Great Goddess

Great Goddess

Great Goddess refers to the concept of an almighty goddess, or to the concept of a mother goddess, including:

*Great Goddess, anglicized form of the Latin Magna Dea
*Great Goddess, anglicized form of the Sanskrit Mahadevi, the Shakti sum of all goddesses
*Great Goddess, Ma Gu, cosmogonic goddess in Korean creation myths
*Great Goddess of Teotihuacan, an ancient Mesoamerican deity

ee also

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*Goddess
*Goddess worship
*Great Mother, a disambiguation page


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