A Goddess named Sarah?

[Palentine]

I've come across a couple references of a Goddess named Sarah, but the only information I can find is that she is a Goddess of love. I can't be sure of a pantheon, but I believe her to be of celtic/germanic type origin. can anyone help?

[Emy]

Well this is what I've found out about Sarah:

Namrud

The king who intended to burn the prophet Ibrahim on the pyre, but failed because God made the fire cool. His daughter Sarah later married Ibrahim.


Sara

The Mesopotamian god of the town of Umma.


Asmodeus

An evil spirit. He appears in the Apocryphal book of Tobit. Although he is described in later literature as the king of demons, in Jewish folklore he is mischievous and lively, a figure of fun and often a friend to people. He is said to disturb marital happiness, and it was Asmodeus who strangled the seven husbands of Sara during her wedding-night.
Asmodeus originated from the ancient Persian demon Aesma Daeva



Thats what I found out on Encyclopedia Mythica, I'm afraid it wasn't much help...

blessings

[Emy]

Me again.... I also found out that Sarah is some sort of love goddess, but thats all... All that I found out says that Sarah stands for Love, it says nothing more.. no origin, nor wich pantheon she belongs to... nothing...

Blessed Be

[Agaliha]

Well there is the Goddess Kali-Sara, Queen of the Gypsies.



Each year, nomadic gypsies from all over Europe gather in Camargue, France at the church of Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer to celebrate the feast of their queen. In the crypt of the church, surrounded by numerous candles, this miracle-working black statue is attended by thousands of members of the Rom family. They call the crypt 'our mothers womb,' and when they are assembled, the pilgrims carry their black divinity into the sea. In the church she is St. Sara, the black serving maid of the two white Mary's who have their altars upstairs in the main church., but the gypsies call her Kali-Sara, they associate her with Kali of India, the mother-goddess of their homeland.
The painting shows Kali-Sara as a wise woman, imparting secret knowledge. Gypsy women are specially known to have access to secret vision and Kali-Sara represents this gift. She is shown crowned and robed in blue and white. Like other cult figures, she is dressed in real outfits which are constantly changed. She stands on a black rock, often swathed with tapestry at normal height. Thus her devotees can easily kiss her face. Although no flowers are associated with her worship, she is surrounded in the dark crypt by hundreds of candles. A small carved, wooden shrine beside her statue holds letters attesting to her miracles and small shoes. Children's crutches are laid behind her on the rock wall, cones, metal braces; testaments to her heating powers.
http://www.marykellystudio.homestead.com/files/kalis.htm (http://www.marykellystudio.homestead.com/files/kalis.htm)


Besides that I have no clue...
I found a few Sarah McLachlan Shirines....and references to the Bible.

There is also the story of Mary Magdalene and Jesus's child, named Sarah...in which she may represent their love.

[Philosophia]

http://www.thehope.org/toreng5.htm (http://www.thehope.org/toreng5.htm)
http://www.dhushara.com/book/orsin/asherah.htm (http://www.dhushara.com/book/orsin/asherah.htm)

Sarah is of the greatest of the ancient Hebrew matriachs, also having had the most in common with the ancestral goddesses of the non-Hebrew tribes of the ancient Near East. Her attributes and Legend make it clear that she must be viewed as a vestigal goddess among the patriachal Hebrews. Even as a mortal, Sarah was reconginized as alien to the hebrews. She was described as a Chaldean princess who bestowed wealth on Ambraham by consenting to marry him.
Sarah was brilliantly beautiful and ageless; she was said to be so lovely that human women seemed like apes beside her. She did not bear a child until she had lived for nearly a century; then, rather than exhausting her, the birth rejuvanated her. From her face an unearthly radiance shone; a miraculous cloud marked her tent as long as she was alive. Apparently her life had a particular health giving power, for while Sarah was alive, her land was fertile and her husband did not age; when she died, the land ceased to bear and her husband, Abraham, suddenly aged and died.
She was so close to divine that she actually held conversations with jehovah. She was prescient-called Iscah ("seer")-and acknowledged to be a more gifted prophet than her husband. Finally, she had a curious trait in common with the Great Goddesses of her region; she was called Abraham's sister as wel as his spouse. Because the mythic intention was unclear to the Hebrews, they explained that Sarah was only called Abraham's sister when danger threatened, but in reality was only his wife. While so "disguised", Sarah married several kings, rather like goddesses who grant sovereignity to a man by "marrying" him, while remaining constantly in love with their "brothers" the fertile golds of growth and reproduction.
- "The new book of Goddesses and Heroines" - Patricia Monaghan (Pgs 272 - 273)

A Book:
Sarah the Priestess: The First Matriarch of Genesis by Savina J. Teubal