Earth Mother
Estonian · deity · timeless · Recorded classification
Estonian earth-mother. English 'Earth Mother' leads; native Maa-emä in term (Latin script). The earth-mother and reverence for the earth (maa-ema kummardamine) are genuinely folk-rooted in agrarian custom, complementing the sky-father Uku.
Domains
- earth and fertility
Powers
- grant fertility to land and living things
Relations
- equated with: Earth-Mother of the MariHarva's comparative identification of one Finno-Ugric earth-mother type: parallel 'earth'+'mother' compounds with first-fruits and libation cult; names are independent formations — typological equation, flagged as such.U. Harva (Holmberg), Finno-Ugric, Siberian (The Mythology of All Races IV, 1927), ch. on the Earth-mother (secondary); I. Paulson, The Old Estonian Folk Religion (1971) (secondary)
Sources
- Maa-emä ('Earth-Mother', maa 'earth' + emä 'mother') is the Estonian mother-goddess of earth and nature, granter of fertility.: Estonian mythology, Wikipedia (tertiary)