Parèdre

Parèdre (transcription of the old Greek πάρεδρος/ páredros ), noun and literally meaning adjective “which sat beside”. It gets busy to qualify an often lower divinity usually associated, in the worship, with a god or a goddess more powerful. However the current use tends to call parèdre it or the consort of a deity, and can be to him equal, or complementary.

Examples of parèdres:

  • Attis is the parèdre of Cybèle;
  • Sarasvatî is the parèdre of Brahma;
  • Neith is the parèdre of Seth;
  • Kâlî, Durga, Pârvatî is parèdres of Shiva, its Shakti S;
  • Tanit is the parèdre of Ba' Al Hammon, or African Saturn;
  • Antu or Antum is the parèdre of An, the king of the gods sumériens.

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