The Mother Goddess
All over the world there are stories about her: de Mother Goddess.
No matter what religion rules today, on most places in the world there is mythology of an ancient goddess of life and fertility: the Mother Goddess. Sometimes she is a goddess of fertility, passion and love; sometimes she represents Mother Earth herself, bringing of life and death.
 On the right the famous Venus of Willendorf, an ancient statuette of the Mother Goddess found in Willendorf, Austria in 1908 by the archaeologist Josef Szombathy. When first discovered the Venus of Willendorf was thought to date to approximately 15,000 to 10,000 BCE, or more or less to the same period as the cave paintings at Lascaux in France. In the 1970s the date was revised back to 25,000-20,000 BCE, and then in the 1980s it was revised again to c. 30,000-25,000 BCE. Somewhere else on this site is an extended section about the temples of Malta, which are assumably were errected for Magna Mater, a Mother Goddess of whom we hardly know anything.
The oldest (known) written or oral reference to her is Cybele, so my search for mother goddess of the world starts there. And I found amazing things about her and her counterparts. Other goddess described in this section are: Gaia, Astarte, Isjtar, Ostara, Oya and Noet, Demeter, Kali, Cihuacoatl, Ajysyt, Freya, Tara and Amaterasu. Apart from that an introduction to the modern Gaia theory. Cybele
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