Great Goddess
The Great Goddess is a pre-Columbian deity from Teotihuacan known from pictorial representations. Karl Taube tentatively connected this goddess with the Southwestern Spider Woman mytheme in 1983.
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When
- First attested
- 100 BCE
- Attested period
- -100 – 1999
- Historical notes
- Pre-Columbian deity from Teotihuacan known from pictorial representations; tentatively connected to Spider Woman by Karl Taube in 1983.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Cihuacoatl, Water Spider, Grandmother Spider, Spider Old Woman, Thought Woman
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Karl Taube in 1983 tentatively connected the South Western "Spider Woman" mytheme with the pre-Columbian Teotihuacan "Great Goddess" known from pictorial representations.”
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“Ronald Hutton wrote on the decline the "Great Goddess" theory specifically: "The effect upon professional prehistorians was to make most return, quietly and without controversy, to that careful agnosticism as to the nature of ancient religion which most had preserved until the 1940s.”
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“This figure was uncovered (weighing 22 metric tons and was somehow lifted to the top of the pyramid) and it represents the Great Goddess as a water deity. Another tomb dedicated to The Great Goddess was discovered in 1998.”
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“The Great Goddess is thought to have been a goddess of the underworld, darkness, the earth, water, war, and possibly even creation itself. To the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, the jaguar, the owl, and especially the spider were considered creatures of darkness”
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