The Great Mother refers to the concept of the mother goddess, including:
- Great Mother, in the Mahayana and Vajrayana refers to Prajnaparamita, and the wisdom of the Madhyamaka
- Great Mother, translation of Latin Magna Mater, Roman title of the goddess Cybele
- Great Mother, a title of the Roman goddess Maia
- Great Mother of Wisdom, Yum Chenmo, a Tibetan deity of whom Machig Labdrön is considered an emanation
- The Great Mother, epithet of Babalon, a goddess in Aleister Crowley's mystical system of Thelema
- Great Mother, archetypal image in Jungian psychology
It may also refer to:
- The Great Mother, a book by Erich Neumann
- Great Mother (Dungeons & Dragons), a deity character in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
Famous quotes containing the word mother:
“The mother’s and father’s attitudes toward the child correspond to the child’s own needs.... Mother has the function of making him secure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)