#madrianism

[zmiyina]

God the Daugher🗡️👑

Finding a few moments to put stylus to tablet, so to speak.

[pixiebiz]

Hail Kwan Yin, Sovereign Maiden of Compassion.

The Holy Crone is with Thee and holds Thee in Her Mysteries.

Blessed Kwan Yin, Maiden who Hears the Cries of the World.

Most Blessed Fruit of our Sacred Mother's Womb.

Holy Kwan Yin, Maiden of Healing Herbs and Life Giving Waters.

Pour out Your Mercy upon us that we may tend to our wounds, heal our hearts, and become Whole in the Divine Light of Dea.

Awen

[for-a-community-of-dea]

Thinking on a Neo-Deanism,

As I have stated often here, one of the central subjects of this blog is Deanism/(De-an-ism). More specifically I plan to discuss a Neo / New Deanism, which is simply my vision of a Deanism which might actually develop real communities of devotion to Dea. The alternative in my opinion is the current passive status quo. In other words I want discuss a subject which is vital to my heart and which characterizes much of my own theological understanding and practice.

I have a problem when I try to write on a subject. I tend to think that when writing that I have to explain all that readers may not understand or have knowledge of regarding the subject on which I write. I am going to attempt not to do that here. I will assume that my readers have some knowledge of Deanism an alternative form of Madrianism, a religious faith of few numbers that was initiated in England in the early 1970s. It was a monotheistic religious faith dedicated to God the Mother also addressed in a various ways such as Lady, Queen, Creatress, etc.

The more developed form of this faith of the Mother was and is in its Filianic form in which Dea/God is worshiped in a as a trinity of Mother, Daughter, and Absolute Deity, beyond all forms. After a quite strange history, early in this century the dominant trinitarian form of the religion came to be called Filianism, the faith of the Daughter and in its more simple unitarian form it came to be called Deanism. The most obvious aspect of Deanic faith is the worship of Dea/God pure and simple. While not opposing faith in the Daughter, Deanists / Deani do not necessarily believe in her as being a individual divine person in the Godhead.

For those who know little of this religion I suggest that they go to the website called a "Chapel of Our Mother God" founded by persons, who had been among its most significant leaders in the first generation of the Madrians, as they came to call themselves at that time, to become familier with the religion in its orthodox form. They can also look up information on the internet to acquire information on the Aristasians the name by which these leaders had labeled themselves by 2005 when the "Chapel of Our Mother God" was created. Persons may also ask me any questions which they feel I might be able to answer. I will answerthese as I can.

What I plan to do is to discuss not the Deanism as it was originally formulated early in this century nor Filianism in its various forms. What I will do, instead, is summarize some of the major aspects of my own vision of a Neo-Deanism which differs in several ways from the original understanding of it by those who first coined the term.

Deanism was first defined in an article within the "Chapel of Our Mother God" as the worship, love, and obedience to Dea or God the Mother, exclusive of any belief in or worship of male/masculine deities, even if these deities are viewed as subordinate to or aspects of her. By this exclusive definition many of those who in spite of the fact that they center their worship on God the Mother and love her dearly would not be Deanists even if they view themselves as such. Nor could any male / masculine principle even be viewed as being within Dea because according to the "feminine essentialist" vision of the Aristasians, maleness is itself is a decline into a increasingly decadent earthly materiality.

During my several years of participation within the developing Independent Filianic movement (circa 2012- 2017) I never bought into that aspect of Filianic theology. And in fact during most of that time period the primary leaders of Independent Filianism thought that they were at least trying to make of the received religion of traditional Filianism / Deanism a religious home for many more people than the more rigid earlier form of orthodox Filianist theology allowed.

It seems to me that whatever dynamism or strength that the self proclaimed Independent Filianic movement had at that time, even then we were a very small group of persons whose public influence and communications existed only online. We made a lot of mistakes. I myself made a lot of mistakes. These mistakes are at least part of the reason the Filianic/Deannic movement has little public presence today beyond the private religious blogs of the few persons who still identify with the movement in any deep way. One of the reasons why the movement as it existed then and earlier during its earlier purely orthodox stage had been the excessive exclusivity of its doctrines. The excessive rigidity of these doctrines and the creation of creeds, confessions, and liturgies which by their very nature excluded many who initially might have been attracted to much that was very attractive within the religion.

One of the aspects of this exclusiveness of doctrine was the definition of Deanism as first described within the "Chapel of Our Mother God." which excluded all persons even those whose religious lives are centered on the worship and love of Dea by whatever name or title such as the Goddess, the Mahadevi, Isis, the Great Mother, etc. If they also worship male deities even if these are subordinate or include a male principle within their theologies. Thus, by strict Aristasian definition the primary poet and writer of many beautiful devotional psalms to Dea, the Daughter and the Janya during this century can not seen as Deanic or Filianic.

The primary project of the Deanic movement if it is not simply to disappear with little trace into history has to be the creation of real vital communities of worship and service to Dea. This is necessary not only because Dea wants and desires it but because there a no doubt thousands of solitary worshipers of Dea by whatever name she is called who need actual religious communities in which their love and worship and service to Dea is actually recognized, affirmed and supported. These communities can only be developed if they are open to all persons who love Dea/Goddess/Mother God/Durga/etc in spite of a multiple of other differences. Doctrinal differenced can be worked latter if necessary. This is a realistic possibility. The technology for this already exist. Zoom is an ideal digital space for such meetings of communities of worship to develop. Many worship communities of worship are already using Zoom effectively for uses of worship and education particularly in situations in which immediate geographic proximity does not exist. Anyway enough for now. More latter.

[sealwomyn]

Canticle of the Daughter

Our Lady is exalted among the daughters of Heaven. Radiant Princess, Star of the Sea Robed in celestial light.

She abases the cruel and proud And hearkens to the plea of the lowly. The foe who denies Her Godhead She overthrows But blessèd is the humblest of Her servants.

She delivers the captive into Her care And takes the hand of the fallen. Firm-fixèd is the destiny Of the monarch who honours Her name.

May the whole world praise Thee, compassionate Princess; May Thy glory be told of in all the earth. Let them exalt Thy dominion And Thy valiant courage And glorify Thy holy Name.

Have mercy on Thy servant who gives Thee blessing And take her hand in need and suffering. In illness and distress, give her the gift of life. May she go forever in joy and delight To magnify Thy holy Name Before all the peoples of the world.

The ECE (Eastminster critical edition of the Clear Recital) mentions in the footnotes that this is "an adaptation of a Sumerian hymn to Ishtar/Inanna."

[wildwoodpriory]

Caravala, stylized.

[themiscyreian]

Moura

The Maid took up the great Moon-Axe, whose silver blades were as the crescents of the moon, in symbol of Her light, and went alone into a desert place. And, knowing that She had not the light of Her Mother upon Her, malefic keres gathered about and beset Her: keres of fear and of dread isolation, and every sort of restriction. And they tore Her soul with their talons, crying: Hope is dead, for the light of the Mother is fallen from You. You shall go down to suffering and death and none shall save You. In the illimitable emptiness of the universe shall You stand alone and none shall give You comfort. In the darkness of eternal night shall You kneel to weep and no hand shall be put upon Your shoulder, but every hand shall be raised against You to do You hurt.

And the Maid was filled with trembling, but She answered: Go your ways, for what I have said, that shall I do.

The Clear Recital; Mythos 4 : 1-6

[themiscyreian-archive]

For the waxing and the waning of twelve moons reigned the Maid. And after the twelfth moon had appeared in the sky, the Mother of All Things called Her Daughter to Her, and spoke to Her, saying: You have made the whole earth fruitful and brought My light to all the world, have You not satisfaction in Your work?

And the Maid replied, saying: I have brought Your light to many places, and yet a place there is which remains ever in darkness; a place beneath all places, in which there is no light. And the ways of entrance to that place are many, for there is a place at the bottom of each earthly soul into which Your light cannot shine.

And Her Mother asked of Her: Do You know what thing it is that You must do if You will bring My light into every place?

And the Maid replied: I know what it is that I must do.

For She knew that She must descend into the nether regions, giving up the Divine light and going down into that place wherein is no light, but only the profoundest darkness. And this was Her taking on of fate upon Herself.

Mythos 3:8-15

[autumnrainwrites]

I have been in a weird mood as of late.

A few months ago, I got really into learning about Aristasia. I had known about it for years but had not gotten too deep into the lore (whether the Tellurian lore or the Herthelan/Chelouranyan lore) until December of 2025. And now, it is something I think about at least a bit every day.

My lifestyle, ethics, and philosophy are completely incompatible with Madrianism, which is somewhat sad because it is a faith I see a lot of beauty in, a faith a part of my soul longs for... but the majority of my soul is against. I consider myself a bit of a hedonist, though perhaps less than I should be. I'm also a Lilith worshipper, though a terrible one to be honest. Perhaps there is space to explore some form of Left-Hand Madrianism, but that seems rather contrary to the point.

Every couple days, I return to this website and I search for Aristasia again, hoping that there is another post from the scant handful of folks who write about it. Whenever there is, I get very excited. I do hope that the Nova project is able to get off to a good start soon, and I would very much like to be involved in it, but I fear that I would be as terrible an Aristasian as I am a terrible polytheist and a terrible hedonistic and a terrible HDG fan.

In all honestly, I don't even think I am good at Empty Spaces either. I really only write cozy works, and it has been a year since I wrote anything.

Maybe my fate is to continue piecing together my own reality from the fragments of the ones I cannot properly hold myself? Or, as William Blake once said, “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

Maube this system needs to give itself some proper time and space to actually build itself up before committing to any kind of faith or philosophy? Or maybe it will be just as bad at that too?