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She was associated with the goddesses given the title “Eye of Ra”. According to myth, Ra became angry because mankind was not following his laws and preserving Ma'at (justice or balance). He decided to punish mankind by sending an aspect of his daughter, the “Eye of Ra”. He plucked Hathor from Ureas on his brow, and sent her to earth in the form of a lion. She became Sekhmet, the “Eye of Ra” and began her rampage. The fields ran with human blood. However, Ra was not a cruel deity, and the sight of the carnage caused him to repent. He ordered her to stop, but she was in a blood lust and would not listen. So Ra poured 7,000 jugs of beer and pomegranate juice (which stained the beer blood red) in her path. She gorged on the “blood” and became so drunk she slept for three days. When she awoke, her blood lust had dissipated, and humanity was saved. In one version of the myth, Ptah is the first thing she sees on awaking and she instantly fell in love with him. Their union (creation and destruction) created Nefertum (healing) and so re-established Ma'at.

w - wangmu niangniang, chinese goddess of longevity and happiness. also known as the queen mother of the west

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p - phi song nang, female ghosts in thai mythology that hunt at night, luring young men to a secluded place before killing them

Perun was the ruler of the living world, sky and earth, and was often symbolized by an eagle sitting on the top of the tallest branch of the sacred tree, from which he kept watch over the entire world. 

Mermaids, an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish.

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↳ the goddess of wealth, fortune, and prosperity, the consort to vishnu, and the preserver in the tridevi

“Hermosa como una rosa del desierto, mortal como la víboraen en la arena. Tus huesos tiemblan para ir hacia ella. Donde te acostará en un ataúd de calaveras.”

In Greek mythology, a Charis (/ˈkeɪrɪs/; Greek: Χάρις) or Grace is one of three or more minor goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, and fertility, together known as the Charites (/ˈkærɪtiːz/; (Χάριτες) or Graces. The usual list, from youngest to oldest is Aglaea (“Splendor”), Euphrosyne (“Mirth”), and Thalia (“Good Cheer”). In Roman mythology they were known as the Gratiae, the “Graces”. In some variants, Charis was one of the Graces and was not the singular form of their name.

in the mahabharatam, the eldest princess of kashi who, after being kidnapped from her swayamvaram by bhishma (prince devavrata), considers him responsible for her misfortune and spends twelve years performing various penances in order to see him killed. she is later re-incarnated as shikhandi, prince of panchala

two out of six of the patron goddesses

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