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  • noun great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Roman Ops

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Examples

  • The Great Mother is the source of all life, or movement that arises from stillness.

    Become Nourished by the Great Mother and Gain Nothing 2009

  • In the district of Erfurt a very heavy sheaf, not necessarily the last, is called the Great Mother, and is carried on the last waggon to the barn, where all hands lift it down amid a fire of jokes.

    Chapter 45. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe 1922

  • In the district of Erfurt a very heavy sheaf, not necessarily the last, is called the Great Mother, and is carried on the last waggon to the barn, where all hands lift it down amid a fire of jokes.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • In the district of Erfurt a very heavy sheaf, not necessarily the last, is called the Great Mother, and is carried on the last waggon to the barn, where all hands lift it down amid a fire of jokes.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • In the district of Erfurt a very heavy sheaf, not necessarily the last, is called the Great Mother, and is carried on the last waggon to the barn, where all hands lift it down amid a fire of jokes.

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • He said some people there live near a river they also call the Great Mother, "the man said.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

  • To use the Great Mother was a ticklish thing to try, and you were lucky to get out of it so easily. "

    The Time Traders Andre Norton 1958

  • And the language sometimes goes gooey as the prisoners explain their attraction to the "Magna Mater," or "Great Mother," an "unfathomable power" and "a force flowing within everything there is."

    Book review: Valerie Sayers reviews 'The Birth of Love,' by Joanna Kavenna Valerie Sayers 2010

  • Until only five, six thousand years ago, the archetypal Great Mother, She Who Birthed the Earth, creatrix of all existence, matriarch of the races of god/desses, reigned supreme everywhere.

    Donna Henes: Earth, Our Mother 2010

  • At this most crucial hour, this is the descent, this is the return of the Great Mother.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

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