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The '''Mother''' or the '''Mother Above''', is one of the seven aspects of a single deity.  Believers of the [[Faith of the Seven]] consider their god to be one with seven aspects, as the sept is a single building, with seven walls.{{Ref|aCoK|33}}
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The '''Mother''' or the '''Mother Above''', is one of the seven aspects of a single deity.  Believers of the [[Faith of the Seven]] consider their god to be one with seven aspects, as the [[sept]] is a single building, with seven walls.{{Ref|aCoK|33}}
  
 
==About==
 
==About==
 
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of the Mother|Images of the Mother]]''
 
:''See also: [[:Category:Images of the Mother|Images of the Mother]]''
The Mother representing motherhood and nurturing.  She is prayed to for fertility or compassion, and is depicted as smiling with love, embodying the concept of mercy.
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The Mother represents motherhood and nurturing.  She is prayed to for fertility or compassion, and is depicted as smiling with love, embodying the concept of mercy.
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It is also said that the Mother could be fiercer than the [[Warrior (the Seven)|Warrior]] when her children were in danger.{{Ref|aCoK|33}}
  
 
A passage in [[The Seven-Pointed Star]] says that the [[Maiden (the Seven)|Maiden]] brought [[Hugor of the Hill]] a bride, so the Mother made her fertile.{{ref|adwd|5}}
 
A passage in [[The Seven-Pointed Star]] says that the [[Maiden (the Seven)|Maiden]] brought [[Hugor of the Hill]] a bride, so the Mother made her fertile.{{ref|adwd|5}}
  
Weddings are conducted standing between the altars of the [[Father (the Seven)|Father]] and the Mother.
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Weddings are conducted standing between the altars of the [[Father (the Seven)|Father]] and the Mother.{{Ref|aSoS|28}}
 
 
==The Mother song== 
 
There is a hymn sung to the Mother {{Ref|aCoK|62}}
 
{{Quote|''Gentle Mother, font of mercy,
 
 
 
save our sons from war, we pray,
 
 
 
stay the swords and stay the arrows,
 
 
 
let them know a better day.
 
 
 
Gentle Mother, strength of women,
 
  
help our daughters through this fray,
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The [[Teats]], a pair of grassy hills in the [[Riverlands]], were once named the Mother's Teats.{{Ref|adwd|48}}
  
soothe the wrath and tame the fury,
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==The Mother's Hymn== 
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There is a hymn sung to the Mother.{{Ref|aCoK|57}}{{Ref|aCoK|62}}
  
teach us all a kinder way''.{{Ref|aCoK|62}}}}
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{{Quote|''Gentle Mother, font of mercy, <br>save our sons from war, we pray, <br>stay the swords and stay the arrows, <br>let them know a better day.<br>
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Gentle Mother, strength of women, <br>help our daughters through this fray, <br>soothe the wrath and tame the fury, <br>teach us all a kinder way''.}}
  
 
==Recent Events==
 
==Recent Events==
 
===''A Clash of Kings''===
 
===''A Clash of Kings''===
[[Catelyn Stark]] prays in a nameless village’s sept. The sept is modest and has no statues of the Seven, only rough charcoal drawings to represent them. A crack runs down through the Mother’s left eye. It makes her look as if she were crying. {{Ref|aCoK|33}}
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[[Melisandre]] burns the wooden statues of the Seven from the sept at [[Dragonstone]] as a sacrifice to [[R'hllor]]. A longsword is thrust through the heart of the Mother's statue, and during the ceremony [[Stannis Baratheon]] pulls it free to reveal [[Lightbringer]].{{Ref|aCoK|10}}
Catelyn knelt before the Mother and prayed, ''“My lady, look down on this battle with a mother’s eyes. They are all sons, every one. Spare them if you can, and spare my own sons as well. Watch over [[Robb]] and [[Bran]] and [[Rickon]]. Would that I were with them.”''
 
  
Catelyn asks the Mother, ''does [[Cersei]] pray to you too, my lady?''” She can see the proud, cold, lovely features of the Lannister queen etched upon the wall. The crack is still there; even Cersei can weep for her children.  
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[[Catelyn Stark]] prays in a nameless village's sept. The sept is modest and has no statues of the Seven, only rough charcoal drawings to represent them.  A crack runs down through the Mother's left eye. It makes her look as if she were crying. Catelyn sees [[Minisa Whent|her own mother]]'s face in the face of the Mother, as well as her sister [[Lysa Arryn|Lysa]] and [[Cersei Lannister]].{{Ref|aCoK|33}}
  
Upon entering the sept of [[Red Keep#Maegor's Holdfast|Maegor's Holdfast]], on [[Battle of the Blackwater|the eve of battle]] Sansa Stark sees that the Mother’s altar is swimming in candlelight. Sansa visits each of the Seven in turn, lighting a candle at each altar. She prays to the Mother for [[Sandor Clegane]] ''He is no [[true knight]] but he saved me all the same'', she tells the Mother. ''Save him if you can, and gentle the rage inside him.''
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Upon entering the sept of [[Red Keep#Maegor's Holdfast|Maegor's Holdfast]], on the eve of the [[Battle of the Blackwater]], [[Sansa Stark]] sees that the Mother's altar is swimming in candlelight. Sansa visits each of the Seven in turn, lighting a candle at each altar, then sings the Mother's Hymn with the people in the sept.{{Ref|aCoK|57}} She silently prays to the Mother for [[Sandor Clegane]]:
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{{quote|'He is no [[true knight]] but he saved me all the same. Save him if you can, and gentle the rage inside him.{{Ref|aCoK|57}}}}
  
[[Sansa]] sings the Mother’s song twice, once in the sept of [[Red Keep#Maegor's Holdfast|Maegor's Holdfast]] and again to [[Sandor Clegane]] when he [[UnKiss|comes to her room]].
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Sansa Stark sings the Mother's Hymn again that night to [[Sandor Clegane]] when he [[UnKiss|comes to her room]].{{Ref|aCoK|62}}
  
 
===''A Storm of Swords''===
 
===''A Storm of Swords''===
After being taken captive by the [[Brave Companions]] [[Jaime]] and [[Brienne]] are taken to [[Vargo Hoat]] who is sacking a small [[sept]] with some of his men. The sellswords have dragged the sept's carved wooden gods outside.  [[Jaime]] sees [[Zollo]] sitting on the Mother's chest prying out her chalcedony eyes with the point of his knife.
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After being taken captive by the [[Brave Companions]], [[Jaime Lannister]] and [[Brienne of Tarth]] are taken to [[Vargo Hoat]] who is sacking a small [[sept]] with some of his men. The [[sellsword]]s have dragged the sept's carved wooden gods outside.  Jaime sees [[Zollo]] sitting on the Mother's chest prying out her chalcedony eyes with the point of his knife.{{Ref|asos|21}}
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[[Samwell Tarly]] sings [[The Song of the Seven]], which includes a verse for the Mother, as a lullabye to [[Gilly]]'s [[monster|son]].{{Ref|aSoS|46}}
  
 
===''A Feast for Crows''===
 
===''A Feast for Crows''===
[[Lancel Lannister]] tells [[Cersei]] that the High Septon told him that the Mother spared him for some holy purpose, so he might atone for his sins.  Cersei wonders how he intends to atone for her.
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[[Lancel Lannister]] tells [[Cersei Lannister]] that the [[High Septon]] told him that the Mother spared him for some holy purpose, so he might atone for his sins.  Cersei wonders how he intends to atone for her.{{Ref|affc|7}}
  
 
==Quotes==
 
==Quotes==
  
{{Quote|My lady, look down on this battle with a mother’s eyes. They are all sons, every one. Spare them if you can, and spare my own sons as well. Watch over [[Robb Stark|Robb]] and [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]. Would that I were with them.{{Ref|aCoK|33}}}} – [[Catelyn Tully]]
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{{Quote|My lady, look down on this battle with a mother's eyes. They are all sons, every one. Spare them if you can, and spare my own sons as well. Watch over [[Robb Stark|Robb]] and [[Bran Stark|Bran]] and [[Rickon Stark|Rickon]]. Would that I were with them.{{Ref|aCoK|33}}|[[Catelyn Stark]]}}
 
 
  
{{Quote|The Mother gives the gift of life,<br>and watches over every wife.<br>Her gentle smile ends all strife,<br>and she loves her little children.{{Ref|aSoS|46}}}} – ''[[The Song of the Seven]]''
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{{Quote|The Mother gives the gift of life,<br>and watches over every wife.<br>Her gentle smile ends all strife,<br>and she loves her little children.{{Ref|aSoS|46}}|''[[The Song of the Seven]]''}}
  
==References and Notes==
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==References==
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{{references}}
  
[[Category:Religions]]
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[[Category:Deities]]
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[[Category:Faith of the Seven]]
 
[[es:Madre]]
 
[[es:Madre]]
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[[fr:Mère d'En-Haut]]

Revision as of 06:54, 7 February 2019

The Mother - by mustamirri ©

The Mother or the Mother Above, is one of the seven aspects of a single deity. Believers of the Faith of the Seven consider their god to be one with seven aspects, as the sept is a single building, with seven walls.[1]

About

See also: Images of the Mother

The Mother represents motherhood and nurturing. She is prayed to for fertility or compassion, and is depicted as smiling with love, embodying the concept of mercy.

It is also said that the Mother could be fiercer than the Warrior when her children were in danger.[1]

A passage in The Seven-Pointed Star says that the Maiden brought Hugor of the Hill a bride, so the Mother made her fertile.[2]

Weddings are conducted standing between the altars of the Father and the Mother.[3]

The Teats, a pair of grassy hills in the Riverlands, were once named the Mother's Teats.[4]

The Mother's Hymn

There is a hymn sung to the Mother.[5][6]

Gentle Mother, font of mercy,
save our sons from war, we pray,
stay the swords and stay the arrows,
let them know a better day.
Gentle Mother, strength of women,
help our daughters through this fray,
soothe the wrath and tame the fury,
teach us all a kinder way.

Recent Events

A Clash of Kings

Melisandre burns the wooden statues of the Seven from the sept at Dragonstone as a sacrifice to R'hllor. A longsword is thrust through the heart of the Mother's statue, and during the ceremony Stannis Baratheon pulls it free to reveal Lightbringer.[7]

Catelyn Stark prays in a nameless village's sept. The sept is modest and has no statues of the Seven, only rough charcoal drawings to represent them. A crack runs down through the Mother's left eye. It makes her look as if she were crying. Catelyn sees her own mother's face in the face of the Mother, as well as her sister Lysa and Cersei Lannister.[1]

Upon entering the sept of Maegor's Holdfast, on the eve of the Battle of the Blackwater, Sansa Stark sees that the Mother's altar is swimming in candlelight. Sansa visits each of the Seven in turn, lighting a candle at each altar, then sings the Mother's Hymn with the people in the sept.[5] She silently prays to the Mother for Sandor Clegane:

'He is no true knight but he saved me all the same. Save him if you can, and gentle the rage inside him.[5]

Sansa Stark sings the Mother's Hymn again that night to Sandor Clegane when he comes to her room.[6]

A Storm of Swords

After being taken captive by the Brave Companions, Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth are taken to Vargo Hoat who is sacking a small sept with some of his men. The sellswords have dragged the sept's carved wooden gods outside. Jaime sees Zollo sitting on the Mother's chest prying out her chalcedony eyes with the point of his knife.[8]

Samwell Tarly sings The Song of the Seven, which includes a verse for the Mother, as a lullabye to Gilly's son.[9]

A Feast for Crows

Lancel Lannister tells Cersei Lannister that the High Septon told him that the Mother spared him for some holy purpose, so he might atone for his sins. Cersei wonders how he intends to atone for her.[10]

Quotes

My lady, look down on this battle with a mother's eyes. They are all sons, every one. Spare them if you can, and spare my own sons as well. Watch over Robb and Bran and Rickon. Would that I were with them.[1]

The Mother gives the gift of life,
and watches over every wife.
Her gentle smile ends all strife,
and she loves her little children.[9]

References