Christine Downing’s Serpent Goddess

This Serpent Goddess has been a figure that has sat on Chris’ desk, symbolizing the goddess energy that has inspired her writing. It is on display in our exhibit titled “Little Treasures”.
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On mother goddesses…

“The most familiar goddesses are, as we are so often reminded, the mothers of patriarchy. They are the equivalent of the mothers of what Freud has taught us to call latency, the period that begins when the presence and primacy of paternal power has been acknowledged. Perhaps a r
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Chris Downing on image, psyche’s language

“We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become. As our dreams make evident, the psyche’s own language is that of image, and not idea. The psyche needs images to nurture its own growth; for images provide a knowledge that we can inter
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