Goddesses and Legends

Amaterasu

Amaterasu is the Japanese sun goddess, the principal deity in the Shinto pantheon. (And yes, we know she's the ancestor of the Emperor of Japan.  So don't wear this costume if you're going to a ...

Asase Yaa

Asase Yaa is the earth goddess of the Asante people in Ghana. She created human beings and receives them back into her body when they die; she is also the mother of the gods. There are no temples ...

Athena

Athena is easily the best-known and most popular Greek goddess. Yet none of the so-called "Athena" costumes for sale out there look remotely like her. Come on, people! She's Athena! Helmet! ...

Bila

Some sun goddesses are motherly types. They shed their nurturing light on the earth, helping the plants grow and the people thrive. Not Bila. She preferred to burn people up. Every day she would ...

Brighid

Brighid was one of the most prominent Celtic goddesses in the pre-Christian era. Fundamentally a fire-and-sun goddess, she was also associated with springtime and fertility; with poetry, healing, ...

Chalchiuhtlicue

Chalchiuhtlicue, whose name means "She of the Jade Skirt," is the Aztec goddess of rivers, lakes, seas, springs, and all running water. She is traditionally depicted as an elegant woman in ...

Demeter

Demeter is the Greek goddess of agriculture and the bountiful earth. It is she who makes the crops grow---except for those months when her daughter Persephone is in the Underworld, for then Demeter ...

Freyja

Poor Freyja! More than any other goddess, she's been subjected to the strippers-with-swords treatment in contemporary art. But those deformed creatures with giant implants and chainmail bikinis ...

Isis

Isis is the Egyptian goddess of magic and motherhood, but putting it that way rather understates the case. Isis is simply one of the all-time great goddesses of world civilization. Worshiped by the ...

Ixchel

Why yes, that is a snake on her head. Ixchel is the Maya goddess of the moon, with powers over fertility, water, medicine, midwifery, and weaving. Her name may have originally meant something like ...

Kiyohime

Such a pretty kimono! So delicate, so charming. And such a lovely young maiden...too bad she's a DRAGON. The story of Kiyohime is the original Fatal Attraction. She fell in love with a ...

Lasiren

Lasiren, also spelled La Sirène, is the Haitian mermaid goddess of the sea. Her mythological pedigree is impressive: African slaves brought with them the memory of a great female water spirit, ...