Gods and Goddesses of Librarianship
There’s a thought in librarianship that Fridays bring strange questions. One of the questions a colleague handled today was: what Greek or Roman god or goddess would represent librarians or libraries. The first response, of course, was Aphrodite. Other suggestions, though not necessarily Greek or Roman, were:
- Thoth, the Egyptian deity of scribes and knowledge, or his daughter, Seshat
- Saint Jerome
- Vishnu (because we need many hands)
- Saint Lawrence, or San Lorenzo, who kept the early records and archives of the Christian church
- the Hindu goddess of learning, knowledge, speech, and music, Sarasvati
- Catherine of Alexandria
- Hermes Trismegistus or Mercury
- Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory
- Itzamna, the Mayan Reptilian Top God who invented books and writing
- Minerva
