earth-goddess

Historical Examples

• The earth-goddess is not banished, but remains as consort of the male divinity.

  The New Stone Age in Northern Europe

  John M. Tyler

• Her historical connection with the great Asian earth-goddess, the Mother-Goddess, is uncertain.

  Introduction to the History of Religions

  Crawford Howell Toy

• The earth-goddess Toci or Teteoinnan was regarded as the progenitrix or mother of the gods.

  An Introduction to Mythology

  Lewis Spence

• She may thus represent the old Earth-goddess, whose place the native Dispater gradually usurped.

  The Religion of the Ancient Celts

  J. A. MacCulloch

• Both μέλαινα and ἐρινύς, according to Farnell, are epithets of Demeter as an earth-goddess of the under-world.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10

  Various