Goddess
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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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- Anima (Jung)
- Gavari
- Gender of God
- Gingira
- Goddess movement
- Heavenly Mother
- List of goddesses
- Matriarchy
- Mother goddess
- Ochre
- Oshun
- Sophia
- The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory
- The White Goddess
- Tree deity
- Venus figurines
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