Examples of Cultural and Regional Mother Goddesses from Around the World

 

 

 

African: Asase Ya (Mother Goddess), Yemaya, Osun
Anatolia: Çatalhöyük, Cybele
Asian: Amaterasu, Izanami 
Aboriginal: Kunapipi, Eingana
Aztec: Toci (Mother of the Gods)
Celtic: Anu, Danu, Dea Matrona (Divine Mother Goddess)
Cucuteni-Trypillian: stone fertility goddesses
Egyptian: Hathor and Isis
European: Sheela na Gig, The Virgin Mary
Germanic: Nerthus (Mother Earth Goddess)
Greek: Gaia, Rhea, Artemis, Hera, Demeter
Hinduism: Durga, Kali, Tara, Gayatri (The Mother of All Creation)
Maori: Papatuanuku
Mexican: Tonantzin Tlalli (Revered Mother Earth)
Native American: Spider Woman, Corn Mother
Persian: Ninhursag, Inanna, Astarte
Roman: Tellus or Terra Mater (Earth Mother)
Slavic: Mat Zemlya (Mother Earth)

and her handmaiden Mokosh (the Moisture that Makes Her Fertile)
South American: Pachamama
Turkic Siberians: Yer Tanrı (Sun Goddess)

 

 

( ) Direct Translations 

 

 

 

May the Goddess Bless You Eternally