Mother goddess is a term used to refer to a goddess who represents motherhood, fertility, creation, or who embodies the bounty of the Earth. When equated with the Earth or the natural world such goddesses are sometimes referred to as Mother Earth or as the Earth Mother.
Many different goddesses have represented motherhood in one way or another, and some have been associated with the birth of humanity as a whole. Others have represented the fertility of the earth.
Read more about Mother Goddess: Paleolithic Figures, Neolithic Figures, Old Europe, Hinduism, Neopaganism, Earth Mother, In Fiction
Famous quotes containing the words mother and/or goddess:
“Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!”
—John Gay (1685–1732)
“Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or not worth living. School is either pure torment or is going fantastically. Other people are either great or horrible, and they themselves are wonderful or pathetic failures. One day a girl will refer to herself as “the goddess of social life” and the next day she’ll regret that she’s the “ultimate in nerdosity.””
—Mary Pipher (20th century)