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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