Archive for the 'Goddesses' Category

Gen

My favorite under-goddess was Gen, queen of fertility.  We had Bun and Gen, pregnancy and fertility.  Their names were not coincidental.  At first glance Bun and Gen are interchangeable — two giggly girls with silly dogs and not a full IQ between the two of them.  Looks are deceiving.  While Bun is pretty simple — [...]

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Sam, the Vegetation God

Lani doesn’t want me to call Sam a Vegetation God. She says it makes him sound like broccoli. But that’s what he is (a vegetation god, not broccoli).

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The Goddess Way

So Kami needs to get people to her temple on the college campus, and what better way than a poster?  So Mina says, “Klimt,” because that damn Kiss reprint is all over college dorms, and hies herself to Kinkos where she has these printed:

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Update on Sajani: Do You Really Want To Be A Goddess?

From Salon: Do you really want to be a goddess?
July 23, 2007:
I’m not sure if this is good news or bad news, but the BBC reports that one of Nepal’s living goddesses, Sajani Shakya, will not be stripped of her divine standing despite her recent trip to the United States.

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Nisaba

Nisaba was the goddess of writing, learning and astrology.

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Sajani

Laura Chung gave us this link (Thank you, Laura!) so I thought I’d post this here because this website is going to be around for awhile and links disappear with time.
See? Goddesses among us.
Washington’s latest luminary: a child goddess from Nepal

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Nanshe

Nanshe, Lady of Dreams, was the high-ranking, widely worshipped Sumerian goddess of morals, ethics and social justice, and also springs and waterways (her daddy gave her dominion over the Persian Gulf and his sea shrine),

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Kammani-Gula

Okay, we made Kammani up because we needed a Big Bad who wasn’t bad. A goddess who wants to save people.

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