Archetype:Mother Goddess

Mother Goddess
Gaia/Terra (Greco-Roman Mythology) is a Mother Goddess.
The Archetype of:	Divine Mothers, as the very entity itself or it's current host so named Mother Goddess.

The archetype for the characters that possess or have traits of a Mother Goddess. Variation of Goddess. Female Counterpart to Father God. Not be confused with Earth Mother or Mother Nature.

Also Called

• All-Mother
• Mother to the Gods
• The Divine Mother

​Properties

As an archetype, the mother goddess, a goddess entity/figure who represents, or is the personification of, nature, motherhood, fertility, creation, destruction; or, who embodies the bounty of the Earth. Such figures are often times the literal mothers of the majority of younger generations of of gods and goddesses in the pantheon they are from.

Associated Powers

• Creator Deity Physiology
• Divinity/Greater Divinity/Supreme Divinity
  • Deity Soul
  • Divine Aura
• Femininity Deity Physiology
  • Femininity Aspect Manifestation
• Fertility Deity Physiology
  • Fertility Embodiment
  • Sex Deity Physiology
  • Super Fecundity
  • Supernatural Reproduction
• Life Deity Physiology
  • Life-Force Manipulation
    • Animancy
    • Life Creation
• New God/Old God-Patron God
• Prime Being
• Queen of Heaven
• Supreme Deity Physiology
  • Deity Manipulation
  • Divine Lord Physiology
  • Entity Lordship
  • Primordial Entity Physiology
    • Primordial Deity Physiology
• Transcendent Element Manipulation
• Transcendent Physiology

Variations

• Dark Mother
• Earth Mother
• Mother Nature

Relationships/Associations

• Creator Deity Physiology
• Father God Physiology (Male Counterpart)
• Nigh-Omnipotence
• Transcendent Physiology

Flaws/Weaknesses

• May be vulnerable to the effects of Divine Power Absorption, Divine Power Negation, Divine Energy Absorption, Divinity Nullification or Transcendent Negation.
• May be slain by users of Transcendent Weaponry, Divine Slayer or Omnislayer.

Example Characters

Also See: Mother Goddess

Anime/Manga

• Goddess of Dawn (Invaders of the Rokujouma)
• Mii (Jungle De Ikou)
• Tiamat (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Stacia (Sword Art Online)

Comics/Cartoons

• Perpetua (DC Comics)
• Gaea (Marvel Comics)
• Te Fiti (Moana)

Literature

• Joanna Beauchamp/Skadi, Goddess of Earth (Beauchamp Family Series)
• Shub Niggurath (Cthulhu Mythos)
• Queen Tara (Epic)
• Flower Child (Epic)
• Hera (Riordanverse)
• Gaia (Riordanverse)
• Rhea (Riordanverse)

Live Television/Movies

• The Goddess of Earth (Charmed)
• Goddess (Lucifer)

Folklore/Mythology

• Cybele (Anatolian Mythology)
• Ataegina (Basque Mythology)
• Asherah (Canaanite Mythology)
• Virgin Mary (Christianity)
• Isis (Egyptian Mythology)
• Mut (Egyptian Mythology)
• Nut (Egyptian Mythology)
• Barbelo (Gnosticism)
• Aphrodite/Venus (Greco-Roman Mythology); Modern worship only
• Ceto (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Demeter/Ceres (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Echidna (Greco-Roman Mythology) in some variations
• Hera/Juno (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Gaia/Terra (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Nyx/Nox (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Rhea/Ops (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Parvati/Durga (Hindu Mythology)
• Tiamat/Nammu (Mesopotamian Mythology)
• D^héģ^hōm (Proto-Indo-European Mythology)
• Izanami (Shinto Mythology)
• Mokosh (Slavic Mythology)
• Babalon (Thelema)
• Nuit (Thelema)
• Triple Goddess (Mother Aspect) (Wiccan Mythology)

Tabetop/Video Games

• Altana (Final Fantasy XI)
• Twin-Faced Goddess (Forgotten Realms); originally
• Cetrion (Mortal Kombat)
• Nyx (Persona series)
• Mem Aleph (Shin Megami Tensei series)
• B.B. (TYPE-MOON)
• Kiara Sessyoin (TYPE-MOON)
• Kingprotea (TYPE-MOON)
• Tiamat/Beast II (TYPEMOON)
• Gaia (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Isha (Warhammer 40K)
• Rhya (Warhammer Fantasy)

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The Virgin Mary (Christianity), is often seen as goddess because her role as the mother of Jesus.

Shub Niggurath (Cthulhu Mythos) produces a countless numbers eldritch children.

Perperua (DC Comics) is the Omniversal mother of The Monitor, The Anti-Monitor, & The World Forger, as well as the creator of the entire DC Multiverse.

Isis or Aset (Egyptian Mythology) while being the goddess of many other things such as Magic, is primarily a mother goddess who represented the birth experience.

As Queen, Tara (Epic) is the physical personification of life and growth in the forest and give and induce life to any dead plants effortlessly with or without touching them.

Hera/Juno (Greco-Roman Mythology) is the goddess of motherhood.

Mii (Jungle de Ikou) is a spirit of flowers, fertility, and reproduction whose large breasts represent and contain Earth's life-giving energy.

Mari (basque mythology)

Tiamat (Marchen Awakens Romance) takes the form of the fallen mother goddess of the ocean.

Gaea (Marvel Comics) the embodiment of the spirit of life, growth, harvest, and renewal on Earth.

Te Fiti (Moana), the Mother Island.

Tiamat (Mesopotamian Mythology) gave birth to numerous gods and monsters.

Nyx (Persona series) is the mother of all shadows.

Mem Aleph (Shin Megami Tensei series) is the mother of all demons, the mother of the human soul, and the mother from which all life on Earth originates.

BB (TYPE-MOON) his taken aspects from the forgotten Mother Goddess of Çatalhöyük.

Kiara Sessyoin (TYPE-MOON) is a human who managed to be reborn as a mother goddess.

Kingprotea (TYPE-MOON) was formed by combining the data from multiple mother goddesses.

Tiamat (TYPE-MOON) is the mesopatamina mother goddess and the origin of life.

Isha (Warhammer 40K) is the Goddess of Fertility, Nature, Harvest, Bountiful Land, protector of the natural order and mother of the Elven race.

Rhya the Earth Mother (Warhammer Fantasy) is source of fertility, the Autumn harvest and the goddess of all that grows and lives.