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Ua-ogrere: Déité ancestrale kivai (Nouvelle-Guinée). Kivai (New Guinea) ancestor deity, old woman who "ever existed." [107]

Ubastet: Egyptian cat goddess. [83]

Ugatame: Déesse grand-mère des Kapauku (Papouasie/Mélanésie). Kapauku (Papua/Melanesia) Great Mother goddess. [107]

Uilata: Cherokee stone-clad female monster. [107]

Ukemochi: Déesse japonaise de la fertilité. Japanese fertility goddess. [84]

Ulfrun: Norse giantess. [27]

Ulgen-ekhe: Mère de la Terre chez les Buryatan. Buryatan Earth mother. [65]

Umay-ene: Déesse Kazakh protectrice des enfants. Kazakh childcare goddess. [107]

Undine: Lithuanian water nymph, mermaid. [107]

Unelanuhi:Cherokee sun goddess. [107]

Uni: Etruscan goddess, same as Hera or Juno. [65]

Unuk: Eskimo (Chukotka) night maiden. [107]

Uorsar: Adygan (Caucasus) goddess of hearth. [64]

Upunusa:Earth goddess of Leti and Babar (Southwestern islands, eastern Indonesia). [64]

Urash: Sumerian-Akkadian earth goddess, wife of sky god Anu. [65]

Urd: Norse fate goddess. [107]

Uretsete: Keresan Pueblo ancestor goddess. [107]

Urkuk: Nivkhi (Sakhalin Isl.) night maiden. [107]

Urutonga: Māori sea goddess.

Ushas: Indian goddess of dawn. [48]

Ustrecha: Old Russian goddess of chance. [107]

Uti Hiata: Pawnee Mother Corn deity. [107]

Ut: Siberian; Turco-Tatar goddess of the hearth fire. [27]

Utset: Zia (SW USA) the First Mother. [107]

Uzume: Japanese goddess of cheerfulness. [27]

Uzza: déesse arabe préislamique de la fertilité. [autre] 

Vacuna: Déesse de la moisson en ancienne Italie. Sabinian (Ancient Italy) goddess of harvest. [65]

Vaidilute: Lithuanian hearth goddess. [83]

Vaiva: Lithaunian rainbow goddess. [107]        

Vakarine: Lithuanian word for planet Venus. [107]

Vako-nana: Adygan wise predictor. [107]

Valkyrie: Norse battle maidens. [1]

Varma-Ava: Mordvinian (Volga Finn) wind goddess. [65]

Var: Déesse scandinave de l'amour. Scandinavian love goddess. [111]

Varz: Lezghin (Caucasus) moon goddess. [65]

Vasudhara: Bodhisattva Bouddhiste feminin de l'abondance. Buddhist female Bodhisattva of abundance. [83]

Ved-Ava: Mère des eaux (Volga). Mordovian (Volga Finn) water mother. [107]

Veden-Ema: Finnish goddess of fishing. [107]

Vedma: East Slav witch. [65]

Vejas-mate: Latvian "wind mother". [107]

Veleda: Warrior goddess of the continental Celts. [127]

Vellamo: Karelo-Finn mermaid. [83]

Venilia: Déesse italienne antique de la mer. Ancient Italian sea goddess. [27]

Vénus: Déesse romaine de la beauté et de l'amour.

Vénus: Déesse Mère primordiale.

Verdandi: Déité nordique de la bénédiction. Norse bestower of blessings. [83]

Verpeja: Lithuanian life thread goddess. [107]

Vesta: Roman hearth goddess. [48]

Vesuna: Déesse italienne de la végétation. Italian (Umbrian) vegetation goddess. [107]

Vetsorgo: Mordovian/Erzya (Volga Finn) daughter of the supreme sky god Nishke. [65]

Vihansa: German war goddess. [27]

Vilakh: Lakian/Kazikumukhan (Daghestan) fire goddess. [107]

Vinmara: Swan maiden whom sea god Qat kept on Earth by hiding her wings (New Hebrides). [83]

Vir-ava: Mordvinian forest mother. [27]

Vires-Akka: Saami-Lapp forest goddess. [65]

Virilis: One of the names of Fortuna, Roman goddess of chance. [1]

Viriplaca: Roman goddess of matrimonial love and happiness. [131]

Virtus: Roman war goddess. [107]

Vishera: Komi-Permyakan (Ural Finn) girl who turned into a river with the same name. [107]

Vostrukha:  Déité biélorusse du foyer. Belorussian deity of home. [107]

Vupar: Chuvash (Volga area) evil spirit causing lunar and solar eclipses. [107]

Vut-Ami: Chuvash (Volga Region) fire goddess. [65]

Waka: Polynesian lizard goddess. [127]

Whatitiri: Māori ancestor goddess, great mother.[65]

Wohpe:Lakota goddess of order, beauty, and happiness. [127]

Wurunsemu: Hatti (proto-Hittite) sun goddess and mother of gods. [64]

Wyrd: Anglo-Saxon weaving goddess. [83]

Xaratanga: Tarascan (Mexico) moon goddess. [107]

Xcacau: Quiche (Guatemala) cacao goddess. [107]

Xcanil: Aztec and Quiche maize goddess. [107]

Xilonen: Aztec maize (fertility) goddess. [83]

Xi Wang-mu: Chinese goddess of west, keeper of medicine for eternal life. [107]

Xmukane: Mayan mother and fertility goddess. [83]

Xochiquetzal: Aztec goddess of flowers. [111]

Xquiq: Mayan fertility and motherhood divinity. [107]

Xtoh: Quiche (Guatemala) goddess of weather and rain. [127]

Yab-Yum: Tibet, Union divine, Union sacrée. [autre]

Yagami: Japanese goddess, bride of god O-kuninusi. [65]

Yalyane: Nenets (Samoyed) maiden of light. [107]

Yanbike: Bashkir mythical first woman. [107]   

Yansa: Brazilian goddess of wind and fire. [65]

Yashoda maiya: Mère adoptive de Krishna ? [autre]

Ya-Yerv: Terre Mère Nenets, samoyède (de Chine)..Nenets (Samoyed) Earth mother. [65]

Yemandja, Yemaya, Yamaya, Iemaja, Mami Wata: Déesse africaine de l'océan. [autre]

Ymoja: Yoruba (Nigeria) river goddess. [111]

Yolkai-Estsan: Navajo myth female deity. [107]

Yuki-Onne: Japanese spirit of death. [107]

Yumyn-Udyr: Marian (Volga Finn) daughter of main god. [65]

Yunya-mana: Hopi prickly pear cactus maiden. [107]

Yurt-Ava: Mordovian (Volga Finn) "home's mother" deity. [65]

Yuvkha: Turkman river spirit. [107]

Zaltu: Assyro-Babylonian goddess. [127]

Zamin: Persian earth goddess. [83]     

Zaramama: Quechua (Peru) maize deity. [65]

Zaryanitsa: E. Slavic night lightning goddess. [107]

Žemina: Lithuanian fertility goddess. [107]

Zemire:  Kumyk (Daghestan) fertility goddess. [107]

Zemlika: Latvian earth goddess. [107]

Zewana: W. Slavic/Polish hunting goddess. [107]

Zheztyrnak: Kazakh evil deity, "copper claw" maiden. [131] 

Zhivana: Slavic goddess of life. [107]

Zimcerla: Slavic dawn goddess. [107]

Zipaltonal: Nicaraguan creator goddess. [1]

Zirka: Belorussian happiness goddess. [107]

Zisa: German harvest goddess. [111]

Zorile: Moldavian dawn goddess. [65]

Zorya: Déesse de l'aube slave. [1]

Žverine: Lithuanian hunting goddess. [107]

Zywie: Polish goddess of life. [83]

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[43] - Dictionary of Classical Mythology, by J. E. Zimmerman; Harper and Row, New York, 1971.

[46] - List of famous women provided by the National Organization for Women.

[47] - Giants, by David Larkin and Sarah Teale; Harry Abrams, Inc., New York, 1979.

[48] - Letter from G. H. Pettengill to Venus Task Group, April 27, 1977.

[56] - Everymans Classical Atlas, by J. Oliver Thomson; J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., London, 1963.

[59] - The New Encyclopaedia Britannica; Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., Chicago, 1974, 1993.

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[95] - Poem "Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope.

[96] - Green Mansions, by W. H. Hudson; AMS Press Inc., New York, 1923.

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[130] - Women in Myth and Legend, by Patricia Monaghan; Junction Books, London, 1981.

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[154] - Letter from Lisa Leghorn (Rigdzin Ling, Junction City, CA, USA) to Merton and Louise Davies, May 15, 1990.

[155] - G:otter in Planeten und Monden, by J. Blunck; Verlag Harri Deutsch, Frankfort a/M, Thun, 1987.

[163] - Email message from Cacique Pedro Guanikeyu Torres, Principal Tribal Chief and Elder of the Jatibonicu' Taino Tribe of Puerto Rico (NJ-USA Taino Tribal Affairs Office, Vineland, NJ) of the Jatibonicu' Taino Tribal Nation of Boriken to J. Blue, October, 1999.

[170] - Myths and Legends of the Ancient Slavs (in Russian), by A. Asov; Nauka i Religiya Publications, Moscow, 1998.

[172] - Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer, Greenwood Press, Westport CT & London, 1997.

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