Athena,Minerva,Sulis The Many AspectsWritten by Judi Singleton
Although She is only One, She appears as many forms or goddesses. Each goddess emphasizes an attribute of one Divine Mother. This is an easy concept to understand when we consider our own earthly mothers. She is mother of hearth when she is cooking and feeding us. She is warrior mother when someone attacks us and she is protecting us. She is muse mother when she is inspiring us to do our best. She is healer when we are sick. Each of perspective are only one of aspects she wears in drama of life for all eternity.Athena is Greek virgin goddess of reason, intelligent activity, arts and literature. She sprang full grown from Zeus' head. She is Zeus' favorite and is allowed to use his weapons including his thunderbolt. She wore a helmet and carrying a spear and shield, magic aegis, a goatskin breastplate, fringed with snakes, that produced thunderbolts when shaken. Athena was different from Ares; she represented intellectual and civilized side of war. She was a wise and prudent adviser. Sacred to her are olive, serpent, owl, lance, and crow. Although Minerva, Roman Goddess of war and wisdom, is usually portrayed as equivalent to Greek goddess Athena, she was originally an Etruscan goddess of dawn. She is revered as a goddess of wisdom, for light of dawn typifies knowledge. She guides heroes in war and is patroness of all arts, crafts, guilds, and medicine. Called by Ovid "the goddess of a thousands works", she was inventor of musical instruments, numbers, and many crafts, including weaving.
| | Anu Celtic Goddess of FertilityWritten by Judi Singleton
Anu Celtic Goddess of Fertility Anu, pronounced an-oo, (aka Anann, Dana, Dana-Ana) is Irish Goddess of plenty and is maiden aspect of Morrigu. She is Mother-Earth Goddess and flowering fertility Goddess. Ireland - Mother Earth; Goddess of plenty, another aspect of Morrigu; Great Goddess; greatest of all goddesses. The flowering fertility goddess, sometimes she formed a trinity with Badb and Macha. Her priestesses comforted and taught dying. Fires were lit for her at Midsummer. Two hills in Kerry are called Paps of Anu. Maiden aspect of Triple Goddess in Ireland. Guardian of cattle and health. Goddess of fertility, prosperity, and comfort. Anu is associated with Celts as mother Goddess of ancestors, reaching so far back into time there is very little record of her... externally at least. She is identified with Goddess Danu and Children of Danu (Tuatha De Danaan) and four great cities Falias, Gorias, Finias and Murias. In beginning it was Anu who watered first Oak tree Bile from heavens and granted life to earth, from tree fell two acorns which Anu nurtured as her own and in turn they became God Dagda and Goddess Brighid. Anu has been known to appear in form of a swan, representing purity of female and gracefulness in motherhood.
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