Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in the humanities]
7. [people in religion and related occupations]
8. people in religion
9. deities
10. goddesses

Narrower term/s

• mātṛkās

Anotations

Scope note:

Feminine deities and maternal symbols of creativity, birth, fertility, sexual union, nurturing, and the cycle of growth. The term may be applied to figures as diverse as the Stone Age so-called "Venuses" and the Catholic Virgin Mary.