Search results for "Earth Mother" - New World Encyclopedia
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- first to measure the average density of the earth using the gravitational theories ... his family was living at the time. His mother was Lady Anne Gray, daughter ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:10, 22 January 2024
- gods. He was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth, with whom he conceived ... of two divine procreative entities—the earth and the sky. As Hesiod tells ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- In Māori mythology, the primal couple Rangi (Sky-Father) and Papa (Earth Mother), also called Ranginui and Papatuanuku, refer to the first primordial ...8 KB (1,301 words) - 00:36, 8 December 2022
- In Sumerian mythology, Ninhursag (NIN.URSAG) was the earth and mother goddess, one of the major deities of ancient Sumer. Also known as Nintu ...14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2022
- of the East and West. Her novel, The Good Earth, for which she was awarded ... taught English as a second language by her mother and tutor. She was encouraged ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 22:56, 30 March 2023
- as a result: The union of heaven and earth resulting in the continuity ... In ancient Sumerian cosmology, heaven (An) and earth (Ki) were originally ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- Leto; he threatened to kill every beast on Earth. Earth objected, and sent ... and buried it in the earth—thus explaining why Orion is Earthborn. ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- Philolaus was the first to declare that the Earth was not the stationary ... Philolaus was the first to propound the doctrine that the Earth was ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- on special occasions, such as Mother's Day, weddings, and proms. on Parents Day. (Korea does not separate Mother's Day and Father's ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 00:27, 29 November 2023
- gods. Enlil was the god of the sky and the earth, the father of the Moon god ... Enlil was in charge of the skies and the earth, while Enki/Ea governed the ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- governed the spiritual heaven, the sky and earth, and the waters, respectively. ... cosmogony as a dome that covered the flat earth. Outside of this dome was ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- realm, communicates to the people on earth, revealing various cosmic ... Methuselah's family, including his mother, named Edna, and his brothers ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- that Tengri governed all existence on earth, determining the fate of ... the universe: Tengri, Yer-Sub, Umai, Erlik, Earth, Water, Fire, Sun, Moon, ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 05:42, 27 February 2023
- Soon after, Eros (sexual union), Gaia (Earth), and Tartarus also sprang ... Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth ...19 KB (3,043 words) - 18:20, 30 April 2023
- a rebellion. Enlil, the god of the sky and earth, wanted to punish these gods ... Anu, Enlil, and Enki, the gods of heaven, earth/sky, and water, "when ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- Shekhinah represents God's presence on earth and mourns for the separation ... After her father died in 1930, she lived with her mother, and fled ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 16:12, 11 November 2022
- Saint Anne (also Ann or Anna) was the mother of the Virgin Mary. Born ... :Oh me, what am I like? I am not like the wild animals of the earth, ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- Mother's Day is a day honoring mothers, celebrated on various ... of today's holiday, the contemporary Mother's Day in the United ...22 KB (3,311 words) - 17:00, 10 November 2022
- and the Roman Empire. She represented the Mother Earth and was worshiped as ... The goddess was known among the Greeks as Meter ("Mother" ...16 KB (2,551 words) - 06:50, 12 January 2024
- from the obsolete Afrikaans name for "earth pig" (aarde earth, varken ... . Aardvarks dig burrows (holes in the earth) as homes. They prefer sandy ...9 KB (1,488 words) - 00:41, 17 December 2022
