Great Mother

plural Great Mothers

1. archaeologyEarth Mother

   In the mystery of the writing of language, the two had become the one; the stylus of the scribe was like the older Neolithic statues of the Great Mother carved on the phallus.

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 22

2. historicalTitle used by European colonial powers in North America to refer to a European queen.