Astarte
Canaanite/Phoenician goddess of love, sex, war, and hunting
Female deities from around the world
Canaanite/Phoenician goddess of love, sex, war, and hunting
This powerful Mesopotamian goddess is the first known deity for which we have written evidence.
Inanna is the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, sensuality, fertility, procreation, and also of war.
Also known as `Rope Woman’, Ixtab was the Mayan goddess of suicides and, particularly, those who died by hanging.
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.
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.
Persian Holy Maiden who appears to the newly deceased on the Chinvat Bridge and comforts them as they cross
Persian goddess of devotion
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.
Mesopotamian Queen of the Dead, who rules the underworld