Sublime

The richness and variety of religious folklore is quickly being swallowed up by globalized, packaged, market-driven worldviews that impart no meaning to one’s local community, geography, history or traditions.

la Reverenda Madre.

Revelation thus cannot be viewed as “a pure expression of God’s will,” but rather “as an expression of God’s will filtered through the mindset and mores of its intended audience.”

Heliodorus, a priest of the Mysteries, explains: Philosophers and theologians do not disclose the meanings embedded in these stories to laymen but simply give them preliminary instruction in the form of a myth. But those who have reached the higher grades of the Mysteries they initiate into clear knowledge in the privacy of the holy shrine, in the

ascetic.

“God,” and even “He,” each time carefully begun with capital letters, while “queen of heaven,” “goddess” and “she” were most often written in lower case, that I decided to try it the other way about, observing how these seemingly minor changes subtly affected the meaning as well as the emotional impact.

Archaeological, mythological and historical evidence all reveal that the female religion, far from naturally fading away, was the victim of centuries of continual persecution and suppression by the advocates of the newer religions which held male deities as supreme. And

In Neolithic and earliest historic times, the Entu, the name of the high priestess in Sumer, the Tawawannas, the name of the high priestess in Anatolia, and their counterparts in other areas would probably have been the nominal leaders of those temple communities.