History Main / EarthMother

* The role of Creator/HattieJacques on ''Radio/HancocksHalfHour'' was, as often as not, to be motherly and comforting to Tony Hancock and the boys, usually after some far-fetched get-rich-quick scheme had failed. She often tries to do this through food, even though she was not the world's best cook.

** Rhya is the Imperial goddess of the harvest, growth, and summer. She is depicted as a tall, motherly woman, usually pregnant and wearing a crown of barley and wheat. Her worship is strongest in rural lands and the Empire's southern agricultural provinces, and she is prayed to for good harvests and safe births.
** The Elves view Isha, the Mother, as the progenitor of their race and the goddess of living things, fertility, and birth. The High Elves and the Wood Elves revere as one of their primary deities; in both cases, their respective queens are also Isha's high priestesses. Elves who spend enough time in human lands to familiarize themselves with human religion usually come to view Rhya as an imperfect human interpretation of Isha.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Villainess ComicBook/PoisonIvy shows nurturing love for all things green and growing and is cranky on issues such as pollution and pesticides. She has attacked polluters without mercy in defense of her beloved plants, but has also (in extremism) nurtured humans after an apocalypse with abundant fast-growing fruit and vegetables.

* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'' has the Earth goddess called Mother Earth (alternatively: Mother Nature), who under various names is member of every single pantheon. Among others she is Gaia (Hercules' great-grandmother) in the Greek pantheon and Jord (Thor's mother) in the Norse one.

* Creator/AAPessimal's fanfiction character of Doctor Davinia Bellamy is a blonde woman in her middle-to-late thirties who trained as an academic botanist, and ran florists' shops in Ankh-Morpork. She came to the attention of the Guild of Assassins through her ability to understand the language of flowers -- she could say ''Drop Dead!'' in a variety of interesting floral ways. A loving wife and mother of three boys, she now teaches botany and Aggressive Flower-Arranging at the Guild school. Her ability to nurture difficult flora is legendary. And Gods help anyone unwise enough to threaten her husband or sons. Unexpected bouquets have been delivered.

* Comedienne Dawn French in most of her roles, especially the nurturing lady vicar in ''Series/VicarOfDibley''..

** Gaia, though she differs from the popular image of one in a number of ways. For starters she's more associated with rocks and soil, as opposed to plant life, which she is only tangentially associated with. She's also not particularly nurturing, with most of her major stories involving her pursuing the destruction of the Olympians mostly via birthing monsters like [[EldritchAbomination Typhon]] or orchestrating the evisceration of her first husband Ouranos.

* The goddess Cybele in ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheGalli'' appears in dreams and visions to Katia and Daphne, who she saves in the Colosseum. She is known as The Great Mother and has her her own cult and priests called Galli.

Like the Empress in the {{Tarot|Motifs}} pack, a hearty, smiling lady who is invariably portrayed as heavily pregnant and holding a brimming cornucopia, or nursing a baby, while children play at her feet. She is almost always of [[BigBeautifulWoman ample and attractive proportions]] with the occasional [[BuxomIsBetter huge tracts of land]], and will be generous and bountiful in her affections; [[GreenThumb she can make green things grow and flourish]], and who want to share that love and bounty in one way or another--[[ThroughHisStomach food being a particularly popular one]]. They want to love and support and nurture others and generally be motherly. She is both fertile and fecund, but she can get a little cranky if she is not appreciated the way she wants to be. Scorned, [[NatureIsNotNice she can be lethal]] -- God help you if you get between her and [[MamaBear one of her babies.]]

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* Space rockers Music/{{Hawkwind}} were for a while fronted by The Amazing Stacia, a stage dancer who interpreted their music, frequently naked. Stacia stood a little over six feet tall and boasted [[BuxomBeautyStandard impressively large breasts]]. In the unofficial band history, other band members confirm her habit of selecting young, attractive, and preferably inexperienced boys from the audience, whom she would sexually initiate. Recipients of her affections say there was nothing predatory about it -- she came across as caring and loving.
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Like the Empress in the {{Tarot|Motifs}} pack, a hearty, smiling lady who is invariably portrayed as heavily pregnant and holding a brimming cornucopia, or nursing a baby, while children play at her feet. She is almost always of [[BigBeautifulWoman ample and attractive proportions]] and will be generous and bountiful in her affections; [[GreenThumb she can make green things grow and flourish]], and who want to share that love and bounty in one way or another--[[ThroughHisStomach food being a particularly popular one]]. They want to love and support and nurture others and generally be motherly. She is both fertile and fecund, but she can get a little cranky if she is not appreciated the way she wants to be. Scorned, [[NatureIsNotNice she can be lethal]] -- God help you if you get between her and [[MamaBear one of her babies.]]

* ''Art/CharityBouguereau'': More emphasis on the "mother" than the "earth," but here we see a very fertile mother caring for a gaggle of children right above a spilled cornucopia lying in shadow, forgotten by the children in favor of their substitute mother's milk. Similar allegories of Charity, whether in {{sculpture|s}} or {{painting|s}}, are not uncommon, with Creator/Bouguereau's being sort of a TropeCodifier.

* Allegories of Charity, whether in sculpture or painting, show an Earth Mother, often nursing one of the plentiful children about her. Take Creator/WilliamAdolpheBouguereau's portrait of ''Art/Charity|Bouguereau}}''. More emphasis on the "mother" than the "earth," but here we see a very fertile mother caring for a gaggle of children right above a spilled cornucopia lying in shadow, forgotten by the children in favor of their mom's milk.
* During the French Revolution, before the iconography of Marianne properly evolved, the French Republic was often [[AnthropomorphicPersonification personified]] as a mother, which provided a useful excuse to show her with one or both breasts bared.