Who is the Goddess?
"The Goddess is first of all earth, the dark, nurturing mother who brings forth all life. She is the power of fertility and generation; the womb, and also the receptive tomb, the power of death. All proceeds from Her; all returns to Her."
Starhawk, The Spiral Dance
"Through thousands - perhaps hundreds of thousands - of years, human beings have recognized and invoked divinity in feminine as well as masculine form. This goddess had innumerable names and rituals and festival days. She was motherly and virginal, wild and domestic, budding into youth and fierce with age."
Patricia Monaghan, The Goddess Companion
Goddess, we know you by so many names:
Ceres, mother of the harvest, you who in the joy
of finding your lost daughter gave a new diet
to our forebears, no longer acorns to eat but
nourishing bread raised in fertile soil; and Venus,
inventor of that clever way of luring us to procreation;
and Artemis, the physician who eases women's birthing pains;
and Proserpine to whom the owl cries in the night.
We have many names for you, and all
are your true names. We have many rituals
for you, and all are your true rituals.
There is no end to you, Goddess, Heaven's Queen."
Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass
"The Divine Feminine is initiating a crucial new phase in our evolution: urging us to discover a new ethic of responsibility toward the planet; bringing us a new vision of the sacredness and unity of life. Wisdom, justice, beauty, harmony and compassion are the qualities that have traditionally been identified with the Divine Feminine, yet it is also the irresistible power that destroys old forms and brings new ones into being, the inspiration of the love-in-action that is so needed to transform a culture radically out of touch with its soul."
Andrew Harvey & Anne Baring, The Divine Feminine
"THe world's nations depict the Goddess with many different names, faces, and characteristics - but these are really all part of the same potent lady. As with a crystal that has distinct facets and angles, what one sees depends much on where one stands."
Patricia Telesco, 365 Goddesses
"It is now being discovered that goddesses were invoked in all parts of the world for thousands of years before patriarchy. Though she has been repressed, she has never really left us. Hindus still adore the Divine Kali and Shakti energy. Christians honor the Virgin Mary. Shintos in Japan still worship Amaterasu, Goddess of the Sun. Jews still invoke the Shekhinah at their Sabbaths and other celebrations. Goddess-worship has always been with us, and is now growing by leaps and bounds, in answer to the world's dire need. We are seeing a tremendous uprising, as the Goddess bestirs herself and the women awaken."
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A goddess is a female deity. Many cultures have goddesses. Often deities are part of a polytheistic system that includes several deities in a pantheon. The historical records from Ancient Egypt, among the earliest known, designate a deity with special hieroglyphs that preced the name. The earliest Egyptian hieroglyph for a goddess is shown to the right.
Pantheons, those deities worshiped in one culture, may include goddesses, gods, and in some cases, abstract concepts. An abstract concept as a deity may indicate a principle or entity that is not seen as in any way resembling a human or an animal, although it may be believed to be capable of some sort of cognitive activity affecting the lives of humans that may be benevolent or malicious. In both ancient and modern cultures, the symbolism of deities assigned a gender may be open to a wide variety of interpretations.
The primacy of a monotheistic or near-monotheistic goddess is advocated by some modern matriarchists and pantheists as a female version of, preceding, or analogue to, the Abrahamic god thought to be the first monotheistic religion among those of historical record. In some feminist circles the Abrahamic god is perceived as being rooted in the patriarchal concept of dominance — to the exclusion of feminine concepts.Eisler, Riane "The Challice and the Blade"
Among some duotheists, such as Wiccans, the primary deities are one goddess and one god, who are seen as together making up a larger whole that is both the transcendent divine and the substance of all creation.
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