Geography/Culture: Hindustani. She is mentioned in the Rig Vedas.
Linguistic Note: from gam, going.
Description: Goddess of the sacred river {of life}; Mother of rivers; Bestower of health, happiness, fertility and material wealth; Absolver of guilt; Saviour from the ordeal of reincarnation; Eponym of the river Ganges.
Seeing, touching or drining Her waters, or addressing the Goddess with the words: "O Mother Ganga", will remove all sin. All who bathe in Ganga will obtain Svarga, heaven.
To Whom Sacred: lotus; fish; turtle; the river Ganges; Gangajala (the water of the Ganges used when administering oaths); Gangaksetra (the land through which Ganga flows and a specified area on either bank -- those who die within these limits go immediately to the heavenly world no matter what their deeds); the Milky Way Galaxy; crown; lute; the color white; makara (Her vahana, a mythical crocodile-like aquatic beast).
Iconography: In South India She is sometimes represented as a mermaid swimming in water with folded hands, wearing a crown, and bearing on Her forehead the saiva mark in sacred ashes. In Bengal She is depicted as a woman, coloured white (denoting Her cleansing and purifying qualities), crowned and seated on Her vahana, a makara. In Her right hand She holds a lotus, in Her left a lute.
Male Associates: sons, the eight Vasus, (seven of whom She drowned at birth only Bhisma, the eighth being preserved), by consort, Santanu. Skanda-Karttikeya, the god of war, is sometimes said to be Her son by Agni, god of fire, or She is his foster-Mother. Sometimes Varuna is Her consort.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She is one of the Apsaras, They are linked with Urvasi.
• She is also called: Abhraganga, , below.
• Title: Bhagirathi, ----, after the rsi Bhagiratha, who effected Her descent from Heaven.
• Also called Jahnavi, Daughter-of-Jahnu, from a legend concerning Her.
• When Ganga, Swift-Goer, is Mother of Skanda-Karttikeya, the Krttikas, ----, (below) become his foster-Mothers.
• Daughter of Mena, Who is linked with Uma, Gracious-One.
• Often identified with: Parvati, She-of-the-Mountains, Who is linked with Uma, Gracious-One.
• She is associated with Swaha, below.
• She absorbed the river Goddess Tuima, ----, of Tiparas (East Bengal), Who thereby became identified with Ganga, Swift-Goer.
• Title Visnupadi, She-Who-Issues-From-the-Pervader's-Foot.
• Perhaps Ganga, Swift-Goer, is one of the "differentiated forms of the river Goddesses of Northern India" Who are derived from Yaksini (Who is linked with Gramadevata, Village-Goddess.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Also called Akasaganga, *K*S1G1G*, ----.
• Title Devabhuti, DAV1BHWTE, Flowing-From-Heaven.
• Celestial aspect of Ganga, Swift-Goer, above.
• Also called Mandakini, M1ND*KYNE, The-Milky-Way. {This seems so interesting -- is the translation exactly that? what part is which? How did the English name for the Galaxy arise - now I come to think of it doesn't galaxy itself have something to do with milk. And then there's Rhea Whose spurt of milk the galaxy is!}

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Description: Goddess of the Northward equinox.
To Whom Sacred: flame; sword; the constellation Krttikas (ie. the Pleiades).

Titles/Variants, etc:
• The original lunar zodiac opened with Krttika, ----, and though later given third place She remained for ritual purposes the 1st Naksatra, ----, The Naksatras are linked with Rohini, Red-One.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Description: By some accounts the six Krttikas, ----, are the foster-mothers of Skanda after finding him where Ganga, Swift-Goer, had hidden him among the rushes on Her banks.
To Whom Sacred: the constellation Krttaka; the northward equinox (which is associated with the rise of the constellation) .
Male Associate: They are associated with Agni in various rather esoteric ways, and also with Skanda-Kartikeya, Attacker----, the war God, who obtained his matronymic from Them.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• The constellation Krttaka is also anthropomorphised in Greece and known there as the Pleiades, Flock-of-Doves.
• {I think I found a connection between the Krittikas and the Saptamatrkas, it is not in HDH under the latter. If there is a connection it might be through the number seven}.

Geography/Culture: Hindustani.
Description: She is the ritual call made when offering oblations; She to Whom women pray when desirous of offspring.
Male Associates: consort Agni. Sons, Pavarka, Pavamana, and Suci.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Perhaps somewhat comparable to Ioulo, , Who is linked with Demeter, Barley-Mother.
• The last word of the mantra evoking Tara, Star, is Svaha.
• She is identified with Uma, Gracious-One.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She entrusted the six seeds from Her six night union with Agni, to Ganga.
• See also Krttikas, above.