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	Mother Goddesses
		Sometimes, the mother goddess was the mother of ruling tribe of gods, as in the case with Rhea being the mother of Olympian deities.
		The mother goddess is also seen with the divine consort of mortal or even divine ruler, whom she must periodically mate with, as in the case of Cybele and her consort Attis.
		The Titaness Leto was the mother of the Olympian twins, Apollo and Artemis, by Zeus.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/mother.html (7273 words)

	Great Mother Goddess - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		GREAT MOTHER GODDESS [Great Mother Goddess] in ancient Middle Eastern religions, mother goddess, the great symbol of the earth's fertility.
		Although the Great Mother was the dominant figure in ancient Middle Eastern religions, she was also worshiped in Greece, Rome, and W Asia.
		Fierce goddesses, great mothers, and Yoginis: the Archaeomythology of devotion.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-greatm1ot.html (366 words)

	MOTHER GODDESS
		Great Mother of the Gods, in ancient Middle Eastern religion (and later in Greece, Rome, and W Asia), mother goddess, the great symbol of the earth's fertility.
		She was mother, by Uranus, of the Cyclopes, the Titans, and others, and, by Pontus, of five sea deities.
		Demeter, in Greek mythology, goddess of harvest and fertility; daughter of Cronus and Rhea; mother of Persephone by Zeus.
	deoxy.org /gaia/goddess.htm (3343 words)

	Great Mother - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One highly defined occurrence of a mother goddess is with the Celts, and their predecessors.
		Typically the Mother Goddess is referenced in archaic and distant terms and rarely occurs in the present of the myths.
		The main feature that survives with the Mother Goddess is her connection to nature; this will occur as independent symbolism, either directly connected to the goddess or as the trait of another character.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Mother (482 words)

	Hinduism and the Mother
		In Hindu India, great rivers are named for goddesses; the ocean and the earth are considered the Mother, the trees her arms, the mountains her breasts, the plants her nourishment, the sky her lover.
		In Hindu India, the Mother, who has been obscured in the shadow of Western religions for thousands of years, is considered to be the sum total of the energy in the universe.While present-day India is primarily patriarchal, throughout contemporary, historical, and pre-historical times Hindus have never ceased worshipping Mother as well as Father.
		Mother Shakti is associated with "independence or freedom because her existence does not depend on anything extraneous to herself.
	www.pathofthemother.com /excerpts7.html (1722 words)

	The Great Mother (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Great Mother not only pours her love out upon the earth, but she also generates an image in our shadow, smothering, devouring, implacable, too terrible to contemplate.
		He knows that the mother carries for us that inborn image of the mater natura and mater spiritualis, of the totality of life of which we are a small and helpless part.
		The symbol is an obviously a derivative of the mother archetype.
	www.jelder.com /mythology/mother.html (820 words)

	Devi: The Great Goddess
		At the height of this great cosmic battle, Durga was aided by the awesome Kali, who burst from her forehead to devour or crush the army of demons.
		The mother is the protector, the care-giver, the kisser of wounds, and the disciplinarian.
		As previously stated among her names by which she is called are the Great Mother and Mother Nature which signifies her worshipers believe her to be the Mother, creator and life-giver to all of nature and to every thing within.
	www.adishakti.org /adi_shakti's_descend/devi_the_great_goddess.htm (6019 words)

	Holy Mother: The Ideal of Womanhood
		Added to this was the great trouble she had to undergo for the sake of a fatherless niece of hers and her insane mother.
		It is to emphasize this that the great drama was enacted at Dakshineswar.
		Mother has shown the way, and it is for women to follow in her footsteps, for their own salvation and for the good of the world.
	www.vedanta.org /reading/monthly/articles/2004/7.holy_mother_ideal.html (3199 words)

	Mother goddess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A mother goddess is a goddess, often portrayed as the Earth Mother, who serves as a general fertility deity, the bountiful embodiment of the earth.
		In the Aegean, Anatolian, and ancient Near Eastern culture zones, a mother goddess was worshipped in the forms of Cybele (revered in Rome as Magna Mater, the 'Great Mother'), of Gaia, and of Rhea.
		At places, the Vedic literature alludes to her as Viraj, the universal mother, as Aditi, the mother of gods, and as Ambhrini, the one born of Primeval Ocean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mother_Goddess (1504 words)

	20th WCP: Justice and the Face of the Great Mother (East and West)
		I also examine how in the Eastern schools of Non-dualism, Maya is understood as the "Mother of all Life energy." In all of this, special attention is given to the nature of Justice as the embodiment of the Great Mother manifested as creative energy and as the discerner and judge of all Being.
		As the "Mother of all Life energy," she is the discerner and judge as to whether the one seeking enlightenment is deserving of the full truth.
		This dark side of the Great Mother is veiled, hidden, concealed she is not referred to as dark to indicate color or evil, but rather to stress the primal nature of her being, that which is unmanifested.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Comp/CompGian.htm (5334 words)

	GREAT MOTHER BUDDHISM
		The difference between the Great Mother and Nirvana is that the first includes the dynamic aspect of "birth and death", while the second excludes this.
		The Prajnaparamita is said to be "The Mother of the Buddha's" or "The Womb of the Tathagatas".
		"To the Buddhists the Great Goddess is a veritable matron of suffering (because of the inability to resist Her attractions), the primal cause to all mankind's troubles.
	members.tripod.com /thegreatlearning/intro-gmbuddhism.htm (3791 words)

	The Mother of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		From her great being have been forged the beauties of the world about us, the greenery of the fields and forest, the stark gray of the mountains and the blue of the sky.
		It occurred when the great continent of Atlantis was allowed to sink beneath the purifying waters of the ocean in order that the low grade materialism of its people be prevented from spreading further and probably causing the destruction of the planet itself.
		Then it was that the Great Mother withdrew from the minds and understanding of men the knowledge of her nature.
	arosicrucianspeaks.org /mother.htm (2619 words)

	INTRODUCTION - PAGANISM 101 Paganism is a religion. In contrast to other religions, specif (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It reflects man's basic concerns with the light that fades each winter and is born again each spring, with the fertility of the soil and of all the creatures that live from the soil, with the continuity of life, and with the unity and harmony of all Nature.
		The Great Mother is the personification of Earth and her daughter the Moon.
		As such he is the son of the Earth Mother in spring and her consort in the Autumn.
	www.skepticfiles.org /aj/pagan001.htm (1610 words)

	Myths-Dreams-Symbols
		For example, a woman who allows her conscious mind to be invaded and subdued by the Great Mother will begin to believe herself able and destined to protect and nurture the whole world.
		Jung speaks of stage three as the second liberation from the mother (the first liberation from mother being stage two, when anima or animus is integrated into conscious life).
		Great Mother - The archetypal symbol for the Goddess, instead of an inward god.
	www.mythsdreamssymbols.com /mana2.html (471 words)

	ALEPH's New Menorah Publication Site - Spring 5763/2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There is no shame too great, no ugliness in her eyes, no sin you could commit that would bar you from her love. She sees the place in you of insatiable hunger, the emptiness you vainly try to fill with entertainment, unhealthy food, drugs, or your busyness.
		During these Days of Awe, the Great Mother comes to you as Empoweror. She reminds you that you always have allies and that her strength is within you. She challenges you to act righteously, to be good stewards for her creation, to repair the broken places of her world.
		The Great Mother asks us to hear her voice in the sound of the shofar, a voice that cries for our pain, yet sends us to our wholeness. This initiation connects us with our ancestors and makes us loyal servants to the ones who will follow behind us in the days to come.
	www.newmenorah.homestead.com /f03greatmother.html (877 words)

	Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory Search for the Great Turtle Mother
		There in the fiery surf, the great creature bends its head down and nuzzles the sand, as if smelling the ground, perhaps to see if it is in the right place before hauling its great girth up the beach.
		Yet here was another great mystery, for nowhere in the kitchen middens (the garbage heaps of the pre-Columbian people who lived on both, sides of the isthmus) has anyone ever found the first ridley bone, skull, or piece of shell.
		Whoever he was, he went to a great deal of effort to chisel and polish it so the magnetic lines of force were centered in the nose.
	www.gulfspecimen.org /TurtleMother.html (2860 words)

	Great Goddess : Mother of Us All (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Her presence was expressed in the images, and stories that were passed along through many generations.Some of the most famous Goddesses - such as Ishtar, Innana and Astarte -- once breathed life into the holy lands of the middle-east many millennium ago; some of the old temples still stand.
		We are at a time in history where both women and men are crying out for their divine "Mother" and seeking a spirituality that brings both divine parents to the table, not just one, or the other.
		One of the historical hallmarks of the Divine Mother is that by honoring ourselves, our earth and all living things, we honor Her.
	www.goddessgift.com /great-goddess.html (1107 words)

	A Great Mother (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I'm glad we have Mother's day, but it is certainly a shame that many people all across the nation actually need a holiday like this to remind them of their Mother.
		It doesn't mean that they have a bad mother, or that they are simply ungrateful, it most like means that we have a disrespectful generation that doesn't honor their Mother like the Bible commands.
		IV.To be a great mother, you are to Honor your parents.
	www.momof9splace.com /greatmother.html (1373 words)

	Robert Bly - Great Mother Conference - 31st Annual in 2005 -Camp Nebagamon, Wisconsin
		Lately we have allowed ourselves to break the moral code, the law of the planet, what Thomas Jefferson called "a decent respect for the opinions of mankind." The writer Paul Levy suggests that the administration is passing on a sort of microbe, whose characteristic is an oversimplification of the question of good and evil.
		The Great Mother Conference has met for over 30 years, and each spring we welcome a good number of new participants who bring their poems, music, and art.
		The Conference on the GREAT MOTHER and the NEW FATHER was begun by Robert Bly and has met annually since 1975 to consider a wide variety of mythological, poetic and fairy tale traditions.
	www.greatmotherconference.com /index05.html (1228 words)

	The Great Mother
		MOTHER OF HADRAT ZUBAIR (R.A) THE HARSHNESS OF THE MOTHER.
		It was the crowning result of his mother’s training only that in later life he was victorious in many battles.He made ceaseless striving in holding aloft the commands of Allah and there never was any occasion when he fled from the battle field.
		It was the result of this utmost precaution of the mother that the child who grew up in her lap became whose heart was filled with compassion for others, which flowed with profuse exuberance in his poems and won the hearts of people.
	www.al-islamforall.org /litre/englitre/GRTMOTH.htm (5251 words)

	Entrance to the shrine of the Magna Mater, Great Mother Earth, Gaia, Terra,
		Entrance to the shrine of the Magna Mater, Great Mother Earth, Gaia, Terra,
		t is my believe and religion to worship the greatness of Mother Earth, and the many other goddesses of old as aspects and incarnations of Her.
		Today the idea of human sacrifice is a horror in our eyes, but one could assume that in the stoneages maybe it was a great honour to be sacrificed to the goddess in order to guarantee the survival of the whole group.
	inanna.virtualave.net /mother.html (701 words)

	The Egyptian Great Year and Christianity
		The Great year begins in the Age of Leo [circa 10,000 BCE]; ATUM is the lion-faced one, who creates Shu and Tefnut, also represented in lion forms.
		Yusir is the son and yet the consort of his mother Auset in much the same way that Jesus was the son yet consort of his mother Mary [the name "Mary" was also a title of Auset/Isis].
		Further, in the Drama Yusir was born in a cave to a Virgin mother; in the Book of Protevangelion, one of the gospels that was later suppressed by the Church, the same situation occurs with Jesus' mother Mary.
	www.africawithin.com /studies/egyptian_great_year.htm (5672 words)

	Dance to the Great Mother: A Video Review By Shira (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Drawing inspiration from the archetype of Isis as the Great Mother, Delilah has created choreography that depicts the relationship between a woman and the new life growing within her.
		The dance performance lasts about 18 minutes, and is followed by about 14 minutes of Delilah talking about how she came to create the dance, what it means for her personally, and what kind of responses she received from women in the audience when she performed it.
		The emphasis in the dance performance is exploration of the relationship between a mother-to-be and her unborn child, with symbolic moves and gestures.
	www.shira.net.cob-web.org:8888 /videorevws/delilah-greatmother.htm (942 words)

	The Mother Aspect of the Goddess
		All Her children, everything in nature, is alive: the living stone, the great breathing mountains, trees and plants, as well as birds and animals and man. All are united in one harmonious whole.
		Nature was, for him, a goddess, "Mother Earth," and the vegetation that sprang from the Earth, the animals that roamed, like man himself, over the Earth's surface, and the minerals hiding in the Earth's bowels, all partook of Nature's divinity.
		The priestesses of Her temples were "harlots" detested by the Hebrews, but, in the words of The Great Goddess, "All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals." Ishtar is one of the earliest manifestations of The Great Goddess and the geographic boundries of her worship may be far greater than is currently believed.
	www.jaguarmoon.org /public/Goddess/Mother.htm (3322 words)

	The Sweat Lodge Of The Great White Mother Bear
		So lazy had they become that the hunters of the People no longer asked permission of the Earth, nor of the animals they were to hunt, for the life of their brothers.
		The great stag led his noble kind from the East, while hares prolific came of their Southern lands and boars with their sows and rutlings from the West did come.
		Raven again convinces the Great Mother Bear that all is well and to let him again care for the human's needs.
	www.shamanic.net /articles/motherbear.htm (1235 words)

	Tao, the Great Mother
		Motionless and fathomless, it stands alone and never changes; it pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted; it may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe.
		In the Classic of Great Peace, an expression of the common values of the Chinese people, long life became a most important goal between heaven and earth.
		I deem that Lao-Tze was a great mystic who differed from Confucius in a number of ways, especially emphasizing enlightenment and being thoughtlessly aware as a means to attain immortality.
	tao-mother.org (2311 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth: Books: Monica Sjoo,Barbara Mor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sjoo and Mor describe the great spiral of cultural movement that began ``in the beginning.
		To me, more than anything else, "Cosmic Mother" is a critical examination and radical deconstruction of patriarchal religion and the devastating effects it has had on humanity and the natural world, as well as a precious and rare source of validation for 'smart" neopagans and earth/mother/goddess worshipers of all stripes.
		As Alice Walker said of this great work: "It is one of the most important books I have ever read." Men and women will be angered, astounded and transformed by reading this astonishingly intelligent and vitally important book.
	www.amazon.ca /Great-Cosmic-Mother-Rediscovering-Religion/dp/0062507915 (1829 words)

	The King's Mother (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The news of Shahahi’s death was a bolt from the blue to Shivaji and his mother Jija.
		She was so overcome by sorrow that she decided to perform ‘sati’, burning herself on the pyre.
		On the thirteenth day in the month of Jyestha of the Hindu year Ananda (1674) Shivaji bowed to his noble mother at Raigadh, received her blessings and ascended the golden throne.
	www.freeindia.org /biographies/greatpersonalities/jijabai/page17.htm (443 words)

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