goddessling

goddessling

English

Etymology

From goddess +‎ -ling.

Noun

goddessling (plural goddesslings)

1. (religion) A minor female divinity; a local or inferior goddess.
   • 1928, The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, volume 14, page 811:

     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...

   • 1984, Indian Culture: Journal of the Indian Research Institute, volume 4, page 247:

     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.

   • 1988, Laurence Lerner, "Ovid and the Elizabethans", Ovid Renewed, page 134:

     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’.

See also

• demigoddess
• goddess
• heroine
• idol
• spirit

Further reading

• goddessling at OneLook Dictionary Search