Earth Mother
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Earth all-nourishing · Earth-mother · Goddess of the hills · blessed queen · daedal Earth · dread Mother · earth · fruitful lands · mother of Zeus
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
The earth personified as mother, receiving rain from Ether-father and producing grain, fruit, and life, used in a mythological metaphor to illustrate the material cycle.
Down to the bosom of Earth-mother;
For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers,
Upsprings the shining grain, and boughs are green
Philoctetes
The Earth Mother is a goddess invoked by the chorus as witness to the Atreids' insult.
Goddess of the hills, Earth all-nourishing, mother of Zeus himself, you through whose realm the great Pactolus rolls golden sands!