In another version of her origin, she was considered a daughter of Zeus and Dione, the mother goddess whose oracle was at Dodona.

Whereas Bachofen saw the switch to paternity on Athena's behalf as an increase of power, Freud on the contrary perceived Athena as an " original mother goddess divested of her power ".

Virginal Artemis was worshipped as a fertility / childbirth goddess in some places, assimilating Ilithyia, since, according to some myths, she assisted her mother in the delivery of her twin.

Prithvi ( Sanskrit:, also ) is the Hindu earth and mother goddess.

At various times certain gods became preeminent over the others, including the sun god Ra, the creator god Amun, and the mother goddess Isis.

These included the royal patron Horus, the sun god Ra, and the mother goddess Isis.

In another even older tradition, Nammu, the goddess of the primeval creative matter and the mother-goddess portrayed as having " given birth to the great gods ," was the mother of Enki, and as the watery creative force, was said to preexist Ea-Enki.

Ninti, the title of Ninhursag, also means " the mother of all living ", and was a title given to the later Hurrian goddess Kheba.

The other piece of evidence lies with the goddess Fjorgyn, who is the mother of Thor, and whose name can be translated into Earth.

They worship Malia, the Mother of Disease, in addition to their patroness, Thed, the goddess of rape and mother of Chaos.

* Leto: A mother goddess figure in Lykia.

Shaktas, worshippers of the Goddess, equate this god with Devi, the mother goddess.

The Minoan goddess represented in seals and other remains, whom Greeks called Potnia Thēron ' Mistress of Animals ', many of whose attributes were later also absorbed by Artemis, seems to have been a mother goddess type, for in some representations she suckles the animals that she holds.

His twin was Thánatos ( Θάνατος, " death "); their mother was the primordial goddess Nyx ( Νύξ, " night ").

The two snakes coiled around a stick was a symbol of the god Ningishzida, which served as a mediator between humans and the mother goddess Ishtar or the supreme Ningirsu.

móður hold mellu dolgs " flesh of mother of enemy of giantess " is the Earth ( Jörd ), personified as a goddess who was the mother of Thor, the enemy of the Jotuns.

Leto was identified from the fourth century onwards with the principal local mother goddess of Anatolian Lycia, as the region became Hellenized.

A measure of what a primal goddess Leto was can be recognized in her father and mother.

The Aztec goddess of Coatlicue, mother of earth.

Many of the female figurines are holding babies, and were interpreted as depictions of " mother goddess ".

However, due to some difficulties in conclusively identifying these figurines with " mother goddess ", some scholars prefer using the term " female figurines with likely cultic significance ".

In the prose introduction to the poem Skírnismál, Freyr is mentioned as the son of Njörðr, and stanza 2 cites the goddess Skaði as the mother of Freyr.

Persephone as a vegetation goddess ( Kore ) and her mother Demeter were the central figures of the Eleusinian mysteries that predated the Olympian pantheon, and promised to the initiated a more enjoyable prospect after death.

According to the mythology outlined by Virgil in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus were both descendants of Aeneas through their mother Rhea Silvia, making Aeneas progenitor of the Roman people.

In Greek mythology, the constellation is sometimes identified as Amalthea, the goat that suckled the infant Zeus after his mother Rhea saved him from being devoured by his father Cronos ( in Greek mythology ).

Hera's mother was Rhea and her father Cronus.

Demeter is not present ; her mother Rhea attends.

He was saved by his mother Rhea, who concealed him among a flock of lambs and pretended to have given birth to a colt, which she gave to Cronus to devour.

* Rhea Silvia, in Roman mythology the mother of the twins Romulus and Remus

* Rhea ( mother of Aventinus ), a separate figure to Rhea Silvia, mother of Aventinus by Hercules

In Homer, Rhea is the mother of the gods, though not a universal mother like Cybele, the Phrygian Great Mother, with whom she was later identified.

Rhea is named after the Titan Rhea of Greek mythology, " mother of the gods ".

Their mother was Rhea Silvia, daughter to Numitor, king of Alba Longa.

Their mother Rhea Silvia and the river-god Tiberinus witness the moment.

They restored Numitor as king, paid due honours to their mother Rhea and left to found their own city, accompanied by a motley band of fugitives, runaway slaves, and any who wanted a second chance in a new city with new rulers.

Rhea, Zeus ' mother and Cronus ' wife, deceived Cronus by giving him a stone wrapped to look like a baby instead of Zeus, whom she instead gave to Adamanthea to nurse.

78, Pan is associated with a mother goddess, perhaps Rhea or Cybele ; Pindar refers to virgins worshipping Cybele and Pan near the poet's house in Boeotia.

They were chthonic daimones of Mount Ida, who clashed their spears and shields to drown out the wails of infant Zeus, whom they received from the Great Goddess, Rhea, his mother.

10, 3, 21 ) that in Lemnos, the mother ( there was no father ) of the Cabeiri was Kabeiro ( Greek: Καβειρώ ) herself, a daughter of Proteus ( one of the " old men of the sea ") and a goddess whom the Greeks might have called Rhea.

Lycophron ( 1191 ) relates that Zeus ' mother, that is Rhea, is skilled in wrestling, having cast the former queen Eurynome into Tartarus.

Rhea Silvia ( also written as Rea Silvia ), and also known as Ilia, was the mythical mother of the twins Romulus and Remus, who founded the city of Rome.