1.   The ideal of the fecund mother goddess, the cults of fecundity indicate constant anxiety as to fertility, similar to the fear of starvation in depressive patients.

2.   Guerrero said he fully accepts that it was no accident that the Virgin supposedly appeared on the same site where the Indians worshipped their mother goddess.

3.   Some historians believe the ancient Roman celebrations honoring Cybele, a mother goddess, were adapted by the early Mother Church to honor Mary, the mother of Christ.

4.   The mother goddess of folk blues still has plenty of spice in her, as this long-overdue return proves.

5.   Their often explicit sexuality has led archaeologists to see them as fertility symbols or mother goddesses.

6.   They do a ritual that personifies the birth of the sun-son god and give thanks for the mother goddess.