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German: Urmutter

English translation: Gaia / Mother Earth







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German term or phrase:Urmutter
English translation:Gaia / Mother Earth
Entered by:John Jory
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Art/Literary - Esoteric practices
German term or phrase: Urmutter
"Empfangt den Gruß der heiligen Stätten
Gigantische Säulen erheben dein Sein.
Dein Wesen ist licht, wie der Urmutter Quell......

Anlehnung an Johannes Offenbarungen aber von einem "Autor" der heutigen Zeit. Urmutter ist ja wohl eine Art Eva ....
aber wie nenn ich das in Übersetzung? "Ancestral" does just not sound right to me.
SwissTell
United States
Clarification request(s) and response
Kim Metzger: 9:37pm Feb 6, 2006: Looking for esoteric terminology or will just anything do? -

Gaia
Explanation:
Gaia - is the term for the spiritual essence of the physical being we know to be mother Earth.

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John Jory
Germany
Note from asker to answerer
Thanks to ALL the participants. A special thanks to you, John. What a nice website there! And your suggestion enabled me to write fitting well into the whole:
"Your being, like Gaia's, is infinite light ...."
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Summary of answers provided
3 +4Gaia
John Jory
3 +4primal mother
Gert Sass (M.A.)
3 +1the First Mother
Nicole Schnell
3Progenetrix
Textklick
3Mother Earth
mbrodie


  


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Mother Earth

Explanation:
an idea

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Note added at 2 mins (2006-02-06 21:31:46 GMT)
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if it's not Eve

mbrodie
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
the First Mother

Explanation:
Suggestion

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Note added at 5 mins (2006-02-06 21:34:20 GMT)
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first mother -- die Urmutter
foremother -- die Urmutter

Source:
http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/sear...

Nicole Schnell
United States
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Anne Schulz: passt vom Stil (und wahrscheinlich auch vom Rhythmus) her am besten
10 hrs
  -> Danke, Anne!
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
primal mother

Explanation:
or "primordial mother" might do it.

Gert Sass (M.A.)
Germany
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree C. Peter
0 min

agree franglish
12 mins

agree Lone Fundby: primordial mother see http://visionaryrevue.com/webtext2/panjof3.html
16 mins

agree Erik Macki
2 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Progenetrix

Explanation:
"Earth, the great mother goddess, is a cannibal goddess. She alone is our true progenetrix. She is our final destiny. We have no reason to rejoice before her."

And a few more Googles - depends how lyrical you wish to be.


    Reference: http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=1105&C=...
Textklick
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Gaia

Explanation:
Gaia - is the term for the spiritual essence of the physical being we know to be mother Earth.

Is this the context you are looking for?


    Reference: http://www.infinitelight.com/nmg.htm
John Jory
Germany
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
Thanks to ALL the participants. A special thanks to you, John. What a nice website there! And your suggestion enabled me to write fitting well into the whole:
"Your being, like Gaia's, is infinite light ...."

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Johanna Timm, PhD: this one is my mother, for sure :)
42 mins

agree Nancy Arrowsmith: mine too!
1 hr

agree LittleBalu: And mine! See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_philosophy
7 hrs

agree AnjaR
8 hrs
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