Her hips no longer belong to a human but to an earth-goddess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zumba, Meet Depression] Reference

Kyrgyz takeover in 840 CE, they lost possession of the sacred earth-goddess mountain Otukan near their former capital, Ordubaliq.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 13 The Establishment of New Empires in Central Asia] Reference

Hades rules this world with Persephone – whom he abducted from the earth-goddess Demeter – and a number of other figures such as Thanatos, Hypnos, Charon, and Cerberus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neatorama: Heaven and Hell, According to Various Religions] Reference

Her historical connection with the great Asian earth-goddess, the Mother-Goddess, is uncertain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

The Gondhalis are the village priests of Devi, the earth-goddess, who is also frequently the tutelary goddess of the village.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

Then the prophetess told him, as Rossthiof had already predicted, that Rinda, the earth-goddess, would bear a son to Odin, and that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas] Reference

Some of the Khonds worship the sun-god; some the earth-goddess, and ascribe to her all success and power, while they hold particularly to human sacrifice in her honor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference

And the earth-goddess of each village was a separate form or part of the goddess, so that her land should only be tilled by the descendants of the cultivators who were in communion with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

For this reason the plebeians had to live outside the Roman city, which was all sacred ground, and the Sudras and modern impure castes have to live outside the village, which is similarly sacred as the abode of the earth-goddess in her form of the goddess of the land of that village.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

In Virgil's account the prayer is made to Ceres, and we know that in imperial times, when the Ambarvalia became very closely connected with the worship of the imperial house, the centre of the cult was the earth-goddess, Dea Dia; but in the earliest account of the rustic ceremony which we possess in Cato, Mars is addressed in the unmistakeable character of an agricultural deity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religion of Ancient Rome] Reference

'lady of the earth,' and there is evidently a theoretical substratum to this association of Ea, the water-god, with an earth-goddess.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference

Achilleus dies by an arrow-wound in the heel; the thigh of Adonis is pierced by the boar's tusk, while Odysseus escapes with an ugly scar, which afterwards secures his recognition by his old servant, the dawn-nymph Eurykleia; Sigurd is slain by a thorn, and Balder by a sharp sprig of mistletoe; and in the myth of the Sleeping Beauty, the earth-goddess sinks into her long winter sleep when pricked by the point of the spindle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology] Reference

Devi or the earth-goddess.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference

She is a form of Devi, the general earth-goddess.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference

A/C/alm earth-goddess/c/rowned with/c/orn and vines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Early Victorian Literature] Reference

Gaea, the earth-goddess, I, 762; II, 39, 1209, 1273; III, 699, 716.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonautica] Reference