ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some of the feminine attributes and maternal forms and functions of God, the mysterious being that humanity has searched for, created, destroyed, and used since the beginning of time. It begins with the Earth Mother Goddess, the one whose creative presence in the human psyche has been recorded in rock carvings, sacred paintings, oral history, written scriptures, and music down through the ages. The chapter focuses on the comforting function of the mother God who provides soothing and solace in times of great pain; the feared mother God who seeks to inhibit and control; the transfigurational God associated with the transformational mother of infancy. According to ancient Egyptian scriptures, "In the beginning there was Isis, Oldest of the Old. She was the Goddess from whom all becoming arose. As the Creatress, she gave birth to the Sun when he arose upon this earth for the first time.
