Ceridwen (Cerridwen, Moon Mother, Grain Goddess, Shape Shifter) This Welsh goddess is the mother of Taliesin and the Goddess of the Harvest. She is the wife of Tegid and the mother of Creirwy - who is often said to have been the most beautiful girl in the world and Avagdu - who is the ugliest boy in the world. She is the owner of the cauldron, Amen, in which she made a magic potion referred to as "greal" for inspiration and knowledge. Chandra (also known as Chandraprabha) Chandra is the Hindu Lord of the moon, he was born after his mother swallowed the moon. Chandra is often shown with multiple heads, or holding a hare. (The Hare is sacred to him.) Chandra is the ancestor of the Chandra-vansa, the lunar race, from which Krishna, the eight Avatar of the God Vishnu, was descended. Chandra is associated with soma, the magical drink of the Gods. |
Chang-O (Also known as Chang-wo, Heng-E, Heng-O) Chinese Moon Goddess. According to legends, she was the wife of a famous archer to whom the gods had promised immorality. Chang-o stole her husbands magical potion, drank it and was forced to escape his wrath by fleeing to the moon in the shape of a frog! She is represented in the dark spots of the moon as a three-legged frog. |
Chia -Colombian Moon Goddess, she was originally the wife of Bochica, irritating him constantly with her little "tricks" - at one time she flooded the earth. He got so angry that he banished her to the sky to light up the night. She is a goddess of women, men who make her angry would dress up as a women to escape her wrath! |
Dae-Soon Korean Moon Goddess |
Diana Diana is the Roman assimilation of the Greek moon goddess Artemis. Diana was often portrayed riding the moon, with a bow in her hands. She was frequently worshipped out in the open so she could look down at her faithful disciples. |
Europa - Europa is not specifically a moon goddess she has certain lunar attributes. She is the Daughter of Agenor, King of Tyre, who is abducted by Zeus to Crete where he seduces her. She had three sons. Europe is named after her. |
Gnatoo Moon goddess of the Friendly Islands. Her portrayal as a woman pounding out tapa is a motif in Polynesian Woman in the Moon myths. |
God D Mayan God of the moon and night sky. Referred to in ancient manuscripts, but never referred by any name. Scholar Paul Schell named the numerous Mayan 2 letter gods". God D was portrayed as an old man with sunken cheeks, wearing a serpent headdress. He is sometimes identified with Kukulcan, God of the mighty speech of Itzamna, sky God and Mayan Cultural Hero. |
Gwaten Japanese Buddhist Lunar Goddess Gwaten is one of the twelve Buddhist Deities, called the Jiu No adopted from Hindu mythology. Gwaten is derived from Hindu God Soma and is portrayed as a woman bolding in her right hand a disk symbolizing the moon |
Hanwi Oglala Moon Goddess who lived with the Sun God Wi. She was tricked by a woman into giving up her seat next to Wi, and consequently shamed. She left Wi and was forced to give up rulership of dawn and twilight to hide her face when she is near the sun. |
Hecate The Greek Moon Goddess who comes out at night. She carries a torch and is always accompanied by her dogs. She is said to frequent crossroads where statues of her three-faced image were erected. A triple moon goddess she was sometimes pictured as having the heads of a dog, a horse and a serpent. Worshippers paid tribute on nights of full moon by leaving offerings at her statues. As queen of the night Hecate rules spirits, ghosts and infernal creatures such as ghouls. She is the patroness of Witchcraft. |
Hina (als known as INA) Hina is the Polynesian Moon Goddess, in Hawaiian mythology her full name is Hina-hanaia-I-ka-malam, which means the woman show worked in the moon. Legend tells of how she went to the moon by sailing there in her canoe. |
Huitaca (Chia) Moon Goddess to the Chibcha Native Americans who lived in what now is known as Columbia. Huitaca was shown as an owl. She represented the spirit of joy and pleasure and was constantly arguing with the male Bochica who represented hard work and serious approach to daily living. In some legends she is depicted as his wife. |
IO- she is the moon-cow and barley goddess of Argos, her father the River God Inachus was turned into the King of Argos. There is those who say she found her way into Egypt to become ISIS. |
Ishtar (Ahsdar, Astar, Istar, Istaru) Babylonian Goddess who rules the Moon, she is depicted as the sister of the Sun God Shamash and according to legend she went on a trip to the Underworld to find her dead lover, Tammux and when she took of her clothes it caused the moon to darken. When she returned to the World she got dressed and this caused the moon to lighten again |
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