#Goddess

When no god could defeat the buffalo demon, they pooled their fire and a warrior goddess walked out of it. Durga is power with a calm face.

Black-skinned, wild-haired, garlanded with skulls, and adored by millions as the most tender of mothers. Kali is the great test of reading past appearances.

Fortune, beauty, and abundance personified, and famously restless. Lakshmi's mythology is a complete ethics of wealth in the form of a goddess.

Dressed in white, holding a veena, attended by a swan: Saraswati is learning, music, and speech made divine, and her rivalry with fortune is the best joke in the pantheon.

Love and war in one chariot drawn by cats: Freyja is the north's great goddess, and her portfolio refuses every tidy box.

Wife, widow, healer, throne: Isis gathered her murdered husband piece by piece, and her devotion conquered an empire that had conquered Egypt.