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.

Coordinate terms

• Great Mother