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The name of Erichthonius includes chthon which is not the underground kingdom of the dead, but the Homeric earth. [16] [17] [18] In ancient times the earth was considered a plane or a flat disk with a wide extent. [12] The earth-goddess can be identified with the nymph "Plataia" (broad one) in Plataea of Boeotia as the spouse of Zeus. [19]
Amalur (sometimes Ama Lur or Ama Lurra [5]) was believed to be the goddess of the earth in the religion of the ancient Basque people. [6] She was described as the mother of Ekhi, the sun, and Ilazki, the moon. Her name meant "mother earth" or "mother land"; the 1968 Basque documentary Ama lur was a celebration of the Basque countryside. [7]
In ancient Roman religionand mythology, Tellus Materor Terra Mater[a]("Mother Earth") is the personificationof the Earth. Although Tellus and Terra are hardly distinguishable during the Imperial era,[2]Telluswas the name of the original earth goddess in the religious practices of the Republicor earlier. [3][4]The scholar Varro(1st century BC ...
An Earth god or Earth goddess is a deification of the Earth associated with a figure with chthonic or terrestrial attributes. There are many different Earth goddesses and gods in many different cultures mythology. However, Earth is usually portrayed as a goddess. Earth goddesses are often associated with the chthonic deities of the underworld. [1]
Earth was first used as the name of the sphere of the Earth in the early fifteenth century. [4] The planet's name in Latin, used academically and scientifically in the West during the Renaissance , is the same as that of Terra Mater , the Roman goddess, which translates to English as Mother Earth .
In antiquity, different explanations were already proffered for the first element of her name. It is possible that Da (Δᾶ), [14] a word which corresponds to Gē (Γῆ) in Attic, is the Doric form of De (Δῆ), "earth", the old name of the chthonic earth-goddess, and that Demeter is "Mother-Earth". [15]
Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous peoples of the Andes. In Inca mythology she is an " Earth Mother " type goddess, [ 1 ] and a fertility goddess who presides over planting and harvesting, embodies the mountains, and causes earthquakes. She is also an ever-present and independent deity who has her own creative power to sustain ...
Jengu, Sawabantu and Duala water spirits. Nyambe, Bantu Supreme deity and god of the sun. Nzambi, Bakongo Sky Father and god of the sun. Nzambici, Bakongo Sky Mother and goddess of the moon and earth. Simbi, Bakongo nature spirits of the water and forest.