Great Mother

Great Mother may refer to:

Goddesses

• Mother goddesses of various traditions, representing motherhood, fertility, creation, or the bounty of the Earth:
  • Cybele, Roman goddess with the title Magna Mater (Latin for "Great Mother")
  • Đạo Mẫu, in Vietnamese tradition
  • Maia (mythology), Roman goddess
  • Prajnaparamita, and the wisdom of the Madhyamaka, in the Mahayana and Vajrayana
  • Yum Chenmo, or Great Mother of Wisdom, a Tibetan deity of whom Machig Labdrön is considered an emanation
  • Great Mother, an archetypal image in Jungian psychology

Other uses

• 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 19th century in interactions with indigenous peoples to refer to various heads of state

See also

• Goddess, a female deity
• Great Goddess
• Heavenly Mother, a wife or feminine counterpart of the Sky father or God the Father, in various traditions
• Magna Mater (disambiguation)