Mother goddess

A mother goddess is a goddess portrayed as the Earth Mother who serves as a general fertility deity, the bountiful embodiment of the earth.

Related Topics:
Goddess - Earth Mother - Fertility

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From the elegant snake-offering goddess figures of Knossos to the rock-cut images of Cybele, to Dione ("the Goddess") who was invoked at Dodona, along with Zeus, until late Classical times, it is sometimes too facile to class all archaic female goddesses as manifestations of the mother goddess. Archaeologists tend to avoid such theories in interpreting sites and material remains and sometimes denigrate them as inspired more by radical feminism than strict archaeology.

Related Topics:
Knossos - Cybele - Dione - Dodona - Mother - Radical feminism

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