Answer:The Maccabees destroyed Greek altars in the villages, circumcised boys and forced Hellenized Jews into outlawry. Judah's nickname "Maccabeus," now used in popular culture to describe the Jewish partisans as a whole, is taken from the Hebrew word for "hammer".
I mean, I may be wrong, but if it's a mother, it's one that comes before, and the other culture comes from it. You know, like a mother country, or just a mother in general.