maternal deity

She is, in short, a maternal deity of sorts, a female Higher Power.

Despite the preachings of orthodox and heretic temples alike, the maternal deity, Stratos Mother, was but a lovely abstraction in comparison.

As maternal deities, these goddesses served to nurture and protect the Egyptian people, both royal (as seen in the Pyramid Texts) and non-royal.

The wavelike and fetal shapes that were emphasized in the backdrops designed by Epp Maria Kokamagi, an Estonian painter, helped make "Emapolv" a vision of a universe guided by a benign maternal deity.

Pearse and MacDonagh, however, like their comrade Joseph Plunkett, were cut from much finer cloth - poets and teachers whose imaginations and fates had been shaped by their shared image of Ireland as a maternal deity in need of a redemption that demanded the service and sacrifice of her sons.