Great Goddess
Noun
Meaning
Great Goddess (plural Great Goddesses)
(paganism, archaeology) Earth Mother
Examples
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
Episode 3: The first storytellers The main figures of this system were a female Great Goddess, Mother Earth, and her ever-dying and ever-resurrected son/consort, a male God.
By the 19th century cultural influence began to flow both ways across the Atlantic Mexico and Central America Image:Tetitla Teotihuacan Great Goddess mural (Abracapocus).
For this reason, they are sometimes referred to as the "Great Goddess" and the "Great Horned God", with the adjective "great" connoting a deity that contains many other deities within their own nature.
In 187, one of the leaders of the deserters, Maternus, came from Gaul intending to assassinate Commodus at the Festival of the Great Goddess in March, but he was betrayed and executed.
Several versions of the Charge exist, though they all have the same basic premise, that of a set of instructions given by the Great Goddess to her worshippers.