Nana Buluku: The West African Primordial Creator
Before the sun and the moon, before the gods who run the world, there is a grandmother who made all…
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Freya: Goddess of Love, War, and Magic
Freya is the goddess Norse myth never quite manages to simplify. Call her up and most modern retellings hand you…
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Devi: The Great Goddess of Hinduism
Ask a devotee of the Goddess which of India’s goddesses is the greatest, and the answer can sound like a…
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Athena: Goddess of Wisdom, Craft, and Warfare
She was born fully grown, in full armor, screaming a war cry, straight out of her father’s skull. That’s how…
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Ayao: Orisha of the Air and the Whirlwind
Stand at the center of a tornado and the wind stops. The funnel roars in a ring around you, and…
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Shakti: The Divine Feminine Power of Hinduism
Every great god in Hinduism has a goddess beside him, and the theology is blunt about why she is there….
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Idun: Norse Goddess of Youth and the Golden Apples
The gods of Asgard aged like anyone else. Odin, Thor, Freyja, the whole war-band of the north went gray on…
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Mattarahkka: The Sami Ancestral Mother Goddess
The goddess who gave you your body lived a few feet under the place where you slept. In a Sámi…
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Persephone: Goddess of Spring and Queen of the Underworld
Every spring, the story goes, she comes back up. Persephone is the girl who was carried down into the dark…
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Oba: Yoruba Orisha of the River and Marriage
She cut off her own ear and stirred it into her husband’s dinner. Oba did it for love, on the…
