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icymist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-11-06 10:26 AM
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Who on Earth is the Goddess?
Who on Earth is the Goddess?
by Otter and Morning Glory Zell



"Well, for instance, who is this All-Mother you're always talking about?"

"Why, you are, Edward. . . The All-Mother. You're the All-Mother, I'm the All-Mother, that little bird singing out there, it's the All-Mother. The All-Mother is everything. The All-Mother is life..." <1>

The primal and supreme deity of the ancient world, the oldest and most universally worshiped, was the Great Mother, Mother Earth, Mother Nature. Images of Her date back to Aurignacian Cro-Magnon peoples, from 27,000 years ago, and are found all over the Eurasian continent from Spain to Siberia.

For thousands of years before there were any male gods, there was The Goddess, and Her worship continued unabated clear up until its violent suppression by Iron Age patrism. When and where worship of the Mother prevailed women and Nature were held in esteem. The Chinese called Her Kwan Yin; the Egyptians knew Her as Isis; the Navajo call Her Changing Woman. To the Greeks She was Gaia, and to many black peoples She is Yemanja. She is Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, and She says: "All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals." She is also the ancient Crone Hecate,who gives us both wisdom and death.

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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-16-06 11:02 PM
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1. I honor the Goddess in all Her forms....
Blessed be...:hi:
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