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    Mother goddess

    A mother goddess is a major goddess characterized as a mother or progenitor, either as an embodiment of motherhood and fertility or fulfilling the cosmological role of a creator- and/or destroyer-figure, typically associated the Earth, sky, and/or the life-giving bounties thereof in a maternal relation with humanity or other gods. When equated in this lattermost function with the earth or the natural world, such goddesses are sometimes referred to as the Mother Earth or Earth Mother, deity in various animistic or pantheistic religions. The earth goddess is archetypally the wife or feminine counterpart of the Sky Father or Father Heaven, particularly in theologies derived from the Proto-Indo-European sphere. Wikipedia

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    Mother Goddess sculpture from Madhya Pradesh or Rajasthan, India, 6th-7th century, in the National Museum of Korea, Seoul. A mother goddess is a major goddess characterized as a mother or progenitor, either as an embodiment of motherhood and fertility or fulfilling the cosmological role of a creator-and/or destroyer-figure, typically associated the Earth, sky, and/or the life-giving bounties ...
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  4. ancienthistoryschool.com

    Thus ended the period of the female figurines she called Mother Goddess. (Meskell, 1998, pg 126-128) Ronald Hutton, English historian and expert on British folklore and paganism, wrote a fascinating article titled, The Neolithic great goddess: a study in modern tradition (1997), where he explores the development of the goddess statues and ...
  5. thecollector.com

    Earth was the divine mother of all. The first written reference to the Earth as a mother is traced back to ancient Greek writings. Gaia was the great goddess and mother of all creation for the ancient Greeks. The concept of Mother Earth or Mother Goddess was first recorded in the early 7th century BCE by the great Greek poet Hesiod in his ...
  6. monidipa.net

    Jan 3, 2025In prehistoric era people would apply their own experiences from life to the various things that they saw around them, which is now known as principle of analogy. Thus, natural productivity was compared to human procreation capability, and earth mother or the mother goddess was conceptualized from a human mother.
  7. encyclopedia.com

    MOTHER GODDESS The expression mother goddess or maternal divinity designates a historic or prehistoric female figure that was the object of a cult. The oldest examples are found in Paleolithic Europe; these are the Venuses found in grottoes that served as sanctuaries.
  8. encyclopedia.com

    Goddesses, MotherThe Mother Goddess designation has both specificity and great elasticity. The specific set of characteristics to which it refers centers on earthly cycles and the biological processes of fertility, birth, and death. ... Examples of the organic and physical representation of mother goddesses are prehistoric figurines, such as ...
  9. bmcr.brynmawr.edu

    As the women movement gathered force, the notion of a prehistoric Mother Goddess was taken up earnestly even by academics like Gimbutas and historian Gerda Lerner. 6 The moral sub-text of these works leant credibility to their arguments: most of the evils of the present-day world had been introduced as a result of the dominance of men.
  10. academia.edu

    The paper delves into the historical and contemporary debates surrounding the figure of the Mother Goddess in prehistory, highlighting the evolution of the discourse from its inception by Johann Jacob Bachofen in the 19th century to present scholarly critiques. It critiques the interpretations of female figurines and goddess worship, arguing ...
  11. britannica.com

    Nov 29, 2024mother goddess, any of a variety of feminine deities and maternal symbols of creativity, birth, fertility, sexual union, nurturing, and the cycle of growth.The term also has been applied to figures as diverse as the so-called Stone Age Venuses and the Virgin Mary. Because motherhood is one of the universal human realities, there is no culture that has not employed some maternal symbolism in ...
  12. 'The study of prehistoric human figurines has been one of the main focal points of prehistoric archaeological investigations.'1 At the time of their discovery, and until the 1960s, scholars interpreted such figurines as representatives of the Mother Goddess, or as connected with the worship of the Mother Goddess, and recognized that they ...

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