The Meanings of Goddess - Part 3 

Essentialism or Essence? Out from the land of theory

by Max Dashú

I am the incomprehensible silence
And the memory that will not be forgotten
I am the voice whose sound is everywhere
And the speech that appears in many forms
I am the utterance of my own name
     —Thunder, Perfect Mind, Nag Hammadi
     Scriptures, circa 200 CE

They have lost sight of the Mystery.

Baba Yaga Stories 

by Susun S Weed

Who is Baba Yaga? She is the Goddess, she is the Witch, she is the Wise Woman, she is the Crone, she is aged Artemis.

Rhea - Goddess of the Flow*

by Jocelyn Chaplin

Rhea (the flow) is a little known Greek Goddess in spite of being described as mother of them all. Most famously she is the mother of Zeus, the boss God of Classical Greece. She was supposed to have hidden him from his father Cronos who wanted to eat him up like his other children. The hiding place was the Idean cave on Crete which gives us a clue as to her origins.

Even Queens need a Fairy Godmother* 

by Liz Perkins

Maiden, mother, crone – it used to make a simple framework for women’s lives. We learned to tweak it to recognise and respect the place of women whose mothering phase was not occupied by childbearing, but by other forms of creativity.

By Rachel Mayatt

For many years I have been interested in the connection between women’s menstrual cycles and the phases of the Moon.

by Alex Chaloner

There have always been Priestesses. A Priestess is one who serves. In Goddess Spirituality, very simply put, a Priestess is one who serves the Goddess.

by Mary Frankland

These statues or paintings are usually described by the Roman Catholic authorities as images of the Blessed Virgin Mary depicted with a dark or black skin.