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When men and women start to write down the stories of their lives we begin to learn the names of some of these divine women. Kybele, the Mother.
But the domination of Kybele and other powerful goddesses like her wouldn’t go unchallenged. The goddess would have to deal with a new pretender to the throne.
In the seventh century, Hilda, assisted by the Irish Monks Columbanus and Aiden helped establish British monasteries as centres of education for all.
Hilda embraced the majority decision. England’s future lay with Europe. Incredible to think that this place that she ran, witnessed this extraordinarily important decision.
The goddess Gaia, grandmother of Zeus, creator of the Gods themselves. Story recorded by the Greek poet Hesiod.
Gaia was mother to all of the gods and grandmother to he who would become considered the father of the gods: Zeus.
Having adopted the goddess Kybele, the Great Mother their saviour from Carthage. Roman priests would castrate themselves as a form of worship.
I’m fascinated by these eunuch priests and why did emasculate themselves for a goddess. Professor Corey Brennan is from the American Academy in Rome.
The disciple Paul visited Ephesus and found a more liberated kind of woman The Ephesus women did not feel compelled to raise children.
Without the pressure to have sex, women’s lives were transformed. Now they could be guardians, not just of sexual, but of divine love.
Catalhöyük is reputed to have been one of the oldest cities in the world and the beginning of worship of female deities.
James Mellaart discovered a beautiful figurine in a grain bin. This triggered Battany’s quest to discover the story of Divine Women.
Wu Zetian’s sponsorship of printing ushered in the modern world and her support for Buddhism gave a solid base in the Far East.
Wu was the self-proclaimed Empress of China. An ardent follower of Buddha she became a great religious leader and pioneered modern printing.
The Demon King terrorises the heavens and the earth. In a series of titanic battles, Durga the Great Mother slays him, liberating humanity and the gods.
St. Peter’s Basilica is built on the former site of a temple devoted to Kybele the great goddess.
The Arrephoroi are young Greek girls who perform religious rituals as a rite to womanhood in the name of the goddess Aphrodite.
They had to leave from the Acropolis with some baskets on their heads and in these baskets were unseen things, things they were forbidden to look at.
The deity who presided over love was Aphrodite and Sappho was the poet of Aphrodite teaching and sensuous love.
In Sappho’s day, poetry wasn’t written down but recited, accompanied by a lyre and dancing.
Aphrodite is the goddess of love. Believed to be beautiful beyond compare, sex incarnate and worshipped and revered by the poet Sappho.
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