Isis, an Egyptian goddess who represented, among many other things, ideal motherhood, was often portrayed as suckling pharaohs, thereby confirming their divine status as rulers.

The goddess Isis, holding a sistrum and oinochoe.

In book eleven, chapter 47 of Apuleius's The Golden Ass, Isis delivers what Ceisiwr Serith calls " essentially a charge of a goddess ".

At various times certain gods became preeminent over the others, including the sun god Ra, the creator god Amun, and the mother goddess Isis.

These included the royal patron Horus, the sun god Ra, and the mother goddess Isis.

Scholars have theorized about whether or not Freyja and the goddess Frigg ultimately stem from a single goddess common among the Germanic peoples ; about her connection to the valkyries, female battlefield choosers of the slain ; and her relation to other goddesses and figures in Germanic mythology, including the thrice-burnt and thrice-reborn Gullveig / Heiðr, the goddesses Gefjon, Skaði, Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa, Menglöð, and the 1st century BCE " Isis " of the Suebi.

Eventually Io settled in Egypt, where according to Ovid she became the Egyptian goddess Isis.

Osiris was at times considered the oldest son of the Earth god Geb, and the sky goddess Nut, as well as being brother and husband of Isis, with Horus being considered his posthumously begotten son.

On the first day of the Festival of Ploughing, where the goddess Isis appeared in her shrine where she was stripped naked, paste made from the grain were placed in her bed and moistened with water, representing the fecund earth.

In Egyptian mythology, this fish saved the life of the Egyptian goddess Isis, so she placed this fish and its descendants into the heavens as constellations of stars.

In the mystical theories of the Orphics and the Platonists, Kore is described as the all-pervading goddess of nature who both produces and destroys everything and she is therefore mentioned along or identified with other mystic divinities such as Isis, Rhea, Ge, Hestia, Pandora, Artemis, and Hecate.

Isis (, original Egyptian pronunciation more likely Aset ) is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.

Isis is also known as protector of the dead and goddess of children.

In the typical form of her myth, Isis was the first daughter of Geb, god of the Earth, and Nut, goddess of the Sky, and she was born on the fourth intercalary day.

In many locations, devotees of Isis considered the local goddess to be Isis, but under a different name.

The appearance of the star signified the advent of a new year and Isis was likewise considered the goddess of rebirth and reincarnation, and as a protector of the dead.

The Book of the Dead outlines a particular ritual that would protect the dead, enabling travel anywhere in the underworld, and most of the titles Isis holds signify her as the goddess of protection of the dead.

In it he writes of Isis, describing her as: " a goddess exceptionally wise and a lover of wisdom, to whom, as her name at least seems to indicate, knowledge and understanding are in the highest degree appropriate ..." and that the statue of Athena ( Plutarch says " whom they believe to be Isis ") in Sais carried the inscription " I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered.

" At Sais, however, the patron goddess of the ancient cult was Neith, many of whose traits had begun to be attributed to Isis during the Greek occupation.

Isis was the only goddess worshiped by all Egyptians alike, and whose influence was so widespread that she had become completely syncretic with the Greek goddess Demeter.

According to Josephus, Caligula donned female garb and took part in the mysteries he instituted, and in the Hellenistic age Isis acquired a " new rank as a leading goddess of the Mediterranean world.

One, however – a stately goddess seated on a throne flanked by two female lions – was found in a grain bin, which Mellaart suggests might have been a means of ensuring the harvest or protecting the food supply.

Instead, the Minoan frescoes depict " Saffron-Gatherers ", who offer their crocus-stamens to a seated lady, perhaps a goddess.

The reverse shows a seated goddess ( perhaps Demeter ) holding Nike ( mythology ) | Nike and a cornucopia.

* Nome triad, Hathor-Mistress-of-the-Sycomore seated, and King and Hare-nome goddess standing, greywacke, in Boston Mus.

The Romans also had two types of thrones-one for the Emperor and one for the goddess Roma whose statues were seated upon thrones, which became centers of worship.

Another form of the goddess in the Tantrasara describes her seated in her own navel, formless and invisible.

Statues of the god and the goddess are seated on a vahana, which is brought in a procession around the temple while the temple band plays music.

Coin, dipicting the head of Philetaerus on the obverse and seated Athena, Greek goddess of war and wisdom, on the reverse, struck during the reign of Eumenes I ( 263 BC – 241 BC )

Bahucharaji is seated on low end and other end goes to sahastrar, which means that Bahucharaji is the goddess of starting the awakening of kundlini which eventually leads the liberation or moksha.

After a rising wall revealed the " secret " entrance to the sixty-foot-tall altar chamber of the goddess Durga, riders were seated on the 77-seat gondola divided into three stadium-seating rows.

In English its first recorded use, in the sense of the entirety of the phenomena of the world, was very late in history in 1266 ; however natura, and the personification of Mother Nature, was widely popular in the Middle Ages and as a concept seated between the properly divine and the human, it can be traced to Ancient Greece-though Earth or Eorthe in the Old English period may have been personified as a goddess and the Norse also had a goddess called Jord Earth.

Oriental figures included Chinese gods and goddesses such as Guanyin ( the goddess of mercy ) and Budai ( the god of contentment ), figures with nodding heads, seated monks and laughing boys as well as figures of Dutch men and women.

The basic obverse design of the Seated Liberty coinage consisted of the figure of the goddess Liberty clad in a flowing dress and seated upon a rock.

The goddess, who embodied the idea of the city, was seated on a rock, crowned with towers, and having the river Orontes at her feet.

By the design of the throne, most probably the statue of the goddess was in seated position and made from bronze.

* Inanna was the only goddess that was associated with lions, for example a hymn by En-hedu-ana specifically mentions " Inanna, seated on crossed ( or harnessed ) lions "

The temple itself consisted of two main chambers ( cellae ), each housing a cult statue of a god — Venus, the goddess of love, and Roma, the goddess of Rome, both figures seated on a throne.

If they led a life in conformance with the precepts of the goddess Ma ' at, who represented truth and right living, the person was welcomed into the kingdom of Osiris.

The bottom right corner depicts the ship Skíðblaðnir " afloat " the goddess Sif's new hair.

High tells a story set " right at the beginning of the gods ' settlement, when the gods at established Midgard and built Val-Hall " about an unnamed builder who has offered to build a fortification for the gods in three seasons that will keep out invaders in exchange for the goddess Freyja, the sun, and the moon.

In Ancient Greek religion Hestia (, " hearth " or " fireside ") is the virgin goddess of the hearth, architecture, and the right ordering of domesticity, the family and the state.

The classical Greeks saw her as the mother of the Olympian gods and goddesses, but not as an Olympian goddess in her own right.

Flanked by her boar Hildisvini, the Vanr goddess Freyja ( right ) ( 1895 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

Simek states that Hlín is likely simply another name for Frigg, and that Snorri " misunderstood her to be a goddess in her own right in his reading of the Völuspá stanza.

In Zeus ' right hand there was a small statue of crowned Nike, goddess of victory, also chryselephantine, and in his left hand, a sceptre inlaid with gold, on which an eagle perched.

In his Histories, Tacitus relates the account of divination rites at the famous Temple of Venus at Paphos ; according to traditional tales, this temple was founded by King Aerias, but others say Cinyras consecrated the temple, which was built right on the spot where the goddess had first stepped on the land after her birth from the sea.

Thanatos was loosely associated with the three Moirai ( for Hesiod, also daughters of Night ), particularly Atropos, who was a goddess of death in her own right.

The goddess had a sacred spring and a shrine in Rome, located on the southwestern slopes of Mount Janiculum, on the right bank of the Tiber.

Conway compared Nortia to the Venetic goddess Rehtia, whose name seems to be the Venetic equivalent of Latin rectia, " right, correct.

Early portraits of the goddess depict Britannia as a beautiful young woman, wearing the helmet of a centurion, and wrapped in a white garment with her right breast exposed.

In chapter 42 of the Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, High tells a story set " right at the beginning of the gods ' settlement, when the gods at established Midgard and built Val-Hall " about an unnamed builder who has offered to build a fortification for the gods that will keep out invaders in exchange for the goddess Freyja, the sun, and the moon.

At the top of the Hindu philosophy is the formless, undefined Brahman, from whom / which come the different forms and deities, the foremost of which is the Trimurti: Brahma ( the creator ), Vishnu ( the sustainer ) and Shiva ( the destroyer ), and their individual ' Shakti ' ( commonly defined as their wives, but also goddesses in their own right ): Saraswati the goddess of learning, Lakshmi the goddess of all forms of wealth, and Parvati ( also known as Durga, Shakti, Ambika ) the goddess of courage and power.

A bronze Matrika goddess group along with Ganesha ( left ) and Kubera ( right ) currently at the British Museum.

Image: Menkaura. jpg | Menkaura flanked by the goddess Hathor ( left ) and a nome goddess Bat ( right ).

Image: Menkaura-FragmentaryTriad_MuseumOfFineArtsBoston. png | Fragmentary statue triad of Menkaura flanked by the goddess Hathor ( left ) and a male nome god ( right ), Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

This means she was a goddess or a demigoddess in her own right.

The goddess is described as one who helps a person to use words in the right way and to go beyond it to seek the soul and inner knowledge, which lie outside the demarcated boundaries of tradition.

The goddess on the right is Ceres, goddess of agriculture.