24 DEITIES WHO love WOMEN

From Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas comes this short list of pre-patriarchal deities -- woman-loving, European goddesses and gods who reigned before the Big Bad Patriarchy rumbled into town, dropped down our chimneys, and ate us all up.

Ana/Anu/Danu (Celtic)

Artemis (Greek)

Artio The Morrigan (Celtic)

Athena (Greek)

Brigid (Irish)

Freyja (Scandinavia)

Gefion (Danish)

Hekate (Greek)

Holla/Perchta (German)

Macha/Medb (Celtic)

Mari (Basque)

Neman The Morrigan (Celtic)

Nerthus (Scandinavia)

Njordr (Scandinavia)

Ragana (Baltic)

Skuld (Scandinavia)

The Morrigan (Celtic)

Urd (Scandinavia)

Verdani (Scandinavia)

  

Baldr – (maybe)(Scandinavia)

Freyr (Scandinavia)

Hermes (Greek)

Odr (Scandinavia)

Pan (Greek)

Check out Gimbutas’s The Living Goddesses for more. 

Do you know other pre-pat deities?  If so, let us know (include – if you please -- the name of your source). 

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Thnx to Bromart.com for the picture of Holda/Perchta (which I found on Google); this is one of the best depictions I've seen of a Crone Goddess.   

Blow-you-away, WAY-COOL MUSIC

To lovely Paola Suarez, a big smooch on the cheek for bringing together an amazing array of Goddess music by an amazing array of artists – and for posting it all on YouTube!!! 

I admit I was a bit taken aback when, in the middle of mesmerizing voices, remarkable drumming, hit-you-in-the-heart lyrics, and the soothing sound of waterfalls in the background, this suddenly blasted out my computer speakers:

SO I ASKED MY DOCTOR ABOUT NON-INSULIN VICTOZA! ... AND THE NEEDLE’S SO THIN!  ... CALL YOUR DOCTOR IN CASE OF PANCREITIS, BREATHING PROBLEMS, DEATH, OR LUMPS IN YOUR NECK ...

But hey.  The ads are okay because they’re few and far between – and you can delete them after six seconds.  Also, you don’t want to listen to this music on YouTube forever.  You want to find your favorite musicians and then buy their music. 

These artists need the support of your dollars, pounds, rubles, pesos and hryvnas*.  Help them put clothes on their backs and food in their bellies so they can make even more music.     

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* (... and levs, yuans, krones, kronas or leus – let me know if I’ve left out your currency)

PRAYER & THE SUPREME corpse

Q:  What are the 3 branches of American government?

A: The President, the Congress and the Supreme Corpse. 

Today the Supreme Corpse proved once again it is nothing but a dead body willing to let anyone do anything – all ya hafta do is ask It nicely. 

This morning, the town of Greece, New York, asked the Corpse if it could open its town meetings with Christian prayer.  The Corpse mumbled 

yes, from now on all American towns can open their meetings with Christian prayer.

This flies directly in the face of the First Amendment, which says you can’t do that. 

One more sign that in this country an unholy alliance has congealed and coagulated between Cons* and Jehovah the Control Freak.**   

Never vote for Cons.  Cons have swamped Congress and Corpse both, and have nearly brought America to a screeching standstill. 

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* “Con” is short for “conservative wingnut”   
** Richard Dawkins’ title for Jumpin’ J, not mine. 

LET’S ditch THE ICK

Around 500 AD, Romans were split down the middle, some loving Isis, others Jesus.

 

Equal competition, right?   Sweet Isis in one corner, sweet Jesus in the other?   

 Wrong. 

This was a boxing match between teams, not individuals: In one corner, Isis backed by sweet Horus, in the other, sweet Jesus backed by Ick, the God of Abraham.* 

Total sweetness versus sweet Ick. 

Unfortunately, the Romans went with Ick (of course, the game was rigged; eventually, if you worshipped anything but Ick, emperors sliced, diced and de-headed you).

And today, like pitiful pups, over half the world slavers and drools over Ick, the dude who sees women as dopey dunderheads and suggests sassy kids should be salted, peppered and eaten for lunch. 

Isn’t it time we ditched Ick and took up again with warm, loving deities like Isis?

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* Because Jehovah is a "... petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully” (Richard Dawkins), he totally swamps Jesus out.    

HOW THE SKY GODS whomped MOTHER EARTH

Picture it:  Suddenly your universe turns into Hell’s Corridor.

You switch from a frig stocked full of good eats and drinks, to the repo people suddenly yanking away your frig, your food, your house, your job, your bank account -- and any hope of eating a good meal ever again.  

And scotch water too, or anything to wet your poor, parched throat. 

For many people in 4000 BC, this was the Hell of it.  Suddenly the climate had turned cantankerous, and many green places morphed into giant sandboxes. The great deserts of North Africa and central Asia began to form.

Mother Earth had abandoned Her people (or so Her people thought). And where did the good stuff come from?  The sky – in the form of oh-so-scarce rain. 

And this, my children, is how and when the sky gods retired the Earth Goddess.    

Raise your hand if you think it's time to fire the sky and rehire the Earth.  

MAY YOUR MAY DAY BE jolly!

Here in Maine I have one (count them – one -- and only one) lone May Day flower to help me celebrate.   

For about a week now, this little girl has braved the weeds, the cold and the damp, and is still hanging on. 

Wishing you a very Merry May Day (and down south a Satisfying Samhuinn)! 

Love to everyone,

Athana