Goddesses

An (above) begot on Ki (below) the air-god Enlil, who tore the two apart and pressed the sky, his father, on high. We know the similar tale from Hesiod (Theogony 153 ff.), of Ouranos, Heaven, separated from the Earth-goddess Gaia by their son, Kronos.

transfer of loyalty in that quarter of the world from the universal goddess of nature to an assortment of politically established tribal gods.

This is a basic point in mythology: that the individual is performing an act not out of his own impulse, but in accord with the order of the universe.

the popular way of interpreting the word myth is “falsehood,” whereas myths, in the sense that I’m speaking of them, are the final terms of wisdom—that is the wisdom of the deep mysteries of life.

It is wonderful the way in which, both in India and in Greece, the presence and power of the goddesses came gradually back to authority following the devastating ravages in both regions of the Indo-European invasions

The Goddess-centered art with its striking absence of images of warfare and male domination, reflects a social order in which women as heads of clans or queen-priestesses played a central part. Old Europe and Anatolia, as well as Minoan Crete, were a gylany.14 A balanced, non-patriarchal and non-matriachal social system is reflected by religion, my

powers of women in that biological sense give them a magical power that makes it particularly possible for them to activate and be in accord with these powers.

the challenge is to flower as individuals, neither as biological archetypes nor as personalities imitative of the male.

her main themes are initiation into the mysteries of immanence experienced through time and space and the eternal; transformation of life and death; and the energy consciousness that informs and enlivens all life.