What are the names of fire goddess in the mythology of different nations?
Fire is such a huge thing in mythology; it has many attributes and many different gods and goddesses preside over the many different attributes. Women are many times the goddesses of domestic fire or an idea of fire rather than the wild fire. There are many women who watch over fire in one way or another, more than I had originally thought. Many times one belief system has the same things watched over by more than one figure, especially something as important as fire. I have tried to put them in order of basic regions. These are only some of the ones I have found. Pele in Hawaii is a kind of fire goddess obviously, technically goddess of the volcano. Goga of Oceannic/Papua myths was a fire goddess, but a selfish one who wanted to keep her fire. Mahu-ike of the Maori is a god/dess who keeps the fires burning in the underworld. Hestia is the Greek goddess among other things of the hearth fire. Vesta is responsible for many of the same things as Hestia in Roman myths. Chantico in Aztec my
