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The four fold symbol

January 10, 2011
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Goddess, Marija Gimbutas
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“The fourfold compositions [the cross, the quartered circle], archetypal of perpetual renewal or wholeness and the moon in the symbolism of Old Europe, are associated with the Great Goddess of Life and Death, and the Goddess of Vegetation, moon goddesses par excellence.” Marija Gimbutas,
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JCF Mythological RoundTable® Group at OPUS

January 07, 2011
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Joseph Campbell, myth
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New year, new Campbell book to dive into at our Mythological RoundTable® Group at OPUS! The book is The Mythic Dimension and contains a selection of essays that Campbell wrote between 1959 and 1987. The two main topics in this volume are mythology and history and mythology and the arts – this is goi
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Myth 101: Sophia

January 06, 2011
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Goddess, Marion Woodman, myth
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Sophia, (Σοφíα, Greek for “wisdom“). Sophia is the archetypal image of the feminine principle and thus partner to the masculine god. She is present in all traditions, mythologies, and religions – in Hinduism she is Shakti, in Egyptian myth she is called Isis. Traditionally it is in
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In Marion Woodman’s words – the Goddess energy is trying to save us

January 06, 2011
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earth, Goddess, Marion Woodman
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“I would say the goddess energy is trying to save us. If we go on with our power tactics, we’re going to destroy the earth. That’s why we haven’t got a long time to evolve. We’re either going to make a leap in consciousness or we aren’t going to be here. Sophia, S
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Treasures in the Archives – The Mythic Bear

December 21, 2010
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Goddess, Greek myth, Joseph Campbell, myth, ritual, Welsh/Celtic
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This amazing sculpture comes from Campbell’s Historical Atlas of World Mythology: Mythologies of the Great Hunt of the Celtic bear-goddess Artio. This statue shows the goddess feeding a she-bear and interestingly enough there is a slit in the box pedestal wherein coin offerings could be dropped. We
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Safron Rossi is Curator of Collections at Opus Archives & Research Center and is Associate Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Depth Psychology Jungian and Archetypal Studies MA/PhD program where she teaches courses on mythology and depth psychology. Her writing and scholarly studies focus on archetypal psychology, the western astrological tradition, goddess traditions, and feminist studies. Safron has recently edited a volume for the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell based on his Goddess mythology lectures titled Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, published Fall 2013 by New World Library.

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