In Snorri's Ynglinga Saga in the Heimskringla, Skjöld's wife is the goddess Gefjön and the same account occurs in most, but not all, manuscripts of the Edda.

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

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 ).

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 ".

* Hippo, an Amazon who took part in the introduction of religious rites in honor of the goddess Artemis.

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 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 ".

* Temple of Aphaea, dedicated to its namesake, a goddess who was later associated with Athena ; the temple was part of a pre-Christian, equilateral holy triangle of temples including the Athenian Parthenon and the temple of Poseidon at Sounion.

When the Olympian deities overtook the older deities of Greece and she was born of Metis ( inside Zeus who had swallowed the goddess ) and " re-born " through the head of Zeus fully clothed, Athena already wore her typical garments.

Plato drew a parallel between Athene and the ancient Libyan and Egyptian goddess Neith, a war deity who also was depicted carrying a shield.

The Iliad reduced the figure of the dread goddess to that of a girl, who, having been thrashed by Hera, climbs weeping into the lap of Zeus.

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.

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.

According to Hyginus Artemis once loved Orion ( in spite of the late source, this version appears to be a rare remnant of her as the pre-Olympian goddess, who took consorts, as Eos did ), but was tricked into killing him by her brother Apollo, who was " protective " of his sister's maidenhood.

In Indian mythology, autumn is considered to be the preferred season for the goddess of learning Saraswati, who is also known by the name of " goddess of autumn " ( Sharada ).

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.

In some tales, the figure who first appears to be a " banshee " is later revealed to be the Irish battle goddess, the Morrígan.

According to the New American Bible, the image in Revelation 12: 1-6 of a pregnant woman in the sky, threatened by a dragon, " corresponds to a widespread myth throughout the ancient world that a goddess pregnant with a savior was pursued by a horrible monster ; by miraculous intervention, she bore a son who then killed the monster ".

Doric Dāmātēr ) is the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains and the fertility of the earth.

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

She refers to Diana, goddess of the moon, who is often depicted with a silver hunting bow.

* In the popular MOBA game League of Legends, there is a champion named Diana who is loosely based on the goddess.

`` 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 ''.

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.

* 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.

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 ".

Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death.

Diana Soren, the main character in Carlos Fuentes ' novel Diana o la cazadora soltera ( Diana, or The Lone Huntress ), is described as having the same personality as the goddess.

* In the Addams Family Musial, Lucas described Wednesday as Diana goddess of the hunt when he first saw her.

The dawn goddess Eos was almost always described with rosy fingers ( ῥοδοδάκτυλος, rhododáktylos ) or rosy forearms ( ῥοδόπηχυς, rhodópēkhys ) as she opened the gates of heaven for the Sun to rise.

In Mysticism, Gnosticism, as well as some Hellenistic religions, there is a female spirit or goddess named Sophia who is said to embody wisdom and who is sometimes described as a virgin.

Michael Bell says that while Hel " might at first appear to be identical with the well-known pagan goddess of the Norse underworld " as described in chapter 34 of Gylfaginning, " in the combined light of the Old English and Old Norse versions of Nicodemus she casts quite a different a shadow ," and that in Bartholomeus saga postola " she is clearly the queen of the Christian, not pagan, underworld.

The goddess is described as wearing oak in fragments of Sophocles ' lost play The Root Diggers ( or The Root Cutters ), and an ancient commentary on Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica ( 3. 1214 ) describes her as having a head surrounded by serpents, twining through branches of oak.

Details of the nudity of each goddess, though much less described, is also an element that varies.

The backstory of Kid Icarus is described in the instruction booklet: Before the events of the game, earth was ruled by the goddess, or Queen of light, Palutena, and the goddess, or Queen of darkness, Medusa.

Njörðr is often identified with the goddess Nerthus, whose reverence by various Germanic tribes is described by Roman historian Tacitus in his 1st CE century work Germania.

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.

In the prose, Loki has been bound by the gods with the guts of his son Nari, his son Váli is described as having been turned into a wolf, and the goddess Skaði fastens a venomous snake over Loki's face, from which venom drips.

In the Hymskvidha, Tyr's father is named as the etin Hymir – the term " Hymir's kin " was used a kenning for etinkind – while his mother goes unnamed, but is otherwise described in terms that befit a goddess.

She is often described as a goddess.

Venus has been described as perhaps " the most original creation of the Roman pantheon ", and " an ill-defined and assimilative " native goddess, combined " with a strange and exotic Aphrodite ".

She is continually described in an unearthly nature which extends to her description as the goddess Venus.

In Norse mythology, Fulla is described as wearing a golden snood and as tending to the ashen box and the footwear owned by the goddess Frigg, and, in addition, Frigg confides in Fulla her secrets.

According to Nonnus, Ampelos was gored to death by a wild bull after he mocked the goddess Selene, a scene described as follows:

In the early traditions, Athena ( a virgin goddess ) is described as being shy in the company of males.

* In the Golden Sun videogame series, one summon is Procne, described as " a goddess in bird form "

The goddess Tethys, who may have been a primordial deity of Archaic Greece, and in Classical myths was described as the mother who oversaw the chief rivers of the world known to the Greeks – mid-fourth-century mosaic – Shahba | Philipopolis ( Shahba, Syria ), Shahba Museum.

She and her sister Postverta ( or Postvorta ) were described as companions or siblings of the goddess Carmenta, sometimes referred to as " the Carmentae ".