Animal Deities (and other divine figures)
Ganesha - Hindu elephant god
Anubis - Egyptian god of the dead
Coyote the Trickster - Deity of various Native American tribes
Apis - Egyptian Bull Deity
Pan - Greek god of shepherds, flocks and other stuff; half-goat
Quetzlcoatl - Mesoamerican feathered serpent deity
Saint Christopher - often depicted with the head of a dog.
Animal Deities (and other divine figures)
Ganesha - Hindu elephant god
Anubis - Egyptian god of the dead
Coyote the Trickster - Deity of various Native American tribes
Apis - Egyptian Bull Deity
Pan - Greek god of shepherds, flocks and other stuff; half-goat
Quetzlcoatl - Mesoamerican feathered serpent deity
Saint Christopher - often depicted with the head of a dog
Thoth - usually depicted with the head of an ibis or baboon
Thoth (/θoʊθ, toʊt/; from Koinē Greek: Θώθ Thṓth, borrowed from Coptic: Ⲑⲱⲟⲩⲧ Thōout, Egyptian: Ḏḥwtj, the reflex of ḏḥwtj "[He] is like the Ibis") is an ancient Egyptian deity. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. His feminine counterpart was Seshat, and his wife was Ma'at. He was the god of the moon, wisdom, knowledge, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art and judgment.
Thoth's chief temple was located in the city of Hermopol...
Animal Deities (and other divine figures)
Ganesha - Hindu elephant god
Anubis - Egyptian god of the dead
Coyote the Trickster - Deity of various Native American tribes
Apis - Egyptian Bull Deity
Pan - Greek god of shepherds, flocks and other stuff; half-goat
Quetzlcoatl - Mesoamerican feathered serpent deity
Saint Christopher - often depicted with the head of a dog
Thoth - usually depicted with the head of an ibis or baboon
Hanuman - Hindu ape god
Animal Deities (and other divine figures)
Ganesha - Hindu elephant god
Anubis - Egyptian god of the dead
Coyote the Trickster - Deity of various Native American tribes
Apis - Egyptian Bull Deity
Pan - Greek god of shepherds, flocks and other stuff; half-goat
Quetzlcoatl - Mesoamerican feathered serpent deity
Saint Christopher - often depicted with the head of a dog
Thoth - usually depicted with the head of an ibis or baboon
Hanuman - Hindu ape god
Ungoliant - monstrous otherworldly spider from The Silmarillion
Ungoliant (Sindarin pronunciation: [ʊŋˈɡɔljant]) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, described as an evil spirit in the form of a spider. Her name means "dark spider" in Sindarin. She is mentioned briefly in The Lord of the Rings, and plays a supporting role in The Silmarillion, enabling the Dark Lord Melkor to destroy the Two Trees of Valinor, darkening the world.
Her origins are unclear, as Tolkien's writings do not explicitly reveal her nature, other than that she ...
jali
October 21, 2010, 5:00pm
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Animal Deities (and other divine figures)
Ganesha - Hindu elephant god
Anubis - Egyptian god of the dead
Coyote the Trickster - Deity of various Native American tribes
Apis - Egyptian Bull Deity
Pan - Greek god of shepherds, flocks and other stuff; half-goat
Quetzlcoatl - Mesoamerican feathered serpent deity
Saint Christopher - often depicted with the head of a dog
Thoth - usually depicted with the head of an ibis or baboon
Hanuman - Hindu ape god
Ungoliant - monstrous otherworldly spider from The Silmarillion
Anansi - The Man/Spider cunning trickster from West Africa
I would take issue with this. The list is not fictional deities.
Animal Deities (and other divine figures)
Ganesha - Hindu elephant god
Anubis - Egyptian god of the dead
Coyote the Trickster - Deity of various Native American tribes
Apis - Egyptian Bull Deity
Pan - Greek god of shepherds, flocks and other stuff; half-goat
Quetzlcoatl - Mesoamerican feathered serpent deity
Saint Christopher - often depicted with the head of a dog
Thoth - usually depicted with the head of an ibis or baboon
Hanuman - Hindu ape god
Ungoliant - monstrous otherworldly spider from The Silmarillion
Anansi - The Man/Spider cunning trickster from West Africa
Grandfather Raven - Creator diety of the Haida people.
Animal Deities (and other divine figures)
Ganesha - Hindu elephant god
Anubis - Egyptian god of the dead
Coyote the Trickster - Deity of various Native American tribes
Apis - Egyptian Bull Deity
Pan - Greek god of shepherds, flocks and other stuff; half-goat
Quetzlcoatl - Mesoamerican feathered serpent deity
Saint Christopher - often depicted with the head of a dog
Thoth - usually depicted with the head of an ibis or baboon
Hanuman - Hindu ape god
Ungoliant - monstrous otherworldly spider from The Silmarillion
Anansi - The Man/Spider cunning trickster from West Africa
Grandfather Raven - Creator diety of the Haida people.
The Caribou Mother - an Inuit deity who represents the source of caribou.
New list: women who have been heads of state.
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
New list: women who have been heads of state.
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
She counts as a head of state, right? I figured we should avoid the issue of heads of government vs heads of state.
New list: women who have been heads of state.
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
Baudica, Queen of the Celtic tribe who led the uprising against the Romans circa AD 60
Ponch8
October 21, 2010, 5:58pm
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women who have been heads of state.
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
Baudica, Queen of the Celtic tribe who led the uprising against the Romans circa AD 60
Golda Meir, PM of Israel
jali
October 21, 2010, 6:44pm
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women who have been heads of state.
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
Baudica, Queen of the Celtic tribe who led the uprising against the Romans circa AD 60
Golda Meir, PM of Israel
Margaret Thatcher, PM UK
Gandhi, Meir and Thatcher were all heads of government, not heads of state (the first two had a president fill that role, while Thatcher of course had a monarch).
Anyhoo…
Women who have been heads of state.
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
Baudica, Queen of the Celtic tribe who led the uprising against the Romans circa AD 60
Golda Meir, PM of Israel
Margaret Thatcher, PM UK
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born Ellen Eugenia Johnson, 29 October 1938) is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th president of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa.
Sirleaf was born in Monrovia to a Gola father and Kru-German mother. She was educated at the College of West Africa. She completed her education in the United States, where she studied at Madison Business College, the University of Colorado Boulder, and Harvard University. She r...
women who have been heads of state.
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
Baudica, Queen of the Celtic tribe who led the uprising against the Romans circa AD 60
Golda Meir, PM of Israel
Margaret Thatcher, PM UK
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
Isabel Peron, President of Argentina, 1931
women who have been heads of state.
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
Baudica, Queen of the Celtic tribe who led the uprising against the Romans circa AD 60
Golda Meir, PM of Israel
Margaret Thatcher, PM UK
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
Isabel Peron, President of Argentina, 1931
Benazir Bhutto, PM of Pakistan, 1988-1990, 1993-1996
women who have been heads of state.
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
Baudica, Queen of the Celtic tribe who led the uprising against the Romans circa AD 60
Golda Meir, PM of Israel
Margaret Thatcher, PM UK
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
Isabel Peron, President of Argentina, 1974
Benazir Bhutto, PM of Pakistan, 1988-1990, 1993-1997
Corazon Aquino, President of the Phillipines
Peron was born in 1931.
Bhutto, too, was head of government, not head of state. I know of no country in which a prime minister is head of state.
Women who have been heads of state.
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
Baudica, Queen of the Celtic tribe who led the uprising against the Romans circa AD 60
Golda Meir, PM of Israel
Margaret Thatcher, PM UK
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
Isabel Peron, President of Argentina, 1974
Benazir Bhutto, PM of Pakistan, 1988-1990, 1993-1996
Corazon Aquino, President of the Phillipines
Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, 1997-present
Mary Patricia McAleese (/ˌmækəˈliːs/ MAK-ə-LEESS; Irish: Máire Pádraigín Mhic Ghiolla Íosa; née Leneghan; born 27 June 1951) is an Irish activist lawyer, academic, author, and former politician who served as the eighth president of Ireland from November 1997 to November 2011. McAleese was first elected as president in 1997, having received the nomination of Fianna Fáil. She succeeded Mary Robinson, making her the second female president of Ireland, and the first woman in the world to succee Mc...
Women who have been heads of state or heads of government
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
Baudica, Queen of the Celtic tribe who led the uprising against the Romans circa AD 60
Golda Meir, PM of Israel
Margaret Thatcher, PM UK
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
Isabel Peron, President of Argentina, 1974 - 1976
Benazir Bhutto, PM of Pakistan, 1988-1990, 1993-1996
Corazon Aquino, President of the Phillipines
Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, 1997-present
Vigdis Finnbogadottir, President of Iceland, 1980-1996
Women who have been heads of state or heads of government
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
Baudica, Queen of the Celtic tribe who led the uprising against the Romans circa AD 60
Golda Meir, PM of Israel
Margaret Thatcher, PM UK
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
Isabel Peron, President of Argentina, 1974 - 1976
Benazir Bhutto, PM of Pakistan, 1988-1990, 1993-1996
Corazon Aquino, President of the Phillipines
Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, 1997-present
Vigdis Finnbogadottir, President of Iceland, 1980-1996
Liliuokalani, Queen Regnant of Hawaii 1891-93
Women who have been heads of state or heads of government
Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India
Baudica, Queen of the Celtic tribe who led the uprising against the Romans circa AD 60
Golda Meir, PM of Israel
Margaret Thatcher, PM UK
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
Isabel Peron, President of Argentina, 1974 - 1976
Benazir Bhutto, PM of Pakistan, 1988-1990, 1993-1996
Corazon Aquino, President of the Phillipines
Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, 1997-present
Vigdis Finnbogadottir, President of Iceland, 1980-1996
Liliuokalani, Queen Regnant of Hawaii 1891-93
Queen Elizabeth I, United Kingdom 1558–1603
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