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Deal breakers: goddesses that break the trends I’ve noticed
Keep in mind, this is coming from my personal background. These may not be such prevalent trends after all, but in my experience they are. Feel free to add to this or correct it.
Sky/sun and moon as male vs female:
- “Father” sky I believe was prevalent in many Native American traditions (not an expert on this one by any means)
- “father” sky as an expression still commonly found in western cultures, English speaking ones at least (in my experience)
- Apollo as the sun
- Ra/Amon/ Amon-Ra/ the Aten as a masculine sun deity, or simply a masculine sun, as opposed to Diana/Artemis, etc, for the moon
The deal breakers:
- Máni as the moon and Sól as the sun in Norse traditions
- Nut as the sky goddess in Kemetic traditions, with Geb, a god, as the earth
Male death deities:
- Death the horseman, in the Judeo-Christian tradition, is described as a “he”.
- Osiris, king of/god of the underworld/Amenti/ the judge of the dead/who the dead were associated with
- Hades, god of/king of the underworld
- Anubis, a funerary deity in the Kemetic tradition who was often seen as a god of the dead before the rise of the cult of Osiris
- Angel of death (I’ve only heard a little about this one) in my experience is described as male
Deal breakers:
- Hel in Norse traditions
- the presence of Persephone, Isis, and Nephthys (in some traditions Hathor) are also notable, though they are not the rulers of the underworld in most mythology
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Kuan Yin from the Chinese Lay temple in Wetherill Park. (Note her jade accessories.)
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I pray to Allah to bring such people in my life who will always remind me of Allah.
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Witchy Ways: That myth in which Loki does something completely unnecessary. →
ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A GIANTESS CHICK NAMED SKADI
Her father, Thiazi, went to go steal the apples of youth back from Loki who had stolen them from Asgard to Jotunheim but then returned them to Asgard to possibly be stolen back…
OH my god, please do this. Please re-write them all like this. This is brilliant. XD
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Temple of Hathor, Dendera, Egypt
This site has evidence of a temple being constructed here under Pepi I (ca. 2250 BC), and successive kings, right up until Emperor Trajan (98-117 AD), have continued to expand on the site and its final temple. The earliest component of the temple as it is now has been built under Nectanebo II (360 BC). There is also stll evidence of an earlier temple possible dating back to the eighteenth dynasty (ca. 1500 BC). Such illustrous figures as Cleopatra VII also put in their two cents in the construction of Hathor’s temple.This is gorgeous. So honored that Hathor chose me.
My closest contact with Hathor has been more or less through Isis. Can I ask what she’s like to work with?
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