Ajá (wild wind) is an Orisha, the spirit of the forest, the animals within it and herbal healers. In her forests she would find plants with medicinal properties and mix the herbs and roots and other plant parts together to find cures for the sick.
Asase Ya/Afua (or Asase Yaa, Asaase Yaa, Asaase Afua, Asaase Efua) is the Akan goddess of fertility, love, procreation, peace, truth and the dry and lush earth in Ghana and Ivory Coast. She is also Mother of the Dead known as Mother Earth or Aberewaa.
Osanyin. Osanyin is a lesser-known god among the Yoruba people. Osanyin is known as the god of herbs who lives in the forest to care for the plants and herbs.
Flora, in Roman religion, the goddess of the flowering of plants. Titus Tatius (according to tradition, the Sabine king who ruled with Romulus) is said to have introduced her cult to Rome; her temple stood near the Circus Maximus.
Oshun is a goddess of love and beauty.
Demeter is one of the most prominent goddesses of ancient Greek mythology. One of the six original deities of Mount Olympus, Demeter was sister to Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera and Hestia. She was a maternal goddess that Greeks linked closely with the earth, agriculture and harvest.
The beautiful Airmid is the Irish Goddess of Healing Arts, particularly associated with herbal healing. She is one of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the ancient mythological race of magical beings. She is also associated with gardening, nature, family and loyalty.
The name Antheia was also given to Hera and connected to the Horae, under which she had a temple at Argos. It was also an epithet of Aphrodite at Knossos. She was the goddess of vegetation, gardens, blossoms, especially worshipped in spring and near lowlands and marshlands, favorable to the growth of vegetation.
As one of the ancient goddesses established before the Republic, Flora is believed to have her origins in Greek mythology, where she is known as Chloris (Khloris). Chloris is associated with spring, flowers, and new growth.
Babalú-Aye is the spirit of the Earth and strongly associated with infectious disease, and healing. Babalu-aye manifested in a human at the Obaluaye Festival in Ibadan, Oyó State - Nigeria. He promotes the cure for illnesses.
Ancient Black goddesses are original legends, revered for their strength, mystique, and often incomparable features. Here are five Black goddesses, whose legacies are awe-inspiring and important. Ala was the Earth mother goddess, also known as “the mother of all things”.
Asase Yaa (Ashanti) This earth goddess prepares to bring forth new life in the spring, and the Ashanti people of Ghana honor her at the festival of Durbar, alongside her husband Nyame, the sky god who brings rain to the fields.
Oshun is commonly called the river orisha, or goddess, in the Yoruba religion and is typically associated with water, purity, fertility, love, and sensuality. She is considered one of the most powerful of all orishas, and, like other gods, she possesses human attributes such as vanity, jealousy, and spite.
Yemonja, also spelled Yemoja or Yemaja, Yoruban deity celebrated as the giver of life and as the metaphysical mother of all orisha (deities) within the Yoruba spiritual pantheon.
Ala (also known as Ani, Ana, Ale, and Ali in varying Igbo dialects) is the female Alusi (deity) of the earth, morality, fertility, and creativity in Odinani. In Odinani, Ala rules over the underworld and holds the deceased ancestors in her womb.
Daphne was a Greek dryad, or tree spirit, and daughter of Peneus, the river god.
Demeter, in Greek religion, daughter of the deities Cronus and Rhea, sister and consort of Zeus (the king of the gods), and goddess of agriculture.
Daphne, in Greek mythology, the personification of the laurel (Greek daphnē), a tree whose leaves, formed into garlands, were particularly associated with Apollo (q.v.).
Flora was in later times identified with the Greek Chloris (See HORAe). In works of art she was represented as a blooming maiden, decked with flowers. The personification of the spring season, and goddess of flowers, the wife of Zephyrus, mother of Carpos ("Fruit"). She was identified by the Romans with Flora.
These three figures are often described as the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone, each of which symbolizes both a separate stage in the female life cycle and a phase of the Moon, and often rules one of the realms of heavens, earth, and underworld.
Gaia Known as The Mother Nature
She is the embodiment of Earth which houses all nature and humans. Gaia promises wise wealth and health for everyone who is kind to nature and to fellow human beings. She always had motherly instincts which made her one of the most cherished goddesses of all time in mythology.
Liza is a deity of the Fon people who live in West Africa. Liza is associated with the Sun, which is regarded by African people as fierce and harsh.
Orunmila is the Yoruba deity of wisdom, knowledge, and omniscience who is also known by several cognomens that further highlight his nature and role in the Yoruba pantheon.