Hot new book: Karen Tate’s Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations. After reading this, I understand why people cozy up in living room recliners with travel books. Ya feel like you have a friend named Karen leading you by the hand around the world to the Goddess. You actually feel you’re inside Hina’s Cave in Hawaii, or inside the Temple of Hera on the Island of Samos, or gazing at the Labyrinth in Britain’s Glastonbury Tor. This more-than-a-travel book is dense with fascinating female-deity facts and blocks of solid info backed up by a 12-page bibliography. It’s also packed with photos, drawings and maps, too – at least one to every page spread.
With Sacred Places you will be winging your way to:
O Clonegal Castle and Newgrange in Ireland.
O The temples of Dendera in Egypt and the Sekhmet Temple at Karnak. The Isis Temple of Philae.
O The Temple of Oshun in Nigeria
O The Temple of Ishtar in Iraq
O The ancient Goddess cities of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa in Pakistan.
O Mount Gulaga in Australia
O Machu Picchu in Peru.
O The Isla de Mujeres in the Yucatan.
O Spider Rock in Arizona, the Isis Oasis Sanctuary in California, and to the Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve in Wisconsin.
O Ggantija in Malta
O Ephesus and Catal Huyuk in Turkey
O And to over 90 other places powerful with Goddess.
If you're on a budget, this is the way to travel.
4 comments:
Just a general question: by denying war, fighting, etc., aren't you suppressing a vitally important part of the human psyche, just like the Christians denied our darker side when they created the devil?
-Andy
Andy,
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.
He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
[Thnx goes to LunaNegra at HotGoddess for this]
Nice parable, Athana. Again, we see someone who can't grok the wholeness of Goddess spirituality. S/he wants to reduce us to the airy-fairy New Age stereotype that only embraces the light and fears the dark - that nasty Eastern patriarchal philosophy of asceticism and denial. To use your imagery - the wof you feed may win, but they're both a part of you, and you have to love them both to love yourself completely. You can turn that evil wolf into a cuddly little puppy if you show it love. He's not really evil - he's hungry, scared or lonely. A safe, loved, well-fed and cared for mammal doesn't lash out. It cuddles up.
I like your extension to the parable Morgaine. It helps answer a part of Andy's question that I didn't quite address.
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