• Creative mother source of everything. A3
• Creator's grandmother. Casually mentioned in the course of the creation myth. A31
• Goddess as mother of Pacific Ocean. A109.2
• Mother of the gods. (Cf. A116.2.) A111.1
• God born from mother's ear. A112.7.1
• God born from mother's armpit. A112.7.2
• Goddess born from mother's eyes. A112.7.3
• Mother-son marriage of the gods. A164.1.1
• Mother Earth. The earth is conceived of as the mother of all things. (Cf. A431.1.) A401
• Mother Earth pregnant with Adam. A401.1
• Culture hero snatched from mother's side. A511.1.1
• River flows from corpse of mythical mother of culture hero. A511.1.1.1
• Culture hero in mother's womb indicates direction to be taken by her. A511.1.2.2
• Hero formed by god out of mother's apron. A511.1.4.2
• Culture hero son of deer mother. A511.1.8.1
• Culture hero's grandmother. A512.1
• World parents: sky-father and earth-mother as parents of the universe. The sky-father descends upon the earth-mother and begets the world. A625
• Heaven-mother – earth-father. A625.1
• Raising of the sky. Originally the sky is near the earth (usually because of the conjunction of the sky-father and earth-mother). It is raised to its present place. A625.2
• Pre-existing world of gods above. Such a world is assumed before the real creation of the universe. Though this belief is not explicitly set forth in many mythologies, it seems to be implied in most of the North American Indian systems. See, for example, motif A31, Creator's grandmother. A631

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• Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland · Ch. 28 CHAPTER IV. OISIN'S MOTHER.
• Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 24 24.— MOTHER HOLLE.
• Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes · Tale 125 125.— THE DEVIL AND HIS GRANDMOTHER.
• Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica · XIV. TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS
• Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica · XXX. TO EARTH THE MOTHER OF ALL
• Myths of the Cherokee · Miscellaneous Myths and Legends — Myth 117 117. THE MOTHER BEAR'S SONG
• The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) · Chapter XLV XLV. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe
• The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) · Chapter XLVI XLVI. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands

• ATU 1013 Bathing (Warming) Grandmother
• ATU 1119 The Ogre Kills His Mother (Wife) (previously The Ogre Kills his Own Children)
• ATU 1321D Pickling the Grandmother
• ATU 1358* Child Unwittingly Betrays his Mother's Adultery
• ATU 1441B* Godfather and Godmother
• ATU 1476A Prayer to Christ Child's Mother
• ATU 247 Each Mother Likes her Own Children Best (previously Each Likes his Own Children Best)
• ATU 285A* The Adder Poisons the Children's Food because their mother has thrown away her eggs
• ATU 368C* The Death of the Cruel Stepmother
• ATU 37 The Fox as Nursemaid for the Mother Bear