Great Father

English

Alternative forms

  • great father

Noun

Great Father (plural Great Fathers)

  1. (paganism, religion) The preeminent male deity of various religions.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162:
      In this ode to the Great Father, the land of the Sumerians is literally awash with semen.

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