Healing Deities

[xblue420x]

Anybody know who some of them are? I'm creating an altar specifically for healing and I want to add some of the deities that deal alot with it..

[WinterTree]

Dian Cecht - Irish god of healing.
Brigid - Celtic goddess of healing and fertility.
Brigantia - a goddess of healing and patron goddess of the Brigantes, a dominant tribe in England before the invasion of the Romans. (equivalent of Brigid)
Nodens - A British god of healing whose magic hounds where believed to cure the sick.
Mati Syra Zemlya - A Slavonic earth goddess who was summoned for protection from diseases.
Haoma - The Iranian god of medicine and medicinal plants.
Isis - according to myth, she taught humans how to cure themselves of diseases.

That's all I can find for now. I'll keep looking, I know there are plenty of healing deities....

[Chaos Witch]

Don't forget Apollo

[WinterTree]

I found a few more.

Guanyin (or Kuanyin) - Chinese Buddhism's goddess of mercy and compassion. She is believed to be able to cure almost any sickness.
Apollo - Greek god of the sun who was also associated with healing, and was said to control plagues. His son, Asclepius, was killed by a thunderbolt sent by Zeus when he tried to bring a man back to life.

[xblue420x]

thanks alot guys..this will be very helpful..woohoo!!! hehe i cant wait to get started

[Faeawyn]

I have Quan Yin on my altar as well. She is a great goddess for healing :)

[argento_occhi]

Djehuti (Thoth) is the Egyptians Divine Physician, and I've found Him to be a wonderful healer. Sobek-Re too, crocodile-headed guardian of the Sun God Re, also has healing qualities. He's very good for abdominal troubles, i've found. I also work with Aset (Isis), She's wonderful for healing too, among other things. Anubis is apparently associated with healing. That's all i can think of off the top of my head. Hope that helps.

[aftershocked]

Sekhmet, while a destructive force, is also called the keeper of the 'healing fires' and was supposed to be connected with medicine and healing as well.

[Mnemosyne]

In the Greek pantheon, Aesculapius was the god of healing. Also, in the Iliad, Chiron was the centaur who helped the men with their wounds. Some stories say that Apollo learned some of his healing knowledge from Chiron.

[Theres]

and Chiron (the Centaur) is the patron of the herbal healer.
you can invoke Him by drinking a tea made from the centaury plant (but you've got to really want to - this stuff is bitter!)

[xblue420x]

i love you guys!! im gonna do a spell that will make you all very very tiny so i can put you in my pockets and youll all be there whenever i have a question:bouncysmi you can use the lint in my pockets for pillows hehe

thanks alot..
argento, you got me thinking..the abdominal healing of sobek-re is great...do any of you know if any of these(or know of any other ones) deal specifically with injury?..i know alot of them deal with pathology and internal disease..and most will work with any type of healing needed, just wondering if any of them get that specific or not
anyways thanks again you guys rock

[argento_occhi]

the egyptians themselves had a very good medical system, though doctors were initially priests. they had extensive herbalism practices, and injuries, wounds and such were very well treated. They were very good at setting broken bones. The 'magickal' side of healing was usually attributed to more 'internal' problems as well as pregnancy. As to deities specifically relating to injury, i'm not certain there are any, though that doesn't mean they don't exist. I've heard of Anubis also having some healing qualities, also with abdominal pain, but i heard that mostly from anectdotal stuff. I think a lot of it is personal experience. Just because someone experiences a particular deitiy in one light doesn't mean they'll manifest the same way to all. Not tat i'm talking Them down. I've found that They all share many aspects, Aset especially. She seems to have gathered up pretty much everything under her Name. Solar, Lunar, marine, Fertility, just about everything has been attributed to Her. Specific body parts/injuries werent attributed to particular Egyptian Gods, as such, so i can't really help you any further than that. Hope that helps.

bright blessings,
argent

[FeatherGoblinglimmer]

the norse goddess Eir was a healing goddess.

[Morgandria]

Carmenta is a healing goddess from the Roman pantheon. She specifically seems related to blood - she is a goddess of childbirth, and a sort of "battlefield triage" - healing to the wounded and dying soldiers on the field. She's a really neat goddess to work with.

-M.

[DebLipp]

I have at least one reference source that cites Bast as a patron of nurses, so I have often used Her for healing, especially when I had a nurse in my coven.