There are many Goddesses and quite can be violent in around the world Mythology and Cultures. But I came across really brutal and violent Goddesses from the two great Epics the Canaanite Epic Ba'al and the Finish Epic Kalevala. These goddess are such that you would definitely not like to meet them. Epics generally show a Hero's journey but theses two epics mention brutality by Goddesses
Goddess Anat
From The Epic of Ba'al (Ugaritic Mythology)
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| Canaanites goddess Anat |
Anat was one of the chief deities of the Canaanites, people of Syria and Palestine in the ancient Near East. A goddess of love, fertility, and war, she was the sister and wife of the god Baa. In the Ugaritic mythology Anat appears as a fierce, wild and furious warrior in a battle, wading knee-deep in blood, striking off heads, cutting off hands, binding the heads to her torso and the hands in her sash, driving out the old men and townsfolk with her arrows, her heart filled with joy.
‘Anat is a violent war-goddess, a virgin who is the sister and, according to a much disputed theory, the lover of the great god Ba‘al Hadad. Ba‘al is usually called the son of Dagan and sometimes the son of El, who addresses ‘Anat as "daughter". ‘
In the 14th century bc Ugartic text The Epic of Ba'al, She defends Her brother the storm-God Ba'al. But Mot triumphs against Ba'al and sends Him to the land of the dead; Anat, with help from the sun Goddess Shapash, Who has access to the Underworld, brings Him back to life. Anat then takes revenge on Mot, cutting Him up into tiny pieces, winnowing Him like grain, grinding Him up, and then sowing Him in the fields. Before Anat goes into battle She prepares Herself by anointing Herself with henna and ambergris, and dressing in saffron and purple dyed clothing. She then proceeds to slaughter the enemies of Ba'al, across west and east, hanging severed heads from Her back, and affixing hands to Her belt. Laughing and rejoicing, She wades to Her knees in the blood of soldiers, "to Her thighs in the gore of quick warriors." When the slaughter is finished, She then washes Herself in the rain-water of Her brother Ba'al, and again adorns Herself with ambergris.
Goddess Loviatar
From the Finish Epic Kalevala
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| Finnish Goddess Loviatar |
The goddess of death ,disease and desolation of Finnish mythology. She is the blind daughter of Tuonetar and Tuoni, Goddess and God of the Underworld. She is mentioned in the 45th rune of the Finish Epic Kalevala. The epic describes her as the most wretched daughter with the blackest of hearts bent on unleashing the most wicked and terrible illnesses upon the mortal lands.She is known for being blind, ugly, and old, a virgin.
Loviatar's is credited as the mother of the most horrifying evils of the world: each of her nine sons are the most appalling diseases. The epic Kalevala provides a description of Loviatar's impregnation and birth of the nine terrible children. Loviatar is made pregnant by the east-wind, and is greatly distressed and burdened by their weight. She travels "by the mountain-springs and fountains, by the crystal waters flowing, by the sacred stream and whirlpool, by the cataract and fire-stream", all the while blind and in great pain over her labor. . When she went into labor, Loviatar went to Louhi, Goddess of sorcery, who helped her to give birth to nine sons. The first eight of these sons she named Pistos (consumption), Ähky (colic), Luuvalo (gout), Riisi (rickets), Paise (ulcer), Rupi (scab), Syöjä (cancer), and Rutto (plague). The ninth, who personified envy, was not named. Thus due to the birth of such nine dreadful children Loviatar is most violent of goddess .
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