RIP "Mother" Svea

I used to, like so many other Swedes, call Sweden by "her" nickname "Mother Svea". I no longer will. You who gets why, gets why.

Despite being from and having lived most of my life in Linköping/Leonkopung/Lionborough, I had never seen this statue or heard of the park where it's at, until I googled "Mother" Svea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Svea

Mother Svea in Berga, Linköping. The text below the statue reads "On guard/watch for the mother country"

"Mother Svea is normally depicted as a powerful female warrior, valkyrie or shieldmaiden, frequently holding a shield and standing beside a lion. Svea is a Swedish female personal name which derives from svea, an old plural genitive form meaning "of the Swedes" or the Swea. It appears in Svea rike, a translation of the old Swedish word Sverige, the Swedish name for Sweden.

The popular image is considered to have been created by Swedish writer, Anders Leijonstedt 😀 (sv) (1649–1725) when first introduced in his poem Svea Lycksaligheets Triumph (1672).[1]"

Mother Svea in Old Town, Stockholm:

Mother Svea in Gothenburg:

Mother Svea in the Golden Hall in Stockholm City Hall, where they house the Nobel Awards.

Mother Svea supervising a Nobel Disco Inferno:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Banquet

Old school Nobel Banquet, when they dined infront of Svea. Now they dance infront of "the mother".

Mother Svea, on top of Parliament House in Stockholm

Mother Svea surrounded by the four stånderna (stånd in English: "society classes". Stånd also means boner in Swedish...Mother Svea surronded by four boners...) nobility class, priest class, burgess class and the peasant class. 

Just below her are a man and a woman. 

"The left (south) figure is a man with a sword in his hand, that is the vigilance. The figure symbolizes the Riksdag to watch over Sweden and protect it from outer and inner enemies.

The right (north) figure is a woman with a parchment roll in his hand, that is the reflection. The figure symbolizes that the Riksdag should have reflection before making decisions so that they are as good and wise as possible for Sweden.

These two figures also symbolize the fact that the Riksdag had two chambers (Sweden had a two-chamber anniversary in the years 1867-1970). The first chamber was elected through indirect elections of 151 members while the second chamber was elected through direct elections and had 233 members. Both of the chambers had the same power."

Old 1000 kronor bill.

"Caricature statue" of Mother Svea

Last but not least, Mother Svea 2.0 in her walking, talking "golem version".