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Water Goddesses

 

Water Goddesses are the beautiful maidens of mythology who control the ocean tides, spring rains, winter snows, frost on cold days, storms at sea, evening fog, and the early morning dews. This lens well introduce you to a few of them.

Water, Water, Everywhere

but not a drop to drink.

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What Wikipedia Has To Say: 

A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water. Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean was more important.

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Benten Queen of the Sea on Wikipedia 

Benzaiten (Category: wiktionary - :?|?Category: wiktionary - :?|?Category: wiktionary - :?|?, Category: wiktionary - :?|?Category: wiktionary - :?|?Category: wiktionary - :?|?) is the Japanese name of the goddess Saraswati; there was an important river in ancient India of this name (see Vedic Saraswati River). Worship of Benzaiten arrived in Japan during the 6th through 8th centuries, mainly via the Chinese translations of the Sutra of Golden Light, which has a section devoted to her. She is also mentioned in the Lotus Sutra.

Her Sanskrit name is "Sarasvatî Devî", which means "flowing water", and so Benzaiten is the goddess of everything that flows: water, words (and knowledge, by extension), speech, eloquence, and music. The characters used initially to write her name, read "Biancaitian" in Chinese and "Bensaiten" in Japanese (???), reflected her role as the goddess of eloquence. Because the Sutra of Golden Light promised protection of the state, in Japan she became a protector-deity, at first of the state and then of people. Lastly, she became one of the Seven Gods of Fortune, and the Sino-Japanese characters used to write her name changed to ??? (Benzaiten), which reflects her role in bestowing monetary fortune. Sometimes she is called Benten, although this name refers to the goddess Lakshmi.

In the Rig-Veda (6.61.7) Sarasvati is credited with killing the three-headed Vritra, also known as Ahi ("snake"). This is probably one of the sources of Sarasvati/Benzaiten's close association with snakes and dragons in Japan. She is enshrined on the Island of Enoshima in Sagami Bay, about 50 kilometers south of Tokyo, and numerous other locations throughout Japan; and she and a five-headed dragon are the central figures of the Enoshima Engi, a history of the shrines on Enoshima written by the Japanese Buddhist monk Kokei (??) in AD 1047. According to Kokei, Benzaiten is the third daughter of the dragon-king of Munetsuchi (???; literally "lake without heat"), known in Sanskrit as Anavatapta, the lake lying at the center of the world according to an ancient Buddhist cosmological view.

Benzaiten has been syncretized with some Shinto goddesses.

Category: Image - :INOKASHIRA1.jpg|thumb|200px|Benzaiten shrine, Inokashira Park

Category: Image - :BENZAITEN22.jpg|thumb|200px|Benzaiten statue, Inokashira Park

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Chalchiuhtlicue Goddess of Water on Wikipedia 

In Aztec mythology, Chalchiuhtlicue (also Chalciuhtlicue, or Chalcihuitlicue) ("She of the Jade Skirt") was the goddess of lakes, rivers, seas, streams, horizontal waters, storms, and baptism.Taube,Karl(1993). Aztec and Maya Myths. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78130-6. She is also a patroness of birth and plays a part in Aztec baptisms. She was also called Matlalcueitl by the Tlaxcala, a subject people of the Aztecs.

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Ran Goddess of the Sea on Wikipedia 

In Norse mythology, Rán ("theft") is a sea goddess. According to Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, in his retelling of the Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna, she is married to Ægir and they have nine daughters together. He also informs that she had a net in which she tried to capture men who ventured out on the sea:

Ran is the name of Ægir's wife, and their daughters are nine, even as we have written before. At this feast all things were self-served, both food and ale, and all implements needful to the feast. Then the Æsir became aware that Rán had that net wherein she was wont to catch all men who go upon the sea.Section XXXIII of Skáldskaparmál in translation by Arthur G. Brodeur (1916,1923), at Northvegr.

Her net is also mentioned in Reginsmál and in the Völsunga saga where she lent it to Loki so he could capture Andvari.

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Yemoja Goddess of the Sea on Wikipedia 

Yemaja is an orisha, originally of the Yoruba religion, who has become prominent in many African-American religions. Africans from what is now called Yorubaland brought Yemaya and a host of other deities/energy forces in nature with them when they were brought to the shores of the Americas as captives. She is the ocean, the essence of motherhood, and a protector of children.

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Saraswati the River Goddess 

Saraswati the River Goddess

Saraswati the River Goddess on Wikipedia 

Sarasvati (pronounced as ; Sanskrit: , ''; Malay: Saraswati; Thai: Sarasawati) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music and the arts. Saraswati has been identified with the Vedic Saraswati River. She is considered as consort of Brahma, the Hindu god of creation. Thus, with the goddesses Lakshmi and Parvati or Durga, she forms the Tridevi ("three goddesses"), who are consorts of the male trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, respectively. Saraswatis children are the Vedas, which are the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism.

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Posted April 25, 2008

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