Central America
Aida-Wedo | Rainbow snake loa, companion of Damballah-Wedo who was a serpent. Haiti |
Akewa | Sun goddess and sister of all earthly women. Toba, Argentina |
Alaghom Naom Tzentel | "Mother of the Mind", goddess of thought and intellect. Mayan |
Amara | See Mamapacha |
Anuanaitu | Soul of the ocean, member of a sea monster family. Carib, S. America |
Atabei | Primary being, earth goddess. Also Attabeira, Momona, Guacarapita, Iella, Guimazoa. Pre-Hispanic Antilles |
Attabeira | See Atabei |
Auchimalgem | Moon goddessand seer. Araucanians, Chile |
Bachue | Ancestral goddess, Also Turachoque. Chibcha, Columbia |
Cavillaca | Beautiful virgin goddess who bore the son of the moon god Coniraya by unknowingly eating a fruit containing his sperm. When she learned he was the father, she took the child and became stones. Huarochiri, Peru |
Ceiuci | "Famished old woman", Amazon river, S. America |
Chalchiuhtlicue | "Jade skirted goddess", rules all waters , decked in a jade necklace, turquoise earrings, crown of irredescent blue flowers, witha skirt trimmed with water lillies. Sent the great flood to punish humans wickedness. Aztec |
Chantico | Fire goddess. Ancient Mexican |
Chia | See Huitaca |
Chicomecoatl | Maize goddess. Ancient Mexican, Aztec |
Chiuapipiltin | See Cihuateteo |
Cihuacoatl | Goddess of life's trials, invented productive labor, prophesier of disasters. Mexican |
Cihuateteo | Roving spirits of women who died in childbirth. Also Chiuapipiltin |
Cipactli | Goddess in form of monstrous alligator who swam through the waters of primordial chaos containing all potential life, but couldn't give until she offered her body. Also Coatlicue, Coyolxauhqui, Tlaltecuhtli, Tonantzin. Nahua, Ancient Mexico |
Citlalinicue | See Omecihuatl |
Coatlicue | "Serpent-skirted goddess", five-fold earth goddess, she gave virgin birth to Quetzalcoatl, a savior-god. She is sometimes a moon divinity, a creator goddess being pre-eminent and pre-existent, mother of all living things and death. Also Tlaltecuhtli, Cipactli, Tonantzin, Coyolxauhqui. Ancient Mexico |
Coatrischie | Tempest goddess. Antilles |
Cocomama | Goddess of healing and happiness, resident divinity of cocoa plant. Andes |
Cori Ocllo | One of the Four Foremothers of the Incas. See Mama Ocllo |
Coyolxauhqui | "Golden bells", moon goddess, daughter of Coatlicue, who tried to warn her mother of her siblings' intent to kill Coatlicue. See Cipactli. Aztec |
Dabaiba | Great Goddess, "Mother of Creation". Panama |
Evaki | Goddess of Darkness who kept the pot with lid that when she put the lid on, it shut out the sun, and taking it off let in daylight. Amazon |
Ezili-Freda-Dahomey | Sensuality loa, extremely generous to her worshippers and expects the same. Haitian voodoo |
Guabancex | Wind and water goddess. Atilless |
Guacarapita | See Atabei |
Guatava | Messener goddess. Antilles |
Guimazoa | See Atabei |
Huitaca | Owl woman, goddess of moon, intoxication, joy, and rival to, or wife of, Preacher Bochia, undoing his industrious work. Also Chia. Chibcha, Columbia |
Huixtocihuatl | Goddess of salt for its invention, patron to saltmakers, sister to the rain gods. Aztec |
Iella | See Atabei |
Ilamatecuhtli | See Tonan |
India Rosa | Great goddess, invemtor of women's culture, pottery, and basket weaving; mother of the sun, moon, snake, and jaguar; a form of Kuma. Yaruros, Venezuela |
Ipa Huaco | One of the Four Foremothers of the Incas. See Mama Ocllo |
Itiba Tahuvava | Great ancestor, birthing four sons by Caesarian who created the sea. Taino, Pre-Hispanic Cuba and Caribbean |
Ituana | "Mother scorpion", Great Goddess who lives at the end of the Milky Way ruling the afterlife, reincarnating souls, and nursing earth's children. Amazon River |
Itzpapalotl | Goddess of the soul, her symbol is a black obsidian butterfly, a beautiful goddess tatooed with the symbols of death on her face, and her material aspect are jaguar claws. Nahua, Mexico |
Ix Chebel Yax | Goddess who taught women weaving, dyeing, spinning, and daughter of the moon. Maya of the Yucatan, Guatemala, Honduras |
Ix Chel | Snake-Godess of water, moon, childbirth, and weaving, who hides from her jealous ex-lover the sun. Maya, Yucatan |
Ixtab | Goddess who cares for the souls of suicides |
Iztaccihuatl | Volcano goddess. Central Mexico |
Korobona | Mother of the half-serpent child that became the first Carib warrior. Warrau, S. America |
Korobonako | Sister of Korobona. Warrau, S. America |
Kualchink | Tree goddess. Tierra del Fuego |
Kururumany | Creator goddess. Arawak, Antilles |
Mama Allpa | Harvest mother goddess. Peru |
Mama Cocha | "Mother Sea", the ocean and whale goddess, source of health and food. Inca, Peru, Pacific Coast of S. America |
Mama Coya | One of the Six Foremothers of the Incas, or One of the Four Foremothers. See Mama Ocllo |
Mama Huaco | One of the Six Foremothers of the Incas. See Mama Ocllo |
Mama Ocllo | One of the Six Foremothers of the Incas, Mama Coya, Mama Ocllo Huaca, Mama Huaco, Mama Rahua; or One of the Four Foremothers, Cori Ocllo, Ipa Huaco, Mama Coya, and Topa Huaca. Inca |
Mama Ocllo Huaca | One of the Six Foremothers of the Incas. See Mama Ocllo |
Mama Quilla | Moon goddess, a silver disk with a woman's face, Ancient Peru |
Mama Rahua | One of the Six Foremothers of the Incas. See Mama Ocllo |
Maman Brigitte | Loa of death, owns cemeteries, especially ones whose first interred was a woman. Her children are spirits that outline, dig, and mark graves. |
Mamapacha | Dragon goddess, ruling agriculture, lived beneath mountains, Also Amara, Pachamama. Inca |
Mamazara | See Zaramama |
Marinette | Night goddess, loa sorceress, "she of dry arms", screech-owl demon |
Masaya | Volcano and earthquake goddess, source of oracles, having sagging breasts, black skin and thinning hair. Nicaragua |
Mayahuel | "Strangling one", Great goddess of the earth, night sky, hallucinations, and drunkenness, 400-breasted to nurse the stars, lived in the heavens guarded by Tzitzimitl. Nahua, Central Mexico, Ancient Mexican |
Metzli | Moon goddess. Aztec |
Mictecacihuatl | Goddess of the Nine Rivers of the afterlife that evil souls are condemned to. Pre-Columbian Mexico |
Momona | See Atabei |
Mu Olokukurtilisop | Great pre-existent creation goddess. Cuna, Isthmus of Panama |
Obatalla | Creator goddess, one of four including Oya, Oshun, and Yemanja. Macumba, Brazil |
Omecihuatl | "Star-skirted goddess", Great Goddess who was one half of the androgynous divinity Ometeotl. Also Citlalinicue |
Oshun | Water goddess of love, beauty and flirtation, wears jewels, holds a mirror, and a fan, Creator goddess, one of four. See Obatalla. Macumba, Brazil. "Our Lady of La Cadrid", patron goddess. Santeria, Cuba. |
Oya | Warrior storm goddess of fire, Creator goddess, one of four. See Obatalla. Macumba, Brazil. 9-headed and holding a flame, patron pf justice and memory. Santeria, Cuba |
Pachamama | See Mamapacha |
Quetzapetlatl | Incestuous twin sister of the Quetzacoatl, hero. Mexico |
Sibilaneuman | Goddess of songs, "Mother of songs and dances, of grains, of all things". Cagaba, Columbia. |
Sicasica | Mountain goddess, seduces young men to death in freezing glaciers. Aymara, Bolivia |
Teczistecatl | Moon goddess. Ancient Mexico |
Teteoinnan | See Toci |
Teicu | See Tlazolteotl |
Tiacapan | See Tlazolteotl |
Tlaco | See Tlazolteotl |
Tlaltecuhtli | Primordial goddess who was magnificently beautiful and had teeth and eyes at every joint to protect herself, but not from the two gods who tore her in two in order to birth life. See Coatlicue, Cipactli |
Tlazolteotl | "Dirty lady", "Earth's heart", Goddess of Fourfold Moon, witch goddess of sexuality, license, gambling, temptation, black magic, and purifier of people. Her four fold aspects were Tiacapan, Teicu, Tlaco, and Xocutxin. Aztec |
Toci | Great goddess, "Our grandmother" Nature's healing powers, wears a skirt of shells and carries the sun-disk on her shield. Aztec |
Tonan | Mother goddess. See Coatlice, Ilamatecuhtli, Tonantzin. Aztec |
Tonantzin | See Coatlicue, Ilamatecuhtli, Tonan |
Topa Huaca | One of the Four Foremothers of the Incas. See Mama Ocllo |
Turachoque | See Bachue |
Tzitzimitl | Stern goddess who guarded Mayahuel, the maiden goddess |
Xochiquetzal | Goddess of flowers, sexual license, "flower of the rich plume", "flower-feather", "blue-skirted lady". Aztec |
Xocutxin | See Tlazolteotl |
Yemanja | Ocean godess of the crescent moon, Creator goddess, one of four, See Obatalla. Macumba, Brazil |
Yemaya | Mother of 14 divinities, or orishas. Also Yemaya Achabba, Yemaja Ataramagwa, Yemaya Oqqutte, Yemaya Olokun. Santeria, Cuba. |
Yemaya Achabba | See Yemaya |
Yemaja Ataramagwa | Wealthy queen of the sea. See Yemaya |
Yemaya Olokun | Only seen in dreams. See Yemaya |
Yemaya Oqqutte | Violent goddess. See Yemaya |
Yohuatlicetl | Moon goddess. Ancient Mexico |
Zaramama | "Grain mother". Also Mamazara |
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