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Legendary Ladies- 50 Goddesses to Empower and Inspire You By Ann Shen

CREATIVITY AND MANIFESTATION

Aditi
Origin: Hindu
Mythology: Mother of the endless universe, Aditi is one of the earliest sky goddesses in the Hindu pantheon. Her name translates to “limitless,” just like her reach and powers. She existed before time and is said to be the goddess of the past and the future, controlling all of time. Aditi is also the source of the stars, suns, planets, and moons and then gave birth to twelve Adityas, who were spirits that became the twelve Zodiac signs. They take turns ruling the cosmos by month and created all the gods and goddesses. She’s known as the Mother Cow and Cow of Light, as she nurtures the universe and is sometime depicted as a cow.
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Call on Aditi when you want to create your own world of happiness.

Athena
Origin: Greek (Roman: Minerva)
Mythology: Daughter of Zeus, Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom, arts and war, making her a triple threat and a central figure of feminine and intellectual strength. In Greek legend, Athena sprang fully grown, wearing her golden armor, from Zeus’s head after he swallowed her pregnant mother, Metis. Athena compete with Poseidon to be the patron god of the Greek capital. Poseidon gave them the gift of a saltwater well, which they could not drink from. Athena gave them an olive tree-which provided shade from the sun, oil for their lamps, and olives to eat. It’s no wonder the capital city then became Athens and she its deity. Today, the olive branch still serves as a universal symbol of peace

Although known as the goddess of war, Athena represents the reason and strategy aspect of battle. She’s often portrayed with an owl on her right shoulder, representing wisdom, and Medusa on her shield, representing Athena’s ties to earlier mythologies from pre-Greek cultures. Athena is also credited with gifting the world with art, and teaching humans weaving, pottery and architecture. The Pantheon is the most famous temple built in honor of Athena—her wisdom guided architects in building it—and it stood as a tribute to her famous virtue and sexual modesty, a divergence from the Greek gods’ typical romanic involvements.
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Call on Athena when you need to access your inner intuition and wisdom.

Benten
Origin: Japanese
Mythology: Also known as Benzaiten, Benten is the Japanese sea goddess of eloquence and beauty. Talent, wealth, wisdom, romance and music all fall under her domain. She was the only goddess among the Seven Gods of Good Fortune, a group of gods who traveled together on a treasure ship, and the only one who grants good luck and happiness. She’s also the patron goddess of geishas and lovers of art.

Daughter of a dragon king, Benten married another dragon who was terrorizing the island of Enoshima by eating children. His love for her transformed him into a perfect gentleman. Together, they live in Lake Biwa, which is shaped like and named after her favorite instrument, a short-necked lute. Benten is often depicted riding a dragon and playing a Biwa, with white snakes as her messengers—so it’s good luck in Japanese culture to see a white snake.
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Call on Benten when you need an extra boost of luck on your side—especially when it comes to creative endeavors.

Chang-o
Origin: Chinese
Mythology: Chang-o is the Chinese goddess of the moon, where she resides with a rabbit and a three-legged toad. Before her current residency, Chang-o lived on Earth with her husband, Yi, an archer, and was an attendant of the goddess Hsi Wang Mu. When Yi shot nine of the ten suns out of the sky, the couple was stripped of their deity status as punishment. Chang-o begged Hsi Wang Mu to help them out of their mortal sentence with her magic peaches, and Hsi Wang Mu took pity on them by making two elixirs from her fruit to make them immortal, though not gods, again. Chang-o decided to drink both potions, hoping to become a goddess with the extra dose of magic but instead became so light she floated up to the moon. She did indeed become a goddess again, but she is now forever tied to the moon. Her husband built her a cinnamon-wood palace there and can only visit once a month on the night of the new moon.

The annual Moon Festival, also known as the Autumn Harvest Festival, is held in celebration of Chang-o and the power of the divine feminine force of yin in yin and yang. People hold rituals in which they light incense for Chang-o’s altar while whispering their heart’s secret wish; then they remain quiet until they hear the first word uttered by a passerby, which is Chang-o’s answer.
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Call on Chang-o when you’re seeking the answer to your secret with or question, especially during a full moon.

The Muses
Origin: Greek
Mythology: Daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, the nine goddesses overseeing arts and sciences are also known as the Muses. According to legend, they were born on the mountain of Parnassus, and many poets and scholars would travel there to drink from a spring that ran down the mountain to gain Devine inspiration.

Each of the Muses oversees a different aspect of creativity: Calliope is poetry; Clio, history; Euterpe, lyrical poetry; Melpomene, tragedy; Thalia, comedy; Terpsichore, dance; Polyhymnia, music and storytelling; Urania, astronomy; and Erato, erotic poetry and mime. However, if one Muse is present, anyone can petition them for their inspiration in any aspect. Gifting mortal endeavors with their divine spirit, Muses are loving and joyful, often singing songs of praise. They also bestow mortals with talent and skill. Often they’re worshipped with milk, honey and wine. Modern museums originated as shrines to the Muses.
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Call on the Muses when you’re looking for inspiration and a boost in your talent; especially the one who oversees your specific area.


((I just realized you could go out and buy this book for yourself. I encourage you to! The artwork is simply gorgeous!! Other then the introduction and index, I’m typing out every word. I enjoy typing so this is fun for me.))

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Nuwa
Origin: Chinese
Mythology: Half human and half dragon, Nuwa is an ancient Chinese goddess of creation. She wondered the Earth alone until she saw her own reflection in the Yellow River and molded the first human out of clay on the riverbanks. Much to her delight, the figure, which had legs instead of a dragon tail, came alive and called her “Mother”; so she made many more. Nuwa made males and females so that they could reproduce and granted them mortality. After growing tired of making so many people, she dipped a rope not clay and spattered drops around the ground. This is the legend of how nobles (the molded clay) and peasants (the droppings) were made.

Nuwa was also critical during a great crisis in ancient times when two spirits created a tear between heaven and earth, resulting in mass chaos and natural disasters. She made five different-colored stones, each representing one of the natural elements of fire, water, air, earth and wind, and repaired the hole. It was an imperfect fix, which is why the sun and the moon and the stars still move.
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Call on Nuwa when you want to create something beautiful out of the raw material of your life.

LOVE

Aphrodite
Origin: Greek (Roman: Venus)
Mythology: The illustrious goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite arose fully grown out of sea foam in a scallop shell, on which she sailed to the island of Cyprus. Her name translates into “she who rises from the waves”. She was known for her magical embroidered girdle that could seduce any lover, and she had them in spades— including Ares, god of war, and Adonis, who became the god of beauty and desire. Jealous of her love for beautiful mortal Adonis, Ares turned into a wild boar and killed the an while he was hunting. When she discovered the body of her beloved, Aphrodite cried over him, sprinkling his blood with nectar and causing anemones to spring out of the ground around him. This is the reason why the flowers have such brief and fragile blooms. Moved by her devoted love, Zeus allowed Adonis to become a god who lives in the Underworld for half the year, and on Earth with Aphrodite for the other half.

Aphrodite also loves company and often travels with fun-loving spirits, including her attendants the Three Graces: Joyous, Brilliance, and Flowering. The Graces exemplify the gifts she bestows upon mere mortals if she chooses to smile upon them: joy, brilliance and abundance. To help mortals find romantic love, she gifts them with a bit of her charm and appeal. Her sacred plants are myrtles, roses and anemones. Many Greeks wore wreaths of myrtle on their wedding day for Aphrodite.
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Call on Aphrodite when you need more love in your life—be it for self-care or falling in love. Attract her attention by burning her favorite scents, frankincense and myrrh.

Creiddylad
Origin: Welch
Mythology: Goddess of flowers and spring, Creiddylad is an eternal May Queen who’s celebrated during the Spring Solstice. Her legend starts with her hand promised to Gwythr ap Greidawl, a handsome and brave Welsh warrior she loved, but before they could be married, She was abducted by Gwyn as Nudd, Lord of the Underworld. Gwythr built up an army to rescue her, but King Arthur intervened and decreed that the two men would have fight over her twice every year, the battles taking place at the turn of seasons. So at the start of each spring, Creiddylad is celebrated as she returns to the surface of the earth and is reunited with her love, and her joy covers the world in blooms. When she returns to the Underworld, the earth turns to winter.

Creiddylad’s story represents self being the only constant as time moves and season change, and she reminds us all that self-love comes before anything else. She always carries abundance within her, blessing everything around her with new life.
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Call on Creiddylad when you need a loving spirit to guide you into a better relationship with yourself; especially while you are practicing self-care.

Freya
Origin: Scandanavian
Mythology: The Norse goddess of love and ruler of war and death, Freya is a beautiful sorceress who rides around in a cat-drawn golden chariot. According to her legend, she was born to mediate the conflict between two warring groups of Norse gods: the peaceful Vanir and the combative Aesir. She joined the Vanir hostages in Asgard, home of the Aesir gods, quickly won them over with her charm, and established a spiritual peace. She wears a falcon-feathered cloak that allows her to travel swiftly between heaven and Earth. On the battlefield, she had first choice of the souls who would Coe and live with her in her enormous palace in Asgard, where they are celebrated forever in joy and pleasure.

Because of her beauty and love of pleasure, she was also famous for her sexuality in many of her myths. In one myth, she is obsessed with obtaining the famous amber necklace, Brisigamen, from the four dwarves who forged it. She loved the beautiful necklace the moment she set eyes on it and the four dwarves asked that she pay for it by sleeping with each of them—beauty for beauty.
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Call on Freya when you need the push to be bold and embark on an adventure to pursue your heart’s desire.

Hathor
Origin: Egyptian
Mythology: The ancient Egyptian goddess of love and joy, Hathor has been worshipped for more than 3,000 years. Nicknamed the Gentle Cow of Heaven, she provided milk for her son, Ra the Sun God, and all the pharaohs of Egypt, which made them divine. She also created the Milky Way from the milk in her breasts. She’s often portrayed wearing a crown with a solar disk rimmed by two cow horns. Worshipped by royalty and common folk alike, Hathor is celebrated at joyful ceremonies of music and dance. Hathor was the most beloved goddess of all in the Egyptian pantheron and had the most festivals in her honor.

Because of her loving nature, Hathor is also the goddess of the Underworld, where she waits under the branches of sycamore trees to usher souls into the afterlife. The Golden One, as she is also known, is the protector of all females and champion of romantic bonds. She’s a shape-shifter who can appear in the form of Seven Hathors; these spirits appear at the births of babies and can foretell their futures. Her symbols are the sistrum, a rattle in the shape of an ankh, and the hand mirror.
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Call on Hathor when you’re looking to spark more joy in you romantic life, especially when starting new love affairs.

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Isis
Origin:Egyptian
Mythology: Goddess of magic, Isis is one of the most venerated goddesses in Egyptian history. Through her amazing powers, she’s able to shape-shift into any different types of animals—and was a character in many myths throughout different cultures, earning her the title “Lady of en Thousand Names.” Isis performs all types of miracles; she can resurrect the dead, giveaway fertility and cure the sick. A blessed healer, Isis taught humans the great medicinal qualities of plants to cure diseases.

The most famous story about Isis involves her beloved Osiris, who was both her husband and brother. Jealous of their great love, their brother Set murders Osiris, placed his body in a coffin, and buried it under a tree. Isis search high and low to find Osiris, and when she finally did, Set stole the body again and cut it into fourteen pieces, scattering them all over Egypt. In great grief, Isis transformed into a falcon and found all the pieces of her husband—except for his p***s. Using her magical powers, she bonded all the pieces together with wax and formed a new p***s for him out of gold, bringing him back to life. Reunited briefly, the conceived a child together— the falcon-headed god Ra, who in turn brought vengeance upon Set.
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Call on Isis when you need strength to heal a broken heart and for the power to find hope again.

Laka
Origin: Hawaiian
Mythology: With her name meaning “gentle, docile, attraction,” Laka is a beautiful Polynesian goddess of love and wilderness. Inventor of the hula dance, Laka taught humans the art of the hula as a means of telling stories, preserving the history of the Hawaiian people, and honoring different gods and goddesses. She is married to the fertility god Lono, who came down to Earth on a rainbow to marry her. The rain connects the two of them, so rain is a sacred time for Laka.

Dancers in training still build alters to Laka in the hula in the hula halaus, where they practice before a performance. Filled with Laka’s favorite flowers and plants, like mail, Hala Pepe, ‘ie ‘ie, ki, ‘chia lehua, and Palai, the offerings are taken down to the ocean and released after the performances, thanking Laka for her blessing.
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Call on Laka when you want to attract love or wealth into your life; she will help ground you and reveal a path to abundance.

Oshun
Origin: Yoruba
Mythology: Oshun is a goddess of sweet water, and her dominion is love, beauty and creation. She is one of the seven major orishas (divine spirits in the Yoruba religion, of witch there are fourteen total), and the namesake of a river in West Africa. Legend has it that she’s the source of power for all the other orishas. Oshun makes all things flow in the universe, through both her love and her strength. She was sent by the other orishas to intervene with Ogun, the Keisha of tools and father of civilization, who had grown tired of creating and caused the world to stop growing. Oshun was the only one who could lift his spirits and encourage him to begin creating again. Oshun is also the only goddess who can carry messages between the mortal world and the Supreme Creator in heaven.

In Nigeria, there is an annual ceremony called Ibo-Osun where women of the village dance for the goddess during a feast of yams. The best dancer wins Oshun’s favor and is chosen to become the village adviser on healing and fertility—two of the goddess’s domains. Oshun’s love for beautiful, luxurious thing serves as a reminder to appreciate the pleasures and love in our own lives.
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Call on Oshun when you need to forgive and heal in love, and bring renewal into your life. Wear yellow and brass or copper jewelry to channel her spirit.

Inanna
goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with beauty, sex, divine law, and political power.

Enlil
god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms

Nergal
god of plague, war, and the sun in its destructive capacity

Enki
god of water, knowledge, crafts, and creation

Anu
personification of the sky, king of the gods

Ninhursag
mother goddess of the mountains,

Marduk
was a god

Sin
the god of the moon

Ereshkigal
goddess of Kur, the land of the dead or underworld

Tiamat
is a primordial goddess of the sea,

Abzu
depicted as a deity

Shamash
Mesopotamian sun god,

Utu
Mesopotamian sun god

Ninshubur
Mesopotamian goddess

Ninurta
god associated with farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war