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The gods of the Aztecs (1345-1521 CE) were many and varied and, as with many other ancient cultures, deities were closely associated with things and events important to the culture and the general welfare of the community. These include gods...

Tara is a female deity in both Hinduism and Buddhism who personifies compassion and offers salvation from the suffering of rebirth and death. She is thought to have been born of empathy for the suffering world and is regularly invoked for...

Mother and the dog: A mother is breastfeeding her baby. The scene is a representation of Isis with her child Horus. A dog on the left of the woman is looking at her with its raised head. Period: Early Byzantine, circa 6th. century CE. Place...

Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi brothers, oil on canvas by Umberto Ruini, 1892. Civic Museum of Modena.

Limestone statue of the seated figure of priest Neje and Mutnefret, his mother. From modern-day Egypt. New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, 13th and 12 centuries BCE. (State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany).

A bronze statue of an Etruscan mother and child in typical dress. 500-450 BCE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Beatrice, mother of Matilda of Tuscany (c. 1046-1115) as depicted in the Vita Mathildis by Donizo, 1115. Ms. Vat. lat. 4922, fol. 30. Vatican Library.

The cobras on Tasherenese's headdress and forehead signal a royal status, and her fly-whisk was typical of queens. She was, however, not a queen. An inscription on the back-pillar identifies her as the mother of King Amasis, who started out...

Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabee Brothers and Their Mother, stained glass by Dirck Vellert, Antwerp, c. 1530-35. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The Greek goddess Artemis was the goddess of the hunt, wild nature and the moon in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of Leto and Zeus, and the twin sister to Apollo, the god of the sun, medicine and music among others. Artemis was a patron...