To meet spiritual needs, everyday wishes and gain help in achieving good health and success communities in Viet Nam worship the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms: heaven, water, and mountains and ...

often encouraging the essentialist fusion of ideas of ‘Mother Earth’ and islands. She suggests that such associations have increasingly been challenged and/or imaginatively reworked in recent visual ...

Fascinating or obvious, these ancient races relied on the land, so it is no wonder they revered the female goddesses that embodied and symbolized mother earth for them. The goddess had to be ...