Goddesses

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

The cult of the Goddess goes right back to those early caves. There, She is the cave itself, so that initiates who passed through the rites deep under the earth were returning to and reborn from Her womb.

In general, then, where you have the hunt accent you have a male-orientated mythology, and where you have the plant accent you have the female orientation.

the goddesses were equally the agents of all transformations.

She gives birth to us physically, but She is the mother too of our second birth—our birth as spiritual entities.

The function of myth is to put us in sync—with ourselves, with our social group, and with the environment in which we live.

Earth’s magic and women’s are the same—giving

Nor is there any model for the male in marriage to an individuated female.

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