mother-goddess

And near the bow was a hideous depiction of snaky Coatlicue, the mother-goddess.

Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Gate of Worlds 1 - Robert Silverberg Blue Tyson 2010

And near the bow was a hideous depiction of snaky Coatlicue, the mother-goddess.

Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010

All goddesses of the earth-mother complex had some connection to fertility and death — for example, those in the myths surrounding Coatlicue, the great mother-goddess who gave birth to the sun, moon, and stars.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

A sardonyx cameo, for example, probably a privately owned trinket in antiquity now in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, represents Livia wearing the costume of the cultic mother-goddess Cybele over her stola and contemplating a miniature bust of her deified husband, which she holds in her right hand.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some intangible set of ethical principles—is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

Infinite Jest #8: Brains, Rats, Happiness, and the Problem of Atheism « Gerry Canavan 2009

Kali, on the other hand, is frequently depicted as murderous and dangerous, a kind of bloody femme fatale incarnate; there are few representations of her in Western culture in her other aspects (she is also worshipped as a benevolent mother-goddess and in some places as a redeemer of the universe).

costume appropriation « Love | Peace | Ohana 2007

Juno is not just a Roman mother-goddess, she's also one of the great great-with-child characters of the movies, with good taste in music too.

Juno As Cartoon Character 2008

And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship -- be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles -- is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

David Foster Wallace on Life and Work 2008

Juno is not just a Roman mother-goddess, she's also one of the great great-with-child characters of the movies, with good taste in music too.

Plenty of Nothing: 2008

Plus there's the stereotype issue which worked in that case on many levels, especially the one where all lesbians are supposed to be mother-goddess worshipping Wiccans deeply in touch with Gaia.

"People can't just decide to be lesbians. It just doesn't work that way. Right?" Ann Althouse 2005