Lesbian goddesses?

[Alice Morbid]

Okay so I searched for lesbian goddesses on google and came up with this:
http://johanna-hypatia.livejournal.com/71020.html
and I'm not sure how true any of it is o.o But, do any of you know of a lesbian goddess? Is Artemis really a lesbian? o.o

(I apologize in advance for all ignorant things said if any are in this post) sweatdrop  

[Alice Morbid]

Oh, maybe even more specifically if possible... kind of like a goddess pair?(lovers kind of?)
I really don't know very much about gods or goddesses yet.  

[patch99329]

Artemis is not a lesbian. She is a virgin.

I think that comes from people now understanding her reasons for remaining a virgin, and then saying 'omgzz shes a dyke'. stare  

[Calixti]

Furthermore, that list pretty well ignores that strictly categorising people as hetero, homo, or bisexual is, iirc, a fairly recent development. Relatively speaking.  

[TeaDidikai]

That list has perhaps the worst research I have seen for something like that in ages.

Let's get to the point here. Sovereign, why are you looking for a lesbian goddess. Why does who a deity sleeps with matter to you?  

[Alice Morbid]

TeaDidikai

That list has perhaps the worst research I have seen for something like that in ages.

Let's get to the point here. Sovereign, why are you looking for a lesbian goddess. Why does who a deity sleeps with matter to you?

It doesn't really. I was just curious. Thought it might be interesting ^^; Hope I didn't offend anybody..

edit: hm.. maybe in some way.. maybe I was just wondering if there was a goddess with whom I could relate a tiny bit better in the love department.  

[TeaDidikai]

Succubus Sovereign

maybe I was just wondering if there was a goddess with whom I could relate a tiny bit better in the love department.

What does the purported genitalia of the person the goddess sleeps with have to do with relating "in the love department"?

Last I checked, and folks feel free to correct me if I'm wrong- the interpersonal romantic struggles and triumphs of heterosexaul, homosexual and other such relationships don't differ a whole lot from one another.

Romantic relationships, be they pairs, poly, homosexual, heterosexual- whatever, will share the same basic problems.

Money, ********, attention, communication, In Laws, religious tensions, philosophical differences... isn't really that different when you remove the packaging in my experience.  

[Lance Kibagari]

TeaDidikai

Succubus Sovereign

maybe I was just wondering if there was a goddess with whom I could relate a tiny bit better in the love department.

What does the purported genitalia of the person the goddess sleeps with have to do with relating "in the love department"?

Last I checked, and folks feel free to correct me if I'm wrong- the interpersonal romantic struggles and triumphs of heterosexaul, homosexual and other such relationships don't differ a whole lot from one another.

Spot-on, Tea, at least in my experience. 3nodding  

[Taliah]

What Tea said reflects my sentiments as well.

Just to clarify, we're not saying that you're wrong or anything for wanting to relate better to a goddess, but just that with a little more thinking, love really isn't all different between the those distinctions. Gays have a lot of the same relationship problems that straight people do.  

[Violet Song jat Shariff]

I have to agree with everyone else so far.
Love is love, right?  

[TeaDidikai]

This isn't to say that there is no justification in celebrating the triumphs in civil rights progression and the like. It's just that it isn't appropriate to revamp history to turn a deity into a lesbian in order to feel comfortable.

Heck, if Sappho was comfortable writing to Aphrodite, why wouldn't modern Lesbians be?  

[Alice Morbid]

Taliah

What Tea said reflects my sentiments as well.

Just to clarify, we're not saying that you're wrong or anything for wanting to relate better to a goddess, but just that with a little more thinking, love really isn't all different between the those distinctions. Gays have a lot of the same relationship problems that straight people do.

Yes, love is love. ^-^ and.. yes.. many of the same problems.
But I guess.. what led me partly to even wondering about this was the sex part of wica, since it sounds like: fertility, man woman. Which yes.. Man and woman = fertility where as woman + woman doesn't...
@Tea. I really don't care about genitalia or who someone sleeps with. For the most part, I don't think of physical things... or sex :/ I have many trans girl-friends, some of which are lesbians. Genitalia has nothing to do with orientation IMO.
And really, I guess I phrased my question wrong, since. (and I mean no disrespect) but some of the Gods and Goddesses seemed rather sexual and I wondered if one or more had a preference for the same sex; particularly a lesbian.
I have no intention of changing someone's views of someone's God/dess, nor do I care for new interpretations of the old ones really.. I repeat. It was pretty much all just out of curiosity.
Thanks all for your replies ^-^  

[TeaDidikai]

Succubus Sovereign

But I guess.. what led me partly to even wondering about this was the sex part of wica, since it sounds like: fertility, man woman. Which yes.. Man and woman = fertility where as woman + woman doesn't...

Actually, the elements of fertility have nothing to do with sexual orientation. Male + Female is about polarity.

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And really, I guess I phrased my question wrong, since. (and I mean no disrespect) but some of the Gods and Goddesses seemed rather sexual and I wondered if one or more had a preference for the same sex; particularly a lesbian.

Why?  

[Alice Morbid]

TeaDidikai

Succubus Sovereign

But I guess.. what led me partly to even wondering about this was the sex part of wica, since it sounds like: fertility, man woman. Which yes.. Man and woman = fertility where as woman + woman doesn't...

Actually, the elements of fertility have nothing to do with sexual orientation. Male + Female is about polarity.

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And really, I guess I phrased my question wrong, since. (and I mean no disrespect) but some of the Gods and Goddesses seemed rather sexual and I wondered if one or more had a preference for the same sex; particularly a lesbian.

Why?

You ask why.. and yet all I really had to say to that when I read your reply was another "why". :/ Why why why why... I don't think it really matters why.. It was a passing thought, just a little something I thought might be interesting to hear. I suppose it might have been amusing to me. Why do you ask? lol  

[TeaDidikai]

Succubus Sovereign

Why do you ask? lol

To understand the situation. But hey- if you don't want to take my inquires seriously and feel like dismissing the effort I am putting into responding to you- I shall simply stop.