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myths associated with the Mother Goddess and how it came to pass that she became
pregnant, you will usually find that she became pregnant by her husband, who has to
give his life for one reason or another, and she agrees to bring him back into he world
as the child in her womb. In essence, she gives birth to her husband, rather than
taking her son as her lover. This is even true in the Catholic goddess vision: Jesus was
the son of God, but he was also God. Because this idea is confusing and can lead to
ideas of incest much like I discussed above, the Christian church left Mary a virgin,
thus bypassing the whole sexual encounter, and thus the issue of incest altogether.
Maiden Goddess of Note include:
Diana, Persephone, Kore, Bleudowedd, Artemis, Ariadne, Hestia, Athena, Aphrodite,
Minerva, and Venus.
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Mother
The aspect of the Mother Goddess is probably the most widely known and most
widely envisioned in most cultures. Because the Earth nourishes and replenishes us,
most goddess cultures did pay reverence to the Earth as the Mother, and therefore the
Goddesses that are most prominent and about whom stories are most prolific are the
goddesses that are the representation of the Mother.
She is, in virtually every aspect, a divine or celestial representation of our earthly
mothers. Everyone has an earthly mother, or at least did at one point, so we readily
understand the relationship between mother and child. The mother is the protector,
the care-giver, the kisser of wounds, and the disciplinarian. The Divine Mother is no
different.
Many of the most ancient goddess figures that archeology has uncovered are
goddesses depicted as round, pregnant women. They feature large breasts and full,
meaty hips. Some archeologists (patriarchal, close minded fellows, to be sure) have
written these goddess figures off as nothing more than prehistoric "porn" figures.
However, the generally accepted opinion is that these figures, found in such places as
France, modern day Turkey, and Egypt, are actually representations of a mother
goddess. There is some speculation that perhaps these figures are not goddesses at all,
but rather figures used in fertility rites to enable women to conceive children. This
too is a possibility, but when combined with other information that we have (such as
other evidence of prehistoric goddess worship, and the fact that the connection
between sex and pregnancy was not made until much later than the dates associated
with these figures) leads most scholars to believe that these statues are indeed goddess
representations.
Although the depiction of the Mother Goddess as a pregnant woman is prominent,