Great Mother

Great Mother may refer to:

Goddesses

• Mother goddesses of various traditions, representing motherhood, fertility, creation, or the bounty of the Earth:
  • Materan, a Phrygian goddess who flourished in Lydia (now Turkey) 1200 to 600 B.C., also known as Matar, Matar Kubileya, or Kubeleya, Cybele, as well as Great Goddess, The Mother, Mother of the Gods, The Great Mother, Magna Mater, and other related titles in many ancient cultures adopting the deity
  • Nammu, Sumerian creation goddess
  • Maia (mythology), Roman goddess
  • Cybele, Roman goddess with the title Magna Mater (Latin for "Great Mother")
  • Đạo Mẫu, in Vietnamese tradition
  • Prajñāpāramitā Devi in Mahayana Buddhism, known as the "mother of Buddhas" or "Great Mother" (Tibetan: Yun Chenmo)

Other uses

• Great Mother, an archetypal image in Analytical psychology
• The Great Mother, a book by psychologist Erich Neumann
• Great Mother (Dungeons & Dragons), a deity character in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
• Great Father and Great Mother, titles used in North America during the nineteenth century in interactions with indigenous peoples to refer to various heads of state

See also

• Magna Mater (disambiguation)
• Great Goddess, the concept of an almighty goddess or mother goddess, or a matriarchal religion

• Goddess, a female deity