Adding to her insecurity, she learns that everyone expected Brad to marry Addie, whom all three husbands consider practically a goddess.

On the other hand as expected Janus is present in region I of Martianus Capella's division of Heaven and in region XVI, the last one, are to be found the Ianitores terrestres ( along with Nocturnus ), perhaps to be identified in Forculus, Limentinus and Cardea, deities strictly related to Janus as his auxiliaries ( or perhaps even no more than concrete subdivisions of his functions ) as the meaning of their names implies: Forculus is the god of the forca, a iugum, low passage, Limentinus the guardian of the limes, boundary, Cardea the goddess of hinges, here of the gates separating Earth and Heaven.

That Rocked America, stated " Some expected America's goddess of domestic perfection to fall into terminal despair.

Although she is not ordered about, she is expected to behave as befits a goddess.

Enki immediately expresses concern and dispatches his Galla demons, Galaturra or Kurgarra, sexless beings created from the dirt from beneath the god's finger-nails, to recover the young goddess.

On the one hand he is a farmer and a healing god who releases humans from sickness and the power of demons ; on the other he is the god of the South Wind as the son of Enlil, displacing his mother Ninlil who was earlier held to be the goddess of the South Wind.

After slaying all demons, the enraged goddess cut off her own head too and drank her own blood.

There are surviving heroic poems, narratives, and ritual songs concerning, among others, the demon Albaslï ( a woman with huge breasts thrown over her shoulders, who might injure women giving birth ); Suv-anasï, the " mother of water "; the three demons Temirtösh, Baltatösh, and Qïlïchtösh ( with ax blades protruding from their chests with which they kill people ); Sütqatïn, a goddess or spirit of the rain ; Basdïrïq, who could suffocate people in their sleep ; and a gluttonous figure.

The main event is a 24-hour-long festival on the day of the full moon that includes animal sacrifices to the demons of goddess whom she killed.

Among them were Anglesey ( Môn ), located on the Northern Welsh Coast, which was the sacred island of the druids of Britain ; the Scilly islands, where archaeological remains of proto-historical temples have been found ; and some of the Hebrides Islands, which were, in the Gaelic tradition, home of ghosts and demons: on one of them, Skye, the Irish hero Cúchulainn was educated by the war goddess Scathach.

He brings his friend Yumiko Shirasagi, a transfer student that became interested in Nakajima and found to be the reincarnation of the goddess Izanami, to combat the malicious demons he unleashed.

Other deities worshipped by the ancient Macedonians were part of a local pantheon: Thaulos ( god of war equated with Ares ), Gyga ( later equated with Athena ), Gozoria ( goddess of hunting equated with Artemis ), Zeirene ( goddess of love equated with Aphrodite ), Xandos ( god of light ), Totoës ( god of sleep ), Darron ( god of healing ), Aretos ( local version of Heracles ), Bedu ( from Edessa, god of water or air ), the Echédorides ( nymphs ), the Arantides ( possibly the Furies ), the Sauadai ( water spirits or demons identified with the Satyrs ), Pasikraia ( a goddess attested in Macedonia and Thessaly ), and Sabazius-Dionysus ( a Thracian god ).

The other gods began to imitate Set, and soon, all but Oshtur ( of the Vishanti ) and Gaea, goddess of the earth, had become demons.

All the weapons and tools are worshipped as the day marks the slaying of the cruel demons by the goddess Durga.

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

They hail from Travancore, a state in the subcontinent where Kali, the goddess of death, is worshiped.

It is also stated that Hera kidnapped Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, to prevent Leto from going into labor.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

According to this interpretation, the name is from aphrós " foam " and déatai " seems " or " shines " ( infinitive form * déasthai ), meaning " she who shines from the foam ", a byname of the dawn goddess ( Eos ).

Adams ( 1997 ) have also proposed an etymology based on the connection with the Indo-European dawn goddess, from " very " and " to shine ".

Her chief center of worship was at Paphos, where the goddess of desire had been worshipped from the early Iron Age in the form of Ishtar and Astarte.

In the Hall of Two Truths, the deceased's heart was weighed against the Shu feather of truth and justice taken from the headdress of the goddess Ma ' at.

In Shinto, spirits of nature, or kami, are believed to exist everywhere, from the major ( such as the goddess of the sun ), which can be considered polytheistic, to the minor, which are more likely to be seen as a form of animism.

In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (; Greek:, Aineías, derived from Greek meaning " to praise ") was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite.

Preparing to depart from Aulis, which was a port in Boeotia, Agamemnon's army incurred the wrath of the goddess Artemis.

The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

Didrachm from Ionie representing the goddess Artemis

However, the name Artemis ( variants Arktemis, Arktemisa ) is most likely related to Greek árktos ‘ bear ’ ( from PIE * h₂ŕ ̥ tḱos ), supported by the bear cult that the goddess had in Attica ( Brauronia ) and the Neolithic remains at the Arkouditessa, as well as the story about Callisto, which was originally about Artemis ( Arcadian epithet kallisto ).

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

In Norse mythology, Brísingamen ( from Old Norse brisinga " flaming, glowing " and men " jewellery, ornament ") is the necklace of the goddess Freyja.

A more recent etymology by Xavier Delamarre would derive it from a Common Celtic * Beltinijā, cognate with the name of the Lithuanian goddess of death Giltinė, the root of both being Proto-Indo-European * gʷelH-" suffering, death ".

Dio says that at the outset Boudica employed a form of divination, releasing a hare from the folds of her dress and interpreting the direction in which it ran, and invoked Andraste, a British goddess of victory.

The Zipa used to cover his body in gold and, from his Muisca raft | raft, he offered treasures to the Guatavita goddess in the middle of the sacred lake.

The word cereal derives from Ceres, the name of the Roman goddess of harvest and agriculture.

In Homer's Odyssey she is the blond-haired goddess who separates the chaff from the grain.

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

On the following day, the girls would carry the Brideog through the village or neighborhood, from house to house, where this representation of the saint / goddess would be welcomed with great honor.

These accounts were written with two purposes in mind: the introduction of Taoist, Confucian, and Buddhist themes into Japanese religion ; and garnering support for the legitimacy of the Imperial house, based on its lineage from the sun goddess, Amaterasu.

It was in the house and home that Vesta was most important because she was the goddess of the hearth and of fire.

Athena sees all of this and goes to the house of Envy and orders the goddess to poison Aglauros.

78, Pan is associated with a mother goddess, perhaps Rhea or Cybele ; Pindar refers to virgins worshipping Cybele and Pan near the poet's house in Boeotia.

The classical scholar Walter Burkert has speculated that the house of the goddess to which the philosopher is transported is the palace of Nyx ; this hypothesis, however, must remain tentative.

The goddess guards the house in which the protagonists reside.

Worth seeing are the 18th-century Orangerie ( from orange ), initially used as a summerhouse, the Schloßkirche ( Palace Church ) built in 1855 – 1859 in English Neo-Gothic style, the Neoclassic Hebe temple ( with a replica of a statue of the goddess Hebe ), and the Louise Temple, built in 1891 in the shape of a Greek temple to house the tomb of Queen Louise of Prussia, born Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

These lamps are kept on during the night and one's house is cleaned, both done in order to make the goddess Lakshmi feel welcome.

* Mistress of the house of life, a title of the Egyptian goddess Isis

* Mistress of the house ( Greek, " Despoina "), a title applied to the Greek goddess Persephone, but also to the goddesses Demeter and Hecate.

Among the Botanical Garden's interesting attractions are the Japanese Garden ( a garden in Japanese style, with a brook and a Japanese-style house ), the Roman Garden with archeological remains from the Roman colony of Napoca, among them a statue of Ceres, goddess of cereals and bread, alongside cultivated plants that dominate contemporary Romanian agriculture.

PR means " house " and the second word is the name of the goddess Bast or Bastet.

In 62 BC Pompeia hosted the festival of the Bona Dea (" good goddess "), which no man was permitted to attend, in this house.

There is a unique custom of keeping everyone's house unlocked in Wan village for the use of the yatris on the Jat day, according to the divine instruction of the goddess Nandadevi, and it is followed religiously.

In the 50s, it seems to have become the house of Lucius Titinius Glaucus Lucretianus, and a small sanctuary to the goddess Diana was added in the rear garden.

" " Before reaching Wirikúta, their final destination, they pass by the sacred springs of Tatéi Matiniéri (" Where Our Mother Lives "), the house of the eastern rain goddess.

Dame Fortune, the goddess of Fate, smiles upon Fauvel and appoints him leader of the house.

Among the most noteworthy remains is an Archaic temple of Athena, in which a fine bronze late Archaic / Sever style statuette of the goddess has been found, a large part of the 4th century BC isodomic ashlar fortification walls of the city with two rectangular towers, and an early Christian bath with hypocaustum, as part of a large house.