Aztec Goddess Coyolxauhqui  

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"Coyolxauhqui" is the Aztec goddess of the "Moon"; Her name means Golden Bells. She is the daughter of the earth goddess, "Coatlicue" and the sister to four hundred [male] gods of the South (the stars), and an older sister to Huitzilopochtli, the god of war and of the sun. She possesses magical powers with which She can do great harm.

"COYOLXAUHQUI "WISHED TO KILL HER OWN OWN MOTHER "COATLICUE" WHEN SHE BECAME PREGNANT IN WHAT HER CHILDREN DEEMED UNSEEMLY CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT IT WAS JUST AT THAT MOMENT THAT THE MOON AND THE STARS WERE AT THE POINT OF KILLING HER, THE SUN, "HUITZILOPOCHTLI", WAS BORN, FULLY ARMED WITH A SHIELD AND SPEAR. HE DECAPITATED HIS TREACHEROUS SISTER AND CAST HER AWAY. AND SO IT IS THAT THE MOON DIES EVERY MONTH, DEFEATED BY THE SUN AND CUT IN PIECES. "COYOLXAUHQUI" AND HER DISMEMBERMENT ARE THE EXPLANATION FOR A CELESTIAL PHENOMENON, IN WHICH THE MOON DIES AND IS BORN IN PHASES.

A LARGE SHIELD-SHAPED STONE RELIEF REFLECTING THIS STORY WAS FOUND AT THE BASE OF THE STAIRS OF THE "TEMPLO MAYOR". ON THIS DISK, "COYOLXAUHQUI" IS SHOWN SPREAD OUT ON HER SIDE, WITH HER HEAD, ARMS AND LEGS CHOPPED AWAY FROM HER BODY. THE ORBITING FULL MOON IN THE STONE CARVING REFLECTS HER POSITION AS THE MOON GODDESS. SHE IS DISTINGUISHED BY BELLS OF EAGLE DOWN IN HER HAIR, A BELL SYMBOL ON HER CHEEK, AND AN EAR TAB SHOWING THE MEXICA YEAR SIGN, AND JUST AS WITH IMAGES OF HER MOTHER, SHE IS SHOWN WITH A SKULL TIED TO HER BELT.

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Goddess Gyhldeptis  

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GYHLDEPTIS is the Haida Goddess of the forest. She was a beneficent Goddess who protected the people of the coastal forests. A nearby whirlpool, Kaegyihl Depgeesk ("upside down place"), was proving to be very treacherous to travelers, dragging down their ships. In a bid to stop the destruction, Gyhldeptis invited the other local powers to a great feast. In her Festival House, she negotiated with the spirits of the wind, the ice, and the forest fire, and they agreed to help Gyhldeptis. Between them, they shaped the coast, turning the whirlpool into a river that would no longer be a danger to the people. Gyhldeptis's name means "lady hanging hair," symbolic of the hanging branches of the great cedar trees of her forest.

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Goddess Andromeda  

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"(ANDROMEDA IS RATHER SPECIAL TO ME. SEVERAL YEARS AGO I BOUGHT MYSELF A STAR IN THE ANDROMEDA CONSTELLATION...MISS MARY IS HER NAME.)"

IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, "ANDROMEDA "IS THE DAUGHTER OF CASSIOPEIA AND CEPHEUS, THE KING OF ETHIOPIA. CASSIOPEIA BEGAN BOASTING THAT SHE AND ANDROMEDA WERE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE SEA NYMPHS AND TAUNTED POSEIDON, THE GOD OF THE SEA. THIS ANGERED HIM UNTIL HE COULDN'T TAKE IT ANY LONGER. SO, TO PUNISH THE MOTHER, HE HAD ANDROMEDA CHAIN TO A ROCK BY THE SEA...TO BE SACRIFICED TO A SEA MONSTER.

NOW, AS THE STORY GOES, PERSEUS, WAS PASSING BY AND WAS ATTRACTED BY ANDROMEDA'S BEAUTY. HE AGREED TO RESCUE HER UNDER ONE CONDITION...THAT HER PARENTS WOULD ALLOW HIM TO MARRY ANDROMEDA AFTERWARDS. NOW, CASSIOPEIA AND CEPHEUS WERE NOT ANXIOUS FOR THEIR DAUGHTER TO MARRY PERSEUS, BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE MUCH OF A CHOICE. IT WAS THAT OR SEE HER SLAIN BY THE MONSTER, SO THEY AGREED. PERSEUS WAS A VALIANT WARRIOR AND POSSESSED SOME POWERFUL WEAPONS. FIRST, HE SKIMMED OVER THE WATER...THUS CONFUSING THE MONSTER...AND THEN, WITH A FLICK OF HIS WRIST, HE CUT OFF THE MONSTER'S HEAD. THE WEDDING FOLLOWED SOON THEREAFTER.

AND, AFTER HER MARRIAGE, ANDROMEDA LEFT HER COUNTRY TO LIVE WITH PERSEUS WHO LATER BECAME THE KING OF TIRYNS AND MYCENAE. AND, WHEN SHE DIED, ANDROMEDA WAS HUNG IN THE SKY AS A CONSTELLATION...AS AN ETERNAL REMINDER..TO FOREVER TURN OVER AND OVER IN THE STARRY SKY.

"NOW TIME'S ANDROMEDA ON THIS ROCK RUDE,"WITH NOT HER EITHER BEAUTY'S EQUAL OR"HER INJURY'S LOOKS OFF BY BOTH HORNS OF SHORE,"HER FLOWER, HER PIECE OF BEING, DOOMED DRAGON'S FOOD."TIME PAST SHE HAS BEEN ATTEMPTED AND PURSUED"BY MANY BLOWS AND BANES; BUT NOW HEARS ROAR"A WILDER BEAST FROM WEST THAN ALL WERE, MORE"RIFE IN HER WRONGS, MORE LAWLESS, AND MORE LEWD."

"HER PERSEUS LINGER AND LEAVE HER TO HER EXTREMES"PILLOWY AIR HE TREADS A TIME AND HANGS"HIS THOUGHTS ON HER, FORSAKEN THAT SHE SEEMS,"ALL WHILE HER PATIENCE, MORSELLED INTO PANGS,"MOUNTS; THEN TO ALIGHT DISARMING, NO ONE DREAMS"WITH GORGON'S GEAR AND BAREBILL, THONGS AND FANGS."--GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS-- "

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Goddess Nephthys  

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Nephthys, the 'Mistress of the House' {Nebet-het or Nebt-het in the Egyptian Language}, Nephthys is the 'Friend of the Dead,' and is first mentioned in Old Kingdom funerary literature as riding the 'night boat' of the underworld, meeting the deceased king's spirit and accompanying him into 'Lightland.' Her hair is metaphorically compared to the strips of cloth which shroud the bodies of the dead.

Nephthys is almost universally depicted as a woman with the hieroglyphic symbols of her name {a basket and a house, stacked on top of each other} situated atop her head, though she can also be depicted as a bird {most often a kite or some other form of falcon/hawk}. She was associated with funerary rituals throughout ancient Egyptian history and was venerated not as Death itself, but as the companion who gives guidance to the newly deceased, and as a Lady With Wings who comforts the deceased's living relatives. Nephthys is in most myths the youngest daughter of Nut, sister of Isis and Osiris and the sister-consort of Seth. In later periods Nephthys is also considered to be the mother of Anubis, a primordial form of the lord of the dead who later became subservient to Osiris in the Egyptian cultic myth.

Nephthys had connections with life as well as death she stood at the head of the birth-bed to comfort and assist the mother giving birth {while her sister, Isis, stood at the foot to midwife the child}. To current Egyptological knowledge, Nephthys did not have her own cult or temples in Egypt until the Ptolemaic-Roman period; however, as her name is merely a title {the same title given to the eldest woman in any ancient Egyptian household}, it is possible that Nephthys may be a specialized form of another goddess; probable candidates include Bat {as she is called the 'Lady of Het,' or 'Nebt-het'} and Neith with whom Nephthys is paired in the canopic shrine quadrants, as Isis is with Serket, who is sometimes seen to be an aspect of Isis.

Neith's being the 'eldest of goddesses,' along with her connection with weaving and funerary garments lends credence to this theory, as does the interchangeable depiction of Neith and/or Nephthys in symmetrical transposition on a number of Late Period temples.

Other names: Neb-hut, Nebthet

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