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Ancient sea goddess celebrated
Tens of thousands of believers have gathered in the port city of Tianjin. They are there for a week-long commemoration of the goddess Mazu. We bring you the grandeur of the opening ceremony.
The Mazu Cultural Festival opened at Heavenly Queen Temple, one of the...
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Lilith is a female Mesopotamian storm demon associated with wind and was thought to be a bearer of disease, illness, and death. The figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind and storm demons or spirits as Lilitu, in Sumer, circa 4000 BC. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith]Read mo...
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Archaeologists have found traces of a temple built for the Greek goddess of divine retribution, Nemesis, during excavations in the ancient city of Agora in the Aegean port city of zmir. Read more
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The Minoan Deities Named: An Archaeologist Gleans Goddesses and Gods from Linear A According to the online Dartmouth course "Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean", the goddess names found include Potinija or Potnia ("Mistress" in later Greek); Atana Potinija or Potnia...
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Coventina was a Romano-British goddess of wells and springs. She is known from multiple inscriptions at one site in Northumberland county of the United Kingdom, an area surrounding a wellspring near Carrawburgh on Hadrian's Wall. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventina]Read more[/u...
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Asherah, in Semitic mythology, is a Semitic mother goddess, who appears in a number of ancient sources including Akkadian writings by the name of Ashratum/Ashratu and in Hittite as Asherdu(s) or Ashertu(s) or Aserdu(s) or Asertu(s). Asherah is generally considered identical with the Ugaritic g...
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Bona Dea ("The Good Goddess") was a divinity in ancient Roman religion. She was associated with chastity and fertility in women, healing, and the protection of the Roman state and people. Bona Dea's Roman cults were led by the Vestal Virgins, and her provincial cults by virgin or matron p...
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Aurora is the Latin word for dawn, the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and Latin poetry. Like Greek Eos and Rigvedic Ushas (and possibly Germanic Ostara), Aurora continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, Hausos. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(mythology)]R...
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