Goddess
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Illustration: The Birth of Venus (detail), a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli
Illustration: The Birth of Venus (detail), a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli
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In a religious context, a goddess is a female god. In a secular context it means a particularly attractive human female. In an art context, for example, Venus is the Roman goddess of love and in visual art terminology a synonym for any female nude.
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See also
- God (male deity)
- God and gender
- Goddess worship
- Goddess movement
- Deities
- List of deities
- Mother goddess
- Polytheism
- Henotheism
- The Hebrew Goddess
- Sacred feminine
- Sophia
- Shekhina
- Shakti
- Devi
- Kumari
- Tara (Buddhist) : the Buddhist Goddess / Bodhisattva
- Kwan Yin : the Chinese Buddhist Goddess / Bodhisattva
- Anahita : the goddess of Zoroastrianism.
- Tien Hou : the Chinese "Queen of Heaven"
- Amaterasu : the Great Goddess of Shinto
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