Mother goddess

...GAMMAῆ) is the primal Greek goddess personifying the Earth. Gaia is a primordial deity in the Ancient Greek pantheon and considered a Mother Goddess or Great Goddess. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra Mater or Tellus. Romans,...

In this article: Gaia, Earth, Uranus, Apollo, Rhea, Hera, Hesiod, Athena, and Themis

...mother goddess Ninhursag. Statuette of Mut, mother, often interpreted as representing one of the earliest mother goddesses of Egypt Mother goddesses are present in the earliest images discovered among the archaeological finds in Ancient...

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...deities are Krishna and Rama (in Vaishna devotionalism seen as incarnations of Vishnu), Ma Kali (Mother Kali, the feminine deity, or Mother Goddess, aka Durga, Parvati, Shakti, etc.) and Ganesha (the famous elephant-headed God of wisdom). It...

In this article: Hinduism, God, Vishnu, Rama, Gayatri, and Shiva

...the trident, Yama gave her the danda, Brahma gave her the rosary and the container of sacred water. Armed with weapons of all kinds, the Mother Goddess defeated the Asuras, thus ending the rule of evil forces. The occasion of Mahalaya,...

In this article: Vishnu, Brahma, Durga, God, Orchestration, Yama, and Chamunda

...hill of Vaishno Devi, Jammu and Kashmir, India. In Hinduism, Vaishno Devi, also known as Mata Rani and Vaishnavi, is a manifestation of the Mother Goddess . The temple is near the town of Katra , in Jammu district in the state of Jammu and...

In this article: Vaishno Devi, Vishnu, and Jammu and Kashmir

...Puthiya Bhagavathi( Thee Thira) and Cheriya Thampuratty, all are the daughters of Mother Goddes and Valiya Thampuratty - the Mother Goddess are the devi theyyams here. Guntoor Kotta vanavan, Ilankarumakan, Poothadi are the other male...

In this article: Bali

...after Daphne ('Laurel'), one of the naiads who was plagued with unwanted sexual advances until she cried to Gaia for help. The Earth Mother took pity on her and turned Daphne into a laurel tree. As laurel leaves (aka bay leaves) were...

In this article: Earth Mother and Bay leaf

...Italians named them pomi d'oro: golden apples. Maybe they were thinking of the golden apples of the Hesperides, given by Gaia, the Earth mother, to Hera, queen of the gods, and grown in a garden at the edge of the sunset. After all,...

In this article: Vinegar, Earth mother, Hera, Gaia, Mandrake, Tobacco, Arkansas Travelers, Quincy, Fla, and Fairfax, Va.

...as they are known, were associated with fertility beliefs or shamanistic rituals. Perhaps. Or, more likely, they were representations of the Mother Goddess, the dominant figure of worship in these prehistoric close-to-nature matriarchal...

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...to this age, but is needed now and is being restored to us: After centuries of revising canonical books, nearly every trace of Earth Mother and her Immaculate Heart has been removed from Christian literature, but to the scholarly and...

In this article: Earth Mother, God, AuthorHouse, Allah, Sunflower, and Judgment Day