Ratri, often also called Ratridevi, is the goddess of night in the Vedas and the mythology of India and Hinduism.

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

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

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

Aphrodite ( ; Greek ) is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.

Her Roman equivalent is the goddess.

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 ).

Athene is the shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour in Greek mythology.

Upon his assumption into immortality on Olympus, Heracles is given ambrosia by Athena, while the hero Tydeus is denied the same thing when the goddess discovers him eating human brains.

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 ".

The poem is addressed to the goddess Proserpina, the Roman equivalent of Persephone.

Ægir's wife is Rán the sea goddess.

After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE, the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia ; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.

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.

The sister and companion of the violent Ares is Eris, the goddess of discord, or Enyo, the goddess of war, bloodshed, and violence.

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.

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 ".

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 ).

It is believed that a precursor of Artemis was worshiped in Minoan Crete as the goddess of mountains and hunting, Britomartis.

Sipriotes is a boy, who, either because he accidentally sees Artemis bathing or because he attempts to rape her, is turned into a girl by the goddess.

According to the standard modern text on the work, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth of Aktaion: Literary and Iconographic Studies, the most likely original version of the myth is that Actaeon was the hunting companion of the goddess who, seeing her naked in her sacred spring, attempts to force himself on her.

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.

Ares may also be accompanied by Kydoimos, the demon of the din of battle ; the Makhai (" Battles "); thev " Hysminai " (" Acts of manslaughter "); Polemos, a minor spirit of war, or only an epithet of Ares, since it has no specific dominion ; and Polemos's daughter, Alala, the goddess or personification of the Greek war-cry, whose name Ares uses as his own war-cry.

In Greek mythology, Circe (; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē " falcon ") is a minor goddess of magic ( or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress ), described in Homer's Odyssey as " The loveliest of all immortals ".

Many legionaries became devotees in the cult of the minor goddess Disciplina, whose virtues of frugality, severity and loyalty were central to their code of conduct and way of life.

Laura Slatkin explores the apparent contradiction, in that the immediate presentation of Thetis in the Iliad is as a helpless minor goddess overcome by grief and lamenting to her Nereid sisters, and links the goddess's present and past through her grief.

* Lima, a minor Roman goddess of doorways ; see indigitamenta

In Roman mythology, the consort of Neptune, a comparatively minor figure, was Salacia, the goddess of saltwater.

* Achelois ( Greek: Ἀχελωίς, English translation: " she who washes away pain ") was a minor Greek moon goddess.

In later centuries she was worshipped as a minor goddess, achieving important status in the Hurrian and Hittites periods, when she was identified with the Hurrian goddess Hannahannah.

She was a minor sea goddess under the dominion of Poseidon.

In Roman mythology, according to Arnobius, Puta presided over the pruning of trees and was a minor goddess of agriculture.

It is also speculated by some modern writers that, as the more well-known goddess, and later saint, the legends of numerous " minor " goddesses with similar associations may have over time been incorporated into the symbology, worship and tales of Brigid.

Iunit was a minor goddess in ancient Egyptian religion, whose name means " She of Armant ".

As a feminine noun, svāhā in the Rigveda may also mean " oblation " ( to Agni or Indra ), and as oblation personified, Svāhā is a minor goddess, and the wife of Agni.

Ammavaru ( Kannada ಅಮ ್ ಮ ಾ ವರ ು), according to a minor Hindu belief, is an ancient goddess who laid the egg that hatched Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu.

Crane is a nymph of the sacred wood of Helernus, located at the issue of the Tiber, whose festival of February 1 corresponded with that of Juno Sospita: Crane might be seen as a minor imago of the goddess.

The word iamb comes from Iambe, a Greek minor goddess of verse, especially scurrilous, ribald humour.

* Sakhment: minor goddess of the green moon ( Morrslieb )

* Laetitia ( goddess ), a minor Roman goddess of gaiety

Egeria as a nymph or minor goddess of the Roman religious system is of unclear origin ; she is consistently, though not in a very clear way, associated with another figure of the Diana type ; their cult is known to have been celebrated at sacred groves, such as the site of Nemi at Aricia, and another one close to Rome, expedient for her presumed regular meetings with King Numa ; both goddesses are also associated with water gifted with wondrous, religious or medical properties ( the source in that grove at Rome was dedicated to the exclusive use of the Vestals ); their cult was associated with other, male figures of even more obscure meaning, such as one named Virbius, or a Manius Egerius, presumably a youthful male, that anyway in later years was identified with figures like Atys or Hippolyte, because of the Diana reference ( see Frazer ).

Aniger is a minor goddess of squashed animals.

The minor goddess of Things That Stick in Drawers, Anoia is praised by rattling a drawer and crying " How can it close on the damned thing but not open with it?