Mother and a Child

The great Babylonian goddess “Beltis, as the title of the female divinity, was equivalent to “Baalti,” which,
in English: “My Lady,”
in Latin: “Mea Domina,”
in Italia, is corrupted into the well known: “Madonna.”

In connection with this, the classical “Queen of Heaven,” which, in Greek, was Hera, also signified “The Lady”
and at Rome, title of Cybele/Rhea was Domina or “The Lady.”

In Egypt, the Mother and a Child were worshiped under the names of Isis and Horus/Ra.

Isis was a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshiped as the ideal mother, wife, the matron of nature and magic. She was the friend of sinners, slaves, artisans, the downtrodden.
Isis represents feminine attributes – intuition, psychic abilities, love, compassion, yin energies, mother nurturer, the high priestess, the metaphoric goddess in all creation myths. She is the essence of the feminine energy which is part of us all.

In India, even to this day, as Isi and Isvara. (Isvara is also husband of Isi as well as represents an infant in Isi’s arms).

In ancient Greece the Mother Goddess was Ceres, the Great Mother, with a child at her breast. Also as Fortuna and Jupiter and also Irene, the goddess of peace and with a child Plutus in her arms.

In Asian Minor (Asian Turkey, with neighboring Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria) as
Cybele and Deoius.

In China, Shing Moo, the Holy Mother or Queen of Heaven, being represented with a child in her arms.
In Fu-Kien province of China, Shing Moo is called as Ma Tsoopo (Ama Tzupah/Gazing Mother), and in Canton province as Kuan-Yin

In Catholicism all over the world, the symbol of Mother and a Child (Madonna and a Child) represents of
Mary and baby Jesus.