Frog Goddesses and Gaga for Eggs
It’s a soft rain swept morning in Santa Barbara, perfect weather for aquatic beings and hidden creatures. The imagination finds footing in ancient imagery and the Frog Goddess rises up and out of Marija Gimbutas’ Neolithic world, fecund and symbolically paradoxical. Gimbutas writes th
Read MoreMyth 101 – Red Tārā
Tārā (Sanskrit: तारा), ‘she who delivers’ and ‘star’. Tārā is a female Bodhisattva and most important Buddhist Goddess. The mythology holds that she was born from the tears of Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva that will lead all beings to enlightenment. Tradition
Read MoreMyth 101 – Saint Sarah
Saint Sarah, Sara-la-Kali (Sara the Black) is the mythic patron saint of the Roma (Gypsy) people. Sarah and Kali are both images of black feminine divinity, this connection arising through the Romani peoples having originally come from India. Saint Sarah is said to have been a servan
Read MoreThe four fold symbol
“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.” M
Read MoreMyth 101: Sophia
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. Traditi
Read MoreIn Marion Woodman’s words – the Goddess energy is trying to save us
“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
Read MoreTreasures in the Archives – The Mythic Bear
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
Read MoreMyth 101 – Charities or Graces
The Charities or Graces are divinities whose power is beauty and all the qualities of charis – beauty, grace, goodwill and favor – as it manifests in the world and the cosmos. The Three Graces, Roman fresco from Pompeii C1st A.D., Image from theoi.com Hesiod (Greek epic 8t
Read MoreMyth 101 – Sulis
Sulis was a water goddess who presided over the hot springs at Bath, now Somerset. These springs were called Aquae Sulis and had curative powers. She was one of the most important Roman/British deities and though a water goddess she also had solar powers which some claim is due to the
Read MoreA gem from the Marija Gimbutas collection
This image includes a photo that Marija Gimbutas used in The Language of the Goddess and includes the book editing aspects – note the caption with her handwritten edit as well as measurements of the image for proper setting for production of the book. Gimbutas wrote in The Langu
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