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- NECTAR
- nectar (Greek) -- sacred to Hebe.
- NET
- net (Norse in Britain) -- sacred to Goda.
- NINE, the number
- the number 9 -- made sacred to Xmucane, qv Alaghom-Naom because she brewed nine drinks from white and yellow maize with which the flesh and blood of humanity were formed.
- the number 9 (Celtic: Irish) -- sacred to Boann.
- the number 9 (Cretan) -- sacred to Britomartis. She was pursued for nine months.
- the number 9 (Norse) -- sacred to Hel.
- (Norse) -- sacred to Skadi. "In Germanic religion and mythology the number nine is the most sacred and mysterious of numbers, there are nine worlds in Yggdrasill, Odhinn hung for nine nights on that tree to gain the runes, the god Heimdallr was born of nine Mothers,... This is the number of a completeness that leads to a birth of greater power and productivity". Thorsson FHRM 36.
- nine-plants (Hindustani) -- sacred to Durga.
- NITROGEN
- [nitrogen] (Babylonia): {Holladay Pagaganism made} sacred to Anatu, qv Anath, Goddess
of air.
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