The Realms and Meanings of Some Popular Deities By: Keitha (FireWind) Note: This is not an inclusive list, and most are my own interpretations; they might not be yours.
Goddesses APHRODITE: Love, passion, sex, beauty ARACHNE: Weaving, high ambitions ARTEMIS: The huntress, the moon, women's mysteries, Patron of Witchcraft, healing, unrequited love, inner strength, virginity. ATHENA: Wisdom, strategy, warfare, government, virginity, bounty, the Olive Tree, weaving, strength. ATLANTA: Marriage, strength, unpaid debts. BELLONA: Victory, war. BRIGIT: Motherhood, the Earth, fires, poetry, Knowledge, smithcraft? CALLISTO: Motherhood, strength. CIRCE: Magic, enchantress, Witchcraft. CLYTIE: Unrequited love. DEMETER: The Earth, Mother, grain, crops, fertility, farmers. EOS: The dawn, morning, young people, new beginnings. EUMEIDES: Justice, fate. FATES: Fate, life, death, the path of life. FLORA: Spring, flowers. FORTUNA: Fortune, luck, fate, change. FREYA: Love, flowers, music, beauty, sexual love. FRIGG: Knowledge, wisdom. GAIA: Mother Earth, bounty, fertility, defense of children. HECATE: Queen of the Witches, night, inner strength, women's mysteries. HEL: Death, endings. HERA: Marriage, jealousy, inner strength, beauty. IRIS: Rainbows, flowers, sadness. KORE/PERSEPHONE: Spring, death, beginnings, endings, youth & age, innocence and self-possession. MARPESSA: True Love. MNEMOSYNE: Memory, strength. MORRIGU: Death, suffering, anything horrible, darkness, carrion. MUSES: Inspiration, creativity, great works of art. NAT: The night. NORNS: The Fates. PANDORA: Beauty, grace, innocence, hidden gifts, misfortune. POMONA: Fruit trees, apple trees, the Pentacle. RHEA: Motherhood. SIRENS: Women as dangerous, beauty, solitude, temptress. SYRINX: 'The pursued woman'. THISBE: True love, unhappy endings. VALKYRIES: Death, endings, glory, happy endings. VESTA: Fire, virginity, purity, life, knowledge. VICTORIA: Victory.
Gods ADONIS: Sexual Passion, change AESCULAPIUS: Healing, Protection ANGUS: Love APOLLO: Music, healing, protection, scrying, men's mysteries, victory, poetry, fun. ARES: Victory in Battle, sexual lust, protection from enemies, anger ATLAS: inner strength, determination BALDER: innocence, happiness, spring, wisdom, knowledge, inspiration. BALOR: victory, protection, age, wisdom BAUCIS: hospitality, friendship BRAN: music, poetry, inspiration, endings, reputation CERNUNNOS: Fertility CHIRON: wisdom, inspiration, music, hunting, healing, protection, scrying, divination CRONUS: fear, strength, death, inevitability, time, the old giving way to the new DAEDALUS: Inspiration, victory through thinking, creativity DAGDA: Family, men's mysteries, the turning wheel, heritage, leadership DIONYSYS: Alcohol, partying, overendulgence, justice, peace, 'the original hippie'. EPIMETHEUS: Figuring out the past, acting without judgement EROS: Love, anguish through love, justice, 'doing what must be done', 'waiting until the right time'. FIONN MACCUMHAL: wisdom, foresight, leadership. FREY: fertility, wealth. HEPHAESTUS: smithcraft, anything mechanical, fires, the beauty within, bad temper HERAKLES: dealing with guilt, inner strength, finishing a task, determination HERMES: News, gossip, messages, theft, public speeches, trickster, sports, money, business, contracts, men's mysteries, wealth. HYMEN: Marriage, sex, virginity. HYPNOS: sleep, rest, meditation. JANUS: Foresight, hindsight, beginnings, access. MANANNAN: trickster, MIDAS: Greed, keeping secrets, things 'too good to be true', the fool. MORPHEUS: Dreams. NARCISSUS: Arrogance, just desserts, self involvement. ODIN: Wisdom, leadership, strength, knowledge, manners, poetry, battle. PAN: Fertility, solitude, unreasoned fear, rustic music, sexuality, simple joy PHAETHON: Adopted children, hard challenges, foolhardiness PLUTO: Death, endings, loneliness PROMETHEUS: Forethought, planning for future, knowledge, undeserved suffering, relief from grief. PROTEUS: Prophesy, divination, truth. TERMINUS: Neighbours, the outdoors, fences. ZEUS: The turning of power, thunder storms, weather, rain, hospitality, leadership.
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