Where abstract qualities are associated with goddesses, the goddess might appear as the embodiment of the quality, or she may be envisioned ...

Those who live by fishing often honor a goddess who controls the sea life, such as the important Eskimo goddess Sedna (see Circumpolar), Cel...

Like animals, reptiles and birds appear frequently as images of feminine divinity.  While these creatures might seem opposites, many early s...

   Both wild and domesticated animals appear as goddess images.  In at least one case, we find a wild and a domesticated version of the same...

  In some areas, vegetation is connected with a male god.  In Southeast Europe, for in stance, the mountain goddess Cybele took the tree god...

The mobile element of fire is more typically depicted as feminine than masculine, although a few fire gods appear in world mythology.  These...

  After earth, the symbol most commonly associated with goddesses is water, both as the fresh water of rivers and streams, and as the oceans...

Goddesses of air are uncommon, perhaps because air is not visible, audible, or tangible until it forms itself into wind and thus is difficul...

  The most common symbol for goddesses is the earth, although it can be argued that the symbolism goes the other way around: that goddesses ...

The concept of time appears as a goddess in several cultures.  In Hindu India, Nidra is the sleep of time, whose passage is beyond human con...

Light has a physical source in the sun, which can readily be envisioned as a divinity.  But darkness, the absence of light, has no similarly...