The Contes de ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose Tales), edited in 1697 by French author Charles Perrault, is made of eight tales: La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood) Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood) Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard) Le Chat botté (The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots) Les Fées (The Fairies) Cendrillon (Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper) Riquet à la houppe (Ricky of the Tuft) ...

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Sri Aurobindo said that in the Mother he found surrender to the Divine down to physical body itself, the cells of the body (not merely the mind and emotions), the likes of which could not be found in any human being. In 1950 he felt it was time to leave his physical body so he could work at the non-physical level, where he believed he could become more effective (Karmayogi no date). The Mother related that Sri Aurobindo gathered in his body a great amount of supramental force and as soon as he left his body. She was standing beside hi ...

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GREAT MOTHER - mother with exaggerated breasts and hip, who gives birth to and nourishes all beings; often represented in art and design holding a child in her lap. (NAD)

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Divine Mother: Shakti, especially as Personal Goddess, as conceived of and worshiped by Shaktas.

See: Shakti, Shaktism.

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On a beautiful Saturday, Mr. Burns has got all his workers to clean up a highway, maintained by his company. His workers are understably ticked off about this. Homer seems to be missing, but he shows up on top of a nearby cliff. On his way down (to work), he slips and falls and "dies", much to the shock of his co-workers. In reality, Homer pushed a dummy, in his likeness, off the cliff, so that he can spend t ...

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EARTH MOTHER -

1. the Goddess in a form symbolizing the fecundity of women and the Earth.

2. a women who nourishes and cares for others. (NAD)

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The following former queen consorts became queen mothers, though not all chose to use that style. Queen Alexandra (1844–1925) — widow of Edward VII and mother of George V. Queen Mary (1867–1953) — widow of George V and mother of kings Edward VIII and George VI. When her granddaughter Elizabeth II became monarch in 1952, Queen Mary became Queen Mother Dowager. However, on the death of her husband in 1936, she expressed a preference to continue to be referred to as 'Queen Mary'. That style was us ...

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In 1765, John Newbery's Mother Goose's Melody switched the focus from fairy tales to nursery rhymes, and in English this was the prime connotation for Mother Goose until recently. Most people in England now only know the name as a title for a Christmas pantomime - the tales have formed the basis for many classic British pantomimes, including one called "Mother Goose". The name is now used as a generic title for collections of nursery rhymes, especially ones of a previous age. French composer Maurice Ravel wrote an opus named Ma Mère l'Oye, a suit ...

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Mother Meera receives many thousands of visitors of all religions for Darshan (literally seeing, primarily in a spiritual context), which she conducts in total silence. Her darshan consists of a ritual, where she will touch a persons head, and then look into his eyes. During this process, she reportedly 'unties knots' in the persons subtle system and permeates him with light. She doesn't charge any money for doing so and she will not give lectures. She says in her book Answers, Part I, "Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how ...

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This form of Hinduism, known as Shaktism, is strongly associated with Vedanta, Samkhya and Tantra Hindu philosophies and is ultimately monist, though there is a rich tradition of Bhakti yoga associated with it. The feminine energy (Shakti) is considered to be the motive force behind all action and existence in the phenomenal cosmos in Hinduism. The cosmos itself is Brahman, the concept of the unchanging, infinite, immanent and transcendent reality that is the Divine Ground of all being, the "world soul". Masculine potentiality is actualized by feminine dynamism, embodied in multitudinous godd ...

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According to the Aarne and Thompson classification system of fairy tales, Mother Hulda is a story of type 480, The Kind and the Unkind Girls. Some view Mother Hulda as a metaphor for reincarnation in which the stepmother represents the hardships of life and death and Mother Hulda the cycle of rebirth. Central to this idea is a concept not unlike the Buddhist's notion of karma. The actions in one life have consequences for the next. The good gi ...

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After Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's suspension of civil liberties in 1975, Mother Teresa said: "People are happier. There are more jobs. There are no strikes." These approving comments were seen as a result of the friendship between Teresa and the Congress Party. Mother Teresa's comments were even criticized outside India within Catholic media. (Chatterjee, p. 276.) An Indian-born writer living in Britain, Dr. Aroup Chatterjee, who had briefly worked in one of Mother Teresa's homes, began investigations into the finances and o ...

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Mother Night - Germany Pre-WWII. During the Nazi build-up after the seizure of power in 1933, Campbell decided to stay on in Germany despite his parents having left. He continued to write plays, his only associations with members of the ruling Nazi party were social contacts. Being of sufficiently acceptable parentage, Campbell became a member of the Nazis in name only. The truth of the matter was that he was politically apathetic—he only really cared about two things, his art, and his wife Helga, who was also the ...

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There are a number of different narratives interwoven in Mirra's life, most dramatically the transformation of a girl from a non-religious family in France into a woman worshipped by thousands in India as an incarnation of the Divine Mother (The Hindu 2001); the first Westerner to become an Indian guru (Rawlinson 1997). Mirra/The Mother herself did not care for biographies of her life, and never wrote a comprehensive or systematic account of her life. However a lot of biographical information is found scattered through her work ...

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Mother-Father.

See LOGOS; SVABHAVAT

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Father-Mother. See LOGOS; SVABHAVAT

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MOTHER GODDESS -

1. natural mother of all things or mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of the powers divine, the principle of them that dwell in heaven, manifested alone and under one form of all the gods and goddesses, at whose will the planets of the sky, the wholesome winds of the seas and the lamentable silences of hell are dispersed. (Isis)

2. archetypal feminine aspect of the Godhead.

3. mediatrix, creator of forms, the celestial energy that gives birth to the world and all beings.

4. Mother Earth, Mother Nature.

5. space, the void field of consciousness.

6. time, who devours all her children.

7. Tao, way of gentle turning back (Lao-Tzu).

• Ala - Ibo Amaterasu-ami-kami-Shinto Anoba-Gaelic
• Aphrodite-Cypriot Asasa Ya-Yoruba  Astarte-Phoenician
• Athena-Greek Bellona-Roman  Benten-Japanese
• Brigid-Celtic Ceres-Eleusinian Ceridwain-Celtic
• Coatlicue-Nahuatl Chicomecoatl-Nahuatl Chom Lhari-Bhutanese
• Cybele-Phrygian Danu-Druidic  Demeter-Greek
• Devi Sri-Balance Diana-Cretan  Estanalehi-Navajo
• Fortuna-Roman Freya-Scandinavian Frigg-Scandinavian
• Gaia-Greek Hathor-Egyptian  Hecate-Greek
• Hel-Norse Illamatecuhtli-Aztec Isis-Egyptian
• Ishtar-Babylonian Ixchel-Mayan  Jord-Norse
• Juno-Roman Kali-Indian  Kuan Yin-Chinese
• Lakshmi-Indian Lilith-Hebrew  Luna-Roman
• Magan Mater-Latin Mary-Christian  Mawu-Dahomean
• Mayahuel-Nahuatl Minerva-Greek  Morgan Le Fay-Irish
• Nut-Egyptian Ostara-Germanic  Pachamama-Incan
• Persephone-Greek Pi-hsia Yuan-chun-Taoist Rangda-Balinese
• Saraswati-Indian Sagarmathe-Himalayain Sophua-Gnostic
• Tara-Tibetan Venus of Menten-Neolithic Venus of Lespugue-Neolithic
• White Goddess-Druidic

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Mother Ruth

See Science of Man.

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The exact origin of Mother Hulda is difficult to trace but it is certain that the character originated in Norse mythology, where she is associated with a number of different deities including Frigg and Hel (Hölle in German). Hel is the queen of Helheim, the Norse underworld, and described by the Vikings as a half-dead, half alive monster, but in German mythology she was viewed with some beneficence, as a more gentle form of death and transformation. In this context, Mother Hulda is connected with Hertha, the goddess of peace and fert ...

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Some people consider Mary to be a "mother goddess", since she not only fulfills a maternal role but is often viewed as a protective force and divine intercessory for humanity. Protestants often accuse Catholics of viewing Mary as a goddess; Catholics deny it. On a somewhat-related note, some Latter Day Saint denominations give reverence to, and (though rarely) worship, a Heavenly Mother. ...

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After Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's suspension of civil liberties in 1975, Mother Teresa said: "People are happier. There are more jobs. There are no strikes." These approving comments were seen as a result of the friendship between Teresa and the Congress Party. Mother Teresa's comments were even criticized outside India within Catholic media. (Chatterjee, p. 276.) An Indian-born writer living in Britain, Dr. Aroup Chatterjee, who had briefly worked in one of Mother Teresa's homes, began investigations into the finances and o ...

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