Sentences with phrase «mother goddess»

It was hard to come to grips with the fact that I didn't feel like a floating mother goddess.

Traditionally, archaeological discoveries in Malta have been interpreted — or perhaps we should say misinterpreted — against a backdrop of broad conjecture about the significance of mother goddesses.

The beauty of the Mediterranean is the beauty of Earth, the great mother goddess who gives birth to her children, allows them their moment in which to be fruitful and beautiful, in order that she may in her own time consume them.

Earth, the great mother goddess, is a cannibal goddess.

Then again, given the specialized adult content — «sadomasochistic clubs, black masses, mother goddess cults, voodoo murderers» — perhaps this is a better work to aim at a more limited, dedicated audience.

A collaborative project between British and Maltese archaeologists, of which we are the directors, has made spectacular discoveries about the artistic representations of the so - called mother goddesses.

And without warning, we'll be connecting with our inner earth mother goddesses.

The Goddess Nut II (1990) multi-panel composition celebrates women of ancient cultures such as the Egyptian sky goddess Nut, Egyptian musicians and acrobats, the Phrygian mother goddess Cybele, a mythological Greek Maenad or «raving one», a princess's skeleton, and the «running women» who regularly appear in her work.

Mother goddess statuettes dating back to the early 4th millennium BC have been found in Iran, and over 2000 years ago, the Egyptians built temples in the desert to worship Isis, the patron goddess of childbirth and motherhood.

That Kali is seen as a mother goddess was also fascinating, and a concept that I still don't quite have my mind around, but I like it.

Mary became a mother goddess.

Burkert concludes from a reference to the mother goddess Tethys in the Iliad that Homer must have had access not only to the story but to the text of the Babylonian Enuma Elish.

Many questions surround the identity of the ill - fated impactor, which some sentimentalists have nicknamed Theia, after the Greek deity who mothered the goddess of the moon.

Questions of Gender Roles Site discoverer James Mellaart and other archaeologists believed that Çatalhöyük was a matriarchal society — these early theories were based in part on clay figurines found in the settlement and believed to represent a «mother goddess.»

The context of their discovery suggests that the shrine objects were the paraphernalia employed by the ritual specialists or priests and that their symbolism was meant to evoke much more than just a mother goddess.

Some archaeologists have hypothesized that Maltese society may have been a powerful matriarchy dominated by priestesses, female leaders and mother goddesses.

The discovery of similar figurines at far - flung sites and from disparate eras inspired a long tradition of scholarly speculation about a widespread prehistoric religion based on the worship of the mother goddess.

Vaishno Devi is effectively a sprawling Hindu shrine to the mother goddess MahaKali.

Hinduism - Tantrism: Toward the end of the 5th century, the cult of the mother goddess assumed a significant place in Indian religious life.

As much as the idea of the mother goddess has its powerful roots in mythology, it leaves little room to acknowledge where motherhood may betray its uglier facets: the sweat, the grime, the sleeplessness.

In the beginning of the book, Paula states that her mother Kai, often told her she was named after the mother goddess who brings hope (and springtime).

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