WARRIOR GODDESSES

DURGA

    Durga is one of the forms of the Goddess SHAKTI, and the wife of SHIVA.  She was born fully grown.  Durga is famous as the many-armed, many-weaponed goddess that slays the Buffalo-Demon.

FREYJA

    Freyja is also known as the Goddess of Love, Fertility, and Beauty. She is also sometimes identified as the Goddess of Battle and Death.  She was also quite accommodating in sexual matters.

INANNA

   Inanna is the Sumerian Goddes that later became known as ISHTAR.  She was the Queen of Heaven.  Also the Goddess of Love, Procreation, and War.  As ISHTAR (in Babylonian Mythology) she was the daughter of Sin, and the Goddess of Sexuality; the ambitious, dynamic Goddess of Love and War.

ISHTAR

   Ishtar is Assyrian/Mesopotamian.  As the Star of The Morning, Ishtar represented War.  As the Star of the Evening, Ishtar represented Love and Sensual Pleasure.  She was a perpetual Virgin even though she enjoyed sexual relations, because she regained her virginity every time she bathed in her special lake.

KALI

   Kali is the cult name of the Goddess DURGA,, wife to SHIVA.  Her idol is black, smeared with blood, has huge fang like teeth, and a protruding tongue that drips with blood.  She wears a necklace of skulls, earrings of corpses, and is girdled with serpents.  She usually has four arms, symbolizing absolute dominion over all finite things.  One hand holds a sword, the second holds a severed human head, the third is believed to  by her devotees to be removing fear, and the fourth is often interpreted as granting bliss.  Kali, omnipotent, absolute, and all-pervasive, is beyond fear and finite existenceand is therefore believed able to protect her devotees against fear and give them limitless peace.
     Finally, as absolute night, devouring all that exists, she is sometimes depicted as standing on the corpse of SHIVA, which like the garland of skulls, symbolizes the remains of finite existence.  Kali's worshipers reportedly appeased her in the past with human sacrifices.

MORRIGAN

   Morrigan in Celtic (Irish) Mythology, was the High Queen and Goddess of the Tuatha De' Danann.  She was considered a trinity; Macha, Badb, and Neman, all three were bloodthirsty and feared by the enemies of the Tuatha De' Danann.  As Macha, she was Goddess of War and Fertility who could take the shape of a Crow.  As Badb (Nechtan) she was the Water-God whose sacred well was a source of knowledge.  As Neman (Nemhain) she was the Goddess of War and Battle.

OYA

   Oya as Warrior Goddess of the Wind represented the winds of change, and her image is usually shown this way.  As the Yoruban Goddess of the Marketplace, she created change of fortune.  She was the wife of SHANGO, God of Thunder and Fertility.  Her power is associated with Lightning, Tornadoes, Cemeteries, and Death.  Oya is tall, statley, and an amazon in battle.  She is the Orisa of Power and Action.  Every breath we take is the gift of Oya.

SEKHMET

   Sekhmet is the Egyptian Goddess who was called "The Beloved of Ptah".  She was usually pictured as having a woman's body with the head of a lioness, and seated on a throne.  She is the Goddess of War and Battle.  She was part of the Memphis Triad:  She, as wife to PTAH, and thier son NEFERTUM.  She had many titles, such as:  Goddess of Fire and Heat, Mistress of the Gods, Goddess of Vengence, Lion Goddess, and The Mighty One of Enchantments.

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