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According to Brugsch she is “not only the creatress of the fresh verdure of vegetation which covers the earth, but is actually the green corn-field itself, which is personified as a goddess.”

From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir

She has religiously fulfilled her duty as a good creatress; and from this duty done there result only tribulation and sorrow.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred

As Demeter was honoured as the divine creatress of the eternal in man, so in Dionysos was honoured the ever-changing divine in the world.

From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Collison, Harry

Mama, Mami.—Names of "the lady of the gods," and creatress of the seed of mankind, Aruru.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge

Society ought to place woman, as a human being and as a creatress of men—more worthy therefore of love and respect—in a better juridical and ethical situation than she enjoys at present.

From Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) by La Monte, Robert Rives