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earth mother

or Earth Mother

noun

the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility and the source of all life.
a female spirit or deity serving as a symbol of life or fertility.
a sensuous, maternal woman.

earth mother

in various mythologies
1. a female goddess considered as the source of fertility and life
2. the earth personified
informal.
a sensual or fecund woman

First recorded in 1900–05

Two were blue like the sky and two dun-red like the flesh of the Earth-mother.

Tiw is the god of honorable war, the son of Odin and Frigga, the earth mother.

As Kali she is the black earth-mother, and as Jagadgauri, the yellow woman, the harvest bride.

This earth-mother is the characteristic and central feature of the early Aegean religions.

Warm is the Earth-mother, cold the Sky-father, even as woman is the warm, man the cold being!

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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