earth-goddess

These rites recall our May day observance, and give colour to the earth-goddess theory.

To draw from a child caught unawares the force and the brooding love of an Earth-Goddess.

Both μέλαινα and ἐρινύς, according to Farnell, are epithets of Demeter as an earth-goddess of the under-world.

Arianrhod, wife and sister of Gwydion, is perhaps an earth-goddess, but her significance is obscure.