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 • Greek
Epic of Gilgamesh
Sin-leqi-unninni • Mesopotamian
Mahabharata
Vyasa • Indian
Poetic Edda
Anonymous • Germanic
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson • Germanic
Enuma Elish
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Metamorphoses
Ovid • Roman
Book of the Dead
Anonymous • Egyptian
Early Upanishads
Anonymous • Indian
Le Morte Darthur
Thomas Malory • Germanic
Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en • East Asian
Kojiki
O no Yasumaro • East Asian
Nihon Shoki
Prince Toneri • East Asian
Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus • Greek
Theogony
Hesiod • Greek
Atharvaveda
Anonymous • Indian
Heart Sutra
Anonymous • Indian
Lotus Sutra
Anonymous • Indian
Atrahasis
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Shahnameh
Ferdowsi • Persian
Avesta
Various • Persian
The Bacchae
Euripides • Greek
The Mabinogion
Anonymous • Celtic
Classic of Poetry
Anonymous • East Asian