Cauldron on the Hearth:

Moon Goddesses

Andraste (Celtic): Moon Goddess worshipped by Queen Boadicea; associated with the hare, divination.

Aphrodite (Greece): "Foam-born"; Moon Goddess; "She Who Binds Hearts Together"; "She who came from the sea"; Goddess of the Western Corner. She was portrayed as beautiful with blue eyes and light hair. She was once called Marianna meaning "the Ocean". She was called virginal, meaning the she was a woman unto herself. Frankincense and myrrh were burned in Her temples.
The love of women was sacred to her. Her sacred animals were the heron, lovebird, swan, and dove.

Ariadne (Crete): High Fruitful Mother; another form of the Moon Goddess Britomartis. Robert Graves believed she was the consort of Dionysus. Images of her with snakes in her hands represent her oracle priestesses.

Arianrhood (Wales): "Silver Wheel"; Goddess of reincarnation; Full Moon Goddess. She was keeper of the Silver Wheel of Stars, symbolizing time and karma. The wheel is also called the Oar Wheel, a ship which carried dead warriors to the Moon-land. She is associated with beauty and reincarnation. Arianrhod is an aspect of Cerridwen, and is keeper of Caer Arianrhod, the "spiral castle" of royal purgatory. She is mother of Llew Llaw Gyffes. Lammas commemorates the death of this Dionysus/Hercules. It is observed with mourning, and a feast for dead kinsfolk. It is connected with the Tailltean Games of Ireland, full of chariot races and swordplay. Tailltean marriages, in honor of Llew, lasted "a year and a day." Sometimes affiliated with the letter T, tinne, holly, Tuesday.

Artemis/Diana: Diana is the Roman Goddess of the wild and lady of beasts. She is also Goddess of mountains, woods, women, and childbirth. Her title "Queen of Heaven" was the Roman name for the Triple Goddess. He aspect is as Lunar Maiden, along with being Mother of Creatures and the Huntress or Destroyer. Diana is known for her liking for an exclusive female society. She was the child of sky-god Zeus and of Latona, who represents the Night. She is the twin of Apollo.
Artemis is usually associated with the bear. She is Moon Goddess of Childbirth. Maiden Goddess of the Hunt. Associated with the moon in October, the season of the Bacchanal revels, in which intoxicated celebrants rushed about on the mountains, waving the silver fir-branches, sacred to Artemis, spirally wreathed with ivy, in honor of Dionysus. She is sometimes affiliated with the letter G, gort, the flowering ivy; it is a yellow berried ivy, which grows in a spiral and symbolizes resurrection.

Athena (Greece): Bright-Eyed; Maiden Goddess; Mother Goddess of Athens. Sometimes referred to as Pallas Athena in memory of a close friend. Her sacred animal was the owl; associated with olive, oak, and intertwined snakes. She wore a helmet and breastplate and carried a shield and spear.
She is goddess of freedom and women's rights; patroness of craftsmen, especially smiths, potters, weavers, and spinners. She rules over writing, music, the sciences, wisdom, crafts and arts, renewal, justice, prudence, wise counsel, peace, and strategy.
She is Androgynous Goddess of Wisdom. She can be traced to Anu/Anna, her name being "ath-enna." Her messenger, the owl, is most vocal on moonlit nights in November, and then remains silent until February. It is this habit, along with their silent flight, the carrion-smell of their nests, and the shining of their eyes in the dark, which makes owls messengers of The Goddess, from whom, as the supreme source of prophecy, they derive their reputation for wisdom. Sometimes affiliated with the letter NG, ngetal, the reed, the symbol of royalty. NG is the month when the wind "whistles dismally through the reed beds of the rivers." The reed is ready to cut in November.

Auchimalgen (Chile): Moon Goddess of the Araucanian Indians; protects again disasters and evil spirits through the fear she engenders. A red Moon was sacred to her, and signified the death of an important person.

Ba'alat (Phoenicia): Lady of Byblos; she wore either a cobra headdress or a disk between two horns. Similar to Egyptian Goddess Hathor.

Bast (Egypt): Cat-headed Goddess; mother of all cats. She was identified with Artemis, who was also called the mother of cats. Cats were Egypt's sacred animal, but black cats in particular were sacred to Bast. Egyptian physicians would use the black cat symbol for healing. Cats were kept in her temple and embalmed when they died. Bast carried a sistrum in her right hand and a basket in her left. She is portrayed draped in green. She is goddess of fire, the Moon; associated with childbirth, fertility, joy, music, dance, protection against disease and evil spirits, warmth, all animals, intuition, and healing.

Bendis (Greece): Goddess of the Moon and fertility.

Blodeuwedd (Wales): The Ninefold Goddess of the Western Isles of Paradise; associated with death and reincarnation. Like Athena, owls were sacred to her. Robert Graves writes that Blodeuwedd had nine powers, a multiplication of the Triple Goddess. She is associated with lunar mysteries.

Brigit/Bride/Brighid (Ireland, Wales,): "Power"; "Renown"; she is the Fiery Arrow of Power (Breo-saighead). Called the poetess. Often called the Triple Brigits ; associated with Imbolc. Her female priesthood at Kildare numbered nineteen, the number of the Moon's cycle. She is goddess of the hearth; associated with arts and crafts; physicians, agriculture, inspiration, learning, poetry, divination, smithcraft, animal husbandry. She is Triple Goddess of poetry, healing, smithcraft. The Virgin as Muse; Bride of the White Hills. Her symbol is the white swan. She is connected to Anu as Brigid is considered to be the daughter of The Dagda, usurper of Anu's place as the deity of the Tuatha de Danaan, one of the ancient peoples of Northern Europe. Sometimes affiliated with the letter L, luis, rowan, Mountain Ash. Rowan was considered sacred to Brigid, and was used by the Druids for divination and oracular use. Her festival of Candlemas on Feb. 2 was the quickening of the year, Feile Brighde, the first of the great Irish fire feasts.

Caillech Bheare (Scotland): the Goddess in her 'destroyer aspect;' called the "Veiled One."

Ceres (Rome): a moon/grain Goddess; identified with the Greek Demeter; mother of Prosperina.

Cerridwen (Wales): known as the dark moon Goddess and Goddess of Nature; also grain Goddess. She is associated with fertility, regeneration, inspiration, magick, enchantment, divination, astrology, herbs, science, poetry, and knowledge. She is White Goddess of Life-in-Death and Death-in-Life; White Lady of Death and Inspiration. She is known as Barley Goddess. Combination of wen (white) and crdd (gain, inspired). Owner of the cauldron of inspiration. Many animal forms: white cat, mare, sow, wolf. Can be traced to Albina, "The White Goddess," the eldest of the Danaids, of whom Britain derives its earliest name, Albion. She is traced further back to have been the Danaan Barley Goddess of Argos, and thus to Anu. She is sometimes affiliated with the letter B, beth, the birch tree, which dispels evil spirits. It is the first tree to put out new leaves in spring.

Ch'ang-O/Heng-O (China): Chinese goddess of the moon; Her palace is called the Great Cold on the Moon. At the Full Moon of the Autumn Equinox, there was a females-only celebration where women offered the goddess crescent Moon cakes (called "Yeu-ping") and statues of little hares.

Changing Woman (Native American, Apache): Native American moon goddess, the "Mother of All." She presides over dreamwork, shape-shifting, insight, wisdom, birth, and joy; associated with flowers and rainbows.

Circe (Greece): a dark moon goddess, known as "She-Falcon" and Fate-Spinner. Called the deathbird (kirkos or falcon). As the circle (cirque) she was the fate-spinner, weaver of destiny. Ancient Greek writers described her as Circe of the Braided Tresses since she was reputed to manipulate the forces of creation and destruction by knots and braids in her hair. The isle of Aeaea was a funerary shrine to her; it is thought that the name comes from the grief wail; associated with physical love, enchantment, vengeance, divinatory dreams, dar magic and sorcery.

Coyolxauhqui (Aztec): moon goddess sometimes referred to as "Golden Bells." She is depicted with golden bells on her cheeks. The real moon was actually called Mextli. In Teotihuacan, north of the present Mexico City, there is an ancient Aztec city with a Pyramid of the Moon. She is associated with harvests and children; goddess of the night, and illness.

Cybele (Greece): goddess of the Earth and caverns; revered as Great Mother. Her symbol is the crescent moon. She is associated with the natural world and its formation, wild beasts, and revenge. She was Lion and Bee Goddess of Phrygia. She is the queen bee about whom male drones swarm in midsummer. She is sometimes affiliated with the letter U, ura, heather, the midsummer tree, red and passionate. It is associated with mountains and bees, and sacred to the love aspect of The Goddess. White heather is the opposite, and protects against acts of passion.

Danu (Ireland): most likely the same as Anu, ancestress of the Tuatha De Danann; thought to be the Mother of the gods. She is patroness of rivers, waters, wells, prosperity, and wisdom.

Demeter (Greece): a moon and grain Goddess. Mother of Kore, who became Persephone after her return from the Underworld. The Eleusinian Mysteries centered around her spiritual teachings. She is Mother Goddess of Barley and the Harvest. Demeter was the Greek name for Cerridwen, thus she share the same animal connections, such as the Mare Goddess, Epona, a Sow Goddess. She was known as Ceres to the Romans. Her earlier name, Danae, suggests a connection to Anu. She is sometimes affiliated with the letter M, muin, the vine; also with the letter E, eadha, the aspen, the shield-makers tree, and the tree of coffins.

Dictynna (Crete): A virgin forest and moon goddess; sometimes called Britomartis.

Diiwica (Georgia, Armenia): Goddess of the Hunt who ruled over forests, horses, wild animals, victory. Similar to the Roman Diana.

Dione/Nemorensis/Nemetona (Goddess of the Moon-Grove) (Greece, Rome): originally the oracle Goddess of Dodona before the shrine was taken over by Zeus. In Italy, the woodland lake of Nemi had a woodland sanctuary dedicated to Dione/Diana. The reigning priest was called King of the Wood and held his post by right of combat.

Han Lu (China): A Moon and harvest Goddess.

Hathor/Athyr/Het-Hert/ (House of Womb Above)/Hat-Hor (House or Womb of Horus) (Egypt): "The golden"; "Queen of the West" (or the Dead); "the Lady of the Sycamore"; "House of the Face"; mother of all Gods and Goddesses; Queen of Heaven; Moon Goddess; similar to Aphrodite. Considered self-produced. She carried the Sacred Eye of Ra. The mirror and sistrum were sacred to her. Her appearance could be as a cow-headed Goddess or a human-headed woman with horns, cow's ears, and heavy tresses. She liked to embody herself in the sistrum to drive away evil spirits; another of her instruments was the tambourine. She cared for the dead, carrying them to the afterworld. She was the protectress of women, Goddess of Joy, flowers, the Moon, tombs, motherhood, beauty, marriage, singers and dancers, artists, wine, happiness, protection, astrology, prosperity, and strength.

Hecate (Greece, Thrace, Rome): "Most lovely one"; "the Distant one"; Silver-Footed Queen of the Night; Goddess of the Moon, the dark hours and the Underworld; the Crone; Queen of the world of spirits; Goddess of Witchcraft; snake Goddess; Great Mother; Great Goddess of Nature; Lady of the Wild Hunt. A Goddess of the Amazons, her chariot was pulled by dragons. It was said she wore a shimmering headdress and was second to none in powers of sorcery.
She could shape-shift to change ages or forms; she could rejuvenate or kill. She was the third Moon aspect of the Hag (Dark Moon) or the Crone (revered as the Carrier of Wisdom). One of her symbols was the cauldron. A three-faced image represented her triple aspects; she was then called Triformis. As Hecate Trevia, Hecate of the Three Ways, her images stood at three-way crossroads where offerings of dogs, honey, and black ewe lambs were left on Full Moon nights. Divination and communication with the dead was performed in these places.
The oldest Greek form of the Triple Goddess, her festivals were held at night by torchlight. She was known as a huntress goddess who knew her way in the realm of spirits; all the secret powers of Nature were at her command; she was thought to have control over birth, life, and death.
She was patroness of priestesses. She is associated with the waning moon, dark magick, prophecy, charms and spells, vengeance, averting evil, revealing karmic events, enchantments, riches, victory, wisdom, transformation, reincarnation, dogs, purification, endings, crossroads, renewal, and regeneration.
She isNew Moon Goddess of Night and Death. The Nightmare. Queen of Elfin or Faerie. She contains the New Moon qualities of all Great Goddesses, and is thus The Black Screaming Hag. Sometimes affiliated with the letter I, idho, the yew tree, the tree of witches.
New Moon Goddesses are sometimes frightening but they represent the feminine principle that "destroys lies." The Indian Goddess Kali is known for this. These goddesses represent the Plutonian energies in which, when the Goddess is through with you, there may be nothing left but ashes, but the phoenix of rebirth and new growth can now emerge unfettered by untruth and old, outgrown ideas.

Hel (Norse): Ruler of Nilfheim; Nether, or Dark Moon. Goddess who ruled over the land of the dead; her realm was not necessarily a place of punishment-- there were separate areas for good souls who died peacefully and those who were evil.

Hera (Greece): The Greek counterpart to the Roman Goddess Juno. She was consort of Zeus; daughter of Cronus and Rhea.

Hina (Hawaii): Moon Goddess with the dual aspects of life giver, life destroyer.

Holda/Hulda (Benign)/Bertha/Berchta (White Lady) (German, Norse): North Germanic name for Hel; "White Lady"; "Black Earth Mother"; the Goddess of Winter; she is the crone aspect of the moon. Among the North Germanic tribes, it was believed she rode with Odhinn on the Wild Hunt. Tenth century sources indicate that women rode with her in wild night rides. The plant sacred to her is holly. She is known as a Goddess of fate; associated with karma, the arts, revenge.

Huitaca (Columbia, South America): A Moon Goddess who weaves dreams, and sometimes instructive ones.

Idunn/Iduna (Norse): Goddess of eternal youth who kept the golden apples, a symbol of the Moon. She is associated with childbirth, Spring, vision and enlightenment.

Ishtar/Inanna/Astarte/Esther (Mesopotamia, etc.): the lady of sorrows and battles; Queen of Heaven; Goddess of the Moon and evening; Shining One; Ruler of the Heavens; Source of the Oracles of Prophecy; Lady of Battles and Victory; Lady of Vision; Possessor of the Tablets of Life's Records. As Sharrat Shame (Queen of Heaven), she was offered sacrificial cakes.
As a warrior goddess, she rode in a chariot drawn by seven lions. Other images show her seated on her lion throne with horns, bow and arrows, a serpent scepter, holding a sword, or with dragons by her sides. She wore a rainbow necklace similar to the Norse Goddess Freyja. During the night of the Full Moon there would be joyous celebrations held in her various temples.
She is Goddess of the positive and negative sides of all she ruled; patroness of priestesses; guardian of the law, and teacher. She rules over love, fertility, marriage, lions, the dying and begetting power of the world, purification, initiation, and overcoming obstacles.

Isis (Egypt): Supreme Egyptian Goddess; Moon Goddess; Great Mother and Goddess; Giver of Life. Isis translates literally as "moisture." As Tait, Isis was known as the weaver and knotter of the threads of life. With Osiris, Isis (the mother), and Horus (the divine child) made up a Holy Trinity. Her sacred animal was the cow. along Her sistrum, a rattle, was carved with a cat image that represented the Moon. Sometimes she was portrayed with wings.
She was regarded as a powerful magician. She is associated with marriage and the home, the Moon, motherhood, fertility, childbirth, purification, reincarnation, womanhood, healing, divination, agriculture, the arts, and protection. She was patroness of priestesses.

Ixchel (Maya): "The Rainbow." The Mayan Moon was represented by a U-shaped (uterine) symbol. Goddess of childbirth, fertility, lunar cycles, weaving of the fabric of life, healing, medicine, the Moon, pregnancy, floods, weaving, and domestic arts. She is similar to Spider Woman. Young Mayan women would travel to her temple on the sacred Isle of Women as part of the rites of passage.

Juno (Rome): Moon Goddess; Queen of Heaven; Earth Goddess; She who warns; protectress of women. As Juno Lucetia and Juno Lucina, she was the celestial light. She sometimes held a scepter, thunderbolt, or spear and shield. She is the protectress of marriage, the home, and childbirth. She is associated with light, fertility, the Moon, renewal, purification, death.

Kali/Kali Ma (India): "The Black Mother"; Dark Goddess; the Terrible; Goddess of Death; Great Goddess; the Crone; Mother of Karma. She is patroness of Witches and is seen as having a dual personality exhibiting traits of gentleness and love, revenge and terrible death. She rules over every form of death and also governs every form of life. She is manifested as a triple goddess: the three divisions of the year; three phases of the Moon; three sections of the cosmos; three stages of life; three types of priestesses at her shrines. She is thought to command the weather by braiding or releasing her hair. It is said that her karmic wheel devours time itself. She is pictured with black skin and a horrible face smeared with blood, and has four arms. She wears a necklace of skulls and is draped with snakes. She has a third eye; her four hands hold weapons and heads. Violence against women is forbidden by her. She is associated with regeneration, revenge and fear, dark magick, reincarnation, intuition, and dreams.

Kore (Greece, Rome): Persephone before she descended into the Underworld; daughter of Demeter. A crescent new moon goddess.

Kuan Yin (China): Goddess of compassion, children, childbirth, fertility and the Moon.

Lakshmi (India): Goddess of love and beauty; legend says she gave Indra the drink of soma (wise blood) from her own body. She was said to have been born from the churning of the milk ocean. She is associated with good fortune, prosperity, success, love, and feminine beauty.

Leucippe (Greece): The night mare. White horses were sacred to her.

Lilith/Lilithu (Hebrew, Babylonia, Sumeria): Moon Goddess; patroness of Witches; female principle of the universe. Her sacred bird is the owl. Her name may have come from the Sumerio-Babylonian Goddess Belit-ili or Belili. A tablet from Ur, about 2,000 BCE, mentions the name Lillake. Protectress of all pregnant women, mothers, and children. She is associated with wisdom, regeneration, feminine allure, the dangerous seductive qualities of the Moon.

Luna (Rome): The second aspect of the Moon; the Full Moon as lover and bride; giver of visions. Daughter of Hyperion and sister of the Sun. She is associated with enchantments, love, and spells.

Maia (Greece): Full Moon Goddess connected with May and the Hare Moon.

Mama Quilla (Inca): "Mother Moon"; Moon Goddess; Mother of the Incas; her image was a silver disk with a human face. Adjoining the Temple of the Sun in Cuzco, Peru, was a small chapel of the Moon. She had no widespread worship. She is associated with married women, the calendar, and religious festivals.

Manat (Arabia): Dark Moon Goddess; "Time"; "Fate"; Karma. The Arabic word "mana" which comes from this name is used in the sense of luck. On the road between Mecca and Medina was a large uncut black stone which was worshipped as her image.

Mari/Mariham/Meri/Marratu (Syria, Caldea, Persia): The name of the Great Goddess; she wore a blue robe and pearl necklace, both symbols of the sea. She is associated with fertility, childbirth, the Moon, and the sea.
The Yule Feast is a Saturnalia for the pastoral sacred king Hercules (Jesus). It commemorates the solstice sacrifice of the king by his twelve "merry" companions. Thus, there is a connection to the Robin Goodfellow (Robin Hood) tales. Marian was the earliest spelling, in English, of the mother of the Christian "king," and was one of the many forms of Mary-Goddess worship. Some of her other names are Mary Gypsy, Miriam, Mariamne, Myrrhine, Myrtea, Myrrha and Marina; also the merry-maid or "mermaid." Merry England became known as such because it was the country most engrossed with Mary-worship. She is sometimes affiliated with the acorn and mistletoe, the rock-dove and the serpent.

Mawu/Mawa (Dahomey in West Africa): Supreme Goddess; creatress of all things; Great Goddess. The Fon of Benin in West Africa worship Mawu as a Moon Goddess and creatress. She was known as a gentle and forgiving Goddess. She is associated with remembering dreams, seeing divine influence in our lives, and revelation of Mysteries.

Minerva (Rome): Maiden Goddess; Patroness of craftsmen; Goddess of women's rights and freedom. She wore a breastplate and helmet and carried a spear. Her sacred bird is the owl. She is associated with protection, writing, music, the sciences, arts and crafts, renewal, prudence, wise counsel, peace, and medicine.

Morrigan, The/Morrigu/MorganMorrighan (Celtic): "Great Queen"; "Supreme War Goddess"; "Specter Queen"; shape-shifter. Great Mother; Moon Goddess; Great White Goddess; Patroness of priestesses and Witches; Queen of the Faeries. She is associated with ravens and crows; rivers and lakes; revenge, night, magick, and prophecy. She is Goddess of the Sea and Great Queen of Fate. Morrigan was capable of assuming the form of a raven, and was often invoked during battle to bring death to the enemy. Like other New Moon Goddesses, she is associated with the unpredictable aspects of feminine energy. She was the basis for Morgan le Faye, the Goddess who conveyed King Arthur's body across the sea to Avalon at his death, and Mary Magdalene. She is sometimes affiliated with the letter N, nion, ash tree, The ash is sacred to Posidion, god of the sea. It is considered the tree of sea-power, and the power resident in water.

Muses, The (Greece): Nine Moon Goddesses; three (the number of the Triple Goddess) times three makes the Moon number nine. Each Goddess rules over a specific area of inspiration and art: history, music, tragedy, comedy, poetry, art, astronomy and astrology, and eloquence of speech.

Nanna/Nana/Anna/Inanna (Norse): Aesir Goddess; "The Moon"; Great Mother; Earth Goddess. She is associated with love and gentleness.

Nanna/Nana/Nina (Sumeria, Assyria): Lady; Ancient Mother; Holy One of Many Names; Great Mother; the tripartite Moon. The Judge of humankind on the last day of every year. An image of a winged lioness guarded her temple. She was represented with a fish-tail or serpent-tail. She is associated with herbs, the Moon, healing, magick, intercession, interpretation of dreams, crops, civilization.

Nehellania (Norse): Nether, or Dark Moon. Sometimes connected with Hel.

Neith/Neit/Net/Nit (Egypt): "The Huntress"; "Opener of the Ways"; Great Goddess; Mother of the Gods; Goddess of the lower heavens; warrior-Goddess and protectress; Lady of the West. Universal mother; the Spirit behind the Veil of Mysteries; Primal Abyss. Patroness of domestic arts, weaving, hunting, medicine, war, weapons. Protectress of women and marriage. Her name means "I have come from myself," or self begotten. The Greeks identified her with Pallas Athena, who also had a dual role as warrior and woman skilled in domestic arts. She wore the red crown of Lower Egypt and held a bow and two arrows. Part of her sanctuary at Sais was a school of medicine, the House of Life. She is associated with herbs, magick, healing, mystical knowledge, rituals, meditation.

Nemesis (Greek): Dark Moon Goddess of karmic retribution.

Nepthys (Egypt): Dark Moon Goddess; sister of Isis and mother of Anubis by her brother Osiris. Her symbols are the cup and the lotus. She is associated with rebirth, reincarnation, building good upon the ashes of hopelessness. The great revealer and giver of dreams; understanding the Mysteries.

Ngami (Africa): Moon Goddess.

Norns/Weird Sisters/Wyrd/Wurd (Norse, Germanic, Anglo-Saxon): Similar to the Greek Fates. They tended the Well of Urd near one of the roots of the World Tree Yggdrasil. They were named Urd (the Past), Verthandi or Verdandi (the Present), and Skuld (the Future). The water from their well turned everything white, thus connecting them with the three phases of the Moon.

Ostara/Eostre/Ostarra (Germany, Northern Europe): Moon Goddess whose name survives as the word Easter. As a fertility Goddess of the Spring Equinox, she was associated with hares, rabbits, and eggs.

Pandia (Greece): One of a female trinity of Moon Goddesses representing the phases of the Moon. The others were Erse and Nemea.

Persephone/Prosperina (Greece and Rome): Daughter of Demeter (Ceres) who was first called the Kore. She took the name Persephone after she descended to the Underworld. Sometimes called Queen of Hades. Goddess of Spring, Rebirth, Planting. The traditional story is that Hades, God of the Underworld, fell in love with Persephone and kidnapped her. Her mother, Demeter, responsible for bountiful harvests and plenty, was so distraught she caused a blight upon the land and nothing would grow (winter). By the time Demeter discovered where Persephone was, she had already eaten six pomegranate seeds from the tree in the underworld. Because she had eaten the food of the dead, Persephone was only allowed to be reunited with her mother for six months of the year. When she returns to her mother, all the world rejoices and spring begins. Winter comes again when her mother sorrows for her at her return to Hades. She is sometimes affiliated with the letter O, onn, gorse and furze. Furze fires are lighted on hills in spring to make room for new growth. A compound of Onn and Nion supplies the date of her festival: the spring equinox at the close of the ash month.

Saravasti (India): "Stimulator"; inventor of Sanskrit and discoverer of soma in the Himalayas. Represented as a graceful woman with white shin, wearing a crescent Moon on her brow, and seated on a lotus flower. The highest spiritual body center is the thousand petalled lotus called the place of the hidden Moon. She is associated with the creative arts, science, music, poetry, learning, and teaching.

Scathach (Ireland, Scotland): "Shadow, shade"; "The Shadowy One"; "She Who Strikes Fear." Patroness of blacksmiths. Dark Moon Goddess. She is associated with healing, magick, prophecy, and martial arts.

Selene (Greece): The second aspect of the Moon; the Full Moon as lover and bride. She was depicted as a beautiful woman with a gold crown. The woodland God Pan fell in love with her. She is associated with magick, spells, and enchantments.

Seshat/Sesheta (Egypt): "Mistress of the house of books"; "the secretary"; "mistress of the house of architects." The female equivalent of Thoth, this Goddess was in fact older than Thoth. An early Seshat was depicted as a woman wearing on her head a star, a reversed crescent, and two long straight plumes. Sometimes the image was only a star on top of a pole surmounted by a downturned crescent. Later the crescent was replaced with two long down-turned horns. She was the known as the record-keeper of the Gods. She is associated with writing, letters, archives, measurement, calculation, record-keeping, hieroglyphics, time, stars, history, books, learning, inventions.

Shing-Moo (China): Our Lady Moon.

Skadi (Norse): "Harm"; daughter of the Giant Thjasi and wife of Njord. Associated with rightful retribution, mountains, Winter, revenge, dark magick.

Spider Woman (Native American, Southwestern): Sometimes called Spider Grandmother. Associated with the Moon.

Tanit/Tanith (Phoenicia, Carthage): Moon Goddess; Great Goddess; similar to Ishtar.

Tlazolteotl (Aztec): Earth Goddess; Lady of Witches. She is goddess of the Crescent Moon and associated with the snake and bat. Worship was performed at crossroads, similar to the Greek Hecate. She is said to have rode naked on a broom through the night skies, wearing a peaked hat and holding a red snake and a blood-stained rope. Four aspects of herself were recognized as separate Goddesses: Tiacapan, Teicu, Tlaco, and Xocutxin. She is associated with physical love, fertility, death, Witchcraft, sexuality, gambling, temptation, and black magick.

Ursala/Orsel (Slavic-Russian): Moon Goddess also connected with bears.

Venus (Rome): Moon Goddess; patroness of vegetation and flowers. She was strong, proud, and loving. She was represented as virginal, meaning that she remained independent. Associated with love, beauty, the joy of physical love, fertility, continued creation, renewal, herbal magick.

Wahini-Hai (Polynesia): Creatress of the world and Mother Goddess; also called the Moon, and the first woman. Joseph Campbell says that her name was used in the word wahine, meaning "woman."

White Shell Woman (Native American, Navajo): Moon Goddess.

Xochiquetzal (Aztec): Goddess of all women; a Mexican form of Aphrodite. She was also a Moon virgin, the complete Triple Goddess, and had a son/lover much like Adonis. Associated with love, marriage, music, spinning and weaving, magick, art, changes.

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