They believe the Triple Goddess is an archetypal figure which appears in a number of different cultures throughout human history, and that many individual goddesses can be interpreted as Triple Goddesses, The wide acceptance of an archetype theory has led to neopagans adopting the images and names of culturally divergent deities for ritual purposes ; for instance, Conway, and goddess feminist artist Monica Sjöö, connect the Triple Goddess to the Hindu Tridevi ( literally " three goddesses ") of Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Parvati ( Kali / Durga ).

Without the Tridevi, the Trimurti are not complete and vice versa. They are the active energy of the trimiurti without whom the Gods will lose their power to create, observe or destroy and re-create.

My Goddess: First End ), three anime series-Oh My Goddess!

Skuld is one of the three Norns and represents the future ( while Verdandi represents the present and Urd the past ), and this role continues into the series, although the three Oh My Goddess!

Gimbutas gained fame — and notoriety — with her last three books: The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe ( 1974 ); The Language of the Goddess ( 1989 ), which inspired an exhibition in Wiesbaden, 1993 / 94 ; and her final book, The Civilization of the Goddess ( 1991 ), which based on her documented archeological findings presented an overview of her conclusions about Neolithic cultures across Europe: housing patterns, social structure, art, religion, and the nature of literacy.

In The White Goddess, he names the white poplar as one of the " three trees of resurrection ," along with alder and cypress.

However, as his three brothers are soon to be executed for murder by the British, his subjects believe that their Green Goddess has delivered into their hands three victims for their revenge.

The undecorated Antechamber was found to be in a state of " organized chaos " and contained approximately 700 objects ( articles 14 to 171 in the Carter catalogue ) amongst which were three funeral beds, plates in shape of Hippopotamus ( the Goddess Tawaret ), of lion ( or leopards ) and cattle ( the Goddess Hathor ).

In the Tepantitla and Tetitla murals, for example, the Great Goddess wears a frame headdress that includes the face of a green bird, generally identified as an owl or quetzal, and a rectangular nosepiece adorned with three circles below which hang three or five fangs.

* Maiden, the first of the three aspects of the Triple Goddess ( Neopaganism )

The Triple Goddess was here distinguished by Hutton from the prehistoric Great Mother Goddess, as described by Marija Gimbutas and others, whose worship in ancient times he regarded as neither proven nor disproven Nor did Hutton dispute that in ancient pagan worship " partnerships of three divine women " occurred ; rather he proposes that Jane Harrison looked to such partnerships to help explain how ancient goddesses could be both virgin and mother ( the third person of the triad being as yet unnamed ).

and the imagery of three aspects, and related these to the Triple Goddess.

— as evoking his Triple Goddess in her three realms of earth, sky and underworld.

In the 1949 novel Seven Days in New Crete, Graves extrapolated this theory into an imagined future society where the worship of the Triple Goddess under the three aspects of the maiden archer Nimuë, the goddess of motherhood and sexuality Mari, and the hag-goddess of wisdom Ana is the main form of religion.

The poets or magicians of New Crete are an integral part of a religion centred on a sometimes capricious Goddess worshipped in three aspects: the maiden archer Nimuë, the goddess of motherhood and sexuality Mari, and the hag-goddess of wisdom Ana.

Caught off guard, the Goddess is attacked simultaneously by Thanos, Warlock and Professor X, the three striking her on the spiritual plane as the units cannot affect the soul, and is absorbed into the Soul Gem.

( the Watcher is part of a special race of beings who fulfill this function that are posted on planets thruout the Cosmos ); the Lords of Karma – Alice A. Bailey mentioned three Lords of Karma but did not name them ; they are called in the Ascended Master Teachings the Karmic Board and they are stated to number seven and each of them is identified by name: The Great Divine Director ( 1st ray ), The Goddess of Liberty ( 2nd ray ), Lady Master Nada ( 3rd ray ), Cyclopea ( 4th ray ), Pallas Athena ( 5th ray ), Lady Master Portia ( 6th ray ), and Kwan Yin ( 7th ray ).

Further, three Goddesses are their sisters and in some cases consorts: Saluwé, Goddess of the Earth, consort of Illiir ; Beltine, Goddess of the Soul, wife of Neroth ; and Anshar, Goddess of Pain and Suffering.

A statue of the Hindu Goddess Saraswati

The patron deity of the Thuggee was the Hindu Goddess Kali ( or Durga ), whom they often called Bhavani or Bhowanee.

Hindu Mother Goddess, or Demeter of ancient Greek pre-Christian belief was a mother.

* Kanaka Durga Temple, a famous Hindu Temple of Goddess Kanaka Durga located in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.

Durga (; ); meaning " the inaccessible " or " the invincible "; durga ) is a popular fierce form of the Hindu Goddess or Devi.

* Ardra ( nakshatra ) is the Goddess of good luck and fortune in Hindu mythology, and a nakshatra associated with the star Betelgeuse in Indian astronomy

The multiple heads or limbs of Lord Vishnu or Goddess Durga often seen in Hindu art, for example, would be intended to represent divine omniscience and omnipotence, whereas the use of an animal icons for vehicle would seek to allegorically represent particular abstract qualities associated with that animal / bird such as astuteness, agility or power.

Kanyakumari takes its name from the Hindu Goddess Kanyakumari ( also called Kumari Amman ). The Kanniyakumari amman temple is situated in the town, on the seashore, where there is the confluence of the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. 1931 Travancore census records the rule of Villavarayar kings for 800 years, and the stone engravings at Bhagavathi Amman Temple asserts it was built by Bharathar kings as a sign of reverence to the sea goddess.

The sutra also expounds the vows of the Hindu goddesses Sarasvati ( Chinese: 大辨才天 ; pinyin: dà biàn cái tiān ), Lakshmi ( Shri )( Chinese: 大功德天 ; pinyin: dà gōng dé tiān ) and Drdha, the Earth Goddess, to protect any bhikshu, or monk, who will uphold and teach the sutra.

The Hindu Goddess Mahalakshmi Temple ( Kolhapur ) | Mahalakshmi

Nandini in Bengali means beloved daughter and one of the 108 names for the Hindu Goddess, the God Parvati ( Parvathi ) or Ma Durga who is the wife of the God Shiva.

Some researchers believe Paranasabari is another name for Hindu Goddess Tara, and Tara is the only female goddess not only worshiped in India but also Mongolia and Tsarist Russia. Again in Buddhist religion incidentally, Paranasabari is depicted as attendant of Buddhist deity of same name, Tara.

Mithila is important in Hindu mythology, since it is regarded as the birthplace of Goddess Sita, the daughter of King Janak of Mithila, who eventually gets married to Lord Rama.

The latter two were primarily sexually explicit performers, described as ' Archetypes of the Dark Feminine psyche ' personifying Kali, the Hindu Goddess of death, and Erzulie, the Voudoo Goddess of Love.

They are some of the earliest Hindu caves in the region and are dedicated to the Hindu God Shiva & Goddess Jogeshwari.

*( a ) Brown, C. MacKenzie, The Triumph of the Goddess: The Canonical Models and Theological Issues of the Devi-Bhagavata Purana, State University of New York Press ( Suny Series in Hindu Studies, 1991 ).

* Dempsey, Corinne G., The Goddess Lives in Upstate New York: Breaking Convention and Making Home at a North American Hindu Temple.

* Erndl, Kathleen M., Victory to the Mother: The Hindu Goddess of Northwest India in Myth, Ritual, and Symbol, Oxford University Press ( New York, 1992 ).

Phul Mata was a Hindu Mother Goddess, mentioned in epic and Puranic literature.

Gaumukh, source of the Ganges above Gangotri According to Hindu mythology, Goddess Ganga took the form of a river to absolve the sins of King Bhagiratha's predecessors, following his severe penance of several centuries.

It is believed that Goddess Adi Parashakti, created the Trimurti Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma.

He had at least three consorts including his Empress, Hashihito no Himemiko ( Princess Hashihito ), the daughter of Emperor Jomei and his sister Empress Kōgyoku.

The family reached the peak of its power under Fujiwara no Michinaga ( 966-1027 ), a longtime kampaku who was the grandfather of three emperors, the father of six empresses or imperial consorts, and the grandfather of seven additional imperial consorts ; it is no exaggeration to say that it was Michinaga who ruled Japan during this period, not the titular Emperors.

During the Konbaung dynasty, solid gold images of deceased kings and their consorts were worshiped three times a year by the royal family, during the Burmese New Year ( Thingyan ), at the beginning and at the end of the Buddhist lent.

His family included three sons by three different consorts:

( Indiae Imperator / Imperatrix ) after their name ( while the one reigning Queen-Empress, Victoria, used the initials R I, the three consorts of the married King-Emperors simply used R ).

All three consorts ' crowns in turn included the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond.

However, three of these were Roman Catholic archbishops, and so had no formal consorts ; while of the four secular Electors, one was King of Bohemia, and his consort was always known by the more prestigious title of " Queen of Bohemia ".

It has the shrines of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva in the same complex, making this a unique temple with shrines for all three gods and their consorts in the same place.

To this end he assembles several monstrous allies: a mummy, and an amphibious gill-man, and a Wolfman, in addition to three school girls ( Mary Albee, Joan-Carrol Baron, and Julie Merrill ) whom the Count transforms into his vampiric consorts.

( Indiae Imperator / Imperatrix ) after their name ( while the one reigning Queen-Empress, Victoria, used the initials R I, the three consorts of the married King-Emperors simply used R ).