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This is a list of goddesses, deities regarded as female or mostly feminine in gender.
Ethiopian
Kafa
Akan (inc. Ashanti)
Asase Yaa (Asaase Afua, Asaase Yaa, Asase Yaa)
Ambundu
Baganda
Edo (Bini)
Fon (Dahomey)
Ga-Adangbe
Igbo
Ngombe
Nyoro
Shona
Woyo
Yoruba
Zulu
Dinka
Kalenjin (inc. Pokot)
Maasai
Nuer
Shilluk
Songhay
Candomblé
Umbanda
Dominican (21 Divisions)
Haitian
Nabataean
Sabaean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Old Prussian
Bimbache
Guanche
(for Japanese Buddhist and syncretic deities, check #Japanese)
Tibetan
Fir Bolg
Fomhoraigh
Gairthear Mílidh Easpáinne
Tuatha de Danann
Kalasha
Nuristani (formerly "Kafir")
(inc. creation, Takamagahara, Izumo, Hyuga, etc.)
(inc. Nichiren, Pure Land, Tendai)
(inc. Shingon)
temporarily unsorted
Buryat
Mongolian
Khevsurian
Mingrelian
Svan
Alemannic - Alpine - Swabian
Dutch - Frisian - Low German
Ásynjur
Jötnar
Vanir
Norns
Valkyries
Other Norse divinities and spirits
(inc. Upanishads) (1500-500 BCE onward)
(inc. Ramayana, Mahabharata) (1000-250 BCE onward)
Kannada
Khond (Kui - Kuvi)
Kurukh - Oraon
Tamil
Assamese
Balochi
Bengali
Bhil
Dhangar
Gujarati
Kutchi
Marwari
Newari
Odia
Saharia
temporarily unsorted
Hattian
Hittite
Luwian
Carian
Lydian
Hmong
Yao
Balinese
Javanese
Nias
Seram
Sundanese
Toraja
Iglulingmiut
Iñupiat (Alaska)
Kalaallit (Greenland Inuit)
Kitlinermiut (Copper Inuit)
Netsilingmiut (Netsilik Inuit)
Yupighyt (Siberian Yupik)
Iranian
Iranian - Zoroastrian
Kushan
Ossetian
Scythian
Mariote
Fijian
Solomon Islands - Kwaio
Vanuatu - Malekula
Kiribati
Nauruan
Abenaki (Penobscot)
Algonquin
Lenape (Delaware)
Menominee
Ojibwe (Chippewa, Ojibway)
Shawnee
Chilote
Mapuche
Taíno
Arikara
Pawnee
Muisca
Quileute
Chinook
Multnomah
Chumash
Cherokee
Iroquois
Iroquois - Onondaga
Iroquois - Seneca
Tuscarora
Wyandot (Huron)
Chontal
K'iche
Lacandon
Yucatec
unnamed
Choctaw
Athabaskan
Diné (Navajo)
Gwich'in
Tahltan (Nahanni)
Tlingit
Otomi
Klamath-Modoc
Sahaptin (Tenino / Umatilla / Walla Walla / Yakima)
Pomo
Incan
Chehalis
Nuxalk (Bella Coola)
Salish - Spokane - Kalispell
Sduk-al-bixw (Snoqualmie)
Syilx (Okanagan)
Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
Iowa - Missouria - Otoe
Lakota
Osage
Kiowa
Tewa
Tiwa
Tsimshian
Guarani
Aztec
Cahuilla
Hopi
Payómkawichum (Luiseño)
Taaqtam (Serrano)
Tarahumara (Rarámuri)
Tlaxcalan
Tongva (Gabrieleño)
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
Wintu
Mohave
Quechan (Yuma)
Illyrian
Liburnian
Thracian
Bikolano
Cuyunon
Ibaloi
Ifugao
Isnag
Itneg
Kankanaey
Kapampangan
Mangyan
Manobo
Palawan
Sambal
Tagakaulo
Tagalog
Tboli
Tiruray
Visayan
Hawaiian
Mangaian
Māori
Marquesan
Moriori
Niue
Rapa Nui
Samoan
Tahitian
Tuamotu
Jurchen - Manchu
Estonian
Finnish (inc. Karelian)
Sami
Erzya
Komi
Udmurt
Hungarian
Khanty
Mansi
(inc. Chechen, Ingush, Kist)
(inc. Vietnamese folk religion, Cao Đài, Đạo Mẫu)
Canaanite - Phoenician
Moabite
Ugaritic
Dragonlance
Forgotten Realms
A goddess is a female deity. In many known cultures, goddesses are often linked with literal or metaphorical pregnancy or imagined feminine roles associated with how women and girls are perceived or expected to behave. This includes themes of spinning, weaving, beauty, love, sexuality, motherhood, domesticity, creativity, and fertility. Many major goddesses are also associated with magic, war, strategy, hunting, farming, wisdom, fate, earth, sky, power, laws, justice, and more. Some themes, such as discord or disease, which are considered negative within their cultural contexts also are found associated with some goddesses. There are as many differently described and understood goddesses as there are male, shapeshifting, or neuter gods.
Amaterasu Ōmikami, often called Amaterasu for short, also known as Ōhirume no Muchi no Kami (大日孁貴神), is the goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology. Often considered the chief deity (kami) of the Shinto pantheon, she is also portrayed in Japan's earliest literary texts, the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki, as the ruler of the heavenly realm Takamagahara and as the mythical ancestress of the Imperial House of Japan via her grandson Ninigi. Along with two of her siblings she ranks as one of the "Three Precious Children", the three most important offspring of the creator god Izanagi.
Parvati, also known as Uma and Gauri, is the Hindu goddess of power, energy, nourishment, harmony, love, beauty, devotion, and motherhood. She is one of the central deities of the goddess-oriented sect called Shaktism, and the supreme goddess in Shaivism. Along with Lakshmi and Sarasvati, she forms the Tridevi. In her complete form, she is a physical representation of Mahadevi also known as Adi Shakti, the primordial power behind the creation of the universe, the creator and destroyer according to Shaktism.
Lakshmi also known as Shri, is one of the principal goddesses in Hinduism. She is the goddess of wealth, fortune, power, beauty, fertility and prosperity, and associated with Maya ("Illusion"). Along with Parvati and Saraswati, she forms the Tridevi of Hindu goddesses.
Radha, also called Radhika, is a Hindu goddess and the chief consort of the god Krishna. She is the goddess of love, tenderness, compassion and devotion. In scriptures, Radha is mentioned as the avatar of Lakshmi and also as the Mūlaprakriti, the Supreme goddess, who is the feminine counterpart and internal potency of Krishna. Radha accompanies Krishna in all his incarnations. Radha's birthday is celebrated every year on the occasion of Radhashtami.
Rati is the Hindu goddess of love, carnal desire, lust, passion, and sexual pleasure. Usually described as the daughter of Prajapati Daksha, Rati is the female counterpart, the chief consort and the assistant of Kama (Kamadeva), the god of love. A constant companion of Kama, she is often depicted with him in legend and temple sculpture. She also enjoys worship along with Kama.
A mother goddess is a major goddess characterized as a mother or progenitor, either as an embodiment of motherhood and fertility or fulfilling the cosmological role of a creator- and/or destroyer-figure, typically associated the Earth, sky, and/or the life-giving bounties thereof in a maternal relation with humanity or other gods. When equated in this lattermost function with the earth or the natural world, such goddesses are sometimes referred to as the Mother Earth or Earth Mother, deity in various animistic or pantheistic religions. The earth goddess is archetypally the wife or feminine counterpart of the Sky Father or Father Heaven, particularly in theologies derived from the Proto-Indo-European sphere. In some polytheistic cultures, such as the Ancient Egyptian religion which narrates the cosmic egg myth, the sky is instead seen as the Heavenly Mother or Sky Mother as in Nut and Hathor, and the earth god is regarded as the male, paternal, and terrestrial partner, as in Osiris or Geb who hatched out of the maternal cosmic egg.
Vande Mātaram is a poem written in Sanskritised Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s. The first two verses of the poem were adopted as the National Song of India in October 1937 by the Congress.
Saraswati, also spelled as Sarasvati, is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, flowing water, abundance and wealth, art, speech, wisdom, and learning. She is one of the Tridevi, along with the goddesses Lakshmi and Parvati. She is a pan-Indian deity, also revered in Jainism and Buddhism.
The Triple Goddess is a deity or deity archetype revered in many Neopagan religious and spiritual traditions. In common Neopagan usage, the Triple Goddess is viewed as a triunity of three distinct aspects or figures united in one being. These three figures are often described as the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone, each of which symbolizes both a separate stage in the female life cycle and a phase of the Moon, and often rules one of the realms of heavens, earth, and underworld. In various forms of Wicca, her masculine consort is the Horned God.
Hindu texts present diverse views on the position of women, ranging from feminine leadership as the highest goddess, to limiting gender roles. The Devi Sukta hymn of Rigveda, a scripture of Hinduism, declares the feminine energy as the essence of the universe, the one who creates all matter and consciousness, the eternal and infinite, the metaphysical and empirical reality (Brahman), the soul, of everything. The woman is celebrated as the most powerful and the empowering force in some Hindu Upanishads, Sastras and Puranas, particularly the Devi Upanishad, Devi Mahatmya and Devi-Bhagavata Purana.
In linguistics, mama and papa are considered a special case of false cognates. In many languages of the world, sequences of sounds similar to and mean "mother" and "father", usually but not always in that order. This is thought to be a coincidence resulting from the process of early language acquisition.
Sita, also known as Siya, Janaki and Maithili, is a Hindu goddess and the female protagonist of the Hindu epic Ramayana. Sita is the consort of Rama, the avatar of god Vishnu, and is regarded as an avatar of goddess Lakshmi. She is the chief goddess of the Rama-centric Hindu traditions and is the goddess of beauty and devotion. Sita is widely known for her devotion, self-sacrifice, courage, and purity. Sita's birthday is celebrated every year on the occasion of Sita Navami.
Batala is the eighth largest city in the state of Punjab, India in terms of population after Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala, Bathinda, Mohali and Hoshiarpur. Batala ranks as the second-oldest city after Bathinda. It is a municipal corporation in Gurdaspur district in the Majha region of the state of Punjab. It is located about 32 km from Gurdaspur, the headquarters of the district. It is also a Police district. Batala holds the status of the most populated town of the district with 31% of the district's total population. It is the biggest industrial town in the district.
Manasa is a Hindu goddess of snakes. She is worshipped mainly in Bihar, Bengal,Odisha, Jharkhand, Assam and other parts of northeastern India and in Uttarakhand, chiefly for the prevention and cure of snakebite, and also for fertility and prosperity. In Hinduism, Manasa is the daughter of lord shiva but brought up by a sage..Manasa is the sister of Shesha and Vasuki, king of Nāgas (serpents), and wife of sage Jaratkaru. She is the mother of the sage Astika. She is also known as Vishahari, Nityā (eternal) and Padmavati.
Phosop or Phaisop is the rice goddess of the Thai people. She is a deity more related to ancient Thai folklore than a goddess of a structured, mainstream religion. She is also known as Mae Khwan Khao.