In Homer's Iliad,
Athena, Greek Goddess of War
One of the most famous ancient literary depictions of the Greek goddess Athena can be found in The Iliad by Homer.
Aphrodite
Aphrodite is various times titled the strongest of the female Greek goddesses. Aphrodite is the Greek Female Goddess of love, lust, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. She is Uranus and Dione's daughter, making her a Titan.
Eshara (Chaldean): Goddess of war and fields. Nacon (Mayan): Colossal god of war. Laran (Etruscan): God of war depicted naked wearing a helmet and holding a spear. Hysminai (Greek): Female spirits personifying battle, combat and war.
The three Celtic war goddesses were Macha, Badb, and Morrigu (sometimes named Nemain). Together, they formed the tri-part goddess Morrigan.
Sekhmet, also spelled Sakhmet, in Egyptian religion, a goddess of war and the destroyer of the enemies of the sun god Re. Sekhmet was associated both with disease and with healing and medicine.
This gallery contains images of the Greek goddess Athena, commonly referred to as the warrior goddess. Here you will see how she was depicted between the years 575 BC - 360 BC. As a strong, beautiful, and powerful goddess Athena was depicted often watching over the warriors of Greece.
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Through flashbacks in the comic series (2010–11) written by Marv Wolfman, Kratos meets his wife Lysandra and they have a daughter named Calliope.
Bellona, original name Duellona, in Roman religion, goddess of war, identified with the Greek Enyo. Sometimes known as the sister or wife of Mars, she has also been identified with his female cult partner Nerio.
Coming in at number #1 above all other evil gods is the Mesopotamian goddess-demoness Lamashtu, the most terrible of all the female demons. She preyed on women during childbirth, kidnapped their newborns while they were breastfeeding, and then slew the babies to eat their flesh.
Kali is the Hindu goddess of death, time, and destruction. She is also a mother-figure, and a profound representation of love. Early goddesses, Kali included, were a reflection of nature, of which they embody both the destructive power and the ability to create.
In Greek mythology, Soteria (Greek: Σωτηρία) was the goddess or spirit (daimon) of safety and salvation, deliverance, and preservation from harm (not to be mistaken for Eleos). Soteria was also an epithet of the goddesses Persephone and Hecate, meaning deliverance and safety.
As well-remembered as the Souliotisses were, two individual women of the Greek revolution, Laskarina Bouboulina (1771–1825) and Manto Mavrogenous (1796–1848), celebrated as naval commanders, have been lionized above all others in Greek national historical and popular imagination.
Athena is considered to be the goddess of war and strategy, but also paradoxically, of peace and wisdom. She is beautiful, but stern. She calculates her every move before taking any decision and is revered for her wisdom and intelligence.
So it was with the world's first goddess of love and war, Ishtar, and her lover Tammuz. In ancient Mesopotamia - roughly corresponding to modern Iraq, parts of Iran, Syria, Kuwait and Turkey - love was a powerful force, capable of upending earthly order and producing sharp changes in status.
Ishtar, (Akkadian), Sumerian Inanna, in Mesopotamian religion, goddess of war and sexual love.
In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Selene (/sɪˈliːniː/; Greek: Σελήνη pronounced [selɛ̌ːnɛː], meaning "Moon") is the goddess and personification of the Moon. Also known as Mene, she is traditionally the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and sister of the sun god Helios and the dawn goddess Eos.
1. Aphrodite. Aphrodite or referred to as the Goddess of Love from Greek Mythology appears in the God of War 3. She is said to be a very beautiful lady and lived with her beautiful handmaidens.
Hel, in Norse mythology, originally the name of the world of the dead; it later came to mean the goddess of death. Hel was one of the children of the trickster god Loki, and her kingdom was said to lie downward and northward.
Eris (/ˈɪərɪs, ˈɛrɪs/; Greek: Ἔρις Éris, "Strife") is the Greek goddess of strife and discord. Her Roman equivalent is Discordia, which means the same.
Ares was the son of Zeus and HERA. He himself was not married, but he had many liaisons, most famously with APHRODITE, goddess of love and wife of the crippled smith-god HEPHAESTUS, as recounted by the bard Demodocus in Homer's Odyssey (8.266–366).
The Amazons (in Greek, Ἀμαζόνες) were a mythical and ancient nation of female warriors. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatia. The histories and legends in Greek mythology may be inspired by warrior women among the Sarmatians.
Athena. This well-known Greek goddess represents many things including wisdom, courage, skill, and the arts in general. In classical art, she's depicted wearing the full armor of a warrior.
Durga is the righteous, fearless, protective mother of the universe. The all-powerful embodiment of shakti - the creative feminine energy who brought the universe into being - Durga wages a war against the corruption of the human spirit.