9 World Chronicles

Name: The Uraeus Symbol of the Cobra Goddess

Classification: Sacred Symbol

Associated: Royalty   

Culture: Kemet/ Egyptian

Classification: Matron Deity

The Uraeus is a symbol for the goddess Wadjet. She was one of the earliest Egyptian deities and was often depicted as a cobra, as she is the serpent goddess. The center of her cult was in Per-Wadjet,

She became the matron of the Nile Delta and the protector of all of Lower Egypt.

 The pharaohs wore the uraeus as a head ornament: either with the body of Wadjet atop the head, or as a crown encircling the head; This sacred serpent symbol reiterated the connection between the Gods and the Pharaohs and wearing the Uraeus conveyed legitimacy to the royal personage.

The rearing cobra indicated that the ruler enjoyed the protection and patronage of Goddess Wadjet, the Lower Egypt deity. After the unification of Egypt, the Uraeus was depicted together with the Vulture, which was the symbol of Nekhbet, the patroness of Upper Egypt. The merged symbol was called ‘The Two Ladies’, the joint protectors of the country.

Later, the pharaohs were seen as a manifestation of the sun god Ra, and so it also was believed that the Uraeus protected them by spitting fire on their enemies from the fiery eye of the goddess.

As the Uraeus was seen as a royal symbol, the deities Heru and Set were also depicted wearing the symbol on their crowns.

Some mythology tells that Auset created the Wadjet from dust of a dying star and the black soil of the Land (Kemet)

And she is thus a central part of the Wadjet itself. And it was her key to gaining the throne.

Name: Sekhmet

She who is powerful;

"(One) Before Whom Evil Trembles", "Mistress of Dread", "Lady of Slaughter" and "She Who Mauls".

Associated: War, Magic, Healing  The Pharaoh  

Culture: Kemet/ Egyptian

Classification: Matron Deity

Weapon: Bow and Arrow

Symbol : Uraeus

Color: Red

Sacred Stone: Blood Diamond

The Uraeus is a symbol for the goddess Wadjet.[2] She was one of the earliest Egyptian deities and was often depicted as a cobra, as she is the serpent goddess. The center of her cult was in Per-Wadjet, later called Buto by the Greeks.[3] She became the patroness of the Nile Delta and the protector of all of Lower Egypt.[4] The pharaohs wore the uraeus as a head ornament: either with the body of Wadjet atop the head, or as a crown encircling the head; this indicated Wadjet's protection and reinforced the pharaoh's claim over the land. In whatever manner that the Uraeus was displayed upon the pharaoh's head, it was, in effect, part of the pharaoh's crown. The pharaoh was recognized only by wearing the Uraeus, which conveyed legitimacy to the ruler. There is evidence for this tradition even in the Old Kingdom during the third millennium BCE.[5] Several goddesses associated with or being considered aspects of Wadjet are depicted wearing the uraeus as well.

At the time of the unification of Egypt, the image of Nekhbet, the goddess who was represented as a white vulture and held the same position as the patron of Upper Egypt, joined the image of Wadjet on the Uraeus that would encircle the crown of the pharaohs who ruled the unified Egypt. The importance of their separate cults kept them from becoming merged as with so many Egyptian deities. Together, they were known as the Nebty or the Two Ladies, who became the joint protectors and patrons of the unified Egypt.[2]

Later, the pharaohs were seen as a manifestation of the sun god Ra, and so it also was believed that the Uraeus protected them by spitting fire on their enemies from the fiery eye of the goddess.[citation needed] In some mythological works, the eyes of Ra are said to be uraei. Wadjets existed long before the rise of this cult when they originated as the eye of Wadjet as a cobra. Wadjets are also the name of the symbols called the Eye of the Moon, Eye of Hathor, the Eye of Horus, and the Eye of Ra—depending upon the dates of the references to the symbols.[citation needed]

As the Uraeus was seen as a royal symbol, the deities Horus and Set were also depicted wearing the symbol on their crowns. In early ancient Egyptian mythology, Horus would have been the name given to any king as part of the many titles taken, being identified as the son of the goddess Isis. According to the later mythology of Re, the first Uraeus was said to have been created by the goddess Isis, who formed it from the dust of the earth and the spittle of the then-current sun deity.[citation needed] In this version of the mythology, the Uraeus was the instrument with which Isis gained the throne of Egypt for Osiris. Isis is associated with and may be considered an aspect of Wadjet.[2]

Name: Aesma Daeva

His name translates to mean madness

The Destructive Demon

Associated: Lust, Anger

Culture: Zoroastrianism Persian/Iranian

Classification: Demon

Weapon: Sword,  

In Zoroastrianism, the Daevas are a class of demons that follows Angra Mainya.  The three Daevas mentioned by the Gathas are Aka Manah, Druj, and Aeshma.

Aesma comes to the material world once on each night and according to the Legends, he is kept away by Sros.

The word “daeva” can be translated as “wrong god”, “rejected god” and “false god”. This term is used in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism in reference to their divine gods.

He was given the seven powers which he uses to destroy humanity and every other creature. His work is to sow discord among men, and cause slaughter. He can even incite demons to fight among themselves.

Due to his seven powers, he is said to be immune to poisons, natural and magical lightning.

Aeshma is a strange-looking creature. His body and face are engraved with markings and with two wings sprouting out of his back. Jagged spikes also form out of the back of his wrists and this compliment the brutishness of his physique.

He possesses great amount of physical strength, durability and great flight skills. When he punches the ground, it results to powerful shockwaves and fissures.

The recitation of a prayer from the Vendidad can drive away Aeshma. The Vendidad is a collection of texts that enumerate the various manifestation of evil spirits and the different ways to confound them.  The recitation of the Vendidad often requires a priest of higher rank.

Aeshma is opposed to Asha Vahishta, the Amesha Spenta, or good spirit, who embodies Truth. His chief adversary is Sraosha (Obedience), who is the principle of religious devotion and discipline.

Name: Andraste

She who is invincible,  the goddess Victoria

Associated: War

Culture: Britain

Classification: Matron Goddess

Weapon: Sword,  

A goddess of war in ancient Britain

Andraste, also known as Andrasta, Belladonna, Nike

Icenic war goddess invoked by Boudica in her fight against the Roman occupation of Britain in AD 60.

She is Andate, and described as "their name for Victory":  the goddess Victoria.. Nike, Bellona, Magna Mater (Great Mother), Cybele, and Vacuna—goddesses who are often depicted on chariots. Her name has been translated as meaning "indestructible" or "unconquerable".

"I thank you, Andraste, and call upon you as woman speaking to woman ... I beg you for victory and preservation of liberty."

Name: Acala

The Immovable

Protector of the Teaching

Associated: Thunder, Protection

Culture: Buddhism

Classification: God

Weapon: Sword,  Thunderbolt

His image stands before temples to ward of those who are hostile to Buddhist doctrine.

He has three eyes and six arms, and grinds his teeth. His weapons include the sword the thunderbolt (Vajra) the ax and the noose.

Acala is a dharmapala (protector of the Dharma), prominent in Vajrayana Buddhism and East Asian Buddhism.

He is classed among the Wisdom Kings and is preeminent among the Five Wisdom Kings of the Womb Realm. Accordingly, his figure occupies an important hierarchical position in the Mandala of the Two Realms.

In China he is Budong Mingwang ("The Immovable Wisdom King"). In Japan, he is known as Fudō Myōō,

Acala is especially important in Japanese Buddhism, where he is venerated in the Shingon, Tendai, Zen, and Nichiren sects, as well as in Shugendō.

He wields a sacred vajra or treasure sword fashion after a talon. It has been described as flaming in some myth.

At temples dedicated to Acala, priests perform a ritual service to enlist the deity's power of purification to benefit the faithful.

Name: Kvasir

Associated: Wisdom

Culture: Germanic Norse

Classification: God

Literature: The Prose Edda

Kvasir (pronounced “KVAHSS-ir”) is a being who was created by the Aesir and Vanir gods and goddesses at the conclusion of the Aesir-Vanir War.

The war had ended with a truce. In the tale of the Mead of Poetry, whose storyline picks up where that of the Aesir-Vanir War leaves off, the deities sealed their peace treaty by coming together to produce an alcoholic drink by an ancient, communal method: everyone in the group chewed berries and spat out the resulting mush into a single vat. This liquid was then fermented. In this particular instance, the fermented liquid became the god Kvasir, whose name is surely related to Norwegian kvase and Russian kvas, both of which mean “fermented berry juice

Kvasir was the wisest of all beings. There was no question for which he did not have a ready and satisfying answer. He took up the life of a wanderer, dispensing his wisdom to all whom he met along the road. When he came to the house of two dwarves, Fjalar (“Deceiver” and Galar (“Screamer”, they killed him and drained his blood into three containers. They told the gods that Kvasir had suffocated from an excess of wisdom. The two dwarves then brewed mead by mixing Kvasir’s blood with honey – the Mead of Poetry.

a mead which imbues the drinker with skaldship and wisdom, and the spread of which eventually resulted in the introduction of poetry to mankind.

Name: Wosyet

Known Aliases: She who is strong

Associated: Protection,  The Youth

Culture: Kemetic Egyptian

Celestial Home : Sirius   

Gender: Female

Classification: Minor Goddess

Element: Mercury

Sacred Stone: The Mahogany Obsidian

Weapons: bow and arrow, the ax

Literature: pyramid Text of the Middle Kingdom

Ancient Goddess worshipped in Thebes During the Middle Kingdom.

Her name means “Power”.

Her Cult was centered at Thebes in Upper Egypt

She is venerated as a protector of young Horus whom she was tasked with protecting. And through that the protection of youth.

At various times in his epic battle against his Uncle Set, Horus was aided by this ancient goddess.  

Wosret was rarely depicted, and no temples to her have been identified. When she was depicted, it was wearing a tall crown with the was sceptre (which was related to her name) upon her head and carrying other weapons such as spears and a bow and arrows.

She was Amun's first wife.

An Ancient Egyptian city was named for her.

She was a minor goddess, but three pharaohs during the Twelfth Dynasty incorporated her name into theirs: Senwosret, or Senusret, means "man of Wosret".

Name: Ymir

Known Aliases: The Frost King, The Sea Giant

Associated: The Sea

Culture: Germanic Norse Myth

Gender: Male

Classification: Giant

Element: Sea

Literature: The Prose Edda

Ymir as a primeval being who was born from venom that dripped from the icy rivers Elivagar and lived in the grassless void of Ginnungagap. is the ancestor of all jötnar.

Ymir birthed a male and female from the pits of his arms, and his legs together begat a six-headed being.

Ymir was slain by the gods Odin Vili and VE and his body was used as raw material for the creation of the world.  

They fashioned Earth from his flesh, from his blood the ocean, from his bones the mountains, from his hair the trees, from his brains the clouds, from his skull the heavens, and from his eyebrows the middle realm in which mankind lives,

The dwarfs were given life from his blood.

Name: Njambi

Known Aliases: The Sky Father, The Tree Spirit

Associated: Creation

Culture: Herero people of Namibia

Gender: Male

Classification: Primordial God

Element: Carbon

Sacred Place: Okuruo

Ndjambi is a sky god of the Herero people in south west Africa. He is the creator of the Primoradial Omumborombonga tree from which Mukuru, the first human emerges, With his wife Kamungarunga they become the progenitors of all humans.

Ndjambi Karunga, an omnipresent God who lives in Heaven, from where he protects and blesses his people with benevolence.

He is the source of all good deeds and to commit acts of kindness is to honor him.

Whoever dies a natural death is borne aloft by him.

The place of worship is a sacred shrine, called Okuruo, standing prominently inside the village and can only be accessed by the priest who performs religious rituals.

the Okuruo contains the ‘holy fire’ that symbolizes life, prosperity and fertility

The Herero do not speak to Ndjambi directly instead using their anscectors to convey messages to the deity for help or protection.

But it is not permissible to utter his name except of certain special occasions.

Name: Naunet

Known Aliases: the Mother of all Mothers

Associated: The Primeval waters of Chaos

Pantheon: Egyptian

Gender: Female

Literature: Pyramid Text

Classification: Primordial God

Element: Water

Crystal:

Occupation: Creator

Known Affiliations The Ogdoad, Nun

Naunet is the one of the eight ancient deities of Ogdoad theology in Hermopolis. She is the consort of Nun and represented chaos and the primeval waters to which everything have sprouted from nothingness. Like her three sisters Kauket, Amaunet and Hauhet, she was represented as a woman with the head of a snake, mostly that of a cobra. Her name may also be spelled as Nunet.

. She guards the twelve veils of negation believed to be the flaws of the original creation. Access to these cracks would lead to the void that was Nun. She embodies the primal womb – where cycles of life, death and rebirth continues for all creatures and beings. She is depicted as the one who have freed all creations to pursue their individual life cycles making her “the Mother of all Mothers

She was rarely described as a personified deity, and is not often mentioned without her partner Nun although she is sometimes described as the mother of the sun god along with the composite deity Nun-Ptah.

In the old religious text she is the underworld equivalent to heaven which the sun traverse during the night.