Her name has the same root as Juno ( from Iuu -, " young, youngster "); the ceremonial litter bearing the sacred goose of Juno Moneta stopped before her sacellum on the festival of the goddess.

In Roman mythology, Moneta ( Latin Monēta ) was a title given to two separate goddesses: the goddess of memory ( identified with the Greek goddess Mnemosyne ) and an epithet of Juno, called Juno Moneta ( Latin Iūno Monēta ).

As with the goddess Moneta, Juno Moneta's name is derived either from the Latin monēre, since, as protectress of funds, she " warned " of instability or more likely from the Greek " moneres " meaning " alone, unique ", an epithet that every mother has.

* 1 ( Kalends ): anniversaries of the Temple of Juno Moneta ; of the Temple of Mars on the clivus ( slope, street ) outside the Porta Capena ; and possibly of the Temple of the Tempestates ( storm goddesses ); also a festival of the complex goddess Cardea or Carna

Her various epithets thus show a complex of mutually interrelated functions that in the view of G. Dumezil and V. Basanoff can be traced back to the Indoeuropean trifunctional ideology: as Regina and Moneta she is a sovereign deity, as Sespeis, Curitis ( spear holder ) and Moneta ( again ) she is an armed protectress, as Mater and Curitis ( again ) she is a goddess of the fertility and wealth of the community in her association with the curiae.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

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 ''.

Apollo's sister Artemis, who was the Greek goddess of hunting, is identified with Britomartis ( Diktynna ), the Minoan " Mistress of the animals ".

In Greek mythology Asia was a Titan goddess in Lydia.

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.

He further states that the month was named after a goddess Eostre whose feast was in that month.

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 another version of her origin, she was considered a daughter of Zeus and Dione, the mother goddess whose oracle was at Dodona.

Hephaestus was overjoyed at being married to the goddess of beauty and forged her beautiful jewelry, including the cestus, a girdle that made her even more irresistible to men.

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 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.

Centuries later, the neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus mentioned in his archaeological records that Ishtar's worship in Agade was later superseded by that of the goddess Anunit, whose shrine was at Sippar — suggesting proximity of Sippar and Agade.

After the taking of Troy, it is said he rushed into the temple of Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication.

The name was one of the titles (" epithets ") given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean " one who comes to save warriors ".

* Ephesos, a Lydian Amazon, after whom the city of Ephesus was thought to have been named ; she was also said to have been the first to honor Artemis and to have surnamed the goddess Ephesia.

She was punished by the goddess for not having performed a ritual dance.

He is well known as the lover of Aphrodite, the goddess of love who was married to Hephaestus, god of craftsmanship, but the most famous story involving the couple shows them exposed to ridicule through the wronged husband's clever device.

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.

In the story Inanna and Shukaletuda, Shukaletuda, the gardener, set by Enki to care for the date palm he had created, finds Inanna sleeping under the palm tree and rapes the goddess in her sleep.

According to Norse mythology as contained in the thirteenth-century Icelandic work Prose Edda, the lake was created by the goddess Gefjon when she tricked Gylfi, the Swedish king of Gylfaginning.

This statue of a yoga | yogini goddess was created in Kaveripakkam in Tamil Nadu, India, during the 10th century.

Vulcan created a net out of unbreakable steel so that he could catch Venus, the goddess of beauty, and Mars, the god of war, in the act of making love.

They are created by the unholy union between an ascending high priestess of the drow goddess Lolth and a glabrezu.

In Norse mythology, the island was created by the goddess Gefjun after she tricked Gylfi, the king of Sweden, as told in the story of Gylfaginning.

The Trimurti function under the jurisdiction of the all powerful and highest goddess. Shiva the main initiator and creator of everything the earth universe, Shiva created Vishnu, Bharama '& it have evidence in puran '.

The emperor Claudius ' reformed the grain supply and created its embodiment as an Imperial goddess, Annona, a junior partner to Ceres and the Imperial family.

Jacob Bryant | Jacob Bryant's Orphic Egg ( 1774 ) Robert Graves in his book The Greek Myths imaginatively reconstructs a Pelasgian creation myth involving Ophion as a serpent created by a supreme goddess called Eurynome dancing on the waves.

In Aztec mythology, Citlalicue (" star garment "; also Citlalinicue, Ilamatecuhtli ) was a goddess who created the stars along with her husband, Citlalatonac.

Aurora County, named for Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn, was created by the Dakota Territorial Legislature on February 22, 1879.

With the help of the moon goddess Arasy, Tupa descended upon the Earth in a location specified as a hill in the region of Aregúa, Paraguay, and from that location created all that is found upon the face of the earth, including the ocean, forests, and the animals.

Early myths state that Atum created the god Shu and goddess Tefnut by spitting them out of his mouth.

A product of the energy and matter contained in this chaos, he created divine and human beings through loneliness: alone in the universe, he produced from his own sneeze, or in some accounts, semen, Shu, the god of air, and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture.

Hathor was so angry that the people she had created would be audacious enough to plan that, that she became Sekhmet ( war goddess of Upper Egypt ) to destroy them.

According to a narrative in the Devi Mahatmya story of the Markandeya Purana text, Durga was created as a warrior goddess to fight an asura ( an inhuman force / demon ) named Mahishasura.

According to one legend, the goddess Durga created an army to fight against the forces of the demon-king Mahishasur, who was terrorizing Heaven and Earth.

The wish must be approved by the system, after which a contract is created between the human and the goddess and stored on the Yggdrasil system as a file.

Some have claimed that her legends were created so that she could be worshiped as a goddess to further solidify her reign and power, but this is not borne out by the Assyrian documents of the time.

In Aztec mythology, Ītzpāpālōtl (" Obsidian Butterfly ") was a fearsome skeletal warrior goddess who ruled over the paradise world of Tamoanchan, the paradise of victims of infant mortality and place identified where humans were created .< ref >

Usages cited include the pattern of blue and white formations ( created from placing white metal layers on a blue surface ) on the shield of Achilles, the connection of the colors with goddess Athena, Alexander the Great's army banners, blue and white flags supposedly used during Byzantine times, supposed coats of arms of imperial dynasties and noble families, uniforms, emperors ' clothes, patriarchs ' thrones etc.

In Irish mythology it is said that the river was created by the goddess Boann (' queen ' or ' goddess '), according to F. Dinneen, lexicographer of the Irish Gaelic language, and Boyne is an anglicised form of the name.