Curated category
Mother goddesses
- DemeterDemeter once let everything on earth die. Not through carelessness or neglect, but through a grief so total that crops withered, harvests failed, and mortals…
- Venus (mythology)Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory, was so deeply woven into Roman life that the luckiest roll you…
- Metis (mythology)Metis, in the words of the poet Hesiod, was 'wiser than gods and mortal men.' Yet for most of her existence she was hidden beneath the inward parts of Zeus…
- Rhea (mythology)The earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus gave birth to Rhea as one of their twelve or thirteen Titan children. She grew up alongside her siblings…
- FriggFrigg is a goddess of the Germanic world whose name is embedded in something millions of people say every week without realizing it.
- IsisIsis was one of the most consequential figures in the religious history of the ancient world. She began as a relatively minor character in the royal rituals…
- Nut (goddess)Nut, the ancient Egyptian goddess of the sky, stretches across the ceiling of the world. Her body arches on fingertips and toes, spanning the four cardinal…
- NephthysNephthys stands at the edge of everything the ancient Egyptians feared and needed most: darkness, death, and the passage of souls into whatever came next.
- CybeleA corpulent female figure sits flanked by large felines on a stone slab from Çatalhöyük, dated to the 6th millennium BC.
- HathorHathor was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion, and she may be the most difficult deity in that tradition to pin down with a single description.