Siwa is the asteroid #140, also known as 1948 AL, of the type P, and a large and dark Main Belt Asteroid of no further astronomical significance. Siwa is named after a Slavic goddess.

The Slavic goddess Siwa is also spelled Šiwa, Živa, Siva or known as Živena, Żiwia, Sieba, or Razivia. While almost all of the still known Slavic deities are male, Siwa is the goddess of fertility. She was equaled with the Greek Demeter or the East Slavic Mokosh, while Siwa is West Slavic, more precisely Polabian. This tribe doesn’t exist anymore. Like many other West Slavic tribes have the Polabians mixed with Germanic tribes to form the modern Germans, who are a Slavic-Germanic-Celtic-Roman mix. Siwa’s alternative name Živa means vitality. Siwa was believed to be a counselor for her devotees. Later she was also believed to be the aged appearance of a threefold goddess.

By people, who don’t care about other cultures, is Siwa sometimes confused with Śiva (शिव). So being overlooked and mistaken must be an important side of Siwa’s astrological meaning. Besides this is she a representative of wisdom and of fertility. Of course also a hint to Slavic culture, although in particular to a no longer existing tribe. But she can also hint to the side of Germans, which is often forgotten because nowadays many people don’t know or even deny that Germans are partly Slavic. It is interesting too that the cubewanos are named after deities of creation and fertility, but other asteroids, like Siwa, may also be named after deities of fertility. The latter are more likely to produce something real. I would even say the closer an asteroid’s orbit is to the Earth (or to where a person lives) the more likely shows a fertility asteroid a real possibility of producing something or of reproducing. Cubewanos show instead feel-good worlds.