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This issue of Goddess Pages is dedicated to the memory of Patricia Monaghan: 1946 - 2012


 

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Issue 11 - Summer 2009

Queen of Owls, by Tiana
Breathing Goddess: Visions of Burnmoor – A Sacred Site of Cumbria

by Alex Chaloner

It seems that many people who have a love of the Goddess also have a love for the ancient cultures and sites upon which She was worshiped and venerated. We don’t have to go too far on these fair isles to come across circles of stone and earth, spirals carved into rock and natural pools and hills sacred to the Goddess.


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Breathing Goddess: Visions of Burnmoor – A Sacred Site of Cumbria

Desire for Enlightenment and the Feminine in Early Buddhist Myth Desire for Enlightenment and the Feminine in Early Buddhist Myth

by André Zsigmond

Om Mani Padme Hum - Hail, the Jewel in the Lotus

Solomon’s Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible has a rich, sensuous and erotic imagery that has been the subject of various allegorical interpretations, chiefly as relating to God's love for Israel, or Christ's love for the Church.


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Feminine Mysticism in Art: Artists Envisioning the Divine

By Victoria Christian

The rise in the United States in recent years of feminist religious movements that focus on female images of the divine Goddess suggests that many women, in addition to men, find goddess symbolism to be appealing. 


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Feminine Mysticism in Art:  Artists Envisioning the Divine

Herbs for Hags

by Susun S Weed

I'm so glad I'm finally old. Sadly, many of my friends don't like me to use that word. They say they don't want to be "old". I think what they really mean is they don't want to be the kind of old that's infirm and dependent. I agree.


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Herbs for Hags

Moon and Sun/Earth Calendars

By Sheila Rose Bright

I cannot let Jacqui Woodward-Smith’s reference to ‘our patriarchal solar calendar’ (GP9, Reviews) pass without comment.  To my mind there is nothing patriarchal about using a solar calendar, only about ignoring the moon.  And you’ve given me the ideal opening to leap up onto several of my favourite soapboxes, Jacqui!

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Moon and Sun/Earth Calendars

Thoughts on Sacred Sexuality, Non-Attachment and Renunciation Thoughts on Sacred Sexuality, Non-Attachment and Renunciation

By Tiziana Stupia

Janie Rezner makes many excellent points in her interesting article ‘The Journey of the Soul into the Mother’1. I’ve been researching the subject of renunciation for a while and would indeed agree that, in many cases, religious celibacy can be traced back to a fear of the feminine and the power of sexuality per se.


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Poetry & Reviews
14 Steps to Awaken the Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
by Joan Norton and Margaret Starbird - Reviewed by Miriam Raven
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Heart of the Dragon - DVD and CD
Reviewed by Geraldine Charles
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Switching to Goddess – Humanity’s Ticket to the Future, by Jeri Lyn Studebaker
Reviewed by Geraldine Charles
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Bloody Everything
by Anne Baker
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Dressing the Bride
by Geraldine Charles
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Goddess Wind in Greece
by Maria Duncalf-Barber
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Mincing Round the Maypole
by Jacqui Woodward-Smith
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Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2009 – a preview
by Geraldine Charles
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Brighid in Sweden

 If you enjoyed Kirsten Brunsgaard Clausen's article about Brighid's Runes in Sweden, in our Winter 2011 issue, you might like to see this video - the celebration of Lucia in a Swedish church ceremony last December.

 


 

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