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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/The_Golden_Bough_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/220px-The_Golden_Bough_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/The_Golden_Bough_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/330px-The_Golden_Bough_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/The_Golden_Bough_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/440px-The_Golden_Bough_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG 2x" data-file-width="444" data-file-height="596" /></a><figcaption>The long <a href="/wiki/Sleep" title="Sleep">sleep</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mother" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother">Mother</a> Goddess is <a href="/wiki/Ended" class="mw-redirect" title="Ended">ended</a>. May She awaken in each of our <a href="/wiki/Hearts" class="mw-redirect" title="Hearts">hearts</a> — <a href="/wiki/Merry" class="mw-redirect" title="Merry">Merry</a> meet, merry part, and <a href="/wiki/Blessed" class="mw-redirect" title="Blessed">blessed</a> be. ~ <a href="/wiki/Starhawk" title="Starhawk">Starhawk</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Julian_of_Norwich.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Julian_of_Norwich.jpg/220px-Julian_of_Norwich.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="341" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Julian_of_Norwich.jpg/330px-Julian_of_Norwich.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Julian_of_Norwich.jpg/440px-Julian_of_Norwich.jpg 2x" data-file-width="660" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption> Our <a href="/wiki/Substance" title="Substance">Substance</a> is our <a href="/wiki/Father" class="mw-redirect" title="Father">Father</a>, <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> Almighty, and our Substance is our <a href="/wiki/Mother" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother">Mother</a>, God, <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">All</a>-<a href="/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">wisdom</a>; and our Substance is in our Lord the <a href="/wiki/Holy" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy">Holy</a> <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">Ghost</a>, God All-<a href="/wiki/Goodness" title="Goodness">goodness</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich" title="Julian of Norwich">Julian of Norwich</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/220px-The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/330px-The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/440px-The_Realm_of_Rane_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG 2x" data-file-width="447" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>The goddess awakens in <a href="/wiki/Infinite" class="mw-redirect" title="Infinite">infinite</a> forms and a thousand disguises. She is found where she is least <a href="/wiki/Expected" class="mw-redirect" title="Expected">expected</a>, appears out of nowhere and everywhere to illumine the open <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Starhawk" title="Starhawk">Starhawk</a> </figcaption></figure> <p>A <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess" class="extiw" title="w:Goddess">Goddess</a></b> is a female <a href="/wiki/Deity" title="Deity">deity</a>. In some cultures Goddesses are primarily associated with <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Motherhood" class="mw-redirect" title="Motherhood">motherhood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a>, and the household, in others they also rule over <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a>, <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>, and destruction as well as <a href="/wiki/Health" title="Health">healing</a>. In some <a href="/wiki/Religions" class="mw-redirect" title="Religions">religions</a>, a sacred feminine archetype can occupy a very central place in <a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">prayer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Worship" title="Worship">worship</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, reverence of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Feminine" class="extiw" title="w:Sacred Feminine">Sacred Feminine</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaktism" class="extiw" title="w:Shaktism">Shaktism</a> is a major current of worship along with that of <a href="/wiki/Vishnu" title="Vishnu">Vishnu</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva" class="extiw" title="w:Shiva">Shiva</a>. In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism" class="extiw" title="w:Tibetan Buddhism">Tibetan Buddhism</a>, the highest achievement any person can achieve is to become like the great female <a href="/wiki/Buddhas" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhas">Buddhas</a> who are depicted as being supreme protectors, fearless and filled with <a href="/wiki/Compassion" title="Compassion">compassion</a> for all beings. Some currents of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopaganism" class="extiw" title="w:Neopaganism">Neopaganism</a>, in particular <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca" class="extiw" title="w:Wicca">Wicca</a>, have a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism" class="extiw" title="w:Dualism">bitheistic</a> concept of a single Goddess and a single God, who in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieros_gamos" class="extiw" title="w:Hieros gamos">hieros gamos</a></i> represent a united whole, transcending all gender and such <a href="/wiki/Appearance" title="Appearance">appearances</a> as can be discerned by mortal minds. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini" class="extiw" title="w:Kundalini">Kundalini</a> <a href="/wiki/Energy" title="Energy">energy</a> has been represented as either a goddess or sleeping <a href="/wiki/Serpent" class="mw-redirect" title="Serpent">serpent</a> lying "coiled" at the base of the spine waiting to be awakened. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goddess&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:P.L._Travers_as_Titania_in_a_production_with_Alan_Wilkie.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/P.L._Travers_as_Titania_in_a_production_with_Alan_Wilkie.jpg/220px-P.L._Travers_as_Titania_in_a_production_with_Alan_Wilkie.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="299" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/P.L._Travers_as_Titania_in_a_production_with_Alan_Wilkie.jpg/330px-P.L._Travers_as_Titania_in_a_production_with_Alan_Wilkie.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/P.L._Travers_as_Titania_in_a_production_with_Alan_Wilkie.jpg/440px-P.L._Travers_as_Titania_in_a_production_with_Alan_Wilkie.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2530" data-file-height="3438" /></a><figcaption>I never said, “Well, I’ll write a <a href="/wiki/Story" title="Story">story</a> about <a href="/wiki/Mother" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother">Mother</a> Goddess and call it <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins" class="extiw" title="w:Mary Poppins">Mary Poppins</a></i>.” It didn’t happen like that. I cannot summon up <a href="/wiki/Inspiration" title="Inspiration">inspiration</a>; I myself am summoned. ~ <a href="/wiki/P._L._Travers" title="P. L. Travers">P. L. Travers</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Divina_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Divina_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/220px-Divina_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Divina_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/330px-Divina_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Divina_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG/440px-Divina_-_by_Jeroen_van_Valkenburg.PNG 2x" data-file-width="447" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim" class="extiw" title="w:Elohim">Elohim</a>," the <a href="/wiki/Name" class="mw-redirect" title="Name">name</a> for the creative <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Genesis" class="extiw" title="w:Book of Genesis">Genesis</a></i>, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and <a href="/wiki/Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian">Christian</a> <a href="/wiki/Theologians" title="Theologians">theologians</a> have all <a href="/wiki/Explained" class="mw-redirect" title="Explained">explained</a> as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "<a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." ~ <a href="/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson" title="Robert Anton Wilson">Robert Anton Wilson</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Diana_of_Versailles.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Diana_of_Versailles.jpg/220px-Diana_of_Versailles.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="419" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Diana_of_Versailles.jpg/330px-Diana_of_Versailles.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Diana_of_Versailles.jpg/440px-Diana_of_Versailles.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2990" data-file-height="5699" /></a><figcaption>And the hunters as they advance will hymn Artemis Agrotera (Goddess of the Hunt); for yonder is a temple to her, and a statue worn smooth with age, and heads of boars and bears; and wild animals sacred to her graze there, fawns and wolves and hares, all tame and without fear of man. After a prayer the hunters continue the hunt. ~ Philostratus the Elder </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I am a goddess, Peter, a creature of temperament and whimsy. I'm supposed to be arbitrary and mercurial—it's practically my job description. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch" title="Ben Aaronovitch">Ben Aaronovitch</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxglove_Summer" class="extiw" title="w:Foxglove Summer">Foxglove Summer</a></i> (2014), Chapter 7</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Mistress maiden (<i>despoina nymphê</i>), <b>ruler of the stormy mountains</b>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a>, <i>Fragment 188 from Orion, Etymologicum</i> (Greek tragedy 5th century BC)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are periods in the <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> of the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> when the unseen <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">Power</a> that guides its <a href="/wiki/Destinies" class="mw-redirect" title="Destinies">destinies</a> seems to be filled with a consuming <a href="/wiki/Passion" title="Passion">passion</a> for <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a> and a strong impatience of the old. <b>The <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">Great</a> <a href="/wiki/Mother" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother">Mother</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Shakti" title="Shakti">Adya Shakti</a>, has resolved to take the <a href="/wiki/Nations" title="Nations">nations</a> into Her <a href="/wiki/Hand" class="mw-redirect" title="Hand">hand</a> and shape them anew.</b> These are periods of rapid destruction and energetic creation, filled with the sound of cannon and the trampling of armies, the crash of great downfalls, and the turmoil of swift and violent revolutions; the world is thrown into the smelting pot and comes out in a new shape and with new features. <b>They are periods when the wisdom of the wise is confounded and the prudence of the prudent turned into a laughing-stock....</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo" title="Sri Aurobindo">Sri Aurobindo</a>, in a statement of 16 April 1907, as published in <i>India's Rebirth : A Selection from Sri Aurobindo's Writings, Talks and Speeches</i> 3rd Edition (2000)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I don't want to give too much away, <i>but basically</i> — <b><i>she's <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a></i>, by the end of the movie.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Burr" class="extiw" title="w:Ty Burr">Ty Burr</a>, on <a href="/wiki/Scarlett_Johansson" title="Scarlett Johansson">Scarlett Johansson</a>'s character in the film <a href="/wiki/Lucy_(2014_film)" title="Lucy (2014 film)"><i>Lucy</i> (2014)</a> in the video review <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjFvwlnGVio">Take 2: <i>Lucy</i> (24 July 2014)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a>, as quoted in Multiple Intelligences in Practice : Enhancing Self-esteem and Learning in the Classroom (2006) by Mike Fleetham, Section 2 : Using MI</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Leto's daughter <a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a>, goddess of the wilds. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colluthus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Colluthus (page does not exist)">Colluthus</a>, <i>Rape of Helen 14</i> (trans. Mair) (Greek poetry 5-6th century A.D.)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Jehovah" title="Jehovah">Jehovah</a>, it seems clear, was once regarded as a devoted son the the <a href="/wiki/Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Great">Great</a> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Goddess</a>, who obeyed her in all things and by her favor swallowed up a number of variously named rival gods and godlings</b> — the Terebinth-god, the Thunder-god, the Pomegranate-god, the Bull-god, the Goat-god, the Antelope-god, the Calf-god, the Porpoise-god, the Ram-god, the Ass-god, the Barley-god, the god of Healing, the Moon-god, the god of the Dog-star, the Sun-god. Later (if it is permitted to write in this style) he did exactly what his Roman counterpart, Capitoline Jove, has done: he formed a supernal Trinity in conjunction with two of the Goddess's three persons, namely, Anatha of the <a href="/wiki/Lions" title="Lions">Lions</a> and Ashima of the <a href="/wiki/Doves" title="Doves">Doves</a>, the counterparts of Juno and Minerva; the remaining person, a sort of Hecate named Sheol, retiring to rule the infernal regions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Graves" title="Robert Graves">Robert Graves</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Jesus" class="extiw" title="w:King Jesus">King Jesus</a></i> (1946)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a> of the wilderness (<i>agrotera</i>), lady of wild beasts (<i>potnia theron</i>) ... Zeus has made you a lion among women... you hunt down the ravening beasts in the mountains and deer of the wilds. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homer</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad 21</a></i> (Greek epic 8th century BC)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Over the shadowy hills and windy peaks Artemis draws her golden bow, rejoicing in the chase...and when she is satisfied and has cheered her heart, then the huntress (<i>theroskopos</i>) who delights in arrows (<i>iokheaira</i>) slackens her supple bow. <ul><li>Unknown author, <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Homeric_Hymns&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Homeric Hymns (page does not exist)">Homeric Hymn 27</a></i> (Greek epic 4-7th centure BC)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I saw that <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> rejoiceth that He is our <a href="/wiki/Father" class="mw-redirect" title="Father">Father</a>, and God rejoiceth that He is our <a href="/wiki/Mother" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother">Mother</a>, and God rejoiceth that He is our Very Spouse and our <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> is His loved Wife.</b> And <a href="/wiki/Christ" title="Christ">Christ</a> rejoiceth that He is our Brother, and <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> rejoiceth that He is our Saviour. These are five high joys, as I understand, in which He willeth that we enjoy; Him praising, Him thanking, Him loving, Him endlessly blessing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich" title="Julian of Norwich">Julian of Norwich</a>, <i>Revelations of Divine Love</i> (c.1393), Ch. 58</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Our <a href="/wiki/Substance" title="Substance">Substance</a> is our <a href="/wiki/Father" class="mw-redirect" title="Father">Father</a>, <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> Almighty, and our Substance is our <a href="/wiki/Mother" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother">Mother</a>, God, <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">All</a>-<a href="/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">wisdom</a>; and our Substance is in our Lord the <a href="/wiki/Holy" class="mw-redirect" title="Holy">Holy</a> <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">Ghost</a>, God All-<a href="/wiki/Goodness" title="Goodness">goodness</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich" title="Julian of Norwich">Julian of Norwich</a>, <i>Revelations of Divine Love</i> (c.1393), Ch. 58</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>As verily as God is our Father, so verily God is our Mother</b>; and that shewed He in all, and especially in these sweet words where He saith: <i>I IT AM.</i> That is to say, <i>I IT AM, the Might and the Goodness of the Fatherhood; I IT AM, the Wisdom of the Motherhood; I IT AM, the <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">Light</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Grace" title="Grace">Grace</a> that is all blessed <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">Love</a>: I IT AM, the Trinity, I IT AM, the <a href="/wiki/Unity" title="Unity">Unity</a>: I am the sovereign Goodness of all manner of things. I am that maketh thee to love: I am that maketh thee to long: I IT AM, the endless fulfilling of all true desires.</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich" title="Julian of Norwich">Julian of Norwich</a>, <i>Revelations of Divine Love</i> (c.1393), Ch. 58</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And the hunters as they advance will hymn Artemis Agrotera (Goddess of the Hunt); for yonder is a temple to her, and a statue worn smooth with age, and heads of boars and bears; and wild animals sacred to her graze there, fawns and wolves and hares, all tame and without fear of man. After a prayer the hunters continue the hunt. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philostratus_the_Elder&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philostratus the Elder (page does not exist)">Philostratus the Elder</a>, <i>Imagines</i> (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek 3rd century A.D.)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are no <a href="/wiki/Rules" title="Rules">rules</a> anywhere. <br /><b> The <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Goddess</a> Prevails.</b> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Principia_Discordia" title="Principia Discordia">Principia Discordia</a></i> (1965) by Greg Hill (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaclypse_the_Younger" class="extiw" title="w:Malaclypse the Younger">Malaclypse the Younger</a>) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Thornley" class="extiw" title="w:Kerry Thornley">Kerry Thornley</a> (Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess.</b> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Principia_Discordia" title="Principia Discordia">Principia Discordia</a></i> (1965) by Greg Hill (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaclypse_the_Younger" class="extiw" title="w:Malaclypse the Younger">Malaclypse the Younger</a>) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Thornley" class="extiw" title="w:Kerry Thornley">Kerry Thornley</a> (Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst); The Pentabarf</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>May you be free of <a href="/wiki/Principia_Discordia#THE_CURSE_OF_GREYFACE" title="Principia Discordia">The Curse of Greyface</a>. <br /> May the Goddess put twinkles in your eyes.</b> <br /> May you have the <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a> of a sage, <br /> and the <a href="/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">wisdom</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Child" class="mw-redirect" title="Child">child</a>. <b><br /> Hail <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris" class="extiw" title="w:Eris">Eris</a>.</b> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Principia_Discordia" title="Principia Discordia">Principia Discordia</a></i> (1965) by Greg Hill (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaclypse_the_Younger" class="extiw" title="w:Malaclypse the Younger">Malaclypse the Younger</a>) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Thornley" class="extiw" title="w:Kerry Thornley">Kerry Thornley</a> (Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst); The Golden Secret</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Neumann assumes for the whole region of the Mediterranean a universally adopted religion of the Great Mother Goddess around 4000 BC, which was revived about 2000 BC, and spread through the whole of the then known world. In this religion the Great Goddess was worshiped as creator, as Lady of men, beasts and plants, as liberator and as symbol of transcendent spiritual transformation. The Indus civilization also belonged to that tradition in which the cult of the Great Goddess was prominent. Numerous terracotta figurines have been found: images of the Mother Goddess of the same kind that are still worshiped in Indian villages today. Several representations on seals that appear connected with the worship of the Great Goddess also exist. On one of these we see a nude female figure lying upside down with outspread legs, a plant issuing from her womb. On the reverse there is a man with a sickle-shaped knife before a woman who raises her arms in supplication. “Obviously it depicts a human sacrifice to the Earth Goddess.” The connections between !"ktism, Mohenjo-Daro civilization, and Mediterranean fertility cults seem to be preserved even in the name of the Great Mother: “Um" for her peculiar name, her association with a mountain and her mount, a lion, seems to be originally the same as the Babylonian Ummu or Umma, the Arcadian Ummi, the Dravidian Umma, and the Skythian Ommo, which are all mother goddesses. The name Durg" seems to be traceable to Truqas, a deity mentioned in the Lydian inscriptions of Asia Minor. There is a common mythology of Great Mother: she was the first being in existence, a Virgin. Spontaneously she conceived a son, who became her consort in divinity. With her son-consort she became the mother of the gods and all life. Therefore we find the Goddess being worshiped both as Virgin and Mother”(2000:188-189). quoted from Kazanas, N. (2015). Vedic and IndoEuropean studies. Aditya Prakashan. <ul><li>Klostermaier K. 2000 Hinduism Oxford, Oneworld Publications.quoted from Kazanas, N. (2015). Vedic and IndoEuropean studies. Aditya Prakashan.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The later patriarchal religions and mythologies have accustomed us to look upon the male god as a creator… But the original, overlaid stratum knows of a female creative being. <ul><li>(Newmann 1955, quoted by Klostermaier 2000: 188). Klostermaier K. 2000 Hinduism Oxford, Oneworld Publications. quoted from Kazanas, N. (2015). Vedic and IndoEuropean studies. Aditya Prakashan.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The kind of connectedness <a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">women</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Spirituality" title="Spirituality">spirituality</a> and goddess spirituality teaches about the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a> is missing in <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">politics</a> today and the people who are guiding our countries see only <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> as a resource for industrial growth. They don't see the sacredness and the interconnectedness and the simple fact that we live on a finite planet.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlene_Spretnak" class="extiw" title="w:Charlene Spretnak">Charlene Spretnak</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Goddess_Remembered" title="Goddess Remembered">Goddess Remembered</a></i> (1989)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The heritage, the <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a> of the ancient priestesses, healers, poets, singers, and seers were nearly lost, but a seed survived the flames that will blossom in a new age into thousands of flowers. The long sleep of <a href="/wiki/Mother" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother">Mother</a> Goddess is ended. May She awaken in each of our <a href="/wiki/Hearts" class="mw-redirect" title="Hearts">hearts</a> — Merry meet, merry part, and blessed be.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Starhawk" title="Starhawk">Starhawk</a>, as quoted in <i>Womanspirit Rising : A Feminist Reader in Religion</i> (1979) by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the Craft the Goddess is not omnipotent. The <a href="/wiki/Cosmos" title="Cosmos">cosmos</a> is interesting rather than <a href="/wiki/Perfection" title="Perfection">perfect</a>, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control. Understanding this keeps us humble, able to admit that we cannot know or control or define everything. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Starhawk" title="Starhawk">Starhawk</a>, <i>The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess</i> (1979)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The goddess awakens in <a href="/wiki/Infinite" class="mw-redirect" title="Infinite">infinite</a> forms and a thousand disguises. She is found where she is least expected, appears out of nowhere and everywhere to illumine the open <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>.</b> She is singing, crying, moaning, wailing, shrieking, crooning to us, to be awake, to commit ourselves to <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>, to be a lover in the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> and of the world, to join our <a href="/wiki/Voices" class="mw-redirect" title="Voices">voices</a> in the single song of constant change and creation. <b>For her <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a> is to love <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> beings, and she is the cup of the drink of life. The <a href="/wiki/Circle" class="mw-redirect" title="Circle">circle</a> is ever open, ever unbroken.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Starhawk" title="Starhawk">Starhawk</a>, in a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bodhitree.com/lectures/starhawk.html">Bodhi Tree Bookstore presentation (December 1999)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ritual is more than self-soothing activity. <br /> Spirituality is also about challenge and disturbance, about pushing our edges and giving us the support we need to take great risks. <b>The Goddess is not just a light, happy maiden or a nurturing mother. She is death as well as birth, dark as well as light, rage as well as compassion — and if we shy away from her fiercer embrace we undercut both her own power and our own growth.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Starhawk" title="Starhawk">Starhawk</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.starhawk.org/pagan/activist_spirituality.html">"Toward an Activist Spirituality" (2003)</a> from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reclaiming.org/"><i>Reclaiming Quarterly</i> (Fall 2003)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">GOD</a> IS COMING, AND IS <i>SHE</i> PISSED! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anonymous" title="Anonymous">Anonymous</a> bumper sticker as quoted in <i>My First Saturnalia</i> (1981) by Michael Rumaker, p. 3</li> <li>GOD IS COMING, AND BOY IS SHE PISSED! <ul><li>Variant bumper sticker as quoted in <i>River Angel: A Novel</i> (1999) by A. Manette Ansay, p. 107</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I’ve always been interested in the <a href="/wiki/Mother" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother">Mother</a> Goddess.</b> Not long ago, a young person, whom I don’t know very well, sent a message to a mutual friend that said: “I’m an addict of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins" class="extiw" title="w:Mary Poppins">Mary Poppins</a></i>, and I want you to ask P. L. Travers if Mary Poppins is not really the Mother Goddess.” So, I sent back a message: “Well, I’ve only recently come to see that. <b>She is either the Mother Goddess or one of her creatures</b> — that is, if we’re going to look for <a href="/wiki/Mythological" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythological">mythological</a> or <a href="/wiki/Fairy-tale" class="mw-redirect" title="Fairy-tale">fairy-tale</a> origins of <i>Mary Poppins</i>.” <br /> I’ve spent years thinking about it because the questions I’ve been asked, very perceptive questions by readers, have led me to examine what I wrote.<b> The book was entirely spontaneous and not invented, not thought out. I never said, “Well, I’ll write a story about Mother Goddess and call it <i>Mary Poppins</i>.” It didn’t happen like that. I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P._L._Travers" title="P. L. Travers">P. L. Travers</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3099/the-art-of-fiction-no-63-p-l-travers"><i>The Paris Review</i> No. 86 (Winter 1982)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim" class="extiw" title="w:Elohim">Elohim</a>," the name for the creative power in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Genesis" class="extiw" title="w:Book of Genesis">Genesis</a></i>, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention.</b> The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "<a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Shaddai" class="extiw" title="w:El Shaddai">Al Shaddai</a>, god of battles, appears later, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton" class="extiw" title="w:Tetragrammaton">YHWH</a>, mispronounced <a href="/wiki/Jehovah" title="Jehovah">Jehovah</a>, later still. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson" title="Robert Anton Wilson">Robert Anton Wilson</a>, <i>Everything Is Under Control</i> (1998) "Genesis", p. 197</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In its formative years, notably the 1970s and 1980s, <b>the Goddess movement</b> exhibited a range of attitudes towards female deity. As <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Patrice_Christ" class="extiw" title="w:Carol Patrice Christ">Carol Christ</a> summarized in a <i>threefold typology</i>, members of the movement might hold to any of the following views:</li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd>(1) <b>the Goddess</b> is <i>divine female</i>, a personification who can be invoked in prayer and ritual;</dd> <dd>(2) <b>the Goddess</b> is <i>symbol of the life, death and rebirth</i> energy in nature and culture, in personal and communal life;</dd> <dd>(3) <b>the Goddess</b> is <i>symbol of the affirmation</i> of the legitimacy and beauty <i>of female power</i> (made possible by the new becoming of women in the women’s liberation movement).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>These perspectives could be elaborated and combined in various ways without disagreements or internal tensions surfacing. Thus, deity could be experienced, evoked and ritualized as <i>single</i> (<b>the Great Goddess</b>, <b>the Mother Goddess</b>), as <i>triple</i> (<b>Maiden, Mother, Crone</b>) and/or through culturally, religiously and mythically diverse <i>individual goddesses</i> (<b>Athena, Cerridwen, Isis, Hecate, Kali, Tara</b> and others). <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Paul_Reid-Bowen" class="extiw" title="s:Author:Paul Reid-Bowen">Paul Reid-Bowen</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Vital_New_Matters_-_The_Speculative_Turn_in_the_Study_of_Religion_and_Gender" class="extiw" title="s:Vital New Matters - The Speculative Turn in the Study of Religion and Gender"><i>Vital New Matters: The Speculative Turn in the Study of Religion and Gender</i></a> (2011) p. 6</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>The valley spirit never dies—it is called “the mysterious female”;</b></li></ul> <dl><dd><b>The gate of the mysterious female is called “the root of heaven and earth.”</b></dd> <dd>Gossamer it is, seemingly insubstantial, yet never consumed through use. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching" title="Tao Te Ching">Tao Te Ching</a>, Chapter 6: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/taotechinglaotzuvictorhmair_202002">Full text Translation, Notes, and Commentary</a> by <a href="/wiki/Victor_H._Mair" title="Victor H. Mair">Victor H. Mair</a> (1990)</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li>I am the <i>first</i> and the <i>last</i>.</li></ul> <dl><dd>I am the <i>honored</i> and <i>scorned</i>.</dd> <dd>I am the <i>whore</i> and <i>holy</i>.</dd> <dd>I am the <i>wife</i> and the <i>virgin</i>.</dd> <dd>I am the <i>mother</i> and <i>daughter</i>.</dd> <dd>I am the <i>members [limbs] of my mother</i></dd> <dd>and the <i>barren one with many sons</i>.</dd> <dd>I have <i>had a grand wedding</i></dd> <dd>and <i>have not found a husband</i>.</dd> <dd>I am a <i>midwife</i> and <i>do not give birth</i>.</dd> <dd>I am the <i>solace of my labor pains</i>.</dd> <dd>I am <i>bride</i> and <i>groom</i>,</dd> <dd>and <i>my husband produced me</i>.</dd> <dd>I am the <i>mother of my father</i></dd> <dd>and <i>sister of my husband</i>,</dd> <dd>and <i>he is my offspring</i>. <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thunder,_Perfect_Mind" class="extiw" title="w:The Thunder, Perfect Mind">The Thunder, Perfect Mind</a></i>, as translated by Willis Barnstone & Marvin Meyer (2003)</li></ul></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goddess&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ageless_Wisdom_teachings" title="Ageless Wisdom teachings">Ageless Wisdom teachings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecofeminism" title="Ecofeminism">Ecofeminism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Girls" title="Girls">Girls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">Feminism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mothers" title="Mothers">Mothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spirituality" title="Spirituality">Spirituality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">Women</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goddess&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 90%; background: #f9f9f9; width: 250px; padding: 4px; spacing: 0px; text-align: left; float: right;"> <div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wikipedia"><img alt="Wikipedia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/50px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="46" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/75px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/100px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></a><figcaption>Wikipedia</figcaption></figure></div> <div style="margin-left: 60px;"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> has an article about: <div style="margin-left: 10px;"><i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Goddess">Goddess</a></b></i></div> </div> </div> <div class="noprint metadata" style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 90%; background: #f9f9f9; width: 250px; padding: 4px; spacing: 0px; text-align: left; float: right;"> <div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiktionary-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wiktionary"><img alt="Wiktionary" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/50px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="47" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/75px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Wiktionary-logo.svg/100px-Wiktionary-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="370" data-file-height="350" /></a><figcaption>Wiktionary</figcaption></figure></div> <div style="margin-left: 60px;">Look up <i><b><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goddess" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:goddess">goddess</a></b></i> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary" class="extiw" title="w:Wiktionary">Wiktionary</a>, the free dictionary</div> </div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">C. 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