| Greek Goddesses |
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| Alcmene - The Greek goddess of the new year, midwinter, beauty, wisdom, and stateliness. She was the mother of Hercules. Alcyone - Greek goddess of the moon, sea, and tranquility. She is the bringer of death to life and life to death. Alphito - Goddess of the moon, destiny, and barely flour. Amphitrite - Goddess of wine, realtionships with other nations, and friendships. Aphrodite - The goddess of womanly beauty, sexual passion, and love and the very personinfication of feminity and beauty. It is said she was born from seafoam and the daugther of Dione and Zeus. She has many children, Eros and Cupid being two and many consorts. Kind to those in her favour, but often cruel and merciless with those who are not. She is symbolised by the swan, swallow, and dove. Her sacred plants are the rose, myrtle, poppy, jasmine, and the apple. She is often invoked in love spells and is associated with sexuality, realationships, love, flower magick, and feminine prowess. Arachne - The goddess of spiders, weaver of fate and destiny. Artemis - The Greek goddess of the hunt and the moon. She is the virgin aspect of the triple goddess and protects small children, wild animals, and women in childbirth. She is sybloised often as a young woman wearing all silver, or in the waxing moon and often called the "Silver Goddess". Artemis's sacred animales are bear, stag, goats, fish, geese, bees, and wild dogs. Sacred plants are trees and Artemis is also associated with charms, love, health, youth, virginity and chastiy, and shapeshifting. Astarte - "The Lady of the Mountain" goddess of fertilty, prodcutivity, love, fire, war, venegance, astrology, sexual prowess, and vicotry. Ate - Goddess of obsession, mischeif, guilt, and infatuation. Athena - The Greek goddess of wisdom and war. Born of Zeus, having srung fully grown from his head. Her sacred animals are horses, owls, cocks, and snakes and her sacred plant is the olive tree. Aura - The goddess of the morning wind. Aurora - The goddess of the dawn. Callisto - The Greek goddess of the moon. Chloe - Name for Demeter as protector of sprouts. Cybele - Mother of the Greek gods, symbolises fertility and the air. Cytherea - Another name for Aphrodite. Dememter - Greek Earth Mother goddess associated with crops, the four seasons, childbrith, adundance, and prostperity. She is the mother of Persephone. Dione - Greek nature and earth goddess associated with love, prophecy, divination, and predictions. Dione is the mother of Aphrodite and the daughter of Gaia and Uranus. Doris - A Greek sea goddess. Eirene - Goddess of peace and wealth symbolised by the cornacopia, corn ears on her head, Hereme's staff, and a olive branch. Enyo - Goddess of war who spreads alarm and terror before and during combat. A consort of Aries, sometimes called his wife or sister. Eunomia - The goddess of legislation and order. Hera - The sister and wife of Zeus, the goddess of matrionmy and the cycles of women's growth. Hera is often invoked for love, motherhood, the element of air, and the moon. Hestia - Greek Mother Goddess who symbolises conception, domestic and home magick, well being of the self and family, and the element fire. Also called a hearth goddess. Maia - The "Grandmother of Magick", goddess of spring, rebirth, youth, and life who symbolises love. Nike - Winged goddess of victory, counterpart to the Roman Victoria. Pythia - A snake and serpant goddess; a daughter of Gaia. Selene - A moon goddess and teacher to magicians, sorcerers, and sorceresses. Selene is also known as Phoebe and is symbolised by the moon. Often depected as a beautiful woman with long wings and a halo she is the daughter of Theia and Hyperion and sister of Eos and Helios. Thetis - A Greek goddess who had an affair with Zeus and was the mother of Achilles. |