Great Mother
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"Satirizing Rousseau, point by point, [Marquis de Sade] prefigures the theories of aggression in Darwin, Nietzsche, and Freud." --"Return of the Great Mother: Rousseau vs. Sade" (1990) by Camille Paglia |
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Great Mother may refer to:
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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 "Great Mother of Wisdom", a Tibetan deity of whom Machig Labdrön is considered an emanation
- Great Mother, an archetypal image in Analytical psychology
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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
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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)
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