Great Goddess is the concept of an almighty goddess or mother goddess, or a matriarchal religion. Apart from various specific figures called this from various cultures, the Great Goddess hypothesis, is a postulated fertility goddess supposed to have been worshipped in the Neolithic era across most of Eurasia at least. Scholarly belief in this hypothesis has reduced in recent decades,[1] though theological belief in a Great Goddess is common in the Goddess movement.
Specific examples include:
Great Goddess, referring to the Greek and Roman goddess Cybele; also associated with Rhea (mother of the gods) and Gaia (mother of the Titans)
Great Goddess, anglicized form of the Roman Magna Dea
Great Goddess, anglicized form of the Sanskrit Mahadevi, the Shakti sum of all goddesses
Magu (deity), a deity in Chinese and Korean myth
Great Goddess of Teotihuacan, an ancient Mesoamerican deity
Great Goddess, also known as the Triple Goddess, an important feminine deity of the Neopagan religion of Wicca
GreatGoddess is the concept of an almighty goddess or mother goddess, or a matriarchal religion. Apart from various specific figures called this from...
of Gaia. According to Pausanias an epithet of Ge in Athens is "the Greatgoddess", which is an apellation of the "Mother of the gods". She is related...
The GreatGoddess of Teotihuacan (or Teotihuacan Spider Woman) is a proposed goddess of the pre-Columbian Teotihuacan civilization (ca. 100 BCE - 700 CE)...
The GreatGoddess hypothesis theorizes that, in Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and/or Neolithic Europe and Western Asia and North Africa, a singular, monotheistic...
A mother goddess is a major goddess characterized as a mother or progenitor, either as an embodiment of motherhood and fertility or fulfilling the cosmological...
A goddess is a female deity. In many known cultures, goddesses are often linked with literal or metaphorical pregnancy or imagined feminine roles associated...
Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the earliest neolithic at Çatalhöyük. She is Phrygia's only known goddess, and was probably...
The Goddess movement is a revivalistic Neopagan religious movement which includes spiritual beliefs and practices that emerged predominantly in the Western...
Lakshmi as Mahadevi (she who is the greatgoddess), Mahamaya (she who is a great illusion), Karaveera Nivasini (The Goddess Who lives in Karaveera/Kolhapur)...
(Sanskrit: दुर्गा, IAST: Durgā) is a major Hindu goddess, worshipped as a principal aspect of the mother goddess Mahadevi. She is associated with protection...
goddess in the Shaktism sect of Hinduism. According to this tradition, all Hindu goddesses are considered to be manifestations of this single great Goddess...
probably substituted for the companion (Paredros, Πάρεδρος) of the Minoan Greatgoddess in the Arcadian mysteries. In the Arcadian mythos, while Demeter was...
Greek: Ἥρα, translit. Hḗrā; Ἥρη, Hḗrē in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth...
Devī (/ˈdeɪvi/; Sanskrit: देवी) is the Sanskrit word for 'goddess'; the masculine form is deva. Devi and deva mean 'heavenly, divine, anything of excellence'...
goddess in Hinduism. According to the goddess-centric sect Shaktism, all Hindu gods and goddesses are considered to be manifestations of this great goddess...
Kali (/ˈkɑːliː/; Sanskrit: काली, IAST: Kālī) or Kalika is a major Hindu goddess associated with time, change, creation, power, destruction and death in...
Δημήτηρ Dēmḗtēr [dɛːmɛ́ːtɛːr]; Doric: Δαμάτηρ Dāmā́tēr) is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and...
of the Goddess (or Charge of the Star Goddess) is an inspirational text often used in the neopagan religion of Wicca. The Charge of the Goddess is recited...
goddess is often used for a famous example of a distinctive type of large female terracotta figurine in Minoan art, presumably representing a goddess...
they are sometimes referred to as the "GreatGoddess" and the "Great Horned God", with the honorific "great" connoting a personification containing many...
in literature was in Hesiod's Theogony in the 8th century BCE as a goddess of great honour with domains in sky, earth, and sea. Her place of origin is...
being stricken with smallpox or cholera. Woman as "GreatGoddess" was often depicted as a goddess of death in ancient Greek mythology as well. For example...
goddess, revered primarily within the Shaktism tradition and recognized as one of the ten Mahavidyas. She embodies the essence of the supreme goddess...
also with the goddesses Fauna, Ops, Juno, Carna, and the Magna Mater ("GreatGoddess", referring to the Roman form of Cybele but also a cult title for Maia)...
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