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Goddess

The Divine Feminine, also known as Sacred Feminine or Goddess, refers to the aspect of the divine or sacred that is expressed through femininity or feminine attributes. This concept is found in various religious and spiritual traditions, often representing qualities such as nurturing, intuition, and creation. In Hebrew, the term can be translated as הנקבה האלוהית (Hankeiva HaElohit). In Spanish, it is known as lo divino femenino, in French as le divin féminin, and in German as das Göttliche Weibliche. The Divine Feminine is often contrasted with or complemented by the Divine Masculine, together forming a balanced understanding of the divine. In many traditions, the Divine Feminine is personified as a goddess or deity, such as in Hinduism with Shakti or in ancient Mesopotamian religion with Inanna. The concept has gained significant attention in modern spiritual and feminist movements, which emphasize the importance of balancing masculine and feminine energies in both spiritual and secular contexts.

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Goddess
Feminine or female deity
Goddess
A goddess is a female deity. In some faiths, a sacred female figure holds a central place in religious prayer and worship. For example, Shaktism, holds that the ultimate deity, the source of all reality, is Supreme Goddess (Mahaiia) and in some forms of Tantric Shaivism, the pair of Shiva and Shakti are the ultimate principle. Meanwhile, in Vajrayana Buddhism, ultimate reality is often seen as being composed of two principles depicted as two deities in union symbolising the non-duality of the two principles of perfect wisdom (female) and skillful compassion (male). A single figure in a monotheistic faith that is female may be identified simply as god because of no need to differentiate by gender or with a diminutive. An experiment to determine the effect of psychedelics on subjects composed of leaders from diverse religious groups revealed a general experience that the divine the subjects encountered was feminine.
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