Maiden
What you need to sow
Begin the process of getting something back. Make the claim, file the request.
Iberia / Spain
Ataegina
Goddess of Spring's Return
Lusitania and western Iberia, pre-Roman into the Roman period
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Her story
Historical context
goddess · Lusitania and western Iberia, pre-Roman into the Roman period
Ataegina is known almost entirely from votive inscriptions cut into stone across western Iberia — people asking for healing, for justice, occasionally for revenge. The Romans matched her with Proserpina, which tells us what they understood her to be: a goddess who moves between the season of death and the season of return.
Mythology & traditions
What survives of her is a pile of requests. That is her character: she is the goddess people turned to when something had been taken and they wanted it back — health, property, a fair outcome. Her spring is not gentle sentiment; it is restitution, the underworld made to give something up.
Domains
- Spring
- The underworld
- Rebirth
- Healing
- Oaths and curses
Symbols
- Goat
- Cypress
- Spring flowers
- Votive tablet
- Silver offering
In the oracle
Her guidance
Mother
What you need to grow
Nurture your recovery. Convalescence — physical or emotional — is the real job right now.
Crone
What you need to know
What went under is not necessarily gone. Some things return only when formally asked for.