“The Great mother bursts on the world of men in overwhelming wholeness and perfection.”

Goddess statues have been found all over the world, the first one found from 2500-1500 BC from Egypt, Nile, and then found all over the world, Mohenjo-Daro /Harappa, Africa, Celtic belt, Greece, Rome Turkey, Iraq, and many more. .

The watery abyss, the primeval waters, of which the world came out was Maat (also the goddess of Truth) is Egypt, whereas it was Nammu in Sumerian mythology that gave birth to An (heaven) and Ki (earth) and the first gods.

In China it was Goddess Nu Gua who made the humans out of clay, and gave them life, after seeing her own reflection in the mirror. In Tibet it was sGrol-ma (Tara) who fell in love with saintly Bodhisatva in the form of a monkey sPyan-ras-gzigs (Avalokiteshwara), persuaded him and later on gave birth to six children who were ancestors of all Tibetans.

In Hindu Mythology it was the Goddess Vaak/Saraswati who gave birth to all living creatures along with the Prajaptati, the “brahma”. Similarly Gaia was the Greek goddess and Magna Mater was the roman goddesses of creation. Isis represented motherhood and fertility in Greek mythology, depicted in this painting. Demeter is the grain mother, goddess of earth in Greece.

Goddesses in Indian iconography when appear as a consort to a god are “tamed” and benign, Parvati, Saraswati, lakshmi. But when the goddess is independent she is wild, is to be feared on one hand because she can destroy, or be your protector, because her power surpasses all the male deities put together. For example Durga is the angry version of Parvati and Kaali the angry version of Durga. Ishtaar was the Babylonian goddess of love, sex, war and fertility in a counter part of Inana in Sumerian Mythology. In Greece Athena is the Virgin, war goddess and bringer of peace, cunning intelligence, skilled craft, female domestic activities like spinning and weaving, inventor of vase and flute.

Vaak, Saraswati is the Mother of life forms, Knowledge, Wisdom, Word, Arts, Music, Moksha. In China Guanyin is the bodhisattva or enlightened being associated with compassion, purity and regeneration, and power over the seas and role as protector of fishermen. In Greek Mythology Aphrodite is the goddess of War, Love, marriage and physical attraction. Sitala (the goddess of smallpox and other skin diseases), Manasa: goddess of snakes, hariti and Shashti (goddess of Childbirth), Kanyakumari (the virgin goddess), Minakshi (the fish eyed) who successed her father to rule the world. She goes to challenge Shiva to fight with him, but when she actually meets him, falls in love with him, and acquires feminine modesty. This image of warrior queen pacified or domesticated by Shiva mirrors the myth of Parvati domesticating Shiva’s wildness.

Primitive cultures saw the divine in every particle of the universe. They were not monochromatic "god" or the "devil", but were as colorful and unpredictable with all shades of gray in between as the "mother earth" herself. Spirituality was not something they practiced in a place of worship and carried over their lives of "seeking more". For them spirituality was a way of life, living in one with nature, other fellow beings, the divine and other living creatures, for all were in the end one to them... There was divine in everything around living or not, and also in themselves, and hence the connection was too precious to severe under any circumstance.