Some contemporary devotees and scholars see Tara as the Tibetan version of the Great Mother of Paleolithic times. Some suggest that She may be linked to:

• the Latin Terra (Mother Earth)
• the Druids and their sacred Tara Hill in Ireland
• Tar, the woman of wisdom in an ancient Finnish saga said to be 5 million years old
• the Sumero-Babylonian goddess Ishtar and the Phoenician goddess Astarte
• the goddess Tarahumara of an indigenous tribe in the South American jungles
• Star woman of the Cheyenne people
• the Taramata (Mother Tara) festival of ancient Athens
• Isis of the boats, protector of sailors, "Queen of Heaven," and another "blue lotus" goddess
• Kali, Parvati, Durga, and Mary and the Black Madonnas
• the 21 major arcana of the Tarot through the tradition of 21 Taras