Great Mother
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The Great Mother refers to the concept of the mother goddess
, including:
It can also refer to:
Mother goddess
Mother goddess is a term used to refer to a goddess who represents motherhood, fertility, creation or embodies the bounty of the Earth. When equated with the Earth or the natural world such goddesses are sometimes referred to as Mother Earth or as the Earth Mother.Many different goddesses have...
, including:
- Great Mother, in the MahayanaMahayanaMahāyāna is one of the two main existing branches of Buddhism and a term for classification of Buddhist philosophies and practice...
and VajrayanaVajrayanaVajrayāna Buddhism is also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Mantrayāna, Secret Mantra, Esoteric Buddhism and the Diamond Vehicle...
refers to PrajnaparamitaPrajnaparamitaPrajñāpāramitā in Buddhism, means "the Perfection of Wisdom." The word Prajñāpāramitā combines the Sanskrit words prajñā with pāramitā . Prajñāpāramitā is a central concept in Mahāyāna Buddhism and its practice and understanding are taken to be indispensable elements of the Bodhisattva Path...
, and the wisdom of the MadhyamakaMadhyamakaMadhyamaka refers primarily to a Mahāyāna Buddhist school of Buddhist philosophy systematized by Nāgārjuna. Nāgārjuna may have arrived at his positions from a desire to achieve a consistent exegesis of the Buddha's doctrine as recorded in the āgamas... - Great Mother, translation of Latin Magna Mater, Roman title of the goddess CybeleCybeleCybele , was a Phrygian form of the Earth Mother or Great Mother. As with Greek Gaia , her Minoan equivalent Rhea and some aspects of Demeter, Cybele embodies the fertile Earth...
- Great Mother, a title of the goddess Maia (mythology)Maia (mythology)In Greek mythology, Maia is one of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes. The goddess known as Maia among the Romans may have originated independently, but attracted the myths of Greek Maia because the two figures shared the same name.-Birth:...
- Great Mother of Wisdom, Yum Chenmo, a Tibetan deity of whom Machig LabdrönMachig LabdrönMachig Labdrön was a renowned 11th century Tibetan Tantric Buddhist practitioner and teacher....
is considered an emanation - The Great Mother, epithet of BabalonBabalonBabalon—also known as The Scarlet Woman, The Great Mother, or the Mother of Abominations—is a goddess found in the mystical system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with English author and occultist Aleister Crowley's writing of The Book of the Law...
, a goddess in Aleister Crowley's mystical system of Thelema - Great Mother, archetypal image in Jungian psychology
It can also refer to:
- The Great Mother, a book by Erich Neumann (psychologist)Erich Neumann (psychologist)Erich Neumann , was a psychologist, writer, and one of Carl Jung's most gifted students.-Career:Neumann was born in Berlin. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1927. He later moved to Tel Aviv. For many years, he regularly returned to Zürich, Switzerland to give lectures at the...
- Great Mother (Dungeons & Dragons)Great Mother (Dungeons & Dragons)In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, The Great Mother is the creator and primary racial deity of beholders, gibbering orbs, and the various races of beholder-kin. The Great Mother is the beholder deity of magic, fertility, and tyranny...
, a deity character in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
See also
- :Category:Mother goddesses
- Divine Mother (disambiguation)
- GoddessGoddessA goddess is a female deity. In some cultures goddesses are associated with Earth, motherhood, love, and the household. In other cultures, goddesses also rule over war, death, and destruction as well as healing....
- Goddess worship (disambiguation)
- Great Goddess (disambiguation)
- Heavenly MotherHeavenly MotherIn Mormonism, Heavenly Mother or the Mother in Heaven is the mother of human spirits and the wife of God the Father. Those who accept the Mother in Heaven doctrine trace its origins to Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. The doctrine was not widely known, however, until...
- Heavenly Mother (Latter Day Saints)
- Magna Mater (disambiguation)Magna Mater (disambiguation)Magna Mater means "Great Mother" in Latin. It may be specifically referring to:* The Roman title of the goddess Cybele* A title of the goddess Maia * Magna Mater...
- Mother Divine