Pre-pubescent and adolescent Athenian girls were sent to the sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron to serve the Goddess for one year.

Artemis is a ranged assassin and is nicknamed the Goddess of the Hunt.

It was founded by Zsuzsanna Budapest in the United States in the 1970s, and is notable for its focus on the worship of the Goddess ( usually Artemis ; Roman: Diana ), and on feminism.

* Artemis: Goddess of the moon, fertility, childbirth, and the hunt.

The most famous example of this is the putative division of all the aspects of the so-called Great Goddess into a number of goddesses with more specialized functions — Gaea, Demeter, Persephone, Artemis and Hecate among them.

He equated Bastet with the Greek Goddess Artemis.

Pausanias was reminded that the temple of the Goddess at Ephesus predated the Ionian colony there, when it was rededicated to the Goddess as Artemis.

Instead, he honors the Goddess of the hunt, Artemis.

The Fawcett and pre-1985 version of Mary Marvel did not derive her “ Shazam ” powers from the male mythological figures who empower Billy, but from a set of female benefactors: Selena for grace, Hippolyta * for strength, Ariadne ( later changed to Artemis, Greek Goddess of the hunt ) for skill, Zephyrus for fleetness ( and flight ), Aurora, ( later changed to Greek Goddess Aphrodite ) for beauty, and Minerva for wisdom.

Other characters of interest include Kora, the inn keeper, who unknown to Hercules and his friends, is a devotee of Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt.

It is suggested that she is a member of Poseidon's family, and it is known that she is a virgin huntress, possibly resembling the Goddess Artemis.

The Titan Thanos is seen as a threat by the Goddess and is also attacked, but is saved by the character Adam Warlock.

Long ago, this land was saved by the Goddess Ebe from total destruction, but years later, an archeologist among the survivors felt the balance of the land tipping again.

:::' Tell me, O Goddess of song, of the clever man '

: His flaring beams, me Goddess bring

included a copy of Crowley's The Blue Equinox which includes all of the Crowley quotations in the Charge of the Goddess.

One well-known example of a bitheistic or duotheistic theology based on gender polarity is found in the neopagan religion of Wicca, which is centered on the worship of a divine couple-the Moon Goddess and the Horned God-who are regarded as lovers.

Legend says that about two thousand years ago, Emperor Suinin ordered his daughter, Princess Yamatohime-no-mikoto, to set out and find a suitable permanent location from which to hold ceremonies for Amaterasu Omikami, the Sun Goddess.

Goddess beliefs take many forms: some people in the Goddess movement recognize multiple goddesses ; some also include gods ; others honor what they refer to as " the Goddess ," which is not necessarily seen as monotheistic, but is often understood to be an inclusive, encompassing term incorporating many goddesses in many different cultures.

She said that Gardner referred to the Goddess as Airdia or Areda, which she believed was derived from Aradia, the deity that Charles Leland claimed was worshipped by Italian witches.

Arriving in London in August 1932 he attended a conference on prehistory and protohistory at King's College London, attending at least two lectures which described the cult of the Mother Goddess.

The pomegranate, an ancient emblem of the Great Goddess, remained an emblem of Hera: many of the votive pomegranates and poppy capsules recovered at Samos are made of ivory, which survived burial better than the wooden ones that must have been more common.

Goddess Spirituality, which is also known as the Goddess movement, is a Pagan religion in which a singular, monotheistic Goddess is given predominance.

Designed primarily for women, Goddess Spirituality revolves around the sacredness of the female form, and of aspects of women's lives which have been traditionally neglected in western society, such as menstruation, sexuality and maternity.

In support of this philosophy, many Wiccans cite the Charge of the Goddess, which says " All acts of Love and Pleasure are My rituals ".

In support of this philosophy, many Wiccans cite the Charge of the Goddess, which says " All acts of Love and Pleasure are My rituals ".

Ti Kuan Yin, which in Chinese means “ Iron Goddess .” There was once a poor farmer who was devout and dedicated to maintaining the temple of Kuan Yin, the goddess of mercy.

He learned from Proteus ' daughter, Eidothea (" the very image of the Goddess "), that if he could capture her father he could force him to reveal which of the gods he had offended, and how he could propitiate them and return home.

Also in 1979, in the first revised edition of " Real Magic ", Bonewits defined " thealogy " in his Glossary as " Intellectual speculations concerning the nature of the Goddess and Her relations to the world in general and humans in particular ; rational explanations of religious doctrines, practices and beliefs, which may or may not bear any connection to any religion as actually conceived and practiced by the majority of its members.

In 2007, Paul Reid-Bowen wrote the text " Goddess as Nature: Towards a Philosophical Thealogy ", which can be regarded as another systematic approach to thealogy, but which integrates philosophical discourse.

In line with Christ and Reid-Bowen, thealogy can be conceived of in a systematic fashion with specific methods, while deasophy, a concept coined by Max Dashu, which addresses the wisdom of the Goddess tradition, may not necessarily be systematically ordered.

Virtually all rituals in Wicca include the lighting of altar candles, where two main candles are often used to represent the God and the Goddess ; and the lighting of candles is a central theme at the Wiccan holiday of Brigid or Imbolc, which is also known as Candlemas or the Feast of the Waxing Light.

Tilak said, " I regard India as my Motherland and my Goddess, the people in India my kith and kin, and loyal and steadfast work for their political and social emancipation my highest religion and duty ".

: Goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia, maid to the throne of the deep-thinking Moirai, child of all-powerful Hera, hear my song.

When Goddess is spoken of as a personal guardian, as in ' my Goddess ' it means ' my worldview in Goddess spirituality.

Goddessing may also mean Goddess culture, Goddess way of life, Goddess practice, or ' my goddessing ' as in my individual interpretation and experience of Goddess.

There is also an untold link between The Naked Goddess and circumstances leading to my first meeting Ray in Chicago of 1947.

Many years later, Pelias was holding games in honor of the sea god and his alleged father, Poseidon, when Jason arrived in Iolcus and lost one of his sandals in the river Anauros (" wintry Anauros "), while helping an old woman to cross ( the Goddess Hera in disguise ).

The infant-god was hidden from his cannibal father and was raised in the cave that was sacred to the Goddess ( Da ) celebrated by the Kuretes, whose name it bore and still bears.

These honey-kings consorting with the Goddess will have combined their position of authority with a sacral role, but modern interpreters would not follow Robert Graves in asserting that Melliseus " Adrasteia and Io's reputed father, is really their mother, Melissa — the goddess as Queen-bee, who annually killed her male consort.

In Greek mythology, the Erymanthian Boar ( Greek: ὁ Ἐρυμάνθιος κάπρος ; Latin: aper Erymanthius ) is remembered in connection with The Twelve Labours, in which Heracles, the ( reconciled ) enemy of Hera, visited in turn " all the other sites of the Goddess throughout the world, to conquer every conceivable ' monster ' of nature and rededicate the primordial world to its new master, his Olympian father ," Zeus.

* Mordred-Son of King Arthur and Morgana, betrays and murders his father for converting to Christianity and betraying the Goddess.

Mouth of Idian Cave, CreteCrete's Mount Ida is the island's highest summit, sacred to the Goddess Rhea, and wherein lies the legendary cave in which baby Zeus was concealed from his father Cronus.

* Nepr, the father of the Goddess Nanna in Norse Mythology.