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Desert Mothers Saint Paula and her daughter Eustochium with their spiritual advisor Saint Jerome—painting by Francisco de Zurbarán. Desert Mothers is a neologism, coined in feminist theology as an analogy to Desert Fathers, for the ammas or female Christian ascetics living in the desert of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria in the 4th and 5th centuries AD. [1]
For example, prayer, like other ascetic activities, is embodied for Syncletica. Physical dimensions of prayer found in her vita include standing, crying, speaking, singing, and listening. [ 33 ] Wheeler also states that the prevalence of imagery of women's bodies and of domesticity in her vita and sayings is best explained by her gender. [ 34 ]
The Mothers were identified with fourteen vowels plus the anusarva and visarga, making their number sixteen. [ 80 ] In Tantra , the fifty or fifty-one letters including vowels as well as consonants from A to Ksha, of the Devanagari alphabet itself, the Varnamala of bija , have been described as being the Matrikas themselves.
Mother of Gregory of Nazianzus, was a devout Christian who influenced her husband’s conversion and his rise as Bishop of Nazianzus. Her spiritual guidance shaped her children, fostering faith and piety. Nonna exemplifies the vital role of women in early Christian theology, contributing to the legacy of the Cappadocian Fathers. [28] [29] [30]
In discussing examples of his Great Mother archetype, Neumann mentions the Fates as "the threefold form of the Great Mother", [24] details that "the reason for their appearance in threes or nines, or more seldom in twelves, is to be sought in the threefold articulation underlying all created things; but here it refers most particularly to the ...
Mother Goddess sculpture from Madhya Pradesh or Rajasthan, India, 6th-7th century, in the National Museum of Korea, Seoul. A mother goddess is a major goddess characterized as a mother or progenitor, either as an embodiment of motherhood and fertility or fulfilling the cosmological role of a creator-and/or destroyer-figure, typically associated the Earth, sky, and/or the life-giving bounties ...
Iyami Aje are known by many praise names which include, but are not limited to, Iyami Osoronga, Awon Iya Wa (Our Mothers), [10] Eleye (Owner(s) of the Sacred Bird), Iyanla, Awon Agbalagba (The Wise and Formidable Elders), Elders of the Night, Old and Wise One(s), [4] the "Gods of Society," [11] Ayé (Earth), Yewájọbí (The Mother of All the Òrìṣà and All Living Things), [12] and ...
Mother Nature intimidates her children to doing as Mrs. Claus asks from them. Mother Nature appears in the live action remake of The Year Without a Santa Claus, portrayed by Carol Kane. Mother Nature appears in the 2008 sequel A Miser Brothers' Christmas voiced by Patricia Hamilton. Besides Heat Miser and Snow Miser, she is also shown to be the ...