Maiden
What you need to sow
Begin sharing some of what you have.
Kushan / Bactria (Uzbekistan)
Ardochsho
Lady of Abundance
Kushan Empire, 1st–4th centuries CE (southern Uzbekistan and region)
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Her story
Historical context
goddess · Kushan Empire, 1st–4th centuries CE (southern Uzbekistan and region)
Ardochsho is a Kushan goddess of plenty, known mainly from coins struck across Bactria, including sites in southern Uzbekistan. She is usually shown holding a cornucopia and is related to the Iranian Ashi, spirit of reward.
Mythology & traditions
Kushan coins label her in Bactrian script and show her with a cornucopia, a form shaped by both Iranian ideas of reward and Hellenistic images of abundance. Placing Ardochsho on currency made prosperity a public promise of the ruler’s legitimacy. Her surviving mythology is largely visual and numismatic rather than a preserved story cycle.
Domains
- wealth
- abundance
- royal fortune
- generosity
Symbols
- cornucopia
- diadem
- gold coin
In the oracle
Her guidance
Mother
What you need to grow
Grow abundance that is generous by nature.
Crone
What you need to know
Know that true wealth flows out as easily as in.
Her tradition
Sogdian & Bactrian Tradition
Silk Road goddesses of sovereignty and abundance from Samarkand to Bactria.
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