Amaluna – a Play About Goddesses and Cycles Unveiled by Cirque du Soleil

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Amaluna invites the audience to a mysterious island governed by Goddesses and guided by the cycles of the moon. Their queen, Prospera, directs her daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony in a rite that honours femininity, renewal, rebirth and balance which marks the passing of these insights and values from one generation to the next.

Women’s Wisdom Erased from History

Mosaic showing Saint Theodora

The female of the species is more deadly than the male, cautioned Rudyard Kipling. Given Kipling’s love of mythology and prehistoric studies, he should perhaps have added “and smarter”. Because of all deities of wisdom across the globe and through known time, the massive majority – 97% – were (or are) female. Mankind, for the vast span of human experience, has worshipped at the shrine not of the god, but the goddess, of wisdom.

Marija Gimbutas: Chronicler of the Goddess

Marija Gimbutas

Marija Gimbutas January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994   Marija Gimbutas was a classically trained Lithuanian-American archeologist.[1]   By combining traditional archeological “dig-work” with linguistics and mythological interpretation, her pioneering research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of “Old Europe” produced profound cultural revelations. Gimbutas unearthed startling evidence of stable, matriarchal, egalitarian societies living Continue Reading …

Vicki Noble

Vicki Noble

Iconic Woman, Feminist Shamanic Healer and Teacher Vicki Noble is a feminist shamanic healer, author, independent scholar and wisdom teacher.  In the 1970s she awakened to the Goddess and Women’s Spirituality and opened psychically to the healing, art, yoga, and divination processes that led to the creation of the Motherpeace tarot deck. Noble created, graduated Continue Reading …

The Crusade Against Witches

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How Demographics Led To the Persecution of Women For about two hundred years beginning in the fourteenth century, Europe was swept by natural and man-made disasters. Long bloody wars killed millions of men, several times during that period, the Black plague swept through the new city states of Europe. Interestingly men seemed more susceptible to Continue Reading …

The Church’s Attitudes Towards Women Part 2

Joan of Arc (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, Paris)

 Co-opting of the Goddess: acquire, adapt and subjugate   Christianity is based on belief. There was a striking dichotomy in the early Christian church —the beliefs of the elite and the beliefs of the general population that made up the congregations.  These congregations were still steeped in the nature-based rites of the old Goddess religion. Continue Reading …

The Church’s Attitudes Towards Women Part 1

St. Odo Cluny

“The Weaker Vessel” Writings in the New Testament attributed to the Apostle Paul were used as the rational for a celibate priesthood, the subjugation of women, and the prohibition of sexual congress for all but procreation. St. Peter’s writings portrayed women as “the weaker vessel” [1 Peter 3:5–7]. A study of the early church’s writings Continue Reading …

To Understand Were We Are Part 2

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We Have To Know Where We’ve Been   In the new “Father” based religious practices, men, were the son’s of God, made in his image, to rule over all the living things on the earth. The concept of possession rather than partnership shaped man’s relationship with women and sexuality. Wives and daughters became chattel to Continue Reading …

To Understand Were We Are Part 1

Egyptian Eunichs

We Have To Know Where We’ve Been   For more than 25,000 years, the Global Goddess presided over thousands of peaceful, cooperative, civilizations. In these many and diverse cultures older woman were revered as “Wise Women” – reflections of the Universal Feminine.  That ended with the rise of the phallus. For the past 6000 years Continue Reading …

Who Cursed Eve and Why? Part 1

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Menstruation taboos: un-clean, un-well and un-right Thousands of years of patriarchal propaganda have made women feel un-clean, un-well and un-right about the supremely natural cycle of menstruation and fertility. Menstruation taboos, ignorance and fear still drive women’s feelings and more shockingly, the scant understanding of their own bodily functions. The blessing from the Goddess — Continue Reading …