Goddesses of War

inspiration, patroness of warfare

Sekhmet, Lower Egypt – Sun, retribution and cure, war and judgment;

Anat, Phoenicia – War and love, Queen of Heaven;

Cihuateteo, Aztec – childbirth as battle;

“Dark Girl”, China – war and love;

Eshara, Chaldean – war and productive fields;

Korrawi, Tamil – War, victory and the jungle;

Morrigan, Ireland – Great Queen and leader in war and peace;

Nanaja, Sumer and Middle East – war and sex;

Oya, Yoruba – war and hurricanes, change and death;

Trebaruna, Lusitania – War and house.

List of War gods:

Lugh, Celtic – war, sun and fertility;

Ictinike, Iowa – war, sun and treachery;

Mars, Rome – war and fertility;

Hadur, Hungary – war, originally god of fire, son of Golden Father and Dawn Mother;

Karttikeya, Hindu – war, fire and storms;

Camaxtli, Aztec – war, hunting, fate and fire;

Si, Peruvian (Mochica) – Moon god of war and the elements (storms);

Aray (or Ara – “the beautiful one”), Armenian – war, died and resurrected;

Tyr, Germanic (or Norse) – war and justice;

Tu Matauenga, Polynesian – devoured his children.

Links:

http://www.pantheon.org/cgi-bin/search.pl?nocpp=1&Realm=mythica&fa=0&Terms=war+gods – Gods and Goddesses of war

http://matrifocus.com/SAM03/spotlight.htm – Canaanite Anat

http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060313-050457-4001r – Egyptian Sekhmet.

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