Goddess | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Goddess


00:01:18 1 Etymology
00:01:50 2 Earth or Mother Goddesses
00:03:30 3 Historical polytheism
00:03:40 3.1 Ancient Near East
00:03:48 3.1.1 Mesopotamia
00:04:09 3.1.2 Ancient Africa (Egypt)
00:04:33 3.1.3 Canaan
00:04:48 3.1.4 Anatolia
00:05:28 3.1.5 Pre-Islamic Arabia
00:06:45 3.2 Indo-European traditions
00:07:01 3.2.1 Indian
00:07:30 3.2.2 Iranian
00:08:24 3.2.3 Greco-Roman
00:09:47 3.2.4 Celtic
00:10:56 3.2.5 Germanic
00:12:30 3.3 Pre-Columbian America
00:12:39 3.3.1 Aztec
00:13:24 3.3.2 Other
00:13:53 4 Folk religion and animism
00:14:03 4.1 African religions
00:15:04 4.2 Chinese folk religion
00:15:38 4.3 Shintoism
00:15:57 5 Hinduism
00:18:33 6 Abrahamic religions
00:18:43 6.1 Judaism
00:20:42 6.2 Christianity
00:23:05 7 Feminism
00:23:14 7.1 Goddess movement
00:24:37 7.2 Sacred feminine
00:25:04 8 Metaphorical use
00:26:01 9 Neopaganism
00:26:27 9.1 Wicca
00:28:43 10 See also



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A goddess is a female deity. Goddesses have been linked with virtues such as beauty, love, motherhood and fertility (Mother-goddess cult in prehistoric times).  They have also been associated with ideas such as  war, creation, and death.
In some faiths, a sacred female figure holds a central place in religious prayer and worship. For example, Shaktism, the worship of the female force that animates the world, is one of the three major sects of Hinduism. In Tibetan Buddhism, the highest advancement any person can achieve is to become like the great female Buddhas (e.g. Arya Tara), who are depicted as supreme protectors, fearless and filled with compassion for all beings.
The primacy of a monotheistic or near-monotheistic "Great Goddess" is advocated by some modern matriarchists as a female version of, preceding, or analogue to, the Abrahamic God associated with the historical rise of monotheism in the Mediterranean Axis Age.
Polytheist religions, including Polytheistic reconstructionists, honour multiple goddesses and gods, and usually view them as discrete, separate beings. These deities may be part of a pantheon, or different regions may have tutelary deities. The reconstructionists, like their ancient forebears, honour the deities particular to their country of origin.