Mother Earth Goddess

## Profile

### Other Names

Great Goddesses, First Goddesses, Mother Goddesses, Avatars of Nature, Avatars of the Natural Order, Avatars of the Cycle of Life and Death

## Details

### Base

Divine World
Mortal World (Earth)

### Affiliations

Hylemorphes
Ancient Laws
Angelos Concordat
Divine World
Mortal World (Earth)

### Allies

Council of Godheads
**Mythological Factions**

* Eastern Civilization
* Western Civilization

## Origins

### Summary

Goddesses of Nature who act as the embodiments of all the lands, wielding the power of life and death.

**Mother Earth Goddesses**, also called the **Mother Goddesses**, are special Goddesses of Nature who embody the natural order and the numerous forces of the nature.

## Overview

A **mother goddess** is a goddess who represents a personified deification of motherhood, fertility, creation, destruction, or the earth goddess who embodies the bounty of the earth or nature. When equated with the earth or the natural world, such goddesses are sometimes referred to as the **Mother Earth** or **Earth Mother**, deity in various animistic or pantheistic religions.

The earth goddess is usually the wife or feminine counterpart of the Sky Father or *Father Heaven*. In some polytheistic cultures, such as the Ancient Egyptian religion which narrates the cosmic egg myth, the sky is instead seen as the **Heavenly Mother** or **Sky Mother** as in Nut and Hathor, and the earth god is regarded as the male, paternal, and terrestrial partner, as in Osiris or Geb who hatched out of the maternal *cosmic egg*.

The workship of mother goddess is most vibrant in Hinduism. Hindus view Mother goddess as supreme cosmic energy that governs the universe.

## Summary

Mother Earth Goddesses are special goddesses of old, dating back since the beginning of the Age of Gods when the oldest of stars were newly-forged. The first *proper* Mother Earth Goddess is Gaia, the Greco-Roman Primordial of the Earth, though some may argue as Parvati, being the incarnation of the Progenitor Goddess Adi Parashakti is the *true* original Mother Goddess.

All Mother Earth Goddesses can trace their origins back to the Primordial Goddess, whose only surviving image being the **Çatal Höyük(Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük)**, a clay idol found in Çatalhöyük dated back since the neolithic period. She is the equivalent of the "mother" of the Mother Earth Goddesses that created the land, or in other words, the "Root" that created all nations.

According to legends and folklore, the Primordial Goddess' powers eventually branched out to other goddesses such as Tiamat, Ishtar, Gaia, Hera, Artemis, Demeter, Prithvi, and many, many more. Chieftain gods such as Zeus, Odin, Perun, Horus, etc... who act as the Mother Goddesses' guardians and protectors, their brothers and lovers - or in the oldest traditions, their sons - are known as the **Sky Fathers**.

## Characteristics

A Mother Earth Goddess is a protector guardian deity revered by the people, and she is the sacrifice that feeds them with the crops born from her body and the beasts of the fields and the forests. Her true nature is the cycle of life and death, the circle of the food chain where she feeds man with her blood and flesh, kills man over time and absorbs him as nutrition, and once again feeds man with her replenished blood and flesh.

She represents the system of life itself, so those born of the Earth cannot deny her authority. Only when they have fulfilled the wish of the Primordial Goddess, leaving the planet for space and ending the infantile stage of intelligent lifeforms, will they no longer be bound to it.

Whereas the male gods ensure humans they would have war and prosperity, the Mother Goddesses promised them existence and dominance. Many of the Mother Goddess' symbols are said to be castles, fortresses, and crowns - Things one would expect one's protector of livelihood to have. Similarly, most people believe the Primordial Goddess to be no more than concepts, the religious respect people had for the essential forces that enabled them to survive. Over time, those concepts gained personality and became true goddesses that took more direct approaches in the world's affair. Those particular circumstances of their birth, so to speak, may explain both why these goddesses were so incredibly powerful, and why they were so hostile to outside civilizations.

While beings like that would consider their own worshippers within their domains worthy of their full protection, they would also consider anyone who lives outside their domain to be no better than vermin. It is considered common for these ancient goddesses to fight among themselves, and that the loser would frequently be completely destroyed. But even among all these goddesses, those with connection with the cycle of life-death-rebirth are considered to be especially powerful.

This authority over the power of bringing death and giving life, symbolized by holes opening in the earth and the sky, caves and the moon, the whirlpools and typhoons of the sea, the craters of volcanoes, and such, first births evils that bring forth all manners of death. Once the evils are finished spreading death, they leave the promise of good harvest and fertility. The goddesses that followed inherited this authority, and many were imaged with mural crowns because many were also the guardian deities of cities. Most used the authority to give birth to countless monsters and giants and posed a threat to the gods and man, or give birth to heroes and became protectors of man.

## Trivia

* Their power of creation is called **Potnia Theron(Conception of All Animals)** and is considered to be a "divine authority on the level of nation building" by other gods.
* Most of them are associated with monsters, dragons, and especially serpents.
	+ Due to the myths associated with them, Gods of Steel who embody the sword are considered the mortal enemy of the Mother Goddesses.
	+ In ancient times, when being assimilated into a new religion or area, the Mother Earth Goddess would manifest as a monster to be slain by a God of Steel, who would then take her priestesses as brides as a show of dominance.
* Despite being called "Mother Goddesses", maiden goddesses such as Artemis, Anath, or Devana are still considered Mother Earth Goddesses, as it is a general title rather than one exclusively used by parental deities.
* Although they are called "embodiments of the Earth's will", Khaos heavily implied that there are many extraterrestrial Mother Goddesses, personifying many different planets and revered by many different alien civilizations.