Category Archives: Goddess

Egyptian goddess of protection associated with the scorpion

Egyptian goddess of truth, justice, harmony, and balance

Early Persian goddess of health and well-being

Sumerian goddess of healing and patroness of doctors, healing arts, and medical practices

Greek goddess of health and namesake of “hygiene”

Persian goddess of of fertility and matrimony who also personified reward or fortune.

Mayan goddess of fertility and motherhood

Egyptian goddess of the home, domesticity, women’s secrets, cats, fertility, and childbirth. She protected the home from evil spirits and disease, especially diseases associated with women and children.

Greek goddess of agriculture and death

Nanshe (also known as Nanse, Nazi) is the Sumerian goddess of social justice and divination, whose popularity eventually transcended her original boundaries of southern Mesopotamia toward all points throughout the region in the 3rd millennium BCE.