Terra Mater

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[ter-uh mey-ter] / ˈtɛr ə ˈmeɪ tər /

noun

Roman Religion.

1. Tellus.

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Example Sentences

The tribes to the south of the Baltic worship Herthus, which, Tacitus says, is their name for Terra Mater, Mother Earth.

From History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Menzies, Allan

"Perhaps your philosophership has taken the trouble to calculate how many years it will take our unfortunate Terra Mater to cool off?"

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward

Varro says317 that Ops was called Mater because she was identical with Terra, who was, of course, Terra Mater: "Haec enim— 'terris gentes omnes peperit et resumit denuo, quae dat cibaria,' ut ait Ennius."

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde