Great Mother

English

Noun

Great Mother (plural Great Mothers)

1. (paganism, archaeology) Earth Mother
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 22:

     In the mystery of the writing of language, the two had become the one; the stylus of the scribe was like the older Neolithic statues of the Great Mother carved on the phallus.

Coordinate terms

• Great Father