earth-goddess

Her hips no longer belong to a human but to an earth-goddess.

Zumba, Meet Depression Lou Freshwater 2011

There remains only the teacher who becomes the earth-goddess for four men about to die, giving each sexual and emotional comfort, her soft derriere and ample breasts not unlike the succulent roasts and the gorgeous puddings.

Buzzine » Tushy Tarts, Smelly Farts… 2009

Hades rules this world with Persephone – whom he abducted from the earth-goddess Demeter – and a number of other figures such as Thanatos, Hypnos, Charon, and Cerberus.

Neatorama: Heaven and Hell, According to Various Religions William Harryman 2007

Kyrgyz takeover in 840 CE, they lost possession of the sacred earth-goddess mountain Otukan near their former capital, Ordubaliq.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 13 The Establishment of New Empires in Central Asia 2006

The earth-goddess appears again when the child enters upon manhood, for at Brahman marriages in India, the bridegroom still says to the bride,

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

In Virgil's account the prayer is made to Ceres, and we know that in imperial times, when the Ambarvalia became very closely connected with the worship of the imperial house, the centre of the cult was the earth-goddess, Dea Dia; but in the earliest account of the rustic ceremony which we possess in Cato, Mars is addressed in the unmistakeable character of an agricultural deity.

The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914

For this reason the plebeians had to live outside the Roman city, which was all sacred ground, and the Sudras and modern impure castes have to live outside the village, which is similarly sacred as the abode of the earth-goddess in her form of the goddess of the land of that village.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

And the earth-goddess of each village was a separate form or part of the goddess, so that her land should only be tilled by the descendants of the cultivators who were in communion with her.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

Some of the Khonds worship the sun-god; some the earth-goddess, and ascribe to her all success and power, while they hold particularly to human sacrifice in her honor.

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

The Gondhalis are the village priests of Devi, the earth-goddess, who is also frequently the tutelary goddess of the village.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894