In Fiction
In Gore Vidal's ironic dystopia, "Messiah", a new death-worshiping religion sweeps the world and wipes out Christianity. Yet at the conclusion of the book, a woman named Iris, who was among the new religion's founders, starts to be worshiped as a new manifestation of the Mother Goddess, although there was no such concept when the religion was founded. Vidal's point was clearly to show that worship of the Mother Goddess is an immemorial institute and it would find a manifestation within whatever religion emerges.
In Robert Graves' 1949 novel, Seven Days in New Crete, a mother goddess is central to the religion of a quasi-matriarchal future society.
The Mother Goddess is referred to throughout the novel, The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
In the 2009 movie, Avatar, the indigenous species at the center of the drama, the Na'vi, worship a mother goddess called Eywa.
In the 2009 video game, Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, a goddess known as Mem Aleph wishes to restore the Earth to its ancient worship of mother goddesses, and is opposed by the patriarchal Law faction.
In the universe of Warhammer 40000, there is the cult of the Great Sky Mother. The problem is that this cult worships an intergalactic Hive mind. And the name that the rest of the inhabitants of the galaxy give to this cult is genestealer cult.
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“For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.”
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