pangea's video: The Goddess - In Mythology and History

http://www.ancient.eu/religion/ A general introduction to the goddess myth in human history. The divine, the feminine, fertility, mother earth. Religious history, paganism, women, religion in antiquity, power and women. Bona Dea, ( Latin: “Good Goddess”) in Roman religion, deity of fruitfulness, both in the earth and in women. She was identified with various goddesses who had similar functions. The dedication day of her temple on the Aventine was celebrated May 1. Her temple was cared for and attended by women only, and the same was the case at a second celebration, at the beginning of December, in the house of the pontifex maximus, where the pontifex’s wife and the Vestal Virgins ran the ceremony. Mother Goddesses: In many mythologies there is a supreme goddess, ancient greek Gaia and the Maori goddess Rangi reresent Mother Earth. Bona Dea's main temple was on the Aventine hill in Rome, and admitted only women. Music was played during the ceremony and would drive some women into a frenzy. Bona Dea the good goddess. Isis inherited power from Ra when she learned his name and she then passed this power to her son Horus. Athena, also spelled Athene, in Greek religion, the city protectress, goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason, identified by the Romans with Minerva. She was essentially urban and civilized, the antithesis in many respects of Artemis, goddess of the outdoors. Athena was probably a pre-Hellenic goddess and was later taken over by the Greeks. Yet the Greek economy, unlike that of the Minoans, was largely military, so that Athena, while retaining her earlier domestic functions, became a goddess of war. She was the daughter of Zeus, produced without a mother, so that she emerged full-grown from his forehead. There was an alternative story that Zeus swallowed Metis, the goddess of counsel, while she was pregnant with Athena, so that Athena finally emerged from Zeus. Being the favourite child of Zeus, she had great power. http://www.goddess-guide.com/