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  • Thumbnail for Mary, mother of Jesus
    Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is a central figure of Christianity, venerated under...
    158 KB (18,195 words) - 03:43, 20 May 2024
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    Cuckoo's Nest at Westminster (1648) included ludicrous dialogue between the Protectress and Lady Fairfax. This broadside, printed before Cromwell's inauguration...
    18 KB (2,265 words) - 23:58, 23 November 2023
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    and cults, the most illustrious of which was of the Athena Poliás, "[protectress] of the city". The cult image of the Poliás was a wooden effigy, often...
    19 KB (2,557 words) - 14:04, 4 May 2023
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    "Holda, the good protectress" (1882) by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine....
    31 KB (3,858 words) - 17:06, 9 May 2024
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    counterpart of the Greek Mnemosyne. Juno Moneta, an epithet of Juno, was the protectress of funds, and, accordingly, money in ancient Rome was coined in her temple...
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    (/mɪˈdjuːzə, -sə/; Ancient Greek: Μέδουσα, romanized: Médousa, lit. 'guardian, protectress'), also called Gorgo (Ancient Greek: Γοργώ) or the Gorgon, was one of...
    46 KB (4,995 words) - 13:12, 22 May 2024
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    Salus Populi Romani, depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary as the health and protectress of the Roman people, which was granted a Canonical coronation by Pope...
    56 KB (6,238 words) - 03:56, 27 May 2024
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    Sarah is now increasingly being considered as "a Romani Goddess, the Protectress of the Roma" and an "indisputable link with Mother India". For the Roma...
    202 KB (18,809 words) - 15:48, 27 May 2024
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    Ishtar of Arbela Tutelary goddess of Arbela, protectress of the king, prophetic goddess 8th century BCE stele from Til Barsip depicting Ishtar of Arbela...
    19 KB (2,751 words) - 12:09, 12 August 2023
  • Meža mate ("Mother of the Forest"; counterpart to Lithuanian Medeina), protectress of wild life; Miglas mate ("Mother of the Fog") and Lietus mate ("Mother...
    15 KB (2,212 words) - 17:52, 11 July 2023
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    with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of various cities across Greece, particularly the city of Athens, from...
    123 KB (12,923 words) - 21:36, 12 March 2024
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    while reveling in the king's palace and eating up his wealth. Odysseus' protectress, the goddess Athena, asks Zeus, king of the gods, to finally allow Odysseus...
    72 KB (8,247 words) - 17:19, 18 May 2024
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    tree Xikum, the "primeval mother at the central place of the earth", protectress of the saviour Tammuz. Moreover, figs and the fig tree were closely linked...
    52 KB (5,587 words) - 02:00, 25 April 2024
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    her). The mother goddess could also take the form of a war goddess as protectress of her tribe and its land. There also seems to have been a male celestial...
    146 KB (16,575 words) - 12:40, 17 May 2024
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    midwives practiced. She is paired with Quilaztli and was considered a protectress of the Chalmeca people and patroness of the city of Culhuacan. She helped...
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  • Thumbnail for Veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church
    The veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church encompasses various devotions which include prayer, pious acts, visual arts, poetry, and music devoted to...
    91 KB (11,382 words) - 17:52, 6 May 2024
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    multiform by the power of Maya, Thou art the Beginning of all, Creatrix, Protectress, and Destructress that Thou art.: 122–124  The figure of Kāli conveys...
    62 KB (7,501 words) - 09:06, 26 May 2024
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    interpretations among modern scholars. Juno is certainly the divine protectress of the community, who shows both a sovereign and a fertility character...
    106 KB (16,080 words) - 07:21, 15 May 2024
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    oreia), Matar was the mistress of wild mountainous landscapes and the protectress and nurturer of the wild animals living there. Matar Kubeleya was the...
    53 KB (6,343 words) - 20:16, 6 March 2024
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    Farm. p. 3. The Catholic Church chose May eve to honor St. Walpurga, protectress against magic arts. Walpurga was an English missionary to Germany in...
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