Africa
| Aberewa | See Asase Yaa |
| Abuk | The First Woman, patron goddess of women and gardens, her emblem is the Snake, her mate is Ganag. Dinka, African Sudan |
| Agwe | Mother of the Sea. Affectionate and nurturing of those who would honor her. Benin. |
| Ahiakle | |
| 'Aisha Qandisha | Water goddess, sexual spirit, a jinniya, with beautiful face, heavy breasts, and goat legs |
| Akonadi | Oracle Goddess of Justice and protector of women and children in need. Thieves captured by her oracles dispersed his goods among the poor. Accra Region, Ghanna. |
| Akusaa | Goddess of sunset |
| Ala | Mother Earth, creation goddess, queen of the dead, provider of communal loyalty, lawgiver, guardian of morality. Also Ale, Ane. Ibo tribe, Nigeria |
| Ale | See Ala |
| Alitta | Alitta of Cyprus. See Dido. Carthage |
| Andriam-Vabi-Rano | "Princess of the Waters". Madagascar. Story |
| Ane | See Ala |
| Annalia Tu-Bari | Queen whose offer of marriage helped to quash civil war and unite the kingdoms. Wa-Ghana, West Africa. Story |
| Antaboga | Serpent Goddess. Sudan, Near Java |
| Asase Efua | See Asase Yaa |
| Asase Yaa | "Old Woman Earth", birthed humanity and reclaims children in death. Also Aberewa, Asase Efua. Ashante, W. Africa |
| Atete | Ethiopian Goddess who was assimilated into Saint Mary. |
| Belqis | Name for queen of Sheba. Muslim |
| Chichinguane | Eldest Daughter of a Chief by his favorite wife, and who was tormented by the rest of her family. Mozambique. Story |
| Dea Caelestis | Sky goddess, roman name for. Carthage |
| Dhat-Badan | "She of the wild goats" or "...sanctuary". Also Dhat-Hami. Himyaritic Arabs, Yemen |
| Dhat-Hami | See Dhat-Badan |
| Dido | Possible deified ancestor or founder, honored as name or title for queens, possibly the original was Elissa or Alitta, "the goddess", Originally the city was called Cartha-Elissa "City of the goddess" and it became Carthage. Also Elissa, |
| Eka Obasi | See Isong |
| Elissa | Elissa of Tyre. See Dido. Carthage |
| Fatouma | Heroine who was given in sacrifice to a dragon, but rescued by the hero Hammadi. |
| Gatamdug | Mother goddess, counselor to kings, dream interpreter, assimilated into Gula. Tigris |
| Gleti | Moon Goddess. Mother of all stars which are called Gletivi, the moon's children. Benin (Dahomey). |
| Gonzuole | The First Woman. Gangwi, Liberia. Story |
| Ilankaka | Sun Goddess. Nkundo, Central Zaire. Story |
| Inaruchaba | Daughter of the First Man, she provided animals for her people to use for sustenance. Barundi, Africa. |
| Isong | Tortoise shell goddess, ruled earth's fertility. Also Eka Obasi, Obasi Nsi. Ibibio and Ekoi, West Africa |
| I-toerambola-totsy | "She whose nature is silver". Heroine who won a magic potion from an ogre to resurrect her husband. Madagascar. |
| Jezanna | Moon Goddess. |
| Jinniya | Female spirit. Northern Morroco |
| Kahindo | Daughter of the Fire God. Nyanga, Zaire. |
| Kaikara | Goddess of Harvest. Uganda |
| Kauket | One of the Ogdaod, a frog being. |
| Kimpa Vita | Christian Prophetess Donna Beattrice. Bakongo, Africa. Story |
| Kla | "Soul" the female is the goodness in the world, and the male is the evil. West Africa |
| Ko | Patron Goddess of Hunting. A shining white figure who may appear at the pre-hunt dance to share the secrets of where to find game. Her touch gives the hunter perfect coordination and sharp eyes. Bushman, South Africa |
| Lemkechen | A polestar. Berber |
| Lueji | Moon Goddess. She is embodied in the black stork with white underbelly. This underbelly appears like the moon when it flies. She represents the torch of life. Lunda & Bemba. |
| Mahalbiya | The Spirit that causes tropical ulcers and skin diseases. Whomever she possesses during a ritual can then give cures for the diseases she gives. Hausa, West Africa |
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| Maruwa | Story. Wachanga and Chaga, Kenya |
| Mawu | Great Goddess. Created earth and humans. Uganda, Benin, NW Africa. Story |
| Mbaba Mwana Waresa | Rain Goddess. Zulu. Story |
| Mbombe | Several goddesses of the same name. 1) Mother of all humans and animals, whose eldest daughter is the first human female. 2) The Elephant Girl, Daughter of the Thunder God. Zaire. |
| Mella | Heroine who saved her father form death with the help of the Moon Goddess. Buhera Ba Rowzi, Zimbabwe. Story |
| Monje | A powerful witch shaped like a larva. Yorubaland. Story |
| Motsesa | Princess who was married to the Water God Bulane. Similar story to Psyche. Mozambique |
| Muhongo | A Queen who died young, and whose husband sought to retrieve her from death but could not. Similar to Eurydice. |
| Mujaji | Weather Goddess. She rarely left her home in the Dragon Mountains. To her enemies she gave storms and floods. To her worshippers she gave gentle rains to prosper on. The Rain Queens of the Lovedu people bore her name as a title, for they were her incarnations. High in political prowess and military might, these queens kept both the Zulu and the Boers at bay. Lovedu, South Africa. |
| Mulindwa | |
| Muso Koroni | "Pure Woman with Ancient Soul." Goddess of Earth and Night, of life's passage, of agriculture and wilderness. The Ancestral Mother. she is the color of dark rich African soil, and sometimes manifests as a leopard or panther. Bambara, Mali. |
| Mut | "Mother." Bisexual World Mother, who was sometimes a vulture or a crowned woman. Nubia, Egypt. |
| Muzita | The hard-working farming, female half of the god Mahangu who was originally both male and female, but was split in two when he tried to embrace the creator. Bakongo, Zaire |
| Nambi | Princess of heaven, first woman. Uganda. Story |
| Nambubi | Mother of the Gods. Descendent of the Fish of Lake Victoria. Buganda, Uganda. |
| Nana Buluku | World Creator, Source of all Divinity, Mother of Mawu. Eldest Water Orisha. Melded into St. Anne. Fon,Benin, West Africa. Dahomey, West Africa |
| Nawangwulan | Swan Maiden. Java. Story |
| Nchienge | Water Woman who gave birth to the first people. Her eldest daughter was Labama. Zaire. |
| Ngolimento | The mother of Spirits. Children are with her before being born on earth, and if they behave for her, they will have happy lives on earth. Ewe, Togo. |
| Ngwa Ndundu | The Ritual name of the woman who leads initiation. An elder woman bereaved of a young child, and has been possessed. Kimpasi Mystery Religion, Kongo |
| Notambu | The priestess of Jezanna who ended child sacrifice by pleading mercy upon the last chosen child. Mashona, Zimbabwe. |
| Nsomeka | Heroine who brought riches to her people from visiting Songi. Bantu |
| Nsomeka | Heroine who visited the home of the goddess Songi, and brought from it a magickal ritual that issued forth domestic animals and sturdy villages from her tooth notches. This brought prosperity to her people. Bantu, South Africa. |
| Nsongo | Ancestral Goddess. She lived with her brother-lover Lianja. She died suddenly, but when her pregnant daughter-in-law heard singing from her womb, she knew her child would be Nsongo reincarnated. Bangala, Zaire |
| Nyadeang | Daughter of the Sky Spirit, Moon Goddess. Nuer, Sudan. |
| Nyamitondo | Heroine who married the lightening. From it she learned to grow bananas and to forge iron. Nyanga, Zaire. Story |
| Nyamwanda | Goddess who lived in an iron house and owned a whistle that could bring the dead back to life. Nyanga, Zaire. |
| Nyavirezi | Queen of Rwanda. Prophet of the Hunt. She could transform herself into a lioness to hunt. |
| Nyi Pohaci | Rice Goddess. Daughter of the Serpent Goddess Antaboga. Sudan, near Java. Story. |
| Nyina Mweru | Princess of Uganda. The Daughter of a Celestial King. He returned to the heavens and left her behind on earth. Story |
| Oba | Jealous river goddess. Sometimes assimiliated with St. Catherine. See Also Oshun. Santeria, Niger River, Yoruba. Africa Story |
| Obasi Nsi | See Isong |
| Ochumare | Rainbow goddess. Yoruba, Santeria |
| Oddudua | Mother goddess. Yoruba |
| Olosa | Crocodile goddess. Santeria |
| Oshun | Water goddess, one of four great divinities, rules love, beauty, and flirtation. See Oba. Macumba, Brazil |
| Oya | Warrior storm goddess and patron of justice and memory, rules fire, one of nine great divinities. Macumbra, Brazil, Africa |
| Ra-mitoviaman-dreniny | "The Likeness or Equal of Her Mother." Fairy like beings whose beauty bore this name. The "Green Princesses." The Andrianas of Madagascar. Long green hair, light green skin, and mirror like eyes. |
| Ranoro | One of a race of demi-goddesses called Andrianas. Madagascar. Story. |
| Sabulana | Heroine who saved her people from starvation by discovering how they may regain the favor of the goddess whom they neglected. Machakeni people, Africa |
| Sambatu | Goddess who was the embodiment of the Sabbath. Gallas, Cushite tribe, Abyssinia. |
| Sela | First woman and mother of humans. Luhya people, Kenya |
| Selekana | Heroine who was envied by her peers, and pushed in the River. Lesotho. Story. |
| Songi | Mother goddess. Bantu |
| Sukulung | Princess and Mother of the Hero Sundiata Keita, she carried him in her womb for seven years. Mali |
| Tangalimbibo | A Chief's Daughter who was held prisoner by the river god. Zaire. Story. |
| Tanit | Sky Goddesss of the Punic, she also ruled the moon and stars. Shewas the mother. A winged goddess with a zodiac around her head. Also Tanith, Dea Caelestis, Caelestis. Berbers, Carthaginians. |
| Tanith | See Tanit. |
| Titichane | Ancestral Mother. She took the form of a cat, and the cat was her external soul. Story. |
| Yemaya | See Ymoja |
| Yemanja | See Ymoja |
| Ymoja | Goddess of Women, Mother of river spirits. Also Yemaya, Yemanja |
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