Anahit
c. 300 BCE – 400 CEattested
Armenia
- Armenian
Chief goddess of pre-Christian Armenia, called the glory and life of the nation, with a gold cult statue that Roman soldiers looted. Her worship shades into the Iranian Anahita to the south-east.
Known for
- mother of the nation
- the golden statue
- healing and fertility
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.