Mother	Mam
Mater	Mom
Materialization	Maternity

This is one of three illustrated overviews about "mother". One overview is framed as a "Happy Mother's Day" greeting, illustrated by icons and depictions of Madonnas (Madonnae). Another overview is concerned with "mother" in function of "nurse, nourish, nutriment".

Caritas

This overview is focused on links of MOTHER with MATERnity and the MATERialization of living MATTER shaped in the MATRix.

In Spanish, MADre points to MADera for wood, as if to stress the FIRM nature of mothers as sources of support and nurturing. Children who have inFIRM mothers or mothers who are mentally infantile, juvenile, deficient or deranged can in effect be orphans.

Maternal Matter

In Doric, Urkainian and Sanskrit mother is MATer, MATy, MATa and in Greek, mother is METer which points to METro and HYSTERo or womb. METrorrhagia denotes bleeding form the MATrix.

HYSTERia is a nebulous psychiatric term formerly associated with "womb fever" or "HYSTERia libidinosa", a subject investigaged by Dr. S. Freud. Currently, hysteria is no longer a formal medical term. The ideas, conveyed by  "hysteria" are now found in phobia, anxiety and other related disorders.

In Spanish, womb or MATRIX is MATriz which also denotes mold. A small, deformed or malformed matrix can impact the shaping or morphogenesis and cause deformations in  the unborn. Deformities such as some instances of  "club foot" may be due to intra-uterine constrains.

Notably, ideas about MATernity gain broad latitude through meanings in MATe, MATernal, MATing, MATron, MATrimony, MATriarch, Matriculate, MATerial, and MATTress. Furthermore, additional meanings about motherhood are inherent in ideas conveyed by Ceres also found in cerebral and cereal. More vistas emerge from meanings linked to Cybele, Demeter and Rhea who personify the motherhood of Olympic Gods and the "flow" of life and energy. "Motherhood" also links with "Magna Matter" or  Ge, Gaea as well as Gene, Genesis and Genetics which are subjects of other illustrated overviews.

Charity

Virtually every ancient civilization worshiped a “Mother Goddess” or “Corn (grain) - Mother”.   Often such ancient deities were dual, one representing motherhood and the other, often a virgin or daughter, representing death and rebirth.  In Western civilizations, poetic and religious myths speak of Rhea, Cybele, Ephesian Artemis, Demeter, Ceres, Persephone, Proserpina, St. Mary, and even Baba Yaga.  A syncretic view can reconcile discrepancies in such beliefs through an emphasis upon views of the cycle of life, death, birth, motherhood, and the essence of properties we refer to as humanism.  A syncretic view also underscores that the core elements of humanism shared with the idea “mother” represent charity and respect for life in all its forms.