11 Metaphors for goddesses

The presiding goddess in our region of the house was a faithful and attached old nurse, whom we all called 'Mammy.'

ATHE'NA (Pallas) once meant "the air," but in Homer this goddess is the representative of civic prudence and military skill; the armed protectress of states and cities.

Her looks were flushed, and sullen was her mien, That sure the virgin goddess (had she been Aught but a virgin) must the guilt have seen. 'Tis said the nymphs saw all, and guessed aright:

His belief that his idol is a living goddess is, of course, an illusion, but the feeling is real, however fantastic and romantic it may seem.

The tutelary goddess of American liberty should be the pure marble image of the Professor's Yankee school-mistress.

Grecian goddesses are not so common, my dear Stafford, as to permit of more than one in a house-party.

The goddess of water and the rains, the female counterpart of Curicaberis, was the goddess Cueravaperi.

A goddess was the deviser thereof, but having created it for a possession of mortal men, she named that air she played the many-headed air, that speaketh gloriously of folk-stirring games, as it issueth through the thin-beat bronze and the reeds which grow by the Graces' city of goodly dancing-ground in the precinct of Kephisos' nymph, the dancers' faithful witnesses.

The novelist responded quickly; "Why, the reigning 'Goddess' in the realm of 'Modern Art,' is 'The Age,' of course.

The goddess who presided over funerals was Libitina, whose temple at Rome, the undertakers furnished with all the necessaries for the interment of the poor or rich; all dead bodies were carried through the Porto Libitina; and the Rationes Libitinae mentioned by Suetonius, very nearly answer to our bills of mortality.

The itinerant goddess of the principal towns in the department de la Somme was the mistress of one Taillefer, a republican General, brother to the Deputy of the same name.

11 Metaphors for  goddesses