Meaning of goddessling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A minor female divinity; a local or inferior goddess.
2. A young goddess.

Examples

“The cult of the goddessling Suo-Duo or So-Do is so strongly prevalent in Lower Bengal that, on the Pous Sankrant Day or Makar Sankrant Day, which falls on or about...”

“After they had become⟳ Hinduized and had adopted Hindu manners and customs, they began to worship⟳ a number⟳ of Hindu godlings and goddesslings along with their old tribal deities.”

“its paganism looks away from nature to myth or (as Coleridge unkindly put⟳ it when preferring Hebrew poetry to Greek), for the Greeks ‘all natural objects were dead – mere hollow statues – but there was a godkin or goddessling included in each’.”

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