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The Ancient Female Goddesses
The cult of Mother Goddess, or a female goddess, dates back as far as we have archaeological remains.
Motherhood in the broader sense of Nature, intended as a circle of fertility, creation and destruction, starts to appear as soon as we have humanity. Countless figurines made of clay and stone testify of a deeply ingrained reverence for the capacity to bring new life to the world, represented by voluptuous women with large hips and big breasts.
Goddess worship in ancient Europa was maybe due to the influence of Pre-Indo-European matriarchies. Ancient Egypt counted many versions of female goddesses associated with animals, waters, the starry sky and even earth itself.
In the Americas the same can be found under the Pachamama worship. In Incan religion, Pachamama presides over planting and harvesting and she causes earthquakes. After conquest by Catholic Spain her image was masked by the Virgin Mary.
For the Romans Tellus, or Terra Mater, was the goddess of earth and agriculture, connected with Ceres, goddess of fertility, grain and mothering.
These tradition were swept away by a cultural change that saw male deities conquering the supremacy almost everywhere; the ancient Nature-Earth worship was relegated to the obscurity in favour of a completely different vision of life itself.
Motherhood in the broader sense of Nature, intended as a circle of fertility, creation and destruction, starts to appear as soon as we have humanity. Countless figurines made of clay and stone testify of a deeply ingrained reverence for the capacity to bring new life to the world, represented by voluptuous women with large hips and big breasts.
Goddess worship in ancient Europa was maybe due to the influence of Pre-Indo-European matriarchies. Ancient Egypt counted many versions of female goddesses associated with animals, waters, the starry sky and even earth itself.
In the Americas the same can be found under the Pachamama worship. In Incan religion, Pachamama presides over planting and harvesting and she causes earthquakes. After conquest by Catholic Spain her image was masked by the Virgin Mary.
For the Romans Tellus, or Terra Mater, was the goddess of earth and agriculture, connected with Ceres, goddess of fertility, grain and mothering.
These tradition were swept away by a cultural change that saw male deities conquering the supremacy almost everywhere; the ancient Nature-Earth worship was relegated to the obscurity in favour of a completely different vision of life itself.