She is one of the most widely worshipped deities in the history of the Western world, with major cult centers that stretched from Cyprus to Greece to Rome and eventually across the entire Mediterranean.
Santísima Muerte, or Most Holy Death, is a Mexican folk saint - death itself personified as a skeletal female figure, robed and often carrying a scythe and a globe.
The modern name "Green Man" is considerably younger than the image itself - coined by Lady Raglan in a 1939 article for the journal Folklore titled "The Green Man in Church Architecture."
Brigid is a daughter of the Dagda - "the good god," chief of the Tuatha Dé Danann - and is described in some of the earliest surviving sources, including the 9th- or 10th-century Cormac's Glossary, as three sisters who share one name
Hecate predates the Olympian gods entirely. In Hesiod's Theogony, she is a Titaness held in such regard that Zeus alone allowed her to keep her ancient authority over earth, sea, and starry sky
In ancient Mesopotamia, the lilitu were a class of wind and night spirits named in Sumerian and Akkadian exorcism texts, including the Utukku Lemnutu series of incantations written to protect households against them.
The Morrigan does not announce herself in ways that are easy to recognize. She arrives at the edge of things: at the river before the battle, at the crossroads before the decision, in the crow that watches from the fence post at the moment everything changes.
She is the patron of witches, the teacher of Circe and Medea, the guide of the dead, and the guardian of every doorway in the ancient Greek home. She is complex, demanding, and extraordinary in her generosity to those who come to her honestly.