Mother goddess
A mother goddess is a goddess that is a personification of motherhood, or of fertility. Sometimes, they are called mother earth or earth mother. This concept is usually coupled with a sky father, or father sky. Very often, the mother goddess is also the mother of other deities.

Mother goddess from Çatalhöyük, Turkey, about 8th millennium BC.

Venus of Willendorf, Austria, about 30.000 years old.
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