Mother Goddesses Compared

Demeter, Isis, Frigg and Ceres are the mother goddesses of four traditions, and three of them share one story — a child lost, a search, a mother who tries to make a mortal child immortal by fire. Demeter and Ceres are the same goddess with different arithmetic for Persephone's year; Isis is the wife who reassembles her husband and hides her son; Frigg is the wife of Odin who knows every fate and weeps for Baldr.