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Definition of Earth-goddess
1. Noun. A goddess of fertility and vegetation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earth-goddess
Literary usage of Earth-goddess
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation by Edith Balas (1995)
"The Role of the Earth Goddess as Mother and Virgin Michelangelo's learned
contemporaries were familiar with the concept of Terr a as a syncretic goddess, ..."
2. Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation by Edith Balas (1995)
"The Role of the Earth Goddess as Mother and Virgin Michelangelo's learned
contemporaries were familiar with the concept of Terra as a syncretic goddess, ..."
3. The Cults of the Greek States by Lewis Richard Farnell (1907)
"But believing her to be the earth-goddess, we should expect, on the general
analogies of European and non-European custom, to find in legend or ritual a ..."
4. The Christian Examiner (1856)
"Ven-us, the Earth goddess. Juno. Urani-a, celestial Venus. ... Isis, the Earth
goddess. Tit-aea, the Earth. Selen-e, the moon. Pallas. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"The two chief gods of the Pueblos are the sky god and the earth goddess. ...
The female principle is the earth goddess, the goddess of germs. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"These rites recall our May day observance, and give colour to the earth- goddess
theory. On the other hand it must be remembered that the patron deity of a ..."
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