Goddess Seeker

Dianic womyn Mama Gendercrit views

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I am Ariadne

Most Holy One

Lady of the Labyrinth

Kin to a Cretan Chimera

Corona Crown Constellation

Mountainous Mediterranean Mother

Goddess of the labrys

When you face enclosing darkness

Rough walls and dead ends

The stale air suffocates

Your fingers grasp a taut string

It guides you through the maze

I offer a path out of confusion

from mystery to revelation

every step in my realm is sacred

walking the path of birth, death, and regeneration

through the rocky hills and sunny beaches of my land

Dance in my temple

your sandals brush stone in my ancient courtyard

raise your arms in ecstatic union

your sisters surround you

we are one

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I wrote this last year with the help of my young daughter before a goddess pilgrimage to Crete

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The Great Mother everywhere was the active and autonomous creatrix of the world . . . and, unlike the aloof and self-righteous patriarchal gods who only recently usurped her mountain-throne, the ancient Goddess was always there—alive, immanent—within her creation; no ontological scapegoater, she was wholly responsible for both the pain and the good of life.

The Great Cosmic Mother

Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor

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Title: Mother Goddess with Child

Date: c. 600

Culture: Indian

Medium: Sandstone

Dimensions: overall: 29 1/2 x 22 1/4 x 6 in. (74.93 x 56.51 x 15.24 cm)

Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation

Accession Number: M.1975.11.05.S

Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation

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Mother with Child

Mexico, Gulf Coast, Southern Veracruz, Nopiloa, 600–900 CE

Ceramics

Slip-painted ceramic

9 1/4 × 5 1/2 × 3 in. (23.5 × 13.97 × 7.62 cm)

Gift of the Art Museum Council in honor of the museum's twenty-fifth anniversary (M.90.168.44)

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Demeter holding Kore in Her lap; 600-480 BCE, from Thebes, now in the Louvre Museum

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Isis lactans - Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

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Mother Rose Nursing Her Child, 1900, Mary Cassatt

Medium: oil,canvas