earth mother

Historical Examples of earth-mother

• Demeter (from Ge-meter, earth-mother) was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea.

  Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

  E.M. Berens

• Two were blue like the sky and two dun-red like the flesh of the Earth-mother.

  Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest

  Katharine Berry Judson

• The earth itself they designated Pachacamama, or 'Earth-Mother'.

  An Introduction to Mythology

  Lewis Spence

• Wishing for that whereby thou hast being, I shall go forth from here prayerfully upon the trails of my earth-mother.

  Zui Fetiches

  Frank Hamilton Cushing

• One of these names, Sirŏna, probably meant the long-lived one, and was applied to the earth-mother.

  Celtic Religion

  Edward Anwyl