Gift from the Chi

"All the Great Mothers are born
from the primeval ocean or the watery abyss,
the primordial womb of life from which all
created forms emerge: the ideogram for the
Sumerian goddess Nammu was the sea;
Isis was 'born from all-wetness';
Hathor is 'the watery abyss of heaven';
Nut, the sky goddess, lets fall her milk as rain;
Aphrodite is born from the foam of the sea.
The brightly painted 'mermaids', flinging their
arms and hair to the winds of every quarter on
the prows of ships, may be a folk remnant
of this inheritance."
Anne Baring & Jules Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess (Mary as the Great Mother Goddess).