The increasing Christianization of Europe cast powerful pagan women in a negative light.
Feminist Reinterpretations: Modern writers view her as a powerful woman resisting patriarchal oppression.
In DC Comics, Morgan is a major magical villain in the world of Batman and Wonder Woman.
The name Mari may derive from pre-Indo-European roots, possibly linked to the Basque word ama (mother) or amari (old woman).
A noble woman with long golden or fiery hair.
A woman riding a chariot pulled by fire horses.
The closest matches I know are women of folklore.
Like Morgan le Fay in the Arthurian stories, Mari is a mystical woman and a shape-shifter.
Half-woman, half-animal form: Often depicted with the body of a beautiful woman but with the feet of a duck, goose, chicken, or goat.
Judges 13:3“The malʾāḵ YHWH appeared to the woman and said, You shall conceive and bear a son.”
Judges 13:6“The woman said to her husband: A man of Elohim came to me; his appearance was like a malʾāḵîm of Elohim.”
It held an adult woman aged 30 to 40 and an infant, and it ranks among the richest Mesolithic graves in Central Europe.
The woman was buried sitting upright.
This suppression marginalized Sophia Christ and other women central to biblical history.
According to Gnostic and Essene traditions, Mary Magdalene was not a fallen woman as depicted in later Church doctrine.
They have the upper body of a beautiful woman and the lower body, wings, and tail of a bird.
Mermaid Imagery: She is frequently depicted as a mermaid or a beautiful woman with flowing hair, embodying grace, fluidity, and mystery.
Nurturing and Protective: Yemoja represents maternal care and is called upon for guidance, healing, and protection, especially for children and women.
Yemoja is known as a healer and protector, especially of women and children.
A barren woman prayed to Yemoja for a child.
The woman obeyed and soon became pregnant.
The woman followed her advice, and her child grew to become a great leader.
According to Warner-Lewis, she was believed to be ‘a beautiful woman who [sat] combing her hair on a big river stone’.
Dance’s account of a ‘water mamma’ ritual in which both men and women danced until they began to convulse and ‘fell on the ground’ echoes descriptions of the dances performed decades earlier.
She appears as a strikingly beautiful woman.
In another popular story, Mami Wata is a woman who can turn into a giant snake.
In some folktales Mami Wata disguises herself as a poor, thirsty woman or a beggar.
The Chosen Healer: In one story a woman dreams that Mami Wata calls her to be a healer.
Later he marries another woman and breaks his vow.
In many tales, the Nykr takes on a humanoid form, often as an alluring man or woman, depending on the cultural context and the intended victim.
In some variations, particularly in Germanic traditions (where the female counterpart is called a Nixe), the Nykr can take on the guise of a stunningly beautiful woman.
A young woman, lamenting her solitude, encounters a charming young man by a lake.
The Havfrue (literally "sea woman") is a prominent figure in Scandinavian folklore.
The Havfrue is typically depicted as a beautiful woman with long flowing hair and the lower body of a fish.
The origins of the Havfrue (sea woman) in Scandinavian folklore are difficult to pinpoint exactly, but they can be traced back to at least the early medieval period and possibly earlier.
In the 3rd century BC, Apollonius of Rhodes described them as part woman and part bird.
The English painter William Etty showed them as young women in his 1837 painting The Sirens and Ulysses, and later artists followed him.
In medieval bestiaries the Siren could also be half woman and half fish, like a mermaid (compare Melusine, the two-tailed mermaid).
Every man and every woman is a star.
She is also called the Scarlet Woman, the Great Mother and the Mother of Abominations.
It speaks of the Scarlet Woman, and through her Babalon stands for love, strength and freedom.
Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given.
The Scarlet Woman holds all power.
The Book of the Law pairs the Beast with his woman, the Scarlet Woman, and gives all power to her.
Glory unto the Scarlet Woman, Babalon the Mother of Abominations, that rideth upon the Beast, for she hath spilt their blood in every corner of the earth and lo!
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
The woman on the scarlet beast.
John sees a woman in scarlet on a beast, holding a golden cup, with the name Babylon the Great on her forehead.
Taking back the imagery of BabylonCrowley's Thelema reads the biblical Babylon through a mystical lens and turns it into Babalon, the Scarlet Woman.
Maren or Havfrue: Scandinavian folklore includes tales of Havfrue (sea women) who are part-human, part-fish beings associated with the ocean.
Mami Wata: In West and Central African cultures, Mami Wata is a powerful water spirit depicted as a beautiful half-human, half-fish woman.
In the American West, the Selish tribes’ creator … Amotken used hair from his head tocreate the first five women.
The fertilized ovum was then placedinside an Anunnaki woman—reportedly by one of Enki’s own wives, Ninki—who carried the child toterm
The result was a male Adama with the ability to reproduce through sex with an Adama female, or to“know” a woman, as the Bible euphemistically puts it.
This angered Enlil, already incensed that some Anunnaki would mate with human women.
Others stated they violated policy by matingwith human women.
And Poseidon [comparable to the Anunnaki Enki, known as the lord of waters], receiving for his lot the island of Atlantis, begat children by a mortal woman, and settled them in a part of the island, which I willdescribe.”
In the American West, the Selish tribes’ creator … Amotken used hair from his head tocreate the first five women.
This is further articulated in Genesis 3:15:"I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise its heel."
In 2009, DNA testing of a skull fragment attributed to Adolf Hitler revealed it belonged to a woman under 40 years old.
The Hopi reference the “Kokyangwuti” or Spider Woman and her creation of an earlier race of giants during the First World, which was later destroyed due to its disobedience.
Medicine practices were often led by women who became shamans through visions.
Her 1916 book, To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman, aimed to preserve Yurok traditions and perspectives.
John is taken in the spirit to a wilderness where he sees a woman sitting on a scarlet beast.
The beast the woman rides represents kingdoms or political powers.
The woman symbolizes "the great city" that rules over the kings of the earth, often associated with wealth, idolatry, and oppression.
At the prow of their vessels stood the figure of a woman (Astarte) holding a cross in one hand and pointing the way with the other; the cross represented the compass, which was a magnetized needle, floating in water crosswise upon a piece of reed or wood.
Isis, Goddess of the Moon, protector of women and children, resurrected her husband Osiris and aided her son Horus in avenging his murder.
Hathor, the Goddess of Motherhood and Fertility, often depicted as a cow, was passionately worshipped by women.
She is often portrayed as a woman with a body of stars, protecting Geb from the night sky.
To which Asha said: Can it be this woman hath a man hidden under her cloak, and hopes to evade the just punishment of the king!
Asha returned the next day, but lo and behold, woman and child were gone, and not one of the neighbors knew whither.
When So-qi, the king, issued the decree to have Zarathustra found and brought before him, otherwise all the male infants of Oas to be slain, the Lords sent travail on the king's wife and on the king's daughter, wife of Asha, the philosopher, and the two women gave birth that day to two sons, a month before their time, but nevertheless unto life and strength and beauty.
And were the kings to admit fallibility in their decrees and laws, no man can foresee the end; for even slaves and servants and women will raise up against the laws, and claim their right to life.
Consequently, every man of the Listians styled himself a king, and every woman styled herself a queen.
But the perversion of this truth is in attributing to some mortal woman the maternity of some mortal man.
Amongst the Israelites it was common for pretenders and magicians to claim a woman by the name of Mi for Mother, which, in mockery, the word Mi became Marah, signifying bitter.
As woman forsake father, mother, brother and sister and become one with her husband, so do they of the first resurrection forsake all the earth and the lowest heaven in order to become one with the kingdom of your*** God.
As Jehovih gave woman to man, and the twain became one in their aspiration, hope and labor, and especially with reference to their offspring, so should the members of the fraternity be such as having renounced all the world, can become one with one another, and especially for raising up the young to become the Father's edifice on earth.
As woman forsake father, mother, brother and sister and become one with her husband, so do they of the first resurrection forsake all the earth and the lowest heaven in order to become one with the kingdom of your*** God.
As Jehovih gave woman to man, and the twain became one in their aspiration, hope and labor, and especially with reference to their offspring, so should the members of the fraternity be such as having renounced all the world, can become one with one another, and especially for raising up the young to become the Father's edifice on earth.
Tae answered, saying: Behold, O Jehovih, I have gathered together many men and many women, and they all profess a desire to found Thy kingdom.
Neither should you have anything to do with any adult man or woman who is without faith in Me.
And a woman named, Es,3 heard of Tae and his work, and she came to him, inquiring:
Tae said: Such being your*** faith, you are the first chosen woman in the Father's new kingdom.
And Tae went again unto Uz, and brought hence more infants; many more than were possible unto the care of one woman.
Wanted, fifty men and women, who are Faithists in Jehovih, and are willing to take part in founding the Father's kingdom on earth as it is in heaven!
And there came in answer to Tae's call, thousands and thousands of men and women.
Behold, I asked for fifty men and women, and here are come thousands and thousands.
And Tae spake unto the multitude, saying: I called for fifty men and women and, lo, here are thousands, willing to take part in founding the Father's kingdom on earth.
Now, behold, I say to you all, men and women, as such, can not harmonize together.
Therefore, the part I am capacitated to accomplish is, to become father to innumerable offspring, by most exalted and enlightened women.
Behold, all things should be possible through woman, especially as to raising up a new generation on the earth.
During the period of gestation, man should not approach woman.
Nay, in that period, woman should be treated as a very Goddess.
When she spake, or raised her finger, during the gestative period, every man and woman and child should run to do her service.
When such a woman hath a child born, behold, there will be one child for the Father's kingdom.
After Thurtis, then spake many of the women after the same manner, and each one doubted the other's capacity to fill the place, but recommended herself.4
And, now, behold, fifty men and women spake, saying: Take us, in Jehovih's name.
That henceforth, forever, I will search to find the highest Light, and I will practice the same toward all men, women and children.
Neither more will I censure nor criticize, nor blame, any man, or woman, nor any child over fourteen years of age, as an individual, in all the world, for any shortness in word or deed they manifest.
And I will emancipate them from infancy at fourteen years of age; and bestow upon them the rights of man and woman, to their thoughts, words, deeds, choice and actions.
So, it came to pass, chiefs were selected for every group, men and women.
In this matter you should determine and explain the constituent parts of the human body, and should find and provide herbivorous elements adapted to development and purity, so that the best and strongest and healthiest of men and women may be made out of these, our adopted infants.
In sexual relation, man and woman alone, of all the animal world, can be taught shame.
Now, whilst the organization of Shalam had been going on, Tae and his hosts had interspersed the same in laboring; some in building houses, some in digging and planting, and others in clearing the ground from stones and rubbish, whilst the women were busy with the infants.
Tae said: Now is kosmon; men and women know of their own knowledge a way to provide unto self-development in wisdom, virtue, truth and affiliation.
Then Tae said to Es: Take you one of the women with you*, and go back to Uz; gather in more infants.
So, Es took Hamarias, a young woman of Thessagowan, and went back to Uz, and in the cities gathered up infant waifs and brought them to Shalam.
And one Abbayith, an elderly woman, said unto them: Why worry yourselves?
I had undertaken to nurse, with bottles, ever so many babes, more than was possible for one woman to attend, taking one at a time on my lap, but I could not get round in time.
Tae said: Though they lacked the age and strength of full-grown men and women, yet they had attained to practical knowledge, the like of which had never been known to any adults in all the world.
The fifty-two founders sat in the east, and were thus between the horns of the crescent, and they were clothed in black, with white aprons, but with Zarathustrian hats6 on the men's, and with sky-crescents on the women's heads.
What do the women have their clothes stuffed for?
See that old woman with a half naked babe, and leading that dirty child!
Why hath not some one told the rich, it is wrong to pass that poor woman by without helping her to a home?
As to Shalam, after the first swarm departed, the inhabitants sent back to Uz, of their women, whose allotment it was, and collected yet more infants, castaways and orphans, and brought them to Shalam, and raised them in the same way.
One marriage only do we permit to any man or woman.
Nor owned any man, woman or child anything more than the clothes he or she wore; but all things were Jehovih's, in care of the keeping of the colony.
Neither labored any one for the colony, but for Jehovih; nor did any colony hire any man nor woman nor child to work for them.
Woman said: Behold, I kill not any lamb, nor bird, nor fish.
And with the setting of the sun on that day, you should be purged of all animosity and claims against every man, woman and child, in all the world.
Neither should you try to exalt His name by adding thereunto any name in the shape and figure of man, nor by any one of woman born.
The Creator hath given you hands to work with; come you****, be men and women.
Remember, all men and women are your*** brothers and sisters, and you should labor to make them make themselves a glory unto the Creator.
Nevertheless, the kingdom of peace and righteousness should not cover the earth over until this is understood by all men and women.
In this day, no mark of circumcision is required; but men and women should converse on the ways of the Creator understandingly.
If an exalted man marry a woman beneath him, he can lift her up.
But if an exalted woman marry a man beneath her, he will pull her down.
You**** go not to the drunkard's den, nor to the unfortunate woman; these you**** take not in your arms, saying: My brother, my sister, come with me, I will show you the kingdom of God!
Neither should you judge thyself by any God, or Lord, or Savior, or by any idol, or by any man or woman; for you standest thyself second to Jehovih in your*** attributes.
But, when his children attain to be men and women, man no longer hold a law over them, for they become his equals, as brothers and sisters.
Yet, because there are bad men and bad women who do marry, it hath been found necessary to have a law between man and wife, as regard their duties.
Thy God never commanded man to eat flesh and blood, nor pretended that bread and wine were flesh and blood, nor commanded them to be eaten in remembrance of the flesh and blood of any man born of woman.
I hide not the work of my hand and of my angels in a corner; I extend them abroad over the earth; I manifest in the cities and country places; I prove unto all peoples, that common men and women can do the miracles for which Gods and Saviors have been worshipped.
Yea, I give these powers unto good and bad men, and unto good and bad women.
And they held conferences, and were divided, man against man, and woman against woman; full of boasting and short-sighted wisdom, seeking the applause of the multitude.
I have chosen me my women, who also comprehend, and, behold, our offspring will be very Gods!
And these infants should be fed and clothed and raised up, not after any man's whim or conceit, but according to the accumulated wisdom collected from all the different nations and peoples in all the world, as to how to make the best corporeal and spiritual men and women.
These are things for you* to learn, O man, going at the subject systematically, to find the best way to make the best man and woman out of the infants entrusted to you*.
But it should be a law that no man nor woman should marry more than one time.