Quotes About Goddess

Frigg was the goddess of married women and love. She was also Odin's wife and queen of Asgard. Frigg and Odin had a son named Baldr. He was a beautiful god of light and purity.

I was back on the scented hillside with the moon coming out above the ruins of the temple where nothing remains now of the Goddess but her night-owls brooding. So

Science works, of course, but from an aesthetic point of view, was it really a great improvement over mythology? Why do we insist that theories work, when they might just as well sit around and look pretty? I couldn't help observing that for every advance in science...some perfectly competent goddess or demiurge is put out of work, a hypothesized spirit dies, or a living thing surrenders its autonomy.

A Goddess religion should be out in the open, not underground as it is right now. A Goddess religion would cause men to look at women differently.

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. Betrayal is a friend I have known a long time, a two-faced goddess looking forward and back with a clear, earnest suspicion of good fortune.

The word itself, not found in the Bible, commemorates Hel, the fierce Norse goddess who reigned over the netherworld.

The fashion accessories of Justitia, the Roman goddess of justice, express the logic succinctly: (1) scales; (2) blindfold; (3) sword.

From the 17th to the 19th century, a cult in India strangled tens of thousands of travelers as a sacrifice to the goddess Kali.

Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon

The queen of the underworld, the goddess of chaos, is also the force that eternally renews.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.

Who knows, my lady?" he said. "Maybe one day when you're a grown woman, your beauty will make Zeus himself fall in love with you and put your image up there as well, for us ordinary men to see and envy." "I can think of better reasons to end up among the stars," I said, smiling at such harmless flattery.

I wasn't a girl anymore. Just before they shoved me through the curtained doorway, I looked up into the night sky and saw the silvery moon that Artemis ruled. Now the moon ruled me.

Suddenly the hall rang with Theseus's laughter. He held his sides, threw back his head, and brayed. "Ah, Lady Helen, the gods have been more than good to you. The three Graces gave you a face to outshine the sun, then filled your lovely mouth with these bursts of comical nonsense. We should be grateful to them. It's all that keeps us poor mortal men from mistaking you for a goddess.

What kind of god or goddess places a limit on love?

Men of patriarchal cultures have been committing heinous acts in the name of their God ever since they created a god for themselves. It seems that the earlier, goddess-oriented, nature-centered religions were far less cruel.

I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of 'The Hunger Games.'

I hope to grow another head and two more hands, like an Indian goddess.

The others want to coerce her. I want her to want me... so he prayed to Aphrodite, goddess of love.

Demeter was also a moon goddess. And all through mythology there is a connection between horse and moon and sea. The she-horse is given a sea-name, "mare"; the moon swings the tides, the waves have white manes, the dripping horses stamp on the beach, and their hooves leave moon-shaped marks.

But the eyes of jealousy are very sharp, and Hera saw them.

Hell hath no fury like a goddess scorned

I am dying,' she said. 'I want you to paint the goddess on my hand. When I go to that other land I shall hold up my hand—' she held it up 'and greet her. She has given me a good life.'… 'Aye,' said the old woman. 'Imoy, there she is. Here we paint her looking down to see us, but this is better. Her eyes are open, she will know me.