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  • Greece
  • Rhea had six kids Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. She married her brother Kronos. She is the goddess of female fertility, motherhood, and generation.

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  • According to Hesiod, Cronus sired six children by Rhea: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus in that order. Apart from Zeus, he swallowed all as soon as they were born, because he had learned from Gaia and Uranus that, as he had overthrown his own father, he was destined to be overcome by his own child.

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  • Africa
  • Humanity would not exist if Oshun, the goddess of life and fertility, had not acted. Other myths hold that Oshun is one of the wives of Shango, the god of thunder. She is commonly described as the favourite of all orishas by Olodumare, because of her beauty and sensuality.

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  • Oshun is the Mother of the African sweet or fresh waters. In her form as the mother of salt waters, she is known as Yemaya. Like Egyptian Isis and later Greek Diana, Osun is the goddess of love and is widely beloved.

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  • Native American.
  • Coyote Oldman is a duo of new-age musicians consisting of Native American flute players Barry Stramp and Michael Graham Allen. The name Coyote Oldman is derived from the trickster archetype in Native American .

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  • Coyote is a mythological character common to many cultures of the indigenous peoples of North America, based on the coyote. This character is usually male and is generally anthropomorphic although he may have some coyote-like physical features.The myths and legends which include Coyote vary widely from culture to culture.

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  • Egypt
  • Apep was born from Ra's umbilical cord, indicative of how evil in Egyptian religion is the result of free will rather than force. When Ra was in the underworld, he merged with Osiris, the god of the dead, and through it became the god of the dead as well.

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  • In ancient Egyptian myth, Ra was the sun god, and chief of the cosmic gods of the Egyptian people. Ra was often regarded as the creator, or the father. Although not all myths depict Ra as the first god, many popular versions of Egyptian mythology tell that Ra emerged from chaos at the beginning of time.