Great Mother
226 books featuring this archetype
The Great Mother unites nurture, authority, and generative power. She encompasses both protection and the demands of growth and limitation.
The Iliad
Homer
750-700 BCE
Greek
Epic of Gilgamesh
Sin-leqi-unninni
1200-1000 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Mahabharata
Vyasa
200 BCE-400 CE
Indian, Hindu
Poetic Edda
Anonymous
1270 CE
Germanic, Norse
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson
1220 CE
Germanic, Norse
Enuma Elish
Anonymous
1100-1000 BCE
Mesopotamian, Babylonian
Metamorphoses
Ovid
1 BCE-8 CE
Roman
Book of the Dead
Anonymous
1550-50 BCE
Egyptian
Early Upanishads
Anonymous
300 BCE-200 CE
Indian, Hindu
Le Morte Darthur
Thomas Malory
1469-1485 CE
Germanic, English
Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en
1592 CE
East Asian, Chinese
Kojiki
O no Yasumaro
712 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Nihon Shoki
Prince Toneri
720 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus
1-200 CE
Greek
Theogony
Hesiod
700-600 BCE
Greek
Atharvaveda
Anonymous
1-1000 CE
Indian, Hindu
Heart Sutra
Anonymous
400-700 CE
Indian, Buddhist
Lotus Sutra
Anonymous
100-300 CE
Indian, Buddhist
Atrahasis
Anonymous
1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Shahnameh
Ferdowsi
977-1010 CE
Persian
Avesta
Various
300-700 CE
Persian, Zoroastrian
The Bacchae
Euripides
407-405 BCE
Greek
The Mabinogion
Anonymous
1100-1410 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Classic of Poetry
Anonymous
400-200 BCE
East Asian, Chinese