Mother Goddess
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Danu, mother of the Irish gods, gave her name to the Tuatha Dé Danann — yet appears in no medieval text and has no myth of her own. This field study examines a goddess reconstructed from a single grammatical fragment, the tales of the folk she named, and her Victorian reinvention.
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Yemaya, the Yoruba water goddess, transformed from a river deity in Africa to the oceanic Mother of the Diaspora in the Americas. Syncretized with the Virgin Mary, her worship survived the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, flourishing in Candomblé and Santería. She embodies motherhood, fertility, and female power, governing the moon’s tides and human creativity. Celebrated in…