History Main / MotherGoddess

* In the ''Literature/TortallUniverse'', the Great Mother Goddess is one of the two main deities of the Eastern Lands and Alanna's patron. She underwent a {{Chickification}} in the form of the Cult of the Gentle Mother erasing her warrior aspect, which led to her choosing [[ActionGirl Alanna]] as her champion.

* Tiamat from Myth/MesopotamianMythology is the mother goddess of the cosmos, who also doubles as the primordial goddess of water. She is also often represented as either a sea serpent or a [[DragonsAreDivine dragon.]]

* In the ''Literature/TortallUniverse'', the Great Mother Goddess is one of the two main deities of the Eastern Lands and Alanna's patron. She underwent a {{Chickification}} in the form of the Cult of the Gentle Mother erasing her warrior aspect, which lead to her choosing [[ActionGirl Alanna]] as her champion.

* Hydaelyn from VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV is the BigGood of the A Realm Reborn storyline, she created the world and one of her other names is 'The Mothercrystal'. She's shown as being a gigantic, sentient crystal of Aether, and she can 'bless' her chosen with the power of the Echo, which allows them to speak all languages and be immune from being mind-controlled by Primals. She specifically helps the PlayerCharacter by granting them the Echo and protecting them from extreme danger. She's the direct opposite of the God of the Ascians, Zodiark.

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* In ''{{Disney/Moana}}'', the goddess who created the first island out of the ocean is Te Fiti, whose heart possesses the power to create life. [[spoiler:Inversely, without her heart she becomes a destructive volcano demon, Te Ka, whose presence causes the world to sicken and fill with monsters.]]

If they're a goddess of the earth/fertility but didn't have a hand in creation, then they're an EarthMother. While this trope may cross over with MotherNature, a Mother Goddess is not necessarily a nature spirit or connected with nature at all. Contrast GrandpaGod, which could be considered a GenderFlip.

While usually not the TopGod in real life religions, a lot of fictional stories will have the Mother Goddess as the sole goddess of a specific religion. Due to the nature of a Mother Goddess being a nurturing, kind figure, they're almost always [[GodOfGood seen as positive figures]] and in a lot of High Fantasy stories tend to be the BigGood, altough of course [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools this doesn't always have to be the case.]]

While usually not the TopGod in real life religions, a lot of fictional stories will have the Mother Goddess as the sole goddess of a specific religion. Due to the nature of a Mother Goddess being a nurturing, kind figure, they're almost always [[GodOfGood seen as positive figures]] and in a lot of High Fantasy stories tend to be the BigGood, altough of course [[TropesAreTools this doesn't always have to be the case.]]

* Creator/MarvelComics: The Earth Mother is an Elder Goddess that was created shortly before the Earth itself formed, and she is the embodiment of the planet itself and its biosphere. As revealed in later comics, she is also the Earth Goddess for ''every'' existent pantheon, under [[IHaveManyNames various different names]]. The Asgardians know her as Jord and the Olympians know her Gaia, and the Hawaiian pantheon her as Haumea, just to name a few. In addition to being "mother of the Earth", Gaea also tends to deal with problems by having children, such as having a child with Odin to [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor create a son]] that would protect the Earth.

* Creator/MarvelComics: The Earth Mother is an Elder Goddess that was created shortly before the Earth itself formed, and she is the embodiment of the planet itself and its biosphere. As revealed in later comics, she is also the Earth Goddess for ''every'' existent pantheon, under [[IHaveManyNames various different names]]. The Asgardians know her as Jord and the Olympians know her Gaia, and the Hawaiian pantheon her as Haumea, just to name a few.

* In the ''Literature/TortallUniverse'', the Great Mother Goddess is one of the two main deities of the Eastern Lands and Alanna's patron. She underwent a {{Chickification}} in the form of the Cult of the Gentle Mother which ignored her warrior aspect, which lead to her choosing [[ActionGirl Alanna]] as her champion.

* Creator/JenniferLawrence's character, the titular "mother" in ''Film/Mother2017'' appears to be one of these, with her ''house'' as the world.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', the rarely named goddess of the Church of Seiros is said to be watching Fodlan from above, taking care of her "children" and punishing evil. [[spoiler:In truth, while Sothis was very powerful, she had been slain centuries before the story began.]]

* Tiamat from Mesopotamian Mythology is the mother goddess of the cosmos, who also doubles as the primordial goddess of water. She is also often represented as either a sea serpent or a [[DragonsAreDivine dragon.]]
* Classical Mythology:

* In Japanese Mythology, the goddess Izanami is one of the two deities that created Japan. With her husband Izanagi, she gave birth to many, many gods as well as the islands of Japan. Unfortunately she died when giving birth to god of fire Kagutsuchi. Izanagi tried to bring her back to life, but she had already become a denizen of the underworld.
* The half-snake goddess Nu Wa in Chinese Mythology is commonly credited as the creator of humanity, sculpting them from clay.

If they're a goddess of the earth/fertility but didn't have a hand in creation, then they're an EarthMother. While this trope may cross over with MotherNature, a Mother Goddess is not necessarily a nature spirit or connected with nature at all.

* VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn: Befitting her Classical namesake, the A.I. GAIA was created for the express purpose of aiding in the creation of organic life on Earth, in response to the devastation caused by the Faro plague. [[spoiler: Though her creators ultimately resigned themselves to humanity’s inevitable extinction, and instead tasked her with rebuilding ALL life on the planet after the plague was finished. Uniquely, she was also tasked with destroying her own creations should the need arise, and it’s implied she’s been going through this cycle of life and death for some time. Then her subordinate functions started going rogue, and she had to self-terminate...]]
** In a more literal sense, she’s this to [[spoiler: Aloy, whom she cloned from Elizabet Sobek’s DNA to stop HADES, and one day hopefully bring herself and all her subordinate functions back online.]]

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