Sekhmet: Goddess of Destruction and Healing
Sekhmet shows that destruction and healing can live in the same body. She is the lioness daughter of the sun,…
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Amaterasu: Sun Goddess & Ruler of Heaven and Earth
The greatest goddess in Japanese myth once got so hurt that she quit. She walked into a cave, rolled a…
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10 Moon Goddesses in World Mythology
Moon goddesses are an eclectic group within world religions; with each individual goddess having varied amounts of stage time within…
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Gaia: The Greek Goddess of the Earth and Mother of All
On the Athenian Acropolis, beside the seventh column on the north side of the Parthenon, four short lines are cut…
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Áine: The Irish Goddess of Midsummer and Sovereignty
A ninth-century Munster storyteller needed to explain why one of the province’s founding kings had a ruined ear. His answer…
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Ran: Norse Goddess of the Sea and the Drowned
Somewhere under the North Atlantic there is a hall, and every sailor who ever slipped beneath the waves is sitting…
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Selene: Greek Goddess of the Moon
The moon, to the Greeks, is a woman with a job. Each dusk she climbs out of the ocean, puts…
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Gefion: Norse Goddess of the Plow
A king in Sweden once promised a stranger as much land as she could plow in a day and a…
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Tyche: Greek Goddess of Fortune and Chance
Around 300 BC a king founded a city on the Orontes River and ordered a statue before the walls were…
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Badb: The Irish Battle-Crow Goddess
A hooded crow drops onto the roof-beam of a hall where a king sits feasting, and every man inside stops…
