Ishtar

This powerful Mesopotamian goddess is the first known deity for which we have written evidence.

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Inanna

Inanna is the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, sensuality, fertility, procreation, and also of war.

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Ixtab

Also known as `Rope Woman’, Ixtab was the Mayan goddess of suicides and, particularly, those who died by hanging.

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Ixchel

Known popularly today as `the rainbow goddess’ because her name could be translated as `Lady Rainbow’, Ixchel is associated with many different aspects of life and cosmology in Mayan mythology.

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Xumucane

Mayan goddess Xumucane ground white and yellow corn and washed her hands, saving the water to brew a sacred broth which gave life to the humans who were created from the maize, thus beginning human life on the earth.

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Daena

Persian Holy Maiden who appears to the newly deceased on the Chinvat Bridge and comforts them as they cross

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Hathor

Hathor is an ancient Egyptian goddess considered the primeval goddess from whom all others were derived. She is usually depicted as a woman with the head of a cow, ears of a cow, or simply in cow form.

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