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	Conception and Evolution of The Mother Goddess in India
		Reverence for 'mother' is inherent in any one born, a beast or a man, and is the first pious impulse in a child, which shapes the flesh to a human face.
		According to the Mahabharata, this metaphysical Being, the Mother Goddess of the primitive man, is the basis, the root and the root cause of everything.
		It is, at the most, a departure from the iconic manifestation of the passive Indus Mother Goddess to the operative personified representation of the Divine Mother who abounds with myths of Her origin and exploits, but She is yet the same Mother Earth or the Divine Mother.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /article/mother (4110 words)

	MOTHER GODDESS
		Demeter, in Greek mythology, goddess of harvest and fertility; daughter of Cronus and Rhea; mother of Persephone by Zeus.
		Persephone or Proserpine, in Greek and Roman mythology, goddess of fertility, queen of the underworld; daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
		Among the famous sculptures of the goddess are the Venus of Milo (Louvre) and the Venus of Medici (Uffizi, Florence).
	deoxy.org /gaia/goddess.htm (3538 words)

	Venus of Willendorf: 5. Earth Mother - Mother Goddess
		The cult of the Great Mother [Magna Mater], later identified with the mother-goddess Cybele (and by the Greeks as Rhea), was established in Rome by the 3rd century BCE.
		Although the paradigm of the "Venus" of Willendorf as Mother Goddess persists, in recent years the figurine has also been interpreted as possibly functioning in a more gynaecological context, perhaps serving as a charm or amulet of some kind for women in connection with fertility.
		At the time of its discovery, the statuette showed traces of red ochre pigment, which has been thought to symbolize, or serve as a surrogate of, the menstrual blood of women as a life-giving agent, as is the case in later traditions.
	witcombe.sbc.edu /willendorf/willendorfgoddess.html (770 words)

	Great Mother Goddess — FactMonster.com
		Essentially she was represented as the creative force in all nature, the mother of all things, responsible particularly for the periodic renewal of life.
		Although the Great Mother was the dominant figure in ancient Middle Eastern religions, she was also worshiped in Greece, Rome, and W Asia.
		Many attributes of the Virgin Mary make her the Christian equivalent of the Great Mother, particularly in her great beneficence, in her double image as mother and virgin, and in her son, who is God and who dies and is resurrected.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0821675.html (274 words)

	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)

	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.
		Amongst the Germanic tribes a female goddess was probably worshipped in the Nordic Bronze Age religion, which was later known as the Nerthus of Germanic mythology, and possibly living on in the Norse mythology worship of Freyja.
		Some people consider Mary to be a "mother goddess", since she not only fulfills a maternal role but is often viewed as a protective force and divine intercessory for humanity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mother_goddess (1530 words)

	Conception and Evolution of The Mother Goddess in India
		Reverence for 'mother' is inherent in any one born, a beast or a man, and is the first pious impulse in a child, which shapes the flesh to a human face.
		According to the Mahabharata, this metaphysical Being, the Mother Goddess of the primitive man, is the basis, the root and the root cause of everything.
		It is, at the most, a departure from the iconic manifestation of the passive Indus Mother Goddess to the operative personified representation of the Divine Mother who abounds with myths of Her origin and exploits, but She is yet the same Mother Earth or the Divine Mother.
	www.exoticindia.com /article/mother (3704 words)

	Egypt: Mut, Mother Goddess of the New Kingdom, Wife of Amen, Vulture Goddess
		Originally a local goddess, probably from the delta area, she became a national goddess during the New Kingdom and was adored at one of the most popular festivals at the time - the Festival of Mut.
		During the Festival of Mut in Waset, a statue of the goddess was placed on a boat and sailed around the small crescent shaped sacred lake at her temple at Ipet-Isut (Karnak).
		She was then thought to be the daughter of Ra, yet she was also "Mother of the Sun in Whom He Rises" - she was thought to be the mother of mothers, and thus could be both the mother and daughter of the sun god.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/mut.htm (1576 words)

	Great Goddess : Mother of Us All (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Her beloved Julius Caesar, during his rein, erected temples to the Roman Goddess Venus, paying tribute to her as both a love Goddess and a mother Goddess, known as Venus Genetrix.
		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.
	www.goddessgift.com /great-goddess.html (1107 words)

	Goddess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a "god".
		The goddess concept is advocated by modern matriarchists and pantheists as a female version of or analogue to god (i.e., the Abrahamic god), who in feminist and other circles is perceived as being rooted in the patriarchal concept of dominance — to the exclusion of feminine concepts.
		This might be a "Dark Goddess" or "Wisewoman", perhaps as suggested by the missing dark of the moon in the symbolism above, or it might be a specifically erotic goddess standing for a phase of life between Maiden (Virgin) and Mother, or a Warrior between Mother and Crone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goddess (2451 words)

	Mother goddesses
		She usually represents or personifies the earth and is an earth and fertility goddess, mother of humans, plants, and animals.
		She is the Great Mother (Magna Mater) of all that is present in nature and from whose womb all creatures come forth and return to.
		Examples are mother goddesses are Gaia, Demeter, Cybele, Isis, Tellus, Kali, and Cihuacoatl.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/m/mother_goddesses.html (150 words)

	Protectors of Children, Goddesses of Motherhood, Patrons of Easy Delivery, Bringer of Children. Japanese Buddhism & ...
		The Buddhist goddess of music, poetry, learning, and art, also the goddess of the sea and protector of children.
		Benzaiten is sometimes associated with the Shinto deity Suijin/Suiten, the latter a goddess who protects fishermen and children.
		The tenderness of this Buddha is known to nurse healthy children, and also to soothe the devastating feelings of mothers who have lost their loved ones.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/child-protectors.html (1418 words)

	Ireland's OWN Myths & Magic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		People appealed to her when they were pregnant or sick, and sometimes buried her image with the dead: one small statue of a mother goddess was found, poignantly, in a the grave of a baby at Arrington in Cambridgeshire.
		Mother goddesses were also linked with the fertility of the land and individual prosperity, and could be shown dispensing apples, grapes, bread or coins to symbolise wealth and nature's bounty.
		Tuatha de Danaan (Children of the Goddess Danu), the divine race if Irish myth, were said to be descended from one such goddess, Danu, who is probably identical to Anu, a goddess associated with the fertility of Ireland.
	irelandsown.net /mothergoddess.html (783 words)

	Goddess
		The leading pioneer of the goddess movement is the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, who has spent thirty years studying patterns and symbols of cult objects and also developed the field she refers to as "archeomythology," which embodies the fields of archaeology, comparative mythology, and folklore.
		In support of the Goddess Revival, links to the Goddess cult can be traced to such artifacts as ornithomorphic female figurines with their fronts engraved as chevrons and their posteriors as meanders.
		The Goddess as a symbol of death is represented as an owl as represented in Hungary and Lemnos by owl-shaped burial urns with umbilical cords or human vulva dating back to 3000 B.C. Death can also be seen in the form of the stiff nude.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~gloria/Goddess.html (2888 words)

	Tantra Goddess Worship,the worship of Sakti as God
		Worshiping her feet and the Mother of the home will produce better result, thus one has to learn to worship the Feet of the Divine Mother within the home (one’s partner).
		Mother Maha Tripurasundari rules the three sets chakra in the Sri Yantra and all the triplets in the Universe.
		Lalita (the Mother of Grace) Rajarajesvari (Divine Supreme) and Jagadamba (Mother of the whole universe) Mother Maha Tripurasundari is the Supreme Sakti, or Parabrahman and her Yantra is Sri Chakra.
	www.tantric-goddess.org /goddess_worship.htm (1237 words)

	Mother goddess at AllExperts
		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.
		Amongst the Germanic tribes a female goddess was probably worshipped in the Nordic Bronze Age religion, which was later known as the Nerthus of Germanic mythology, and possibly living on in the Norse mythology worship of Freya.
		Some people consider Mary to be a "mother goddess", since she not only fulfills a maternal role but is often viewed as a protective force and divine intercessory for humanity.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/mo/mother_goddess.htm (1489 words)

	Goddess News, Goddess Quotes, Mother Earth News: (Goddess Mystic Archives, 2003 & earlier)
		Art exhibit presents goddess art and artifacts from the island of Cyprus spanning the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Hellenistic period.
		The origin of the corn dolly in the Highlands of Scotland dates from the agricultural myth of preserving the Corn Mother.
		emple dedicated to the mother of Apollo and Artemis, built in 4 BCE in the ancient city of Letoon (Turkey), is to be restored.
	www.goddessmystic.com /news/archivednews-2003.htm (1050 words)

	Goddess News, Goddess Quotes, Mother Earth News: (Goddess Mystic Archives)
		Analysis of the Minoan frescoes at Thera, showing a goddess presiding over the manufacture and use of a drug from the saffron flower, indicates an earlier date for evidence of the history of medicine than previously thought.
		The 1984 discovery of the head of a "goddess of Hongshan," and the ruins of an ancient kingdom (altars, temples and tombs) have led archaeologists to postulate a Chinese Jade Age between the Stone and Bronze Ages.
		Goddess religion is not the opposite of the god religions; it’s a completely different critter." ~ Pat Monaghan
	www.goddessmystic.com /news/archivednews.htm (1025 words)

	Mut, Mother Goddess of the New Kingdom, Wife of Amen, Vulture Goddess...
		Originally a local goddess, probably from the delta area, she became a national goddess during the New Kingdom and was adored at one of the most popular festivals at the time - the Festival of Mut.
		She was either depicted as a woman, sometimes with wings, or a vulture, usually wearing the crowns of royalty - she was often shown wearing the double crown of Egypt or the vulture headdress of the New Kingdom queens.
		She was then thought to be the daughter of Ra, yet she was also "Mother of the Sun in Whom He Rises" - she was thought to be the mother of mothers, and thus could be both the mother and daughter of the sun god.
	www.thekeep.org /~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/mut.html (1651 words)

	Covenant of the Divine Mother - Women Healing Women with Spirit, Compassion, and Wisdom of the Divine Mother Goddess
		Goddess worship is circular and ever-evolving in a cycle of life-death-rebirth; God worship is linear: birth-death and detours not allowed.
		God/dess, light/dark, good/evil, hatever human or superhuman qualities we choose to give the One Divine Being is a way in which we seek to understand something that is beyond human understanding at this time.
		The Divine Mother Goddess embodies the feminine maternal qualities of Unconditional Love and Compassion, yet She also has her Warrior side which She is certainly willing to use to protect her children and loved ones.
	www.discoveret.org /divinemother/goddess.htm (1575 words)

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		The Mother, the Woman, the Sister, the Queen, the source of all Romany blood.
		Mothers appealed to Her for help for their children.
		The sacred grove of Tara in Ireland was the Goddess’s genital shrine.
	www.mothergoddess.com /india.htm (925 words)

	Great Mother Goddess — Infoplease.com
		Essentially she was represented as the creative force in all nature, the mother of all things, responsible particularly for the periodic renewal of life.
		Although the Great Mother was the dominant figure in ancient Middle Eastern religions, she was also worshiped in Greece, Rome, and W Asia.
		Cultural landscape of Pavagadh: the abode of mother goddess Kalika.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0821675.html (333 words)

	Llewellyn Journal - Images of the Mother Goddess: Healing Your Inner Child
		The Goddess speaks to you in a soft and loving voice, "My beloved child, I am glad that you have joined me here, something troubles your mind and I would like to help." The Goddess continues as she draws a feather quill from a fold in her gown.
		The Mother tells you that you are welcome to return to this place whenever you have need, and she will gladly replace any negative inner messages that you discover with positive ones.
		The presence of the Mother Goddess will remind you that you are never all alone in the world, and even when things seem bleak, Her spirit which has been with you from the beginning, will remain as a warm and comforting guide.
	www.llewellynjournal.com /article/1178 (1618 words)

	Mother Kali's Books — Cards & Gifts: Flags & Banners (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sumerian dark mother Goddess, Original Consort of Adam, from the Hebrew tradition, she was later demonised.
		The Aku'aba is a Goddess symbol used for good luck in many parts of Africa, and is especially worn by women and children as a charm to lend protection, fertility and good fortune.
		Goddess of volcanos and fire, this Goddess lives on the Big Island of Hawaii, a currently active volcano, where she is actively worshiped.
	www.motherkalis.com /Flags_4.html (950 words)

	Mother Goddess as Kali - The Feminine Force in Indian Art
		The goddess is not only the mysterious source of life, she is the very soil, all-creating and all consuming.
		In the same way, the love between the Mother Goddess and her human children is considered the closest and tenderest relationship with divinity.
		Kali is Mother to her devotees not because she protects them from the way things really are but because she reveals to them their mortality and thus releases them to act fully and freely, releases them from the incredible, binding web of "adult" pretense, practicality, and rationality.
	www.hindupaintings.com /kali.htm (8107 words)

	The Mother Goddess
		This concept of the Mother first attracted me as a young woman who was rebelling against the notion of being born in the need of redemption for the actions of others.
		Anthropologists believe a vision of a Mother Goddess to have emerged in neolithic times as early as 7000 B.C. and that her worship extended in a vast area, at the very least a great arc stretching from parts of Africa northward to Lithuania and westward to Crete and Greece.
		Later he discovered that "his" Mother was indeed that monotheistic deity who creates the universe and holds it within her being, and yet resides within living beings and objects.
	www.vedanta.org /reading/monthly/articles/2001/10.mother_goddess.html (1986 words)

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