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Oshun and Oya: Nigerian, Yoruba tribe and Brizilian Voodoo. Sisters, daughters of
Yemaja, and wives of the Thunder God Shango. Oshun was beautiful and Oya plain,
and there was jealousy between them. Goddesses respectively of the rivers Oshun and
Niger.
Pandora: ('Gift of All') The Greek Eve, fashioned in clay by Hephaestus on Zeus'
orders to punish Prometheus for having stolen fire from heaven. Her name means
that each God or Goddess gave her an appropriate gift. Zeus gave her a box which she
must not open. She did open it, and all the evils that plague humankind came out of
it. All that was left at the bottom was Hope.
Persephone: Greek and Phoenician. Originally a purely Underworld Goddess, became
a corn-seed Goddess, daughter of Demeter.
Pythia: ('Pythoness') Greek. Serpent Goddess, daughter of Gaia.
Rhiannon: ('Great, or Divine, Queen'). Welsh fertility and Otherworld Goddess.
Sarasvati: Hindu. Wife of Brahma, born of his body. Goddess of speech, music,
wisdom, knowledge and the arts.
Sekhmet: ('The Powerful') Egyptian Lioness-Goddess, Eye of Ra who was her father.
Wife of Ptah as Goddess of the Memphite triad, and mother of Nefertum, God of the
setting Sun (later replaced by Imhotep).
Selene: Greek Moon Goddess, daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and sister of
Helios (the Sun) and Eos (Dawn); though sometimes said to be the daughter of
Zeus or of Helios.
Sophia: ('Wisdom') A Gnostic Aeon; but Wisdom personified as female was earlier
also characteristic of Hebrew and Greek-Hebrew thinking.
Tailtiu: Irish. Foster-mother of Lugh, who instituted the Tailtean Games, central
event of the Festival of Lughnasadh (1 August), in her memory.
Tara: ('Radiating') Hindu Star Goddess, wife of Brihaspati (identified with the planet
Jupiter), teacher of the Gods.
Tenemit: Egyptian Underworld Goddess, who gave ale to the deceased.
Tiamat: Assyro-Babylonian Primordial Sea Mother Goddess, the mass of salt waters,