Mother Earth

Mother Earth

1. The personification of the Earth, (chiefly) conceived as a fertile, nurturing, and loving mother.
2. (religion) The goddess of the earth in various cultures.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 73:

     [P]igs and sows by their exceeding fruitfulness would in their hour of sacrifice remind old mother Earth of what was expected from her!

• (personification): Earth; Gaia, Gaea; Terra
• (goddess of the earth): Gaia, Gaea, Ge, Rhea, Demeter (Greek); Terra, Tellus (Roman); Earth Mother (neopagan) ; Bhumi (Hinduism)

• Mother Nature

• Earth Mother, earth mother