The Dark Goddess
From Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers
The Dark Goddess, sometimes called Cerridwen, is the Celtic-derived keeper of souls, the owner of the gate between the worlds of the living and the dead, and she is sometimes perceived as the force of death itself. She is worshipped under a variety of different names in almost every Neo-Pagan tradition.
Adherents of eclectic or multi-cultural lineages of Neo-Paganism occasionally conflate her name, image, and attributes with dark goddesses from other religious traditions, such as the Hindu goddess Kali, the Germanic and Nordic goddess Hel, the Greek goddess Hekate, the African and African-Diasporic orisha Oya, and the Mexican Catholic folk saint Santisima Muerte.
