızı, ikinci tanrı kuşagındandır. Rheia'nın ilk kızı Hestia'dan hemen sonra doğmuştur....

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Demeter

One of the great divinities of the Greeks. The name Demeter is supposed by some to be the same as γῆ μήτηρ (gē mētēr), that is, mother earth, while others consider Deo, which is synonymous with Demeter, as connected with δαίς (dais) and δαίνμυι (dainmui), and as derived from the Cretan word δηαί ...

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Demeter

Kybele

Kibele (Kybele), antik Frig tanrılarının annesidir. Orta ve Batı Anadolu dağlarında orgiastik ayinlerle tapınım gören ilkel doğa tanrıçasıdır. Yunanlılar, Anadolu'daki bu ana tanrıça kültünü, dinlerine ya da mitolojilerine kendi tanrılarının annesi Rhea olarak almıştır.

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Kybele

Kybele (Cybele) was the ancient Phrygian Mother of the Gods, a primal nature goddess worshipped with orgiastic rites in the mountains of central and western Anatolia. The Greeks identified her with their own mother of the gods--the Titaness Rhea.

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Kybele

Artemis

Artemis, Akdeniz çevresinde bin yıllarca tutunmuş bir tanrıçaya belli bir süre içinde ve belli bir bölgede verilen addır. Kaynağı Orta Anadolu'da bulunduğu en son arkeoloji kazılarından kesinlikle anlaşılan ve genel olarak Ana Tanrıça diye tanımlanabilen bu tanrısal varlık Yunan din ve efsaneleri...

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Artemis

Artemis, Roma’daki adı Diana, Zeus ile Leto’nun kızı. Phoebe olarak da bilinir. Apollon’un ikiz kız kardeşi, vahşi doğa, avcılık,okçuluk ve ay tanrıçası. Ares’in dostu ve en büyük Yunan tanrıçalarından biridir. Kardeşinden bir gün önce doğup Apollon’un doğumu sırasında annesine yardım etmiştir. A...

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Artemis

One of the great divinities of the Greeks. Her name is usually derived from ἀρτεμής (artemēs), uninjured, healthy, vigorous; according to which she would be the goddess who is herself inviolate and vigorous, and also grants strength and health to others. According to the Homeric account and Hesio...

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Artemis

Artemis was the Olympian goddess of hunting, the wilderness and wild animals. She was also a goddess of childbirth, and the protectress of the girl child up to the age of marriage--her twin brother Apollon was similarly the protector of the boy child. Together the two gods were also bringers of s...

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Artemis

Hera

Homeros destanlarında "inek gözlü", "ak kollu" ya da "altın tahttı" diye nitelenen Hera (yahut Here) tipik bir Grek tanrıçasıdır, yani Yunanistan yarımadasının ırk, şoy, din ve dünya görüşlerini, çıkarlarını daha ileri bir kültürün simgesi Ege ve Anadolu'ya karşı savunan, bu yüzden kişiliği ve ef...

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Hera

Kronos ve Rhea’nın kızı, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hestia ve Demeter’in kardeşidir. Aynı zamanda Zeus’un eşidir. Evlilik tanrıçası olarak bilinen Hera, doğum sırasında kadınların ve evliliklerin koruyucusudur.

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Hera

Hera, was the Olympian queen of the gods, and the goddess of marriage, women, the sky and the stars of heaven. She was usually depicted as a beautiful woman wearing a crown and holding a royal, lotus-tipped sceptre, and sometimes accompanied by a lion, cuckoo or hawk.

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Hera

Hera, probably identical with kera, mistress, just as her husband, Zeus, was called ἔρρος (erros) in the Aeolian dialect. The derivation of the name has been attempted in a variety of ways, from Greek as well as oriental roots, though there is no reason for having recourse to the latter, as Hera ...

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Hera

Aphrodite

Afrodit,Yunanca: Ἀφροδίτη. Büyük 12 Yunan tanrı ve tanrıçasından bir tanesi. Yunan mitolojisinde aşk ve güzellik tanrıçası. Roma mitolojisindeki ismi Venüs, Etrüsk mitolojisindeki ismi Turan'dır. Gigantlar arasındaki karşıtı Periboia'dır....

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Aphrodite

One of the great Olympian divinities, was, according to the popular and poetical notions of the Greeks, the goddess of love and beauty. Some traditions stated that she had sprung from the foam (ἀφρός, aphros) of the sea, which had gathered around the mutilated parts of Uranus, that had been throw...

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Aphrodite

Aphrodite, was the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation. She was depicted as a beautiful woman often accompanied by the winged godling Eros (Love). Her attributes included a dove, apple, scallop shell and mirror. In classical sculpture and fresco she was usually depicted nud...

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Aphrodite

Athena

One of the great divinities of the Greeks. Homer calls her a daughter of Zeus, without any allusion to her mother or to the manner in which she was called into existence, while most of the later traditions agree in stating that she was born from the head of Zeus. According to Hesiod, Metis, the f...

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Athena

Athena, Yunan mitolojisinde çok meşhur bir karakter olup; akıl, sanat, strateji, sulh ve savaşın tanrıçasıdır. Fakat savaş tanrıçası denildiğinde akla kan ve vahşet gelmemeli. Çünkü o Athena’ya ait özelliklerden değildir. Eski kaynaklarda tanrıçanın diğer adı Pallas olarak geçer. Roma mitolojisin...

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Athena

Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War Athena, also referred to as Athene, is a very important goddess of many things. She is goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, strategic warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill. She is known most s...

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Athena