The Matres (Latin for "mothers") and Matronae (Latin for "matrons") were female deities venerated in Northwestern Europe, of whom relics are found dating...
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Mōdraniht (section Theories and interpretations)
ancestral beings, and Yule), and the Germanic Matres and Matronae, female beings attested by way of altar and votive inscriptions, nearly always appearing...
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The Matronae Aufaniae (or Matres Aufaniae or Deae Aufaniae) are Germanic Matronae attested on Roman era altars. The Aufaniae are one of the most frequently...
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List of Germanic deities (redirect from List of Norse gods and goddesses)
place names, and other sources. This article contains a comprehensive list of Germanic deities outside the numerous Germanic Matres and Matronae inscriptions...
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Dea Matrona (category Sea and river goddesses)
their laps. In many areas, such Matronae were depicted in groups of three (or sometimes two) (see Matres and Matronae for the triads of mother goddesses...
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analyzed the name of the goddess and linked the figure to the Germanic Matres and Matronae. The first element of the goddess's name, Badu-, may be cognate to...
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the Wedding Feast at Cana John 2, Jesus's crucifixion, and resurrection. Matres and Matronae Myrrhbearers New Testament people named Mary Saint Sarah...
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between her attributes and those of the Matres and Matronae. Geographically, the areas in which Erecura and Dis Pater were worshipped appear to be in...
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festival 'Modraniht' is mentioned by Bede. Possibly connected to the Matres and Matronae, and the Norns. Nicors, water spirits attested in Beowulf with apparent...
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beings and deities within their respective mythologies/religions: Old English Mōdraniht ('Night of the Mothers'); Celtic and Germanic Matres and Matronae (Latin...
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and Dionysus (god of mysteries, or the "sun" of the underworld), as in Plato's Phaedrus, concerning the myth of Dionysus and the Titans) The Matres or...
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Celtic deities (section Gods of strength and eloquence)
religions. The epigraphic record reveals many dedications to the Matres or Matronae, which are particularly prolific around Cologne in the Rhineland....
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Tamfana (section Theories and interpretation)
the Matres and Matronae. Simek says that Tamfana is perhaps best considered in the context of the widespread veneration of the Germanic Matres and Matronae...
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Celtic Religion. Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon 2009, Kapitel 1: The Matres and Matronae: The Nursing Mothers or Nutrices. (ohne Seitenangaben; Doktorarbeit;...
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Anthropomorphic wooden cult figurines of Central and Northern Europe). Notable from the Roman period are the Matres and Matronae, some having Germanic names, to whom...
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in Celtic religion were also united in this way under the names Matres and Matronae. In the mythology of the British Celts almost no goddesses are present...
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List of Roman deities (redirect from Roman gods and goddesses)
the title Matres or Matronae). See also Magna Mater (Great Mother) following. Gods were called Pater ("Father") to signify their preeminence and paternal...
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Cramond (category Ports and harbours of Scotland)
longer accepted among scholars, and "Alatervae" is presumably a native name for the deities the Matres and Matronae, perhaps originating with the Tungrian...
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Indo-European vocabulary (category Indo-European words and phrases)
beings and deities within their respective mythologies/religions: Old English Mōdraniht ('Night of the Mothers'); Celtic and Germanic Matres and Matronae (Latin...
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Silvanae are sometimes thought to be Imperial forms of the Celtic Matres or Matronae, "mother" goddesses who often appear as a clothed triad bearing flowers...
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first or second) and was dedicated to "the Alatervan Mothers and the Mothers of the Parade-ground" (Latin: Matres Alatervae et Matres Campestres). Early...
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singular form of Matronae or Matrones, mother goddesses attested in the Roman era among Celtic and Germanic regions; see Matres and Matrones St. Matrona...
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goddess Maiabus - a Gallic goddess in Metz Matronae Dervonnae - Gallic mother goddesses in Cisalpine Gaul Matronae Vediantiae (Deae Vediantiae) - Gallic mother...
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Juno (mythology) (redirect from Juno (Roman religion and mythology))
Postumius from Fidenae would have requested the Roman senate that the matronae and daughters of the most prominent families be surrendered to the Latins...
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Frau Holle (category Witchcraft in folklore and mythology)
earlier goddesses Hecate / Artemis, Artio, the Matres of Engyon, the Matronae, and Epona, as well as figures from fairy-tales, such as Cinderella. A 16th century...
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inscriptions dated to the 1st–2nd centuries AD and dedicated to the Matres Vediantiae were found near Tourrette-Levens and Cimiez. Matronis Vediantiabus P(ublius)...
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