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Dione: Phoenician/Greek. Also known as Baltis. A Nature or Earth Goddess,
overlapping with Diana and Danae. Daughter of Uranus and Gaia. Married her
brother Cronus, who gave her the city of Byblos.
Discordia: Roman Goddess of Discord and Strife, who preceded the chariot of Mars.
Greek equivalent Eris.
Ereshkigal: ('Queen of the Great Below') Assyro-Babylonian Goddess of the
Underworld, sister of Ishtar (Inanna). Known as 'Star of Lamentation,' or sometimes
simply as Allatu ('The Goddess').
Eris: Greek goddess of Discord.
Erin: Irish. One of the Three Queens of the Tuatha De Danann, daughters of the
Dagda, who asked that Ireland be named after them.
Frigg, Freya: ('Well-Beloved, Spouse, Lady') Most revered of the Teutonic Goddesses.
Wife and sister of Odin.
Gaia: ('Earth') The 'deep-breasted,' the primordial Greek Earth Mother, the first being
to emerge from Chaos. She was regarded as creating the universe, the first race of
gods, and humankind.
Glaisrig, Glaistig: A Scottish Undine, beautiul and seductive, but a goat from the waist
down (which she hides under a long green dress). She lures men to dance with her
and then sucks their blood. Yet she can be benign, looking after children or old
people or herding cattle for farmers.
Gorgons, The: Greek. Three daughters of Phorcys and his sister Ceto. Winged
monsters with hair of serpents, they turned men to stone by their gaze. They were
Euryale and Stheno, who were immortal, and Medusa who was mortal and killed by
Perseus.
Grian: ('Sun') Irish. A Fairy Queen with a court on Pallas Green Hill, Co. Tipperary.
Also a general Goddess symbol.
Gruagach, The: ('The Long-Haired One') Scottish. Female fairy to whom the
dairymaids used to pour libations of milk into a hollow stone. Gwenhwyfar,
Guinevere, Gueneva: Arthur's queen. Traces of Triple Goddess.
Hathor: Egyptian. An ancient Sky Goddess; Ra's daughter by Nut, or his wife;