Momma Goddesses

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

the setting I'm writing this for is more like an urban area with many small internal wildernesses, ecologies, and 'parks.' So while there will be agriculture it probably won't be the focus of the setting for a while yet.

Still I do need some ideas for good crazy and not so crazy rituals for the goddesses.

I am putting together a blood drinker deity, but that's another issue.

 

[Tonguez]

A less murderous blood sacrifice for a corn mother type might be the village smith and a virgin in the newly ploughed fields. A symbolic 'planting of the seed'.

I used this as the background of a character in a 16th Century setting I played in. The characters mother was from Caledon (Scotland) where every year a festival is held in which the 'Green Man' parades around and eventually has sex with the 'Spring Princess'. Usually the Green Man is a human dressed in leaves, however one year the real Green Man (a fey) manifest sleeps with the princess and my character is born...

Anyway the idea of a fair (and following debauchery) in which clowns (with big organs) and 'the Green Man' danace around through the streets would fit an urban or rural setting (just look at Madis Gras)

 

[Robbert Raets]

Don't forget that a mother goddess is also a likely candidate to symbolify mourning.

 

[mythago]

The "love and war" theme is pretty constant though . . .

Well, except for 'love' read 'sex.' They didn't have a goddess of romantic love as we now tend to picture Aphrodite. (As I recall, there is a hymn to Ishtar with a line about her '"rising up in splendor above the tired bridegrooms...").

She also, IIRC, waded into battle whirling a rope, the sound of which drove her enemies insane.

 

[Knightfall]

Interesting, where does Larea come from?

I'm on the lookout for good inspirations for godlike names.

Larea doesn't come from anything. She's a completely unique goddess to my campaign world. I have this thing about creating my own gods, mixing them with Real World mythos, and seeing where I eventually end up.

Cheers!

KF72