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Motherhood Motivation (See INDUCEMENT.) Mourning (See GRIEF.) Asherah mother of the gods; counterpart of Gaea. [Canaanite Myth.: Benét, 57] Great Mother; goddess of nature and reproduction. [Phrygian Myth.: Parrinder, 68; Jobes, 400]
Idaean nymph; nursed the infant Zeus. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 74] (Anu) divine procreator and guardian of gods and mortals. [Celtic Myth.: Parrinder, 72] virgin mother of Krishna. [Hindu Myth.: Parrinder, 76] the “great goddess,” wife of Shiva; “Mother.” [Hindu Myth.: Parrinder, 77] earth and mother goddess. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 108] apotheosized as mother of Christ. [N.T.: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John] often titled Great Mother of the Gods. [Gk. Myth.: NCE, 1796] popular name for the painter’s “Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1: The Artist’s Mother.” [Am. Art: EB, 19:814–815] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But the Wild is the Wild, and motherhood is motherhood, at all times fiercely protective whether in the Wild or out of it; and the time was to come when the she-wolf, for her grey cub's sake, would venture the left fork, and the lair in the rocks, and the lynx's wrath. Even the cares of prospective motherhood had not entirely quenched the fires of carefree youth, and Teeka had remained a good-natured playmate even at an age when other shes of the tribe of Kerchak had assumed the sullen dignity of maturity. As the days and weeks pussed, Saxon was possessed by a conscious feeling of proud motherhood in her swelling breasts. |
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