Mother Goddess

Psychological reasons for the persistence in religion of a Mother Goddess.

In Babylonia the agricultural myth regarding the Mother goddess and the young god had many variations.

And it is also in Germany proper that we find the woman-saint who is direct successor to the tribal mother-goddess.

On the other hand, the animal-like attributes which appear upon some plaques of the mother-goddess are scarcely meaningless.

The elders of Uruk beg his mother, the mother-goddess Aruru (a form of Ishtar), to restrain him.