Columbia: An American Goddess « MASONIC PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

If you were to ask the average American which mythical figure best represents the national character, most would reply with a household name: Uncle Sam. The genial yet intimidating patriarch has dominated artistic and poetic descriptions of the American nation-state for a hundred years. However there is another, more deeply ingrained avatar of the American populace, the omnipresent Columbia. ....
https://blog.philosophicalsociety.org/2016/01/17/columbia-an-american-goddess/