Meet the Goddesses

1) Sophia

Pronunciation: soh-FEE-ah

Also known as: Holy Wisdom, Chokhmah (Hebrew parallel)

Archetypal overlaps: Wisdom, Logos, Gnosis, Divine Feminine Mind

Pantheon/Culture: Gnostic Christianity, Hellenistic Judaism

Biography:

Sophia is the embodiment of divine wisdom and consciousness itself. In Gnostic cosmology, she initiates creation through desire to know herself. Her “fall” is not sin but curiosity, birthing the material world. Redemption comes through remembrance, not obedience.

Traits & Powers:

Wisdom, discernment, inner knowing, illumination, liberation through truth

 

2) Isis

Pronunciation: EYE-sis

Also known as: Aset, Eset

Archetypal overlaps: Mother, Magician, Healer, Queen

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Egypt

Biography:

Isis resurrects Osiris through devotion, magic, and love. She protects the vulnerable and restores wholeness after fragmentation. Her cult spread across the ancient world, predating Christianity. She is the throne and the one who sits upon it.

Traits & Powers:

Healing, resurrection, protection, sacred motherhood, spellcraft

 

3) Inanna

Pronunciation: ih-NAH-nah

Also known as: Ishtar

Archetypal overlaps: Sovereignty, Desire, Descent, Power

Pantheon/Culture: Sumerian, Akkadian

Biography:

Inanna descends into the underworld and returns transformed. She holds sexuality, war, love, and rulership in one being. Her myths center female autonomy and power. She refuses to be simplified.

Traits & Powers:

Sexual sovereignty, courage, transformation, leadership, erotic life force

 

4) Hecate

Pronunciation: HEH-kuh-tee

Also known as: Trivia

Archetypal overlaps: Liminality, Witch, Guardian, Guide

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Greece

Biography:

Hecate stands at thresholds and crossroads. She guides souls, guards transitions, and holds keys to hidden realms. Neither Olympian nor chthonic alone, she moves freely between worlds. She is invoked at night, at change, and at truth.

Traits & Powers:

Boundary keeping, magic, protection, guidance, shadow wisdom

 

5) Demeter

Pronunciation: dih-MEE-ter

Also known as: Deo

Archetypal overlaps: Earth Mother, Grief, Nourishment

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Greece

Biography:

Demeter governs grain, fertility, and the cycles of life and death. Her grief over Persephone’s descent reshapes the seasons. She withholds abundance until justice is restored. Care is her power.

Traits & Powers:

Provision, boundaries through care, grief as force, life cycles

 

6) Persephone

Pronunciation: per-SEF-uh-nee

Also known as: Kore

Archetypal overlaps: Initiation, Descent, Renewal

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Greece

Biography:

Persephone becomes queen of the underworld through experience, not consent. She bridges innocence and sovereignty. Her story is about maturation, not victimhood. She holds spring and shadow equally.

Traits & Powers:

Initiation, transformation, resilience, dual sovereignty

 

7) Athena

Pronunciation: uh-THEE-nuh

Also known as: Pallas Athena

Archetypal overlaps: Strategy, Justice, Clarity

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Greece

Biography:

Athena is born from Zeus’s head, fully formed. She governs wisdom, war strategy, and law. Unlike Ares, she values precision over force. She is mind-led strength.

Traits & Powers:

Strategic intelligence, justice, discernment, protection of cities

 

8) Artemis

Pronunciation: AR-tuh-miss

Also known as: Diana (Roman)

Archetypal overlaps: Autonomy, Protector, Wild Feminine

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Greece

Biography:

Artemis roams free of marriage and domestication. She protects women, children, and animals. She is fiercely boundaried. Her freedom is sacred.

Traits & Powers:

Independence, protection, instinct, clarity of boundary

 

9) Kali

Pronunciation: KAH-lee

Also known as: Mahankali

Archetypal overlaps: Destruction, Liberation, Truth

Pantheon/Culture: Hindu

Biography:

Kali destroys illusion and ego without apology. She dances on the corpse of false self. Her violence is mercy. She frees through endings.

Traits & Powers:

Liberation, shadow integration, fearlessness, radical truth

 

10) Durga

Pronunciation: DOOR-gah

Also known as: Devi

Archetypal overlaps: Warrior Mother, Protection

Pantheon/Culture: Hindu

Biography:

Durga arises when the gods cannot defeat evil. She embodies collective power. She rides a lion into battle. She restores balance.

Traits & Powers:

Protection, courage, righteous force, balance

 

11) Brigid

Pronunciation: BRIJ-id or BREE-jid

Also known as: Bríghid, St. Brigid

Archetypal overlaps: Hearth, Creativity, Healing

Pantheon/Culture: Celtic

Biography:

Brigid governs fire, poetry, healing, and craft. She bridges pagan and Christian worlds. Her flame never goes out. She sanctifies daily life.

Traits & Powers:

Creativity, healing, inspiration, sacred domesticity

 

12) Morrigan

Pronunciation: MOR-ih-gun

Also known as: Morrígu

Archetypal overlaps: Fate, War, Sovereignty

Pantheon/Culture: Celtic

Biography:

The Morrigan shapes fate through prophecy and battle. She tests kings and exposes weakness. She is not gentle but is just. She demands truth.

Traits & Powers:

Prophecy, fate shaping, sovereignty, truth through challenge

 

13) Quan Yin

Pronunciation: KWAHN YIN

Also known as: Guanyin, Kannon

Archetypal overlaps: Compassion, Mercy

Pantheon/Culture: Chinese Buddhism

Biography:

Quan Yin hears the cries of the world. She delays enlightenment to ease suffering. Her compassion is active. She is love embodied.

Traits & Powers:

Compassion, healing, mercy, emotional safety

 

14) Tara

Pronunciation: TAHR-uh

Also known as: Green Tara, White Tara

Archetypal overlaps: Swift Aid, Protection

Pantheon/Culture: Tibetan Buddhism

Biography:

Tara is born from Avalokiteshvara’s tears. She acts immediately when called. She represents enlightened action. Compassion in motion.

Traits & Powers:

Protection, quick response, courage, relief from fear

 

15) Mary Magdalene

Pronunciation: MAIR-ee MAG-duh-lin

Also known as: Miriam of Magdala

Archetypal overlaps: Gnosis, Witness, Sacred Feminine

Pantheon/Culture: Early Christianity

Biography:

Mary Magdalene is the first witness to resurrection. She carries hidden teachings of inner liberation. Later traditions silenced her authority. She restores balance to Christian myth.

Traits & Powers:

Inner knowing, devotion without submission, remembrance

 

16) Pachamama

Pronunciation: pah-chah-MAH-mah

Also known as: Earth Mother

Archetypal overlaps: Earth, Reciprocity

Pantheon/Culture: Andean

Biography:

Pachamama is the living Earth. She sustains and demands respect. Balance with her is survival. She is not symbolic, she is real.

Traits & Powers:

Sustainability, reciprocity, grounding, abundance

 

17) Sekhmet

Pronunciation: SEK-met

Also known as: The Eye of Ra

Archetypal overlaps: Rage, Healing, Justice

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Egypt

Biography:

Sekhmet brings plague or healing depending on balance. She is solar rage refined into medicine. She enforces divine law. She is fire with purpose.

Traits & Powers:

Boundary enforcement, righteous anger, healing through truth

 

18) Lilith

Pronunciation: LIL-ith

Also known as: The First Woman

Archetypal overlaps: Autonomy, Rebellion

Pantheon/Culture: Jewish mythology

Biography:

Lilith refuses submission. She leaves Eden rather than obey. Later demonized, she represents female autonomy. She is reclaimed power.

Traits & Powers:

Independence, refusal, sexual sovereignty, boundary integrity

 

19) Oshun

Pronunciation: OH-shoon

Also known as: Oxum

Archetypal overlaps: Love, Beauty, Flow

Pantheon/Culture: Yoruba

Biography:

Oshun governs rivers, love, and sweetness. She brings joy and sensuality. Without her, creation fails. Pleasure is sacred.

Traits & Powers:

Attraction, harmony, creativity, emotional flow

 

20) Spider Woman

Pronunciation: varies by nation

Also known as: Grandmother Spider

Archetypal overlaps: Creation, Weaver, Teacher

Pantheon/Culture: Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo

Biography:

Spider Woman weaves the world into being. She teaches humans skills and ethics. She connects all life. The web remembers.

Traits & Powers:

Creation, interconnectedness, teaching, cosmic patterning

 

 

21) Aphrodite

Pronunciation: af-ruh-DYE-tee

Also known as: Venus (Roman)

Archetypal overlaps: Love, Desire, Beauty, Creation

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Greece

Biography:

Aphrodite is born from sea foam, ancient and uncontrollable. She governs attraction, pleasure, and creative force. She bends gods and mortals alike. Love, for her, is power.

Traits & Powers:

Attraction, pleasure, creativity, relational magnetism, life force

 

22) Hedone

Pronunciation: heh-DOH-nee

Also known as: Voluptas (Roman)

Archetypal overlaps: Pleasure, Joy, Sensation

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Greece

Biography:

Hedone is the daughter of Aphrodite. She personifies pleasure itself. Often sidelined in moral systems, she represents embodied joy. She reminds us that delight is not frivolous.

Traits & Powers:

Joy, sensual pleasure, embodiment, nervous system ease

 

23) Lady Liberty

Pronunciation: LAY-dee LIB-er-tee

Also known as: Liberty Enlightening the World

Archetypal overlaps: Freedom, Enlightenment, Sovereignty

Pantheon/Culture: Modern civic myth

Biography:

Lady Liberty symbolizes freedom from tyranny. She holds light and law together. Her torch is illumination, not domination. She is an aspirational goddess of consent.

Traits & Powers:

Liberation, autonomy, enlightenment, civil courage

 

24) Columbia

Pronunciation: kuh-LUHM-bee-uh

Also known as: Lady Columbia

Archetypal overlaps: Nationhood, Protection, Identity

Pantheon/Culture: Early American civic myth

Biography:

Columbia personified the young American republic. She represented liberty, culture, and destiny. Later replaced by male symbols, she remains a forgotten matriarch. She shows how feminine power gets erased.

Traits & Powers:

Collective identity, cultural memory, guardianship

 

25) Lady Justice

Pronunciation: LAY-dee JUS-tiss

Also known as: Justitia

Archetypal overlaps: Law, Balance, Accountability

Pantheon/Culture: Roman / modern law

Biography:

Lady Justice holds scales and sword. Blindfolded, she symbolizes impartiality. She demands accountability without cruelty. She reminds systems to answer to ethics.

Traits & Powers:

Discernment, fairness, accountability, balance

 

26) La Llorona

Pronunciation: lah yoh-ROH-nah

Also known as: The Weeping Woman

Archetypal overlaps: Grief, Warning, Trauma

Pantheon/Culture: Latin American folklore

Biography:

La Llorona haunts waterways in grief. Her myth carries warnings about loss and violence. She embodies unresolved trauma. She is sorrow that refuses silence.

Traits & Powers:

Grief memory, ancestral trauma, warning, lamentation

 

27) Santa Muerte

Pronunciation: SAHN-tah MWEHR-teh

Also known as: La Niña Blanca

Archetypal overlaps: Death, Protection, Equality

Pantheon/Culture: Mexican folk Catholicism

Biography:

Santa Muerte is death personified and beloved. She protects the marginalized. She makes no moral distinctions. Death is the great equalizer.

Traits & Powers:

Protection, endings, impartiality, safe passage

 

28) Black Madonna

Pronunciation: varies

Also known as: Our Lady of Częstochowa

Archetypal overlaps: Earth Mother, Mystery

Pantheon/Culture: Christian mysticism

Biography:

The Black Madonna predates whitened Christianity. She is earth-toned, fierce, and maternal. Often linked to Isis. She represents suppressed feminine divinity.

Traits & Powers:

Protection, fertility, hidden wisdom, resilience

 

29) Medusa

Pronunciation: meh-DOO-sah

Also known as: Gorgon

Archetypal overlaps: Trauma, Rage, Protection

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Greece

Biography:

Medusa was transformed after violation. Her gaze became lethal. Later myths cast her as monster. She is reclaimed as trauma weaponized for self-defense.

Traits & Powers:

Boundary enforcement, trauma alchemy, deterrence

 

30) Freya

Pronunciation: FRAY-uh

Also known as: Freyja

Archetypal overlaps: Love, Magic, Death

Pantheon/Culture: Norse

Biography:

Freya governs love, fertility, and war magic. She chooses half the slain. She teaches seiðr magic. She blends tenderness with ferocity.

Traits & Powers:

Magic, sovereignty, erotic power, death rites

 

31) Sif

Pronunciation: SIF

Also known as: None

Archetypal overlaps: Fertility, Integrity

Pantheon/Culture: Norse

Biography:

Sif’s golden hair represents abundance. When violated, it is restored stronger. She is quiet resilience. Growth follows repair.

Traits & Powers:

Regeneration, nourishment, endurance

 

32) Hel

Pronunciation: HELL

Also known as: Hela

Archetypal overlaps: Death, Acceptance

Pantheon/Culture: Norse

Biography:

Hel rules the dead who die without glory. She is neutral, not cruel. Death is simply a state. She accepts all.

Traits & Powers:

Containment, acceptance, death stewardship

 

33) Hera

Pronunciation: HAIR-uh

Also known as: Queen of Olympus

Archetypal overlaps: Marriage, Power, Boundary

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Greece

Biography:

Hera governs marriage and queenship. Often portrayed as jealous, she is actually bound by patriarchy. She enforces vows. She reveals systemic injustice.

Traits & Powers:

Boundary enforcement, dignity, institutional power

 

34) Barbelo

Pronunciation: BAR-buh-loh

Also known as: First Thought

Archetypal overlaps: Source, Womb, Silence

Pantheon/Culture: Gnostic

Biography:

Barbelo is the primordial womb of creation. She precedes form. She emanates without force. All things arise from her stillness.

Traits & Powers:

Creation, containment, divine silence

 

35) Virgin Mary

Pronunciation: VAIR-jin MAIR-ee

Also known as: Theotokos

Archetypal overlaps: Compassion, Mother, Intercessor

Pantheon/Culture: Christianity

Biography:

Mary carries divinity without domination. She embodies humility without erasure. Later idealized, her power was softened. She remains a bridge.

Traits & Powers:

Compassion, protection, mediation, grace

 

36) Babalon

Pronunciation: BAB-uh-lon

Also known as: The Scarlet Woman

Archetypal overlaps: Sexual Sovereignty, Revelation

Pantheon/Culture: Thelema

Biography:

Babalon rides the Beast unafraid. She embodies liberated sexuality. She breaks shame structures. She pours out illusion.

Traits & Powers:

Erotic power, truth-telling, liberation

 

37) Selene

Pronunciation: seh-LEE-nee

Also known as: Luna

Archetypal overlaps: Moon, Cycles

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Greece

Biography:

Selene drives the moon across the sky. She governs time and tides. She watches lovers and sleepers. Cycles are her language.

Traits & Powers:

Rhythm, intuition, reflection

 

38) Nyx

Pronunciation: NIKS

Also known as: Night

Archetypal overlaps: Void, Primordial

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Greece

Biography:

Nyx predates Zeus. Even gods fear her. She is the womb of night. Darkness is not evil; it is origin.

Traits & Powers:

Primordial power, concealment, cosmic authority

 

39) Bastet

Pronunciation: BAS-tet

Also known as: Bast

Archetypal overlaps: Protection, Joy

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Egypt

Biography:

Bastet protects homes and children. She balances ferocity and play. She is domestic magic. Safety with teeth.

Traits & Powers:

Protection, pleasure, joy, guardianship

 

40) Gaia

Pronunciation: GUY-uh

Also known as: Mother Earth

Archetypal overlaps: Earth, Creation

Pantheon/Culture: Ancient Greece

Biography:

Gaia is the Earth itself. All life emerges from her body. She overthrows tyrants. She endures.

Traits & Powers:

Creation, grounding, endurance, planetary life

 

41) Yemaya

Pronunciation: yeh-MAH-yah

Also known as: Yemoja, Iemanjá

Archetypal overlaps: Ocean Mother, Birth, Protection

Pantheon/Culture: Yoruba (West Africa), Afro-Caribbean

Biography:

Yemaya is the mother of all life and Orishas. Her waters birth, cleanse, and protect. She governs the oceans and womb. She is fierce love.

Traits & Powers:

Nurture, protection, emotional depth, creation, maternal authority

 

42) Oya

Pronunciation: OH-yah

Also known as: Yansa

Archetypal overlaps: Storm, Change, Death

Pantheon/Culture: Yoruba

Biography:

Oya governs wind, lightning, and transformation. She guards cemeteries and the gates of death. She brings sudden change. Nothing stagnant survives her.

Traits & Powers:

Transformation, boundary crossing, revolution, fierce protection

 

43) Mawu

Pronunciation: MAH-woo

Also known as: Mawu-Lisa (with male counterpart)

Archetypal overlaps: Moon, Balance, Compassion

Pantheon/Culture: Dahomey (Fon people)

Biography:

Mawu is the lunar, cooling creator force. She governs mercy, rest, and balance. She tempers fire with compassion. Creation rests in her rhythm.

Traits & Powers:

Balance, gentleness, mercy, cosmic order

 

44) Oshun

Pronunciation: OH-shoon

Also known as: Oxum

Archetypal overlaps: Love, Rivers, Sweetness

Pantheon/Culture: Yoruba

Biography:

Oshun governs rivers, beauty, fertility, and joy. Without her, creation fails. She teaches that pleasure is necessary. Soft power is still power.

Traits & Powers:

Love, sensuality, harmony, creative flow

 

45) Nana Buluku

Pronunciation: NAH-nah boo-LOO-koo

Also known as: Nana Buruku

Archetypal overlaps: Primordial Creator, Void

Pantheon/Culture: West African

Biography:

Nana Buluku is the primordial source before form. She births gods but does not rule them. She withdraws after creation. Silence is her power.

Traits & Powers:

Primordial creation, containment, cosmic origin

 

46) Sedna

Pronunciation: SED-nah

Also known as: Nerrivik

Archetypal overlaps: Sea, Trauma, Survival

Pantheon/Culture: Inuit

Biography:

Sedna is betrayed and cast into the sea. From her severed fingers come marine life. She rules the depths. Trauma becomes sustenance.

Traits & Powers:

Survival, trauma alchemy, ocean life, endurance

 

47) Coyolxauhqui

Pronunciation: koy-ohl-SHOW-kee

Also known as: Moon Goddess

Archetypal overlaps: Dismemberment, Reassembly

Pantheon/Culture: Aztec

Biography:

Coyolxauhqui is dismembered by patriarchal force. Her body becomes the moon. Modern retellings reclaim her as cyclical rebirth. She teaches reassembly.

Traits & Powers:

Reintegration, cyclical healing, resistance

 

48) Spider Grandmother

Pronunciation: varies

Also known as: Spider Woman

Archetypal overlaps: Creation, Teaching, Web

Pantheon/Culture: Hopi, Pueblo

Biography:

Spider Grandmother weaves the world into form. She teaches ethics and survival. All beings are connected in her web. Knowledge is relational.

Traits & Powers:

Creation, teaching, interconnectedness

 

49) Ixchel

Pronunciation: EESH-chel

Also known as: Lady Rainbow

Archetypal overlaps: Healing, Moon, Midwifery

Pantheon/Culture: Maya

Biography:

Ixchel governs healing, fertility, and cycles. She is both destroyer and healer. Rainbows follow storms. She balances life and death.

Traits & Powers:

Healing, cycles, medicine, midwifery

 

50) White Buffalo Calf Woman

Pronunciation: varies

Also known as: Pte Ska Win

Archetypal overlaps: Sacred Law, Peace

Pantheon/Culture: Lakota

Biography:

She brings sacred teachings and ceremony. She restores balance between humans and Earth. She leaves with promise to return. Law is relational.

Traits & Powers:

Sacred law, peace-making, covenant keeping

 

51) Tiamat

Pronunciation: TEE-ah-maht

Also known as: Chaos Dragon

Archetypal overlaps: Creation, Chaos, Primordial Sea

Pantheon/Culture: Babylonian

Biography:

Tiamat is the original mother of gods. She embodies primordial chaos. Patriarchal myth slays her to impose order. Her body becomes the world.

Traits & Powers:

Creation through chaos, raw power, origin force

 

52) Nammu

Pronunciation: NAH-moo

Also known as: Primordial Sea

Archetypal overlaps: Creation, Waters

Pantheon/Culture: Sumerian

Biography:

Nammu is the watery abyss from which all arises. She births heaven and earth. She precedes law. Creation flows from her.

Traits & Powers:

Primordial creation, womb waters, origin

 

53) Ereshkigal

Pronunciation: eh-RESH-ki-gal

Also known as: Queen of the Great Below

Archetypal overlaps: Death, Authority

Pantheon/Culture: Sumerian

Biography:

Ereshkigal rules the underworld absolutely. She governs death with fairness. Even gods submit to her laws. She is final authority.

Traits & Powers:

Death sovereignty, justice, containment

 

54) Ninsun

Pronunciation: NIN-soon

Also known as: Wild Cow Lady

Archetypal overlaps: Wisdom, Motherhood

Pantheon/Culture: Sumerian

Biography:

Ninsun is the mother of Gilgamesh. She interprets dreams and offers counsel. She balances heroic excess. Wisdom tempers power.

Traits & Powers:

Dream interpretation, guidance, maternal wisdom

 

55) Aruru

Pronunciation: ah-ROO-roo

Also known as: Ninhursag (aspect)

Archetypal overlaps: Creation, Crafting Humanity

Pantheon/Culture: Sumerian

Biography:

Aruru shapes humanity from clay. She creates balance to unchecked power. Creation is corrective. Life is intentional.

Traits & Powers:

Human creation, balance, craft