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...
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Triple Goddess is a deity or deity archetype revered in many Neopagan religious and spiritual traditions. In common Neopagan usage, the Triple Goddess is...
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Cybele (redirect from Great Mother goddess)
"Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; Lydian Kuvava; Greek: Κυβέλη Kybélē, Κυβήβη Kybēbē, Κύβελις Kybelis) is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may...
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domesticity, creativity, and fertility (exemplified by the ancient mother goddess cult). Many major goddesses are also associated with magic, war, strategy...
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Mother of the Goddess' Dormitory (Japanese: 女神寮の寮母くん。, Hepburn: Megami-ryō no Ryōbo-kun, lit. "Dorm Mother of the Goddess' Dorm") is a Japanese manga...
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List of earth deities (redirect from Earth Goddess)
Ninhursag are Mesopotamian earth goddesses. Asase Yaa, the goddess of the harsh earth, Truth and Mother of the Dead. An ancient religious figure worshipped by...
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embodying it, in the form of a mother or mother goddess. The Mycenaean Greek: Ma-ka (transliterated as ma-ga), "Mother Gaia", written in Linear B syllabic...
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Himavat, the personification of the Himalayas, and the sister of the mother goddess Parvati. However, other texts mention her origin from the preserver...
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Chinese gods and immortals (redirect from Chinese mother goddess worship)
Niángniáng (掃清娘娘, "Goddess who Sweeps Clean"), Sānzhōu Niángniáng (三洲娘娘, "Goddess of the Three Isles"), and Wusheng Laomu. The mother goddess is central in...
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The Queen Mother of the West, known by various local names, is a mother goddess in Chinese religion and mythology, also worshipped later in neighbouring...
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List of nature deities (redirect from Nature Goddess)
of archetypes including mother goddess, Mother Nature, or lord of the animals. Asase Yaa, Mother of the Dead and the goddess of the harsh earth and truth...
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Artemis (section As a mother goddess)
she is not a mother-goddess, but the goddess of free nature. In the Homeric Ionic sphere she is the goddess of hunting. Eucleia, as a goddess of marriage...
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List of fertility deities (redirect from Goddess of tillage)
and chocolate. Mama Ocllo, mother goddess, associated with fertility Sara Mama, goddess of grain Pachamama, fertility goddess who presides over planting...
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of Daksha'), is the Hindu goddess of marital felicity and longevity, and is worshipped as an aspect of the mother goddess Shakti. Sati was the first...
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Divine Mother or Mother Divine may refer to: Adi Parashakti, a goddess in the Hindu religion Bhagavathi, female goddesses in Hinduism, especially in Kerala...
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The Goddess movement is a revivalistic Neopagan religious movement which includes spiritual beliefs and practices that emerged primarily in the United...
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Mahte (section Role of the Mothers)
goddesses in most or all cases, so the term definitely referred to the mother-goddess of specific phenomena. According to professor Lotte Motz, scholar Haralds...
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Mother Earth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mother Earth may refer to: The Earth goddess in any of the world's mythologies Mother goddess Mother...
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Durga (redirect from Goddess durga)
(Sanskrit: दुर्गा, IAST: Durgā) is a major Hindu goddess, worshipped as a principal aspect of the mother goddess Mahadevi. She is associated with protection...
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List of water deities (redirect from Goddess of the Sea)
goddess of water sources. Tsovinar, goddess of seas and storms. Yam (god), god of the sea. Asherah (Goddess), goddess of water, fertility, mother goddess...
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names the goddess Anu as the mother of the gods.[citation needed]Some scholars suggest that Danu was a conflation of Anu and is the same goddess. This may...
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Gaia (redirect from Gaia (goddess))
of an old goddess who was subordinate to Ge. Dieterich believed that Kourotrophos and Potnia theron construct precisely the mother goddess. Ge is also...
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Great Goddess is the concept of an almighty goddess or mother goddess, or a matriarchal religion. Apart from various specific figures called this from...
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Parvati (redirect from Uma (goddess))
also referred to as Ambika ('dear mother'), Shakti ('power'), Mataji ('revered mother'), Maheshwari ('great goddess'), Durga (invincible), Bhairavi ('ferocious')...
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existence of a European deity, the "White Goddess of Birth, Love and Death", much similar to the Mother Goddess, inspired and represented by the phases...
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form of Mahadevi, the supreme goddess of many sects of Hinduism. In Shaktism, she is revered as Adi Parashakti, the mother of the universe and all beings...
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The Goddess is often portrayed as a Triple Goddess, thereby being a triadic deity comprising a Maiden goddess, a Mother goddess, and a Crone goddess, each...
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Mohenjo-daro (section Mother Goddess Idol)
1931, the idol appears to mimic certain characteristics that match the Mother Goddess belief common in many early Near East civilizations. Sculptures and...
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Hīru, Rāmeśvarī, Khetū, Pātū. Her mother Deval is herself considered a sagat and worshipped as a patron goddess by Detha Charanas and Sodha Rajputs...
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Rhea (mythology) (redirect from Rhea (goddess))
aː] or Ῥεία [r̥ěː.aː]) is a mother goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Titan daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus...
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