SpiritualWiki - Goettin

Emblem 2d: Seine Säugamme ist die Erde.
Buchillustration in: Michael Maier, Atalanta Fugiens, 1617/1618 entnommen aus: Alexander Roos, Alchemie und Mystik, Köln, 2007

"Es ist keine Kunst, eine Göttin zur Hexe, eine Jungfrau zur Hure zu machen; aber zur umgekehrten Operation, Würde zu geben dem Verschmähten, wünschenswert zu machen das Verworfene, dazu gehört entweder Kunst oder Charakter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) deutscher Dichter,
1819, zitiert in: Aphorismen

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Dreifaltige Weiblichkeit – Schicksalsgöttinnen

Die drei Bethen – Schicksalsgöttinnen (Nornen/Moiren/Parzen) – Nothelferinnen

Seit ungefähr 1000 Jahren kennt man im alpenländischen Raum die "drei Bethen", auch bekannt als die "drei Heilign Madln" namens Katharina, Margarethe und Barbara. Im 9. Jahrundert wurde aus der angestammten Frauen-Dreifaltig-
keit die Heiligen Drei Könige, die als Kaspar, Melchior und Balthasar bekannt sind. Die Sternensinger ziehen durch die Dörfer und schreiben die drei Buchstaben C+M+B – später umgedeutet als Christus Mansionem Benedictat – "Christus
schütze dieses Haus" – mit Kreide über die Haustür. Inspiriert durch den Artikel Die 3 Bethen – heilige dreifaltige Weiblichkeit, Jennie Appel, 5. Januar 2020

In den Namen Wilbeth, Ambeth und Borbeth ist jeweils die Silbe "-beth" enthalten, die etymologisch mit "Bett", "Beet", "beten"/"bitten" verwandt ist. Fürbitten oder Gebete an die drei heilbringenden Frauen bedeutet, die Göttin anzurufen.

WILBETH (Katharina) – die weiße Göttin
Wilbeth verkörpert das Licht und die Weisheit. Ihr Name wird von "wil"="weehl" = Rad abgeleitet. Die, die das Leben lei-
tet, die das Rad des Schicksals dreht, den Lebensfaden spinnt. Ihre Farbe ist weiß. Sie steht für das Licht, welche die
Dunkelheit und die schwermütige Zeit vertreibt. Wilbeth, die Helle, die Weiße, die Reine. Sie steht für die Aufbruchskraft
und ist daher für jeden Neuanfang hilfreich. Ihr Symbol ist das Rad, das Lebensrad, das Sonnenrad (uraltes Symbol
der Sonne) und natürlich das Spinnrad, mit dem der Lebensfaden gesponnen wird. Die Menschen feierten das Fest der
Wilbeth am 21.12. (Wintersonnwende) als Uulbeth oder Jul. Dieses Fest einer alten Muttergöttin war sehr kräftig und
magisch und dieses Datum aus dem Jahresrad nicht mehr wegzudenken. Daher verlegten die Christen die Geburt Je-
su auf diese Zeit und nannten es Weihnachten (nach biblischen Quellen wurde Jesus nicht im Dezember geboren).
Wilbeth wird auch der Mondin zugeordnet.

AMBETH (Margarethe) – die rote Göttin
Ambeth ist die Personifizierung der mütterlichen Erde in Form der roten Göttin. Als Zeichen der Fruchtbarkeit ist ihr die Farbe rot zugeordnet = die das Leben gibt. Sie nimmt den Lebensfaden, der von Wilbeth gesponnen wurde, auf und
webt daraus den Stoff des Lebens, bevor ihn Borbeth letztendlich wieder abschneidet. Als Symbol wird ihr oft eine spi-
ralartig dargestellte Schlange, ein Wurm oder ein Drache zugeordnet. Diese Symbole stehen für die Regeneration
und die Kraft des Lebens, sowie für die Wiedergeburt. Ambeth wird auch oft mit einer Schüssel oder einem Kelch dar-
gestellt. Diese deuten auf den "Kessel der Fülle", den heiligen Gral hin. Fülle, Fruchtbarkeit, Sinnlichkeit und sexuelle
Kraft prägen die rote Schicksalsgöttin. Ambeth wird der Erde zugeordnet.

BORBETH (Barbara) – die schwarze Göttin
Borbeth repräsentiert die warmherzige, sonnige, heilende Kraft der Göttinnentriade. Sie ist auch als Todesgöttin (die
das Leben nimmt) zu finden, weshalb ihr auch die Farbe schwarz zugeordnet wird. Borbeths Symbol ist der Turm –
das Zugangstor zur Anderswelt, welche bei den Kelten der vorübergehende Raum für die verstorbenen Seelen war.
Im süddeutschen und österreichischen Raum werden am 4.12. die "Barbara-Zweige" geschnitten – Symbol für Frucht-
barkeit und ewiges Leben. Beginnen sie bis zum 24.12. zu blühen, verheißen sie Glück und Segen für die Projekte
des kommenden Jahres oder auch, dass ein Kind geboren wird. Auch in der Gebärmutter der großen Göttin schlum-
mert alles, was im Frühjahr zum Leben erwacht. Borbeth wird der Sonne zugeordnet.

"Barbara mit dem Turm, Margarete mit dem Wurm, Katharina mit dem Radel, das sind die drei heiligen Madel!"
Die Schicksalsgöttinen teilen den Lebensfaden zu, verlängern ihn und schneiden ihn ab.

Drei Bethen – drei Saligen – drei heiligen Madln – Schicksalsgöttinnen

❖❖	Farbe	Göttin-Aspekt	Bezeichnungen	Zeit-Aspekt	Körperflüssigkeit	Ereignis Eigenschaft	Planet	Alchemie
1.	Weiß	Weiße Göttin Die Junge	Wilbeth, Katharina, Skuld, Spes	Zukunft Jungfrau	Sperma	Geburt Treue	Mond	Albedo
2.	Rot	Rote Göttin Die Werdende	Ambeth, Margarethe, Verdande, Caritas	Leben Werden Mutter	Blut (Menstruation)	Hochzeit, Vermehrung Nächstenliebe	Erde	Rubedo
3.	Schwarz	Schwarze•Göttin Die Alte Weise	Borbeth, Barbara, Urd, Fides	Vergangen- heit Greisin	Erde (Schlamm)	Alter, Tod Hoffnung	Sonne	Nigredo

Die drei Farben weiß-rot-schwarz (albedo-rubedo-nigredo) sind die Farben der Archemie, die alle drei sichtbaren
Welten des Diesseits repräsentieren. Die Farbe des Jenseits, des vierten Geistquadranten, ist transparent-schillernd (perlmuttfarben), das Ergebnis, wenn sich weiß-rot-schwarz im Prozess transformieren.

Flaggen mit den Farben weiß-rot-schwarz, gelb-rot-schwarz, weiß-rot-blau weltweit bestätigen das irdische Muster
von Werden-Blühen-Vergehen, das "Wachset, mehret euch und waltet die Erde weise".

Quelle: ► Blogartikel Über die drei Bethen, Andrea Plögl (*1972) österreichische Bloggerin, undatiert

Referenzen:
► Artikel Drei Jungfrauen – Einbeth, Warbeth, Wilbeth, präsentiert von der Webseite rdklabor.de, undatiert
► Artikel Bethen – Keltisch-alpenländische Mutter- und Schicksalsgöttinnen, präsentiert von der Publikation artedea, undatiert

Webseite: ► Artikel frauenwissen.at

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Alphabet / Alphabetisierung ⇔ bildgestaltige Göttin – linke Gehirnhälfte ⇔ rechte Gehirnhälfte

Buddha, Sokrates und Jesus übermittelten feminine rechtshirnige mündliche Lehren. Minute 37:43
Maskuline Glaubensbekenntnisse entwickelten sich anhand der auf einem Alphabet basierenden Schriftsprache.
Die ersten beiden Gebote der Zehn Gebote im Alten Testament [erstes Buch Mose, erschienen 900 v. Chr.] verwerfen den Einfluss der Göttin und verbieten jede Form der darstellenden [Bild]Kunst. Im dritten Jahrtausend, als das Neue Testament aufgezeichnet wurde, war es Frauen verboten, Priesterinnen zu sein.
Seit der Einführung der Fotografie und des Fernsehens [die Alpha- und Theta-Gehirnwellen aussenden/induzieren] sind wir Zeugen des Aufstiegs des Weiblichen und des Niedergangs der männlichen [linkshirnigen, Yang-] Dominanz nach 5.000 Jahren Patriarchat.

Buddha und Konfuzius haben nichts aufgeschrieben. Minute 42:34
Sokrates: Die (links-rechts-hirnige) Herangehensweise zur Wahrheit ist, dem Gegenüber in die Augen zu schauen
und eins zu eins [mündlich] zu debattieren (ohne sich mit jemandem auseinanderzusetzen, der auf schriftliche Noti-
zen zurückgreift). Minute 37:40
Jesus: "Halte die andere Wange hin." "Die Sanftmütigen werden die Erde erben." "Die Letzten werden die Ersten
sein." (Jesus forderte seine Jünger auf, seine Lehren auswendig zu lernen, nicht aufzuschreiben.) Minute 39:00

Quelle: ► Videovortrag von Dr. med. Leonard Shlain (1937-2009) US-amerikanischer Chirurg, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Abteilung Laparoskopische Chirurgie, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, Forscher, Erfinder, Autor, The Alphabet vs. The
Goddess, veranstaltet von der Pepperdine University, Malibu, Kalifornien, The Distinguished Lecture Series, November 2006,
YouTube Film, 1:15:14 Dauer, eingestelltg 1. November 2012

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Zitate zum Thema Göttin / Goddess

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Tod für beide am Ehebruch Beteiligten – Altes Testament

Wenn jemand gefunden wird, der bei einem Weibe schläft, die einen Ehemann hat, so sollen
sie beide sterben, der Mann und das Weib, bei dem er geschlafen hat. 5. Mose 22, 22, 28 (AT)

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Zwangsheirat für Vergewaltigte und Vergewaltiger – AT

Wenn jemand an eine Jungfrau kommt, die nicht verlobt ist, und ergreift sie und schläft bei ihr,
und es findet sich also, so soll, der bei ihr geschlafen hat, ihrem Vater fünfzig Silberlinge
geben und soll sie zum Weibe haben, darum dass er sie geschwächt hat; er kann sie nicht
lassen sein Leben lang. 5. Mose 22, 28 (AT)

Ausrottung matrizentrischer Kulturen in Kanaan, welche die Mutter Erde heiligten;
Bibelstellen: 1. Könige 18, 22, 40 ✣ 1. Könige 19, 1-18 ✣ 5. Mose 17, 2-6 ✣ 2. Mose 22, 17 ✣ 3. Mose 20, 6 und 17
Alttestamentliche Erbsünde Evas als Legitimitimation genutzt, um Frauen zum Schweigen zu bringen; Bibelstelle: Paulus, 1. Korinther 14
und sie aufgrund ihrer sexuellen Attraktivität für Männer zu verteufeln, insbesondere durch Vergewaltigungen zu foltern und hinzurichten,
bis hin zur Absegnung von Kriegen

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Alttestamentlicher Unterwerfungsgrundsatz übernommen von der christlichen Kirche

Ihr Knechte, seid untertan mit aller Furcht den Herren, nicht allein den gütigen und gelinden,
sondern auch den wunderlichen. Denn das ist Gnade, wenn jemand vor Gott um des Gewissens
willen das Übel erträgt und leidet das Unrecht. 1. Brief des Petrus 2, 18, 19 (NT)

Persönliche Bekenntnisse

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Der Prophet Elia ermordete im Auftrag Jahwes die Anhänger der Göttin.

Meine Mitarbeiter im theologischen Ausschuss bemerkten zunächst nicht, dass der Prophet Elia als Mörder dargestellt und von Gott selbst zum Morden ermutigt wird. Auch mir war das früher entgangen. Man ist einfach zu sehr daran gewöhnt, die Bibel mit der patriarchalischen Brille zu lesen, und aus diesem Blickwinkel erscheint Töten und Morden gerechtfertigt, wenn es den heidnischen Kult vernichtet, und den Jahwe-Kult stärkt. Das Böse muss schließlich vernichtet werden und dass der Göttin-Kult, der im Lande Ägypten und Kanaan geübt wurde, böse sei, hat Jahwe selbst seinem Propheten geoffenbart, wie z.B. Elias Geschichte darstellt.
Elga Sorge (*1940) deutsche feministische Theologin, Religion und Frau. Weibliche Spiritualität im Christentum, S. 54, Kohl-
hammer, 1985, 5. Auflage 1988

Männliche Initiation

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Legende von Zeus ♦ Hephäst ♦ Athene ♦ Aktivierung der Zirbeldrüse

In der berühmten alchemistischen Symbolgeschichte von Athene spaltet der Alchemist Hephäst einem alten Mann [Zeus] den Schädel auf – genau an der Stelle, wo die Zirbeldrüse sitzt. Und dann kommt Athene, die Frau und Göttin, zum Vorschein. Der Mythos besagt, dass sich deine innere Kraft offenbart, wenn du die Zirbeldrüse freilegst. Es mag seltsam erscheinen, dass die innere Kraft nicht männlich, sondern feminin ist. Männer können nämlich eigentlich nichts erschaffen. Die Frauen sind es, die alles erschaffen. Männer schaffen die Kultur für Frauen, doch in meinem Leben gaben mir die Frauen den Anreiz, Kulturgüter zu erzeugen. […]
Sobald wir das Geheimnis der Zirbeldrüse enträtseln, werden wir befreit. Als Erstes werden wir verstehen, in welch schrecklich-misslicher Lage wir uns befinden. Dann werden wir eine verlängerte Lebensspanne haben, welche die verqueren Lebensweise, der wir gegenwärtig anhängen, aufheben wird. Derzeit versuchen wir, alles auf einmal zu erledigen, weil wir so große Angst vor dem Sterben haben. Wenn wir uns von dem Konzept des Todes befreien, kann
uns niemand mehr kontrollieren.
Videopräsentation von Jay Weidner (*1953) US-amerikanischer Filmproduzent, Koryphäe zu hermetischen und alchemistischen Traditionen, Autor, Hyperdimensional Alchemy, Teil 7 von 13, veranstaltet von "The New Beginning Conference", Washington DC, März 2009, gefilmt von Sacred Mysteries TV, YouTube Film, Minute 11:15, 14:49 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 4. März 2012

Es fängt schon damit an, dass es im Hebräischen kein Wort für ›Göttin‹ gibt, deshalb kann das Wort im Alten Tes-
tament nicht vorkommen. (Baring und Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess, S. 447) Die psychologische Folge dieser Nicht-Benennung ist das Nichterkennen: Was keinen Namen hat, gerät in Vergessenheit. Durch Sprache lernen wir etwas über das Wesen der Dinge und schreibe ihnen bestimmte Eigenschaften zu. Es fällt uns schwer, uns eine
Göttin vorzustellen, für die es keine Sprache gibt.
Dr. med. Jean Shinoda Bolen (*1936) US-amerikanische Jungsche Analytikerin, Frauenforscherin, weise Frau, spirituelle Lehrerin, Autorin, Feuerfrau und Löwenmutter. Göttinnen des Weiblichen, S. 72, Patmos Verlag, 1. Januar 2002

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Verdrängung der Göttin

Die Göttin wurde allmählich in die Tiefen der Wälder oder auf die Gipfel der Berge zurückgedrängt, wo sie in den Vorstellungen der Menschen und Märchen bis heute fortlebt. Aus dieser Verdrängung rührt die Entfremdung der Menschen von den Wurzeln des irdischen Lebens, deren Folgen in der modernen Gesellschaft unübersehbar zutage treten. Doch der ewige Kreislauf der Natur setzt sich unaufhörlich fort, und wir erleben heute, dass die Göttin aus den Wäldern und
von den Bergen zu uns zurückkehrt und, indem sie uns zu den ältesten Wurzeln der Menschheit zurückführt, unsere Hoffnung für die Zukunft aufleben lässt.
Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) litauische-amerikanische Prähistorikerin, Anthropologin, Autorin, Die Sprache der Göttin. Das ver-
schüttete Symbolsystem der westlichen Zivilisation, Verlag Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main, Affoltern a.A., 1995, 2000

Göttin Isis mit ausgestreckten Armen
Karnak, Ägypten, ~1360 v. Chr.

Die Religion der Göttin existierte sehr lange Zeit, weit länger als die indogermanische oder die christliche (die eine relativ kurze Periode der Menschheitsgeschichte repräsentieren), und sie drückte den Menschen in Europa ihren unauslöschlichen Stempel auf. Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) litauische-amerikanische Prähistorikerin, Anthro-
pologin, Autorin, Die Sprache der Göttin. Das verschüttete Symbolsystem der westlichen Zivilisation, Verlag Zweitau-
sendeins, Frankfurt am Main, Affoltern a.A., 1995, 2000

Die Göttin ist eine Metapher für die Selbstverständlichkeit, aus der heraus die Frau frei über ihr Leben und ihren Kör-
per verfügt, ihre Sexualität feiert, ihre Umwelt aktiv mitge-
staltet und mitwirkt, menschliche Kultur zu erschaffen, zu gestalten und zu verändern. […] Die Göttin beflügelt die Kreativität von Frauen. Sie macht uns Mut in die Öffentlichkeit hinein zu wirken und das patriarchale Bewusstsein zu überwinden […]. Sie vertritt ein Weltbild, in dem die Beherrschung und die Unterdrückung von Frauen und Kindern durch den Mann oder die rücksichtslose Ausbeutung der Natur geächtet sind […]. Das Weltbild der Göttin ist von höch-
ster politischer Brisanz. […] Nur wenn die Göttin wieder ins Licht des Bewusstseins rückt, kann das Patriarchat, diese chronische Krankheit der menschlichen Kultur, überwunden werden.
Gerda Weiler gerda-weiler-stiftung.de (1921-1994) deutsche Psychologin, Pädagogin, Matriarchatsforscherin, Autorin, Ich brau-
che die Göttin. Zur Kulturgeschichte eines Symbols, S. 21, Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 1997

Denn Matriarchate sind keine seitenverkehrten Patriarchate, sie sind keine Gesellschaften, in denen Frauen ange-
maßte Macht ausgeübt hätten. Frauenmacht und Matriarchat – wenn uns schon keine anderen Worte zur Verfügung stehen in unserer von patriarchaler Begrifflichkeit verderbten Sprache – erinnern an weibliche Würde.
Sie erinnern uns an Gesellschaften, in denen Frauen frei über sich selbst verfügt und ihr Selbstverständnis und ihre Bestätigung aus dem Bewusstsein von innewohnender Kraft und aus besonderer Befähigung hergeleitet haben. Gerda Weiler gerda-weiler-stiftung.de (1921-1994) deutsche Psychologin, Pädagogin, Matriarchatsforscherin, Autorin, Ich brauche die Göttin. Zur Kulturgeschichte eines Symbols, S. 21-22, Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 1997

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"Gott" ⇔ "Göttin"

Sexismus in der Sprache

Nur wenige Wörter verraten so viel über die Vorurteile der westlichen Kulturen ge-
gen die Geschlechter wie das Wort Göttin im Vergleich zu Gott. Die modernen
Bedeutungen des Wortes unterscheiden sich völlig von denen anderer Völker, für
die die Große Göttin eine völlig eigenständige, in Würde auftretende Elternfigur
war. Sie schuf das Universum mit seinen Gesetzen, und sie gebot über Natur, Schicksal, Zeit, Wahrheit, Weisheit, Gerechtigkeit, Liebe, Geburt, Tod usw. Barbara G. Walker (*1930) US-amerikanische kulturanthropologische Forscherin, Journalistin, feministische Autorin, Das geheime Wissen der Frauen, S. 322, Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main, 1993,
Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), 1995, Arun-Verlag, 3. Auflage 17. Dezember 2007

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Englisches Originalwerk:

The First Sex, veröffentlicht 1971

Selbst der allmächtige Jahwe, der Gott Moses und der späteren Hebräer, war ur-
sprünglich eine Göttin, Iahu-'Anat', deren Name sogar von der sumerischen Göttin
gestohlen worden war. Theodor Reik fragt, was eigentlich mit der ursprünglichen Göttin der Juden geschah. Dann gibt er selbst die Antwort: "Die Torah bildet die Grundlage, auf der das Judentum ruht. Sie wird für älter als die Welt gehalten und ihr wird eine kos-
mische Rolle (bei der Schöpfung) zugeschrieben. [...] Selbst in dieser verwässerten Form erkennen wir noch die
zuerst weibliche Göttin."¹ Und Robert Aron macht sich Gedanken über die vormosaischen Juden. Er fragt, wen sie
vor Jehova verehrten. Und er kommt zu dem Schluss, von Reik: Torah, die älter als Gott ist […].²
Raphael Patai weist auf vierzig Stellen im Alten Testament hin, in denen die Göttinnenverehrung unter den Hebräern erwähnt ist (Raphael Patai [Ervin György Patai] (1910-1996) ungarisch-jüdischer Ethnograph, Historiker, Orientalist, Anthropologe, Autor, The Hebrew Goddess, Wayne State University Press, 1967, 3rd enlarged edition 1. September 1990), selbst nach all den späteren patriarchalen Ausgaben. In der Zeit des Jeroboam teilte die Göttin den Tempel mit Jehova. Und der Grund, warum Jezebel solch einen schlechten Ruf unter Christen und Juden hat, ist der, dass sie für die Göttin und gegen Jehova war und König Ahab zu ihrem Glauben an die Göttin bekehrt hatte.
"So tief war der Göttinnenkult in Palästina verwurzelt", schreibt E.O. James, "dass alle drastischen Reformversuche
von Seiten der Jahweisten bis zum Ende der Königherrschaft überdauerte". (E. O. James (1888-1972) britischer Professor emeritus für Religionsgeschichte und -philosophie, Universität von London, Anthropologe mit Schwerpunkt vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, The Ancient Gods, S. 91-92, 1960, Booksales, June 2004).
Elisabeth Gould Davis (1910-1974) US-amerikanische Bibliothekarin, Feministin, Autorin, Am Anfang war die Frau, S. 64-65, Verlag Frauenoffensive, 1977

Das Alte Testament war das erste alphabetische Schriftwerk, das die nachfolgenden Zeitalter beeinflusst hat. Über-
zeugt von seiner Wichtigkeit lesen es noch viele Menschen – dreitausend Jahre nach seiner Entstehung. Die darin
enthaltenen Worte verankern die drei mächtigen Religionen Judentum, Christentum und Islam, die allesamt das
Patriarchat bekräftigen. Jede monotheistische Religion vertritt einen bildlosen Vatergott, dessen Autorität Sein offen-
bartes Wort überstrahlt, das in der Heiligen Schrift niedergeschrieben wurde. Die Vorstellung einer Gottheit, die kein
konkretes Bild hat, ebnet den Weg für die Art des abstrakten Denkens, die unweigerlich die charakteristische
Triade der westlichen Kultur hervorbringt:
➤ Gesetzbücher, dualistische Philosophie und objektive Wissenschaft.

Die nachhaltige Stoßwirkung, welche diese alten Schriften auf die Entwicklung des Westens ausgeübt haben, war
zum Einen dem Alphabet geschuldet, in dem sie geschrieben worden sind, und zum Anderen den darin verbrieften
moralischen Lehren. […]

Die Verehrung der Göttin, der weiblichen Werte und der weiblichen Wirkmacht sind auf die Allgegenwärtig-
keit der Bilder angewiesen.
Die Verehrung des Vatergottes, der männlichen Werte und der männlichen Vorherrschaft gegenüber den
Frauen ist auf das geschriebene Wort angewiesen.

Wort und Bild sind komplementäre Gegensätze, ebenso wie das Männliche und das Weibliche. Wann immer eine Kultur das geschriebene Wort zulasten des Bildes überhöht, dominiert das Patriarchat. Wenn die Bedeutsamkeit
des Bildes das geschriebene Wort überflügelt, gedeihen weibliche Werte und die Gleichberechtigung.
Dr. med. Leonard Shlain (1937-2009) US-amerikanischer Chirurg, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Abteilung Laparoskopische
Chirurgie, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, Forscher, Erfinder, Autor, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The Conflict Between Word and Image, Penguin, 1. September 1999

Dem Grundmotiv der Rückkehr der Großen Göttin und ihres Gefährten begegnet man immer wieder in den Träumen und unbewussten Fantasien von Menschen, die psychologische Hilfe ersuchen, um die Stumpfsinnigkeit
ihres Lebens zu überwinden. Die gleiche Dynamik spiegelt sich ebenfalls zunehmend in Kunst, Filmen, Literatur
und politischen Umbrüche wider. Die von ihnen verlangten Veränderungen bedingen ein neues Verständnis von Männlichkeit und Weiblichkeit bei Männern und Frauen und den Beziehungsmodellen zwischen den Ge-
schlechtern sowie ein neues Wirklichkeitsverständnis.
Dr. med. Edward C. Whitmont (1912-1998) US-amerikanischer homöopathischer Arzt, Jungscher Psychoanalytiker, Autor,
Die Rückkehr der Göttin. Von der Kraft des Weiblichen in Inividuum und Gesellschaft, Kösel Verlag, 1982, 1989

Wissenschaft kannst du in Wahrheit nur dann betreiben, wenn du dir bewusst bist, dass jede zugrundeliegende Denkweise und jede angewendete Methode der Betrachtung den betrachteten Gegenstand um so stärker ver-
fälscht, je absoluter (also unkritischer) du solche Voraussetzungen hinnimmst. Und wenn du deine Denkweise
und deine Methoden für die einzig tauglichen zur Wahrheitsfindung erachtest, wirst du nur noch Absurdes pro-
duzieren und merkst es womöglich nicht einmal.
Hans Bemmann (1922-2003) deutscher Schriftsteller, Die beschädigte Göttin, 1990, Goldmann, 1. Auflage 8. November 1995

Rosa Ave Maria

Die Forschung brachte ein Grundmuster matriarchaler Mythologie ans Licht, das im gesamten Raum, der später indo-europäisiert wurde, existiert, das heißt in Indien, Persien, Ägypten, im gesam-
ten Mittelmeerraum und in Europa. Es enthält die Struktur der
Großen Göttin in ihrer dreifachen Gestalt als Mädchen-Frau-
Greisin, welche die drei Zonen der Welt: Himmel-Erde-Unter-
welt regiert. Sie hat überall die gleichbleibenden Funktionen der Lichtbringerin (Mädchengöttin), der Liebes- und Lebensbringerin (Frauengöttin) und der Bringerin von Tod und Wiedergeburt (Greisingöttin). Ihr sind in ihren drei Gestalten bestimmte irdische und kosmische Symbole, bestimmte heilige Tiere und magische Gegenstände zugeordnet, wie z.B. Pfeil und Bogen aus Silber der Mädchengöttin, der rote Liebesapfel der Frauengöttin, Spindel und Schicksalsfaden der Greisingöttin.
Text von Heide Göttner-Abendroth (*1941) deutsche Philosophin, Matriarchatsforscherin, entnommen aus der Webseite goettner-abendroth.de, Status 2013

Mythenforscher, die Bearbeiter mythischer Überlieferungen und die Herausgeber von Mythensammlungen wenden drei verschiedene Taktiken an, um Wissen über Göttinnen zurückzuhalten.
1. Als erstes ignorieren sie sie einfach. Das ist am einfachsten. Wenn man in den angeblich "umfassenden" Lexika der Mythologie liest, gewinnt man den Eindruck, dass die Gottheiten aller Kulturen zum größten Teil männlich waren […].
2. Als zweites versäumen es die Experten der Mythologie, die Göttinnen beim Namen zu nennen […].
  Eine raffinierte Form dieser Namensverneinung besteht darin, die Göttin, Halbgöttin oder matriarchalische Heldin als "Tochter des Mondgottes" oder "Potiphars Weib" zu deklarieren […].
3. Drittens bauen viele Autoren ihre Werke so auf, dass deutlich die Götter im Mittelpunkt stehen. Zunächst werden auf breitem Raum die Mythen um die einzelnen Götter erzählt, dann die ihnen 'zugeordneten' Göttinnen in einem einzigen Nachsatz nachgereicht.

Patricia Monaghan (1946-2012) US-amerikanische spirituelle Aktivistin in der zeitgenössischen Bewegung der weiblichen Spiritualität, Dichterin, Autorin, Lexikon der Göttinnen. Ein Standardwerk der Mythologie, S. 7-8, O. W. Barth Verlag, München, 1. Auflage Januar 2000

Das ursprüngliche Symbol für das "Unsagbare" ist die Göttin. Die Göttin hat unendliche Eigenschaften und Tausen-
de von Namen – Sie ist die Wirklichkeit hinter vielen Methaphern. Sie ist Wirklichkeit, die offenbarte Gottheit, allgegen-
wärtig in allem Lebendigen, in jedem Menschen. Die Göttin ist nicht von der Welt getrennt – Sie ist die Welt, und
sie ist alles in ihr: Mond, Sonne, Erde, Sterne, Steine, Samen, fließender Strom, Wind, Welle, Blatt und Ast, Knospe
und Blüte, Reißzahn und Klaue, Frau und Mann.
Starhawk (*1951) US-amerikanische Psychologin, Feministin, ökopolitische Aktivistin, Autorin von göttinnenreligionzentrierter Literatur, Der Hexenkult als Ur-Religion der Großen Göttin. Magische Übungen, Rituale und Anrufungen, S. 21, Goldmann, 1999

Ceres, Statue der römischen Göttin der Landwirtschaft

Die Bedeutung des Göttin-Symbols für die Frauen kann nicht genug betont werden. Das Bild der Göttin inspiriert uns Frauen, uns selbst als göttlich, unsere Körper als geweiht, die wechselnden Phasen unseres Lebens als heilig, unsere Aggression als gesund, unseren Zorn als reinigend und unsere Macht, zu stillen und zu gebären, aber notfalls auch zu begrenzen und zu zerstören, als die eigentliche Kraft zu betrachten, die alles Leben erhält. Durch die Göttin können wir unsere Stärke entdecken, unseren Geist erleuchten, unseren Körper uns zu eigen machen und unsere Gefühle annehmen. Wir können aus unseren engen, einengenden Rollen ausbrechen und wir selbst wer-
den. Starhawk (*1951) US-amerikanische Psychologin, Feministin, ökopolitische Aktivistin, Autorin von göttinnenreligionzentrierter Literatur, Der Hexenkult als Ur-Religion der Großen Göttin. Magische Übungen, Rituale und Anrufungen, S. 23, Goldmann, 1999

Wenn Menschen sich Gott männlich vorstellen, so sind alle Männer gottähnlich, zumindest gottähnlicher als Frauen [...]. Da der Weg zum Einen, Einzigen Gott in einer patriarchalisch geprägten Umwelt und Epoche stattfand, blieb es nicht aus, dass auch das Bild dieses Got-
tes androzentrische, patriarchale Züge bekam [...]. Die weibliche Sym-
bolik wurde der menschlichen Seite zugeordnet; so wird das Volk Is-
rael, die Kirche, die Menschheit als Braut oder (meist treulose) Ehe-
frau vorgestellt. Wobei die Beschreibung der Beziehung Gott/Mensch-
heit in männlich-weiblicher Terminologie, erstmals ausgeprägt beim
Propheten Hosea, durchaus als Fortschritt (?) anzusehen ist!
Ruth Ahl, katholische Publizistin Eure Töchter werden Prophetinnen sein... Kleine Einführung in die Feministische Theologie, S. 44-45, Herder Verlag,
1. Auflage Februar 1993

Der Begriff Göttinnen umfasst für mich Frauen, die irgendwann einmal gelebt haben oder belebt wurden, die verehrt wurden, als Vorbilder galten – lebendige weibliche Energien, die sich manifestieren in realen Frauen, in Ahninnen, in Legenden- und Sagengestalten, in der Literatur. Frauengestalten, die vielleicht oder religiös überhöht wurden, Frauen, die wir lieben und von denen wir lernen. Luisa Francia salamandra.de (*1949) deutsche Filmemacherin, Malerin, feministische Autorin, Eine Göttin für jeden Tag, S. 22, Verlag Frauenoffensive, München, 1996

Mit den auch historisch ältesten Darstellungen der Großen Mutter als Steinzeitgöttin taucht der Archetyp des Großen Weiblichen mit einem Male und in überwältigender Ganzheit und Vollkommenheit in der Welt der Menschen auf. Diese Figuren der Großen Göttin sind, abgesehen von den Höhlenmalereien, die ältesten Kultwerke und Kunstwerke der Menschheit, die wir kennen. Erich Neumann (1905-1960) deutsch-israelischer Psychologe, Psychoanalytiker, Schriftsteller,
Die Große Mutter. Die weiblichen Gestaltungen des Unterbewussten, S. 99, Patmos, Bollingen, Serie 47, 1955, 11. Auflage
15. Juni 2003

So tief war der Göttinnenkult in Palästina verwurzelt, dass er alle drastischen Reformversuche von Seiten der Jahweisten bis zum Ende der Königsherrschaft überdauerte.
E. O. James (1888-1972) britischer Professor emeritus für Religionsgeschichte und -philosophie, Universität von London, Anthropologe mit Schwerpunkt vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, The Ancient Gods, S. 91, 1960, Booksales, June 2004

Mehr und mehr beweist die Archäologie, dass es in der Tat wirklich ein Goldenes Zeitalter gab, eine gynaikokrati-
sche Epoche, die unzählige Jahrtausende andauerte, bis über die Dämmerung der geschriebenen Geschichte herauf.
[...] Der Mann war friedfertig, die Gottheit weiblich und die Frau überragend. Frieden und Gerechtigkeit herrsch-
ten unter einer allbarmherzigen Göttin, und die langen Kleider der Priesterinnen sind bis zum heutigen Tag das Ge-
wand der männlichen Priester, die später folgten.
Der Monotheismus, von dem man einst glaubte, Moses oder Echnaton habe ihn erfunden, war in der Vor- und Früh-
geschichte weit verbreitet. Es scheint, Evans hatte recht, als er behauptete, dass es ein Monotheismus war, in dem
die "weibliche Form der Göttin dominierte."
E. O. James (1888-1972) britischer Professor emeritus für Religionsgeschichte und -philosophie, Universität von London, Anthropologe mit Schwerpunkt vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, The Ancient Gods, S. 250, 1960, Booksales, June 2004

Warum haben weibliche Gottheiten die Gewalt gegen Männer gesegnet?
Weil der eigentliche Zweck dieser Gewalt darin bestand, Gewalt gegen Frauen zu verhindern.
Dr. Warren Farrell (*1943) US-amerikanischer Politikwissenschaftler, Sprecher der Männerbefreiungsbewegung, Männerrechtler, ehemals Direktor der National Organisation for Women, Referent, Autor, Mythos Männermacht. Frauen können nicht hören, was Männer nicht sagen können, Verlag Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main, 1995, 2001

Literaturzitate

Es ist keine Kunst,
➤ eine Göttin zur Hexe,
➤ eine Jungfrau zur Hure zu machen;
aber zur umgekehrten Operation,
➤ Würde zu geben dem Verschmähten,
➤ wünschenswert zu machen das Verworfene,
dazu gehört entweder Kunst oder Charakter.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) deutscher Dichter, Universalgelehrter, Bühnenschriftsteller, umfangreichste Gedichtesammlung West-östlicher Divan. Epen. Maximen und Reflexionen, 1819, erweitert 1827, Verlag der Goethe-Gesellschaft, Weimar, 1907

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General quotes

Personal avowals

When I write it sometimes seems as if the words are coming from "between the worlds". This was the case when
I "rewrote" the 10 Commandments.
1. Nurture life.
2. Walk in love and beauty.
3. Trust the knowledge that comes through the body.
4. Speak the truth about conflict, pain, and suffering.
5. Take only what you need.
6. Think about the consequences of your actions for seven generations.
7. Approach the taking of life with great restraint.
8. Practice great generosity.
9. Repair the web.
Carol Patrice Christ (*1945) US American feminist historian, thealogian, foremother of the Goddess movement, author, Nine Touchstones of Goddess Spirituality by Carol P. Christ, posted on the blogspot witches & pagans. Inspired by the Goddess,
6. September 2014

Male initiation

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Myth of Hephaistos ♦ Zeus ♦ Athena ♦ liberating the pineal gland

Here we have a famous alchemical symbol. The alchemist is chopping the head open of an old man – right where the pineal gland is [located]. And then Athena, or this woman, this Goddess, comes out. What it is saying is when you free your pineal gland your inner power is revealed. And it's strange because the inner power is not masculine. It's feminine, because men actually can't create anything. It's women who create everything. Men create culture for women, but it's women who told me to create culture. […]
When we understand the secret of the pineal gland then we're going to be liberated. We're going to first understand what a terrible predicament we're in. And then we're going to have an extended life span which is going to stop the freaky kind of life that we're living now where we're trying to get everything done at once, because they're so afraid we're going to die. When we're liberated from this idea of death no one can control us.
Video presentation by Jay Weidner (*1953) US American film producer, scholar on hermetic and alche-
mical traditions, author, sponsored by "The New Beginning Conference", Washington DC, March 2009, filmed by Sacred Mysteries TV, YouTube film, Hyperdimensional Alchemy, part 7 of 13, minute 11:15, 14:49 minutes duration, posted 4. March 2012

In most 'traditional religions' the supreme or only deity is male. But what we are now learning is that our most ancient traditions are traditions in which both men and women worshipped a Great Mother, a Great Goddess who was the mother of both divine daughters and divine sons. Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, Goddess Spirituality, presented by the library of CMED Free Media, undated

Doritis – Dendrobium bigibbum

Any development, at any stage, that strives toward patriarchal cons-
ciousness, toward the sun, looks on the moon spirit as the spirit of regression, as the terrible mother, as a witch. Erich Neumann (1905-1960) German psychologist, psychoanalyst, writer, The Origins and History of Cons-
ciousness, Bollingen Series, S. 42, Princeton University Press, 1970

The function of myth is to put us in sync – with ourselves, with our social group, and with the environment in which we live.
One of the most interesting and simple ways to get this message is from the mythologies of the Navaho. Every single detail of the desert in which they live has been deified, and the land has become a holy land because it is revelatory of mythological entities. When you recognize the mytholo-
gical aspect of Mother Nature, you have turned nature itself into an icon, into a holy picture, so that wherever you go, you're getting the message that the divine power is working for you.
Modern culture has desanctified our landscape and we think that to go to the holy land we have to go to Jerusalem. The Navaho would say, 'This
is it, and you're it.'
Joseph Campbell, Ph.D. (1904-1987) US American mythologist, expert in compa-
rative mythology and comparative religion, Safron Elsabeth Rossi, editor, Goddes-
ses. Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, S. 19, New World Library, Series Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, 10. December 2013

One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized, petrified at a certain time and place. The deity doesn't continue to grow, expand, or take into account new cultural forces and new realizations in the sciences, and the result is this make-believe conflict we have
in our culture between science and religion. Joseph Campbell, Ph.D. (1904-1987) US American mythologist, expert in com-
parative mythology and comparative religion, Safron Elsabeth Rossi, editor, Goddesses. Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, New
World Library, Series Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, 10. December 2013

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Sun worship and personal property

The rise of masculine power and of patriarchal society probably started when man began to accumulate personal, as over against communal, property and found that his personal strength and prowess could increase his personal possessions. This change in secular power coincided with the rise of sun worship under a male priesthood. […]
Sun worship was usually introduced and established by an edict of a military dictator, as happened in Babylon and Egypt, and probably other countries as well.
Mary Esther Harding (1888-1971) US American Jungian analyst, author, Woman's Mysteries. Ancient & Modern, 1935, Sham-
bhala Publications, Boulder, Colorado, 1. May 2001

The motif of the return of the Great Goddess and her consort is encountered over and over again in the dreams
and unconscious fantasies of people who seek psychological help to overcome the deadness of their lives. Arts, films,
literature, and political upheavals also reflect increasingly the same dynamics. The changes they demand entail new
understanding of masculinity and femininity in both men and women and the relations between the sexes as well as new views of reality. Edward C. Whitmont, M.D. (1912-1998) US American Jungian psychoanalyst, homeopathic physician, author, Return of the Goddess, 1983, Continuum International Publishing Group, revised edition 1. March 1997

[T]he rising feminine doesn't mean much unless she's rising up through actual people. The goddess is asking for
more than crystals and cut velvet scarves. She's asking for some fierceness and courage, too.
Interview with Marianne Williamson (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, political activist, visionary, lecturer, author, Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics, presented by the US American liberal-oriented online newspaper HuffPost, Marianne Schnall, 9. November 2012, updated 6. December 2017

For the deepest passion of the Western mind has been to reunite with the ground of its being. The driving impulse of the West's masculine consciousness has been its dialectical quest not only to realize itself, to forge its own autonomy, but also, finally, to recover its connection with the whole, to come to terms with the great feminine principle in life: to differentiate itself from but then to rediscover and reunite with the feminine, with the mystery of life, of nature, of soul. Richard Tarnas, Ph.D. (*1950) US American professor of philosophy and psychology, non-profit institution of higher education California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), cultural historian, astrologer, author, magisterial The Passion of the Western Mind. Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View, closing pages, 1991

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Triune Goddess

Waxing moon ❄ full moon ❄ waning moon ✿ Maiden ❄ Mother ❄ Crone ✿ Kore ❄ Demeter ❄ Hecate

According to ancient tradition the Great Goddess was always triple. Her triplicity is to be seen in the waxing moon, the full moon, and the waning moon, and in how she ruled the upper world, the earth, and the underworld. In human terms she was Maiden, Mother, and Crone. It is these major phases of a woman's life, and the other triplicities by analogy, that are encompassed by Demeter's story. For Demeter sees herself as innocent and untouched Maiden in her daughter, Kore. She is Mother of that daughter and
of all that grows. And when she loses Kore, she plays the old woman, the Crone, whose childbearing years are gone and who stands close to the end of the cycle, to death.
Jennifer Barker Woolger, Roger Woolger, Ph.D. (1944-2011) British-American psychotherapist, Jungian analyst, lecturer, author specializing in past life regression, spirit release and shamanic healing, The Goddess Within. A Guide to the Eternal Myths that
Shape Women's Lives, chapter 7 "Demeter: Mother of us All", Ballantine Books, 7. October 1989

As goddess of the crossroads, Hecate could see three ways at once. She could see where we were coming from as we came to the crossroads, and she could see where each of the two roads would take us. I envision her as ancient and wise to the ways or paths that we can take in life, in death, and in between. I think about her as a crone with know-
ledge of the past and future, and recognize that this makes her a personification of the feared and persecuted image of the witch, whose precursors were the Fates.
Whenever we make a descent and return, if we integrate the experience and now know more about our own depths and how suffering takes us down into the underworld of shared human experience, we gain more of Hecate's particular wisdom. It is body-soul knowledge about cycles of life-death-life. Hecate is the archetype of the midwife, the crone who helps deliver babies or bring new life into the world, and who as midwife at the time of death, helps the soul make a transition.
Her acceptance of birth and death and suffering as integral parts of human experience helps us have perspective.
Each time we make a cycle of descent and return, we gain some Hecate wisdom that we can draw on when another cycle takes us down again, or when we accompany others on their descents.
Phone interview with Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. jeanbolen.com (*1936) US American Jungian analyst, proactive women resear-
cher and supporter, crone, spiritual teacher, author, Close to the Bone. Life-Threatening Illness As a Soul Journey, S. 207-208,
Conari Press, revised edition 1. April 2007

Minerva, 1896, Elihu Vedder (1836-1923) artist

God may be in the details but the Goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back. Gloria Steinem gloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, visionary and political activist, journalist, writer, Moving Beyond Words. Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles. Breaking the Boundries of Gender, Touchstone, 1. February 1995

The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism
of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity. Starhawk (*1951) US American psychologist, feminist, ecopolitical activist, author, The Spiral Dance. A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, S. 23, Harper & Row, 1979

The Goddess Sophia's androgeneity and her intensive repertoire of meta-
phors exemplifies her availability to both men and women; for she symboli-
cally reconciles the left and right halves of the brain – the intellectual and intuitive sides which have been seen as masculine and feminine. […]
Sophia is not a Goddess for women or men exclusively. She will give us a totality of wisdom, if we accept her for both the practical Earth wisdom of the Black Goddess and the transcendent cosmic wisdom of the World-Soul which are equally available to us. Caitlin Matthews (*1952) English author on alternative history on ceremonial magic, Celtic mythology, neoshamanism, Sophia. Goddess of Wisdom, Bride of God, Quest Books, 10. January 1991, revised edition 1. May 2001

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Goddesses

❄ Buddhist-Asian: Kuan Yin ❄ Hindu-Indian: Sarasvati, Parvati, Lakshmi, Durga, Kali Christian-Western: Mother Mary ❄ Greek-Roman: Athena/Minerva, Artemis/Diana, Aphrodite/Venus, Demeter/Ceres, Hera/Juno, Persephone/Proserpina, Hestia/Vesta

"Divine feminine" covers a lot of concepts and feelings. There are many, many goddess archetypes from virtually all cultures of the Earth. In Buddhist cosmology we find Kuan Yin, the goddess of mercy and compassion – who is very much cut from the same cloth as Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian theology. In Hindu culture we find Sarasvati, the muse who inspires all music, poetry, drama and science; as well as Parvati, the wife of Shiva and mother of Ganesha; Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity; Durga, the warrior goddess who defends against evil; and Kali, the destroyer, who gets rid of that which no longer serves and paves the way for new life.
In Western culture we are very much influenced by the ancient Greek and Roman goddesses: Aphrodite, or her Ro-
man counterpart, Venus, the goddess of love; Demeter (Ceres), goddess of agriculture; Artemis (Diana), goddess of the hunt and of nature; Hestia (Vesta), goddess of the hearth, and so on.
In Jungian terms, these women are not so much deities or personalities to be worshipped, yet it's important to recog-
nize that all of these goddesses – and many more – were once part of myth and religion. They were worshipped for
thousands of years – since before the patriarchy said that there is only a divine masculine. They are now latent
patterns in the collective unconscious, waiting to be reimagined and made a conscious part of ourselves.
The divine feminine is not a crossed-dressed version of the masculine deity; goddess is not god in drag! Her attribu-
tes are different. My sense is that most people who feel connected to the divine feminine find her through their res-
ponse to beauty in nature or a body-soul response to her presence as subtle energy in a relationship to a person or
a place, while the divine masculine is more often sensed as transcendent spirituality, an experience of spirit, which
has evoked worship. Both are numinous and personal, inspire awe and have an ineffable component, beyond words.
Phone interview with Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. jeanbolen.com (*1936) US American Jungian analyst, proactive women resear-
cher and supporter, crone, spiritual teacher, author, She lives, presented by the US American magazine The MOON, host Leslee
Goodman, March 2015

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Quotes by Jean Shinoda Bolen – Greek Goddess archetypes

Excerpts from Goddesses in Everywoman. A New Psychology of Women

Source: ► Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. jeanbolen.com (*1936) US American Jungian analyst, proactive women researcher and supporter,
crone, spiritual teacher, author, Goddesses in Everywoman. A New Psychology of Women, Harper Collins, August 1985

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The book's premise

The goddess still exists as archetypes in the collective unconscious. The Greek goddesses are images of women that have lived in the human imagination for over three thousand years. The goddesses are patterns or representations of what women are like.
There were successive waves of invaders that began the gradual dethronement of the Great Goddess.
The goddesses were not completely suppressed but were incorporated into the religion of the invaders.
Mythologist Jane Harrison notes that the Great Mother goddess became fragmented into many lesser goddesses, each receiving attributes that once belonged to her:
Hera got the ritual of the sacred marriage,
Demeter her mysteries,
Aphrodite her doves,
Athena her snakes, and
Artemis her function as 'Lady of the Wild Things' (wildlife).
According to Merlin Stone, author of When God Was a Woman, the disenthronement of the Great Goddess, begun by the Indo-European invaders, was finally accomplished by the Hebrew, Christian, and Moslem religions that arose later. The female goddes-
ses faded into the background.
Each one has both positive and potentially negative traits. Their myths show what is important to them and express in metaphor
what a woman who resembles them might do.

Marija Gimbutas, a professor of European archeology at the University of California at Los Angelos describes 'Old Europe', Eu-
rope's first civilization. Dating back at least 5,000 years (perhaps even 25,000 years) before the rise of male religions, Old Europe was a matrifocal, sedentary, peaceful, art-loving, earth-and-sea-bound culture that worshipped the Great Goddess. Evidence from burial sites show that Old Europe was an unstratified, egalitarian society that was destroyed by an infiltration of seminomadic,
horse-riding, Indo-European peoples from the distant north and east. These invaders were patrifocal, mobile, warlike, ideologi-
cally sky-oriented and indifferent to art.

[The invaders had the ability to conquer the earlier people who worshipped the Great Goddess. She was known by many names such as Astarte, Ishtar, Isis, etc.] a feminine life force deeply connected to nature and fertility, responsible for creating life and destroying life. The snake, the dove, the tree, and the moon were her sacred symbols.

Greek goddess Athena
Goddess of wisdom and craft, represents the logical, self-assured woman,
working well with men and power, is ruled by her head rather than her heart

Athena was a Father's daughter. Zeus had swallowed her mother Metis and therefore Athena sprang out of her father's head as a full-grown woman.

Befitting her role as the goddess who presided over battle strategy in wartime and over domestic arts in peacetime, Athena was
often shown with a spear in one hand and a bowl or spindle in the other.
Besides championing individual heroes and being the olympian positioned closest to Zeus, Athena sided with the patriarchy.

༺༻	Athena	Description
1.	Archetype	As Goddess of Wisdom, Athena was known for her winning strategies and practical solutions. As an archetype, Athena is the pattern followed by logical women, who are ruled by their heads rather than their hearts. Athena is a feminine archetype; she shows that thinking well, keeping one's head in the heat of an emotional situation, and developing good tactics in the midst of conflict, are natural traits for some women. The concept of Athena as an archetype for logical thinking challenges the Jungian premise that thinking is done for a woman by her masculine animus, which is presumed to be distinct from her feminine ego. When a woman recognizes the keen way her mind works as a feminine quality related to Athena, she can develop a positive image of herself, instead of fearing that she is mannish or inappropriate. When Athena represents only one of several archetypes active in a particular woman – rather than a single dominant pattern – then this archetype can be an ally of other goddesses.
2.	Virgin Goddess	Athena differs from Artemis and Hestia in that she is the virgin goddess who seeks the company of men. Rather than separating or withdrawing, she enjoys being in the midst of male action and power. The virgin goddess element helps her to avoid emotional or sexual entanglements with men. She can be companion, colleague, or confidant without developing erotic feelings or emotional intimacy.
3.	Strategist	Athena's wisom was that of the general deploying forces or of the business magnate outmaneuvering competition. She was the best strategist during the Trojan War. Her tactics and interventions won victories for the Greeks on the battlefield. The Athena archetype thrives in the business, academic, scientific, military, or political arenas.
4.	Craftswoman	As Goddess of Crafts, Athena was involved with making things that were both useful and esthetically pleasing. She was most noted for her skills as a weaver, in which hands and mind must work together. To make a tapestry or a weaving, a woman must design and plan what she will do and then, row by row, methodically create it. This approach is an expression fo the Athena archetype, which emphasizes foresight, planning, mastery of a craft, and patience.

Greek goddess Artemis
Goddess of the hunt and the moon, personification of the independent,
competitive woman with a sense of sisterhood, quick to act, to punish and protect

The tall, lovely daughter of Zeus and Leto roamed the wilderness of forest, mountain, meadow and glade with her band of nymphs and hunting dog. Dressed in a short tunic, armed with a silver bow, a quiver of arrows on her back, she was the archer of unerring aim. As Goddess of the Moon, she is also shown as a light-bearer, carrying torches in her hands, or with the moon and stars surrounding her head.

Artemis as an archetype was a personification of an independent feminine spirit. The archetype she represents enables a woman
to seek her own goals on terrain of her own choosing. As a virgin goddess, Artemis was immune to falling in love. Artemis repre-
sents a sense of intactness, a one-in-herselfness, an attitude of "I-can-take-care-of-myself" that allows a woman to function on her
own with self-confidence and an independent spirit. This archetype enables a woman to feel whole without a man. With it, she can
pursue interests and work at what matters to her without needing masculine approval.

༺༻	Artemis' features	Description
1.	Archer	A woman who marries young often goes from being a daughter to a wife (archetypally Persophone and then Hera), and may discover and value Artemis qualities only after a divorce, when she lives alone for the first time in her life.
2.	Sister	Artemis was accompanied by a band of nymphs.
3.	Back-to-Nature	In her affinity for the wilderness and undomesticated nature, Artemis is the archetype responsible for the at-oneness with themselves and with nature felt by some women when they backpack into forested mountains, fall asleep under the moon and stars, walk on a deserted beach.
4.	Moon·Goddess	In her book Women in the Wilderness, China Galland emphasizes that when women walk into the wilderness they also walk inward. Going into the wilderness involves the wilderness within us all. This may be the deepest value of such an experience, the recognition of our kinship with the natural world.

Examples of Artemis women

Georgia O'Keeffe, the best-known American woman artist, continued to exemplify Artemis when she was in her nineties, as she had done all her life. She had a passion and a spiritual affinity for the untamed Southwest, combined with an intensity of purpose through which she reached her life goals.

Gloria Steinem, founder and editor of the feminist magazine Ms., is a woman who personifies aspects of the Artemis archetype […] a leader of the women's movement.

Greek goddess Aphrodite
Goddess of love and beauty, "alchemical" archetype governing a woman's enjoyment of love,
beauty, sexuality and sensuality, impelling women to fulfill both creative and procreative desires

Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love and Beauty, is in a third category all her own as the alchemical goddess.
She is the most beautiful and irresistible of the goddesses.
She generates love and beauty, erotic attraction, sensuality, sexuality, and new life.
She enters relationships of her own choosing and is never victimized.
Her consciousness is both focused and receptive, allowing a two-way interchange through which both she and the other are affected. S. 17

This archetype [Aphrodite] may be expressed through physical intercourse or through a creative process. What she seeks differs from what the virgin goddesses seek, but she is like them in being able to focus on what is personally meaningful to her; others cannot divert her away from her goal. And that what she values is solely subjective and cannot be measured in terms of achieve-
ment or recognition, Aphrodite is (paradoxically) most similar to anonymous, introverted Hestia […] who on the surface is the goddess most unlike Aphrodite.

The virgin goddesses are associated with focused consciousness.
The vulnerable goddesses are associated with receptive, diffuse consciousness.
Aphrodite is both focused AND receptive.
[The Aphrodite] woman takes in people in the same way that a wine connoisseur attends to and notices the characteristics of an interesting new wine. To appreciate the metaphor fully, imagine a wine buff enjoying the pleasure of getting acquainted with an unknown wine. She (or he) holds the goblet up ot the light to note the color and clarity of the wine. she inhales the bouquet, and takes a lingering sip to capture the character and smoothness of the wine; she even savors the aftertaste.

[The Aphrodite woman] bask in the glow of her focus, they feel attractive and interesting […] this can be seductive and misleading. […] Spontaneous in form, yet it's substance can be deep and moving.
Aphrodite the Archetype governs women's enjoyment of love and beauty, sexuality and sensuality. Aphrodite can be as demanding as Hera and Demeter (the other two strong instinctual archetypes). Aphrodite impells women to fulfill both creative and procreative functions.

Work that does not involve an Aphrodite woman emotionally holds no interest for her. She likes variety and intensity: repetitious
tasks such as housework, clerical, or laboratory work bore her. Only when she can be totally engrossed creatively does she do well.
Thus, she is likely to be found in art, music, writing, dance or drama, or with people who are special to her; for example, as a tea-
cher, therapist, editor. As a consequence, she either hates her work and is probably doing a mediocre job, or loves it and thinks
nothing of putting in extra time and effort. She almost always prefers a job that she finds interesting to a better-paying one with
less appeal. She may achieve success as a result of doing what fascinates her but, unlike Athena or Artemis, she does not set
out to achieve.

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Creativity contrast vs. Athena

To make a tapestry or a weaving, a woman must design and plan what she will do and then, row by row, methodically create it.
This approach is an expression fo the Athena archetype, which emphasizes foresight, planning, mastery of a craft, and patience.

Vulnerable goddess Demeter
Goddess of grain, maternal archetype, expressed through motherhood, nurturing,
providing physical, psychological and spiritual sustenance and support

Vulnerable goddess Hera
Goddess of marriage, woman who considers her roles as student, professional or
mother secondary to her essential goal of finding a husband and being married

Vulnerable goddess Persephone
Maiden and abducted daughter of Demeter, Queen of the underworld, personifies
innocence, susceptibility to the will of others, receptivity toward the inner world

When Hera, Demeter, or Persephone are dominant archetypes, the motivational pull is relationship, rather than achievement and autonomy or new experience.
The focus of attention is on others, not on an outer goal or an inner state. The quality associated with the vulnerable goddesses archetypes is "diffuse awareness."

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Victimization in the vulnerable goddess stories

Hera was humiliated and abused by her husband Zeus, who discounted her need for fidelity.
Both Demeter and Persophone were raped.
Demeter's bond to her daughter was ignored, as was her suffering when Persophone was abducted and kept prisoner in the underworld.

Every woman who has ever felt an urge to marry, or have a child, or felt she was waiting for something to happen to change her life
– which must include just about every woman – will find herself akin to one of the vulnerable goddesses at some point in her life.
Each of the three has within her mythology a happy and fulfilled phase, a phase during which she was victimized, suffered, or was symptomatic; and a phase of restoration or transformation. Each represents a stage in a woman's life in which she may pass quickly or in which she may stay for a while.

[Persephone is] usually a well-behaved child who wants to please, does what she is told, and wears what is chosen for her […] prefers to observe first and join in later […] rather watch from the sidelines until she knows what is going on and what the rules are. […] By pushing her to do something before she is ready, a well-intentioned, extraverted mother often does not allow her Persephone daughter time do discover what her own preferences are. […] In contrast, with support to do so, a young Persephone can also learn to trust her inward way of knowing what she wants to do. She gradually learns to trust her innately receptive style and becomes confident of her ability to make decisions in her own way and in her own time.

In older myths, the dark road leads downward into the Underworld, where Persephone is carried off by Hades, much against her will, while Ishtar descends of her own accord to beat at the gates of Hell. This road of darkness lies to the West, according to Native American myth, and each of us must travel it at some point in our lives. The western road is one of trials, ordeals, disasters and abrupt life changes – yet a road to be honored, nevertheless, as the road on which wisdom is gained. James Hillman (1926-2013), whose theory of 'archetypal psychology' draws extensively on Greco-Roman myth, echoes this belief when he argues that darkness is vital at certain periods of life, questioning our modern tendency to equate mental health with happiness. It is in the Underworld, he reminds us, that seeds germinate and prepare for spring. Myths of descent and rebirth connect the soul's cycles to those of nature. Essay by Terri Windling (*1958) US American artist, editor, essayist, author, The Dark of the Wood: Rites-of-Passage Tales, presented by The Journal of Mythic Arts (JoMa), 2005

Greek goddess Hestia
Goddess of the hearth and temple, inner orientation, creates
a sense of serenity and warmth, makes solitude blessed

Greatly honored ‘back in the day’ Hestia is not a goddess that took a part in wars, or love affairs, or any dramatic stories involving the
Greek gods and goddesses. She's a lesser known goddess than Aphrodite or Artemis.

Hestia is an archetype of inner centeredness. She is 'the still point' that allows a woman to be grounded in the midst of outer chaos, diesorder, or ordinary, everyday bustle. With Hestia in her personality, a woman's life has meaning.
A Hestia woman shares the attributes of the goddess in being a quiet and unobtrusive person whose presence creates an atmo-
sphere of warmth and peaceful order. S. 117-118
Hestia as Goddess of the Hearth is the archetype active in women who find keeping house a meaningful activity rather than a chore.
With Hestia, hearthkeeping is a means through which a woman puts her self and her house in order. A woman who acquires a sense of inner harmony as she accomplishes everyday tasks is in touch with this aspect of the Hestia archetype.
Tending to household details is a centering activity, equivalent to meditation. A Hestia woman derives an inner peace from what she is doing, like a woman in a religious order for whom every activity is done 'in the service of God.'
Hestia was Goddess of the Hearth, or, more specifically, of the fire burning on the round hearth. She is the least known of the Olympians. Hestia and her Roman equivalent, Vesta, were not represented in human form by painters or sculptors. Instead this goddess was felt to be present in the living flame at the center of the home, temple, and city.
Unlike other gods and goddesses, Hestia was not known through her myths or representations. Instead, Hestia's significance is found in rituals, symbolized by fire. In order for a house to become a home, Hestia's presence was required. When a couple married, the bride's mother lit a torch at her own household fire and carried it before the newly married couple to their new house to light their first household fire. This act consecrated the new home.
Each Greek city-state had a common hearth with a sacred fire in the main hall. Here guests were officially entertained. And every colony took the sacred fire with them from their home city to light the fire of the new city.
When Hestia is present, a woman goes about her household tasks with a sense that there is plenty of time. She doesn’t have one eye on the clock … as she sorts and folds laundry, washes dishes, and cleans up the clutter, she feels an unhurried, peaceful absorption in each task.
Hestia represents the Self, an intuitively known spiritual center of a woman's personality that gives meaning to her life. When threatened by a Hestia woman needs to seek her one-in-herselfness in solitude. In quiet tranquility she can once again intuitively
find her way back to center.
Hestia can be found in the quiet order and sense of solitude that comes from doing 'contemplative housekeeping'. S. 116

Excerpts from Goddesses in Older Women. Archetypes in Women over Fifty

Source: ► Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. jeanbolen.com (*1936) US American Jungian analyst, proactive women researcher and supporter, crone,
spiritual teacher, author, Goddesses in Older Women. Archetypes in Women over Fifty, Harper Paperbacks, reprint edition 1. July 2014

Greek goddesses Sophia – Hecate – Hestia

In the world's mythologies and in the collective unconscious, which are mirrors of each other, wisdom is feminine. Wisdom is usually an attribute of a goddess who is often not seen or personified […].

In the Bible, she (Wisdom) is a hidden Sophia, the goddess who became an abstract and ungendered concept. Wisdom may be found at twilight where the three roads meet as Hecate, or in the hearth fire as Hestia. She may be the invisible Shekinah who enters the Jewish home for the meal that begins the Sabbath. She was once the Celtic goddess Cerridwen. She is Saraswati,
the Hindu goddess of wisdom […].

Metis is the mother of Athena who was born directly from Zeus's head. After impregnating Metis with Athena, seduced and charmed her
somehow into becoming small, and swallowed her.

There are different kinds of wisdom and therefore different kinds of archetypal wisewomen.
- Metis's wisdom is practical, applied wisdom that utilizes intelligence and mastery of a skill, usually with tangible results
  made evident through her work.

Metis was the daughter of two Titans: Tehtys, the goddess of the moon, and Oceanus, the god whose realm was a vast body of water that encircled the earth. As a Titan, she was part of the ruling older order of divinities that Zeus intended to overthrow. He pursued her and she fled […] finally he caught her and she became his first wife.

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Quotes by David R. Hawkins

⚠ Caveat See Power vs. Truth, January 2013

If you look at God as Great Father or Great Mother, then S/He would delight in your enlightenment. God experiencing the joy of His own Divinity is both the pathway and the destination, both the traveller and the destination.
Sedona Satsang Q&A, CD 2 von 2, 10. January 2007

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Quotes by John Lash

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Mental virus of the Abrahamic religion

A great deal of the problem, as the Gnostics identified it, is Abrahamic religion. And they gave us a brilliant analysis of Abrahamic religion. They pointed out that it has a parapsychological origin. So according to them the Abrahamic religion program [contains]
- the chosen people
- the paternal Father God who is entirely male
- the removal of the Divine Feminine from the creation process
- the divine Messiah-Savior who comes
- the glorification of suffering of the savior
- the victim/perpetrator game between savior and saved
- and the end of the world scenario.

All of those elements were of a parapsychological or extrahuman origin. They were an implant of the Archontic powers [interspecies predators] into the human mind, an alien implant. They give us their mind. That alien implant is a mental virus. And it had to come to humanity through a vector like any other virus. […] It was in an ancient Jewish sect [the Zadokites] that this vector planted itself. That's the way it worked out historically. So there's a moment in history when parapsychology and exopolitics and extraterrestial influence comes into [human] history and turns us away from our connection to the Divine Sophia, from our connection to our own sexuality as the source of pleasure and beauty. […] We got turned away from pleasure and beauty, turned away from the healing powers of our own bodies by this Abraham Archontic virus. Audio interview with John Lash (*1945) US American self-educated scholar of comparative mythology, metahistoric researcher, mystic, author, Sophia's Correction. The Archontics Control Matrix & 9/11, Sophia's Correction, part 7 of 10, aired 21. July 2011, presented by the West Swedish web radio station Red Ice Radio, host Henrik Palmgren, YouTube film, minute 2:04 3:33, 13:55 minutes duration, posted 7. August 2011

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Zadokite sect of the ancient Hebrews

The Zaddikim sect was the religious fanatics of the Dead Sea. And they carried the Archontic virus that is now mutated into a global pathology. None of the secrecy, the manipulation, and deception that we see in a mass scale on this planet could have happened if that infection had not taken place. And that infection has to be lanced like an abscess. And it may not be a pretty thing to do, but when that infection is lanced and when the source of that infection is identified then the great healing of humanity can occur. And that is now, right now. It is not in the future. Audio interview with John Lash (*1945) US American self-educated scholar of comparative mythology, metahistoric researcher, mystic, author, Sophia's Correction.
The Archontics Control Matrix & 9/11, Sophia's Correction, part 8 of 10, aired 21. July 2011, presented by the West Swedish web
radio station Red Ice Radio, host Henrik Palmgren, YouTube film, minute 0:59, 14:27 minutes duration, posted 7. August 2011

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Encircled version of the ancient
Mesopotamian eight-pointed star symbol
of the goddess Ishtar (Astarte/Inanna),
representing the planet Venus as
morning or evening star

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Quotes by Leonard Shlain

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The god image of monotheism is abnormal and a-relational.

Monotheism does not mirror human society. Humans are first and foremost social animals. A deity who was alone, not by choice but because there were no other com-
panions for Him, was a concept without parallel in human society. The god of the Israelites did not have a wife, a son, a daughter, or a mother.
Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Penguin, 1. September 1999

The feminine outlook is "holistic, simultaneous, synthetic, and concrete view of the world",
the masculine outlook is "linear, sequential, reductionist", characterized by abstract thinking, while "every individual is generously endowed with all the features of both. Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The Conflict Between Word and Image, Alphabetvsgoddess.com, Penguin, 1. September 1999

[The feminine and masculine outlooks] coexist as two closely overlapping bell-shaped curves with no feature superior to
its reciprocal. These complementary methods of comprehending reality resemble the ancient Taoist circle symbol of inte-
gration and symmetry in which the tension between the energy of the feminine yin and the masculine yang is exactly
balanced. One side without the other is incomplete; together, they form a unified whole that is stronger than either half.
First writing, and then the alphabet, upset this balance. Affected cultures, especially in the West, acquired a strong
yang thrust. Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The Conflict Between Word and Image, Alphabetvsgoddess.com, Penguin, 1. September 1999

Sophocles once warned, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse." The invention of writing was vast. […] There exists ample evidence that any society acquiring the written word experiences explosive changes. For the most
part, these changes can be characterized as progress. But one pernicious effect of literacy has gone largely unnoticed:
writing subliminally fosters a patriarchal outlook. Writing of any kind, but especially its alphabetic form, dimini-
shes feminine values and with them, women's power. […]
The proposition that the alphabet has hindered women's aspirations and accomplishments seems, at first glance, to
be antithetical to historical facts. […]
There is one fact that can be established: the only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to
be linked with the appearance of writing […] is the establishment of hierarchical societies, consisting of masters and
slaves, and where one part of the population is made to work for the other part.
Literacy has promoted the subjugation of women by men throughout all but the very recent history of the West.
Misogyny and patriarchy rise and fall with the fortunes of the alphabetic written word.
Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor
of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The Conflict Between Word and Image, Alphabetvsgoddess.com, Penguin, 1. September 1999

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Rightbrain dominant sages and avatars taught orally.

Buddha, Socrates, and Jesus delivered feminine right-brained oral teachings. Minutes 37:43
Masculine creeds evolved with the written word in an alphabet. The first two Commandments of the Ten Commandments in the Old Testament [first book issued 900 BC] reject the influence of
the Goddess (right brain, Yin) and ban any form of representative art. Women were forbidden to be priestesses in
the 3rd millennium when the New Testament was transcribed.
Since the introduction of photography and TV [emitting/inducing alpha and theta brain waves] we witness the rise of
the feminine and the decline of the male (left brain, Yang) dominance after 5,000 years of patriarchy.
Buddha and Confucius wrote nothing down. Minute 42:34
Socrates: The (left-right-brained) way to get to the truth is to look somebody in the eye and debate one on
one (not by dealing with one who resorts to written notes). Minute 37:40
Jesus: "Turn the other cheek. The meek shall inherit the earth. The last shall be first."
(Jesus told his disciples to memorize his teachings, not to write them down.) Minute 39:00

Video presentation by Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet vs. The Goddess, sponsored by the Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, The Distinguished Lecture Series, recorded November 2006, YouTube film, 1:15:14 duration, posted
1. November 2012

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Rightbrained truth digging via eye in eye debating

[Paraphrased] The left-right-brained way to get to the truth [as applied by Socrates] is to look somebody in the eye and debate one on one (not by dealing with one who resorts to written notes). Video presentation by Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet vs. The Goddess, sponsored by the Pepperdine University, Malibu California, The Distinguished
Lecture Series, November 2006, YouTube film, minute 37:40, 1:15:14 duration, posted 1. November 2012

There were no religious wars in the ancient world before monotheism. […]
"The occurrence of monotheism, codified law, and the alphabet all at the same moment in history cannot have been coincidental. […] The abstractness of all three innovations were mutually reinforcing." Robert Logan cited in: Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery,
UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The Conflict Between Word and Image, Penguin,
1. September 1999

The Old Testament was the first alphabetic written work to influence future ages. Attesting to its gravitas, multitudes still read it three thousand years later. The words on its pages anchor three powerful religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Is-
lam. Each is an exemplar of patriarchy. Each monotheistic religion features an imageless Father deity whose authority
shines through His revealed Word, sanctified in its written form. Conceiving of a deity who has no concrete image pre-
pares the way for the kind of abstract thinking that inevitably leads to law codes, dualistic philosophy, and objective
science, the signature triad of Western culture. I propose that the profound impact these ancient scriptures had upon
the development of the West depended as much on their being written in an alphabet as on the moral lessons they
contained. […]
Goddess worship, feminine values, and women’s power depend on the ubiquity of the image. God worship, masculine
values, and men's domination of women are bound to the written word. Word and image, like masculine and femi-
nine, are complementary opposites. Whenever a culture elevates the written word at the expense of the image, patriarchy dominates. When the importance of the image supersedes the written word, feminine values and egali-
tarianism flourish. Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery,
associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The Conflict Between
Word and Image, Alphabetvsgoddess.com, Penguin, 1. September 1999

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The god image of monotheism is abnormal and a-relational.

Monotheism does not mirror human society. Humans are first and foremost social animals. A deity who was alone, not by choice but because there were no other companions for Him, was a concept without parallel in human society. The god of the Israelites did not have a wife, a son, a daughter, or a mother. Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009)
US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The Conflict Between Word and Image, Alphabetvsgoddess.com, Penguin, 1. September 1999

Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) displaced Mother Earth from the center of the universe and replaced her with
Father Sun. Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, asso-
ciate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The Conflict Between Word and
Image, Alphabetvsgoddess.com, Penguin, 1. September 1999

The hunter who consistently brought meat back displayed daring and courage, two qualities that females desired in
a potential mate. Thus hunting possessed an erotic overtone: meat was an aphrodisiac.
Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor
of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The Conflict Between Word and Image, Alphabetvsgoddess.com, Penguin, 1. September 1999

Task-oriented beta waves activate the hunter/killer side of the brain as alpha and theta waves emanate more from the gatherer/nurturer side. Perhaps Western civilization has for far too long been stuck in a beta mode due to literacy, and striking a balance with a little more alpha and theta, regardless of the source, will serve to soothe humankind’s savage beast. […]
Television, being a flickering image-based medium, derails the masculine-left-linear strategy, just as in parallel, the
written word had earlier disoriented the gestalt-feminine-right one. […]
The computer […] converted the television screen from a monologue to a dialogue by making it interactive. And
features peculiar to computers shifted the collective cultural consciousness of the men and women who used them
toward a right-hemispheric mode, which in turn has further diminished male dominance.
Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor
of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The Conflict Between Word and Image, Alphabetvsgoddess.com, Penguin, 1. September 1999

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Iconic Revolution – Dyslexia is predominantly male (9 boys :1 girl)

Dyslexia characterizes a predominant right brain.

Johnny couldn't read and a previously unrecognized affliction called dyslexia (nonexis-
tent in ideographic China) broke out at alarming rates in classrooms all across Euro-
centric TV-land. Dyslexic children, predominantly male (9:1), have difficulty deciphe-
ring the alphabet. One credible theory proposes that it is due to a failure of hemi-
spheric dominance. Ninety percent of the language centers traditionally reside
in the left hemisphere of right-handed people. In the right-handed dyslexic, the
distribution of language centers may be more on the order of 80/20 or 70/30. Although we cannot be sure that dyslexia was not always among us, it seems to have erupted at the very moment that an entire generation was devaluing the left hemispheric mode of knowing. Perhaps television is the agent equilibrating the human brain's two differing modes of perception.
The very concept of "brain dominance" is presently under scrutiny, as many dyslexics are talented artists, architects, musicians, composers, dancers, and surgeons. The idea that logical, linear thinking is better than intuition and holistic perception was a script written by left-brainers in the first place. Our culture has classified dyslexia as a disability. But as culture becomes more comfortable with its reliance on images, it may turn out that dyslexia will be reassessed as another of the many harbingers that announced the arrival of the Iconic Revolution.
Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor
of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus The Goddess. The Conflict Between World and Image,
chapter 35, alphabetvsgoddess.com, Penguin, 1. September 1999

References:
► The Alphabet Versus the Goddess By Leonard Shlain (Viking, 1998) – Notes by Robert Leaver, PDF, 55 pages of notes
► Blog article How the Invention of the Alphabet Usurped Female Power in Society and Sparked the Rise of Patriarchy in Human Culture.
A brief history of gender dynamics from page to screen., presented by the free weekly digest Brain Pickings, host Maria Popova
(*1984) Bulgarian critic, blogger, writer, 17. March 2014

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Female archetypes – Lucia René

Twelve female archetypes

Quadrant	༺༻	Personal chakra Transpersonal chakra	Focus	Female archetype	Shadow Weakness	Persona Strength	Greek goddess archetype
1.	1.	Earth core	Matter	Mother Earth	Rape victim	Eve	Gaia Persephone
1.	2.	Root chakra	Freedom Survival	Amazon warrior	Slave	Vigilante	Artemis
1.	3.	Second chakra	Relating Emotions	Tantric lover	Whore	Wife Hera	Aphrodite

2.	4.	Third chakra	Force Power	Magician	Devilworshipper	Nun	Persephone
2.	5.	Heart chakra	Love	Nurturing mother	Devouring smothering mother	Conventional mother	Demeter
2.	6.	Thymus chakra	Compassion	Healer	Witch	Nurse, herbalist, midwife	Hestia Artemis

3.	7.	Throat chakra	Power	Wise woman	Heretic	Evangelist, evocateur	Athena Metis
3.	8.	Third Eye chakra	Interrelatedness Wisdom	Oracle	Lunatic	Counselor	Hecate
3.	9.	Crown chakra	Surrender	Spiritual leader	Cult leader	Royal figurehead	Hera

4.	10.	Solar system	Sacredness	Ascended female master	Demon	Muse	Muses
4.	11.	Galactic system	Spirit	Goddess	Bad angel	Good angel
4.	12.	Universal core	Creatrix	Mother Divine	Lilith	Virgin Mary

Sources featuring Lucia René, US American mystic, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's activist, author
► Basis: The New Jerusalem Diagram
► Diagram: Archetype-Diagram, PDF
► Video lecture excerpt Workshop-12 Archetypes 12 Chakras, YouTube film, 9:31 minutes duration, 28. January 2011
► Audio interview Balancing the feminine and masculine energies, presented via the broadcaster Blogtalkradio,
podcast show Paradan, host Daya Devi Doolin, 32:31 minutes duration, aired 24. February 2011
On the matrilineal female archetype of the Tantric Lover fractured into the patriarchal wife/whore

References
► Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. jeanbolen.com (*1936) US American Jungian analyst, proactive women researcher and supporter, crone,
spiritual teacher, author, Goddesses in Everywoman. A New Psychology of Women, Harper Collins, August 1985
► Jennifer Barker Woolger, Roger Woolger, Ph.D. (1944-2011) British-American psychotherapist, Jungian analyst, lecturer, author
specializing in past life regression, spirit release and shamanic healing, Goddess Within. A Guide to the Eternal Myths that Shape
Women's Lives, Ballantine Books, 7. October 1989

See also: ► Six archetypes of love – Allan G. Hunter

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Serpent power of the Goddess

Snake-witch (Ormhäxan) stone, Gotland, Sweden,
Fornsalen museum, Visby

The serpent has been associated with:

the World Tree
the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
the Tree of Immortality
the Universe or the stellar Milky Way.

In Old Sumer the serpent was coiled around the Tree of Life.
In the Old Norse World Tree it lies waiting at the roots of Yggdrasil in
the company of the three norns, the goddesses of fate and esoteric knowledge, or with the goddess Hel.
In the Garden of the Hesperides the serpent was coiled around the Tree that bears the Golden Apples of Immortality accompanied by the three nymphs of the evening.

The serpent is a symbol of (magical religious) power and kingship.
The serpentine power is expressed in the flow of Kundalini, the energetic movement of Shakti (meaning power, energy, Goddess) through the being. Waking the Kundalini serpent is activating the power of the Goddess which
will initiate the path to enlightenment.

The Snake Goddess was a central figure in myth and ritual.
70.000 years ago: Python Cave of Botzwana, Africa
Stone Age: The "Sleeping Goddess" in a burial pit surrounded by the skeletons of serpents, Megalithic Temple Culture on Malta
Approx. 7500-3000 BC: Old Europe, Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Bronze Age Minoan Crete, Bronze Age Scandinavia, Greek-Roman Empire, India (Indus Valley), Viking Age Scandinavia, Mexico, Mami Wata (contemporary Africa)

Inspirational source: ► Video animation (images and text) The Goddess and the Serpent,
presented by the dissolved website Lady of the Labyrinth, YouTube film, 10:44 minutes duration, posted 2. August 2010

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Names of the Goddess

Symbols and concepts of feminine origin were renamed and became symbols of masculine power.

The Mt. Everest in the Himalayas is named after Sir George Everest, the first European who climbed it.
Originally the world's tallest mountain was called Chomo-Lung-Ma meaning "Goddess Mother of the Universe".
The original name of the large mountain Annapurna in the Himalayas still remains. It literally means, "Great Breast
Full of Nourishment".

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Various names of gods and goddesses

Names of gods/goddesses in different cultures

Generic god type	Sumerian name	Egyptian name	Greek name	Roman name
Heavenly Father	Anu	Amen-Ra	Cronos	Saturn
Heavenly Mother	Antu	Mut	Hera	Juno
Earth Lord	Enlil	Set	Zeus	Jupiter
Earth Brother/Builder	Enki	Osiris	Apollo	Vulcan
Warrior Rival	Marduk	Horus	Ares	Mars
Underworld Lord	Nergal	Anubis	Hades	Pluto
Provider of Love	Asherah	Hathor	Aphrodite	Venus
Facilicator of the Gods	Ninurta	Thoth	Hermes	Mercury

See also: ► Astrology

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Links zum Thema Göttin / Goddess

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Literatur

Erich Neumann (1905-1960) deutsch-israelischer Psychologe, Psychoanalytiker, Schriftsteller, Die Große Mutter. Die weiblichen Gestaltungen des Unterbewussten, Patmos, Bollingen, Serie 47, 1955, 11. Auflage 15. Juni 2003
E. O. James (1888-1972) britischer Professor emeritus für Religionsgeschichte und -philosophie, Universität von London, Anthropologe mit Schwerpunkt vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, The Ancient Gods, 1960, Booksales, June 2004
Theodor Reik (1888-1969) österreichischer Freudscher Psychoanalytiker, Pagan Rites in Judaism, Farrar, Straus, 1964
Robert Aron (1898-1975) französischer Autor zu politischen und historischen Themen, The God of the Beginnings, William Morrow and Company, ex-library edition 1966
Elisabeth Gould Davis (1910-1974) US-amerikanische Bibliothekarin, Feministin, Autorin, Am Anfang war die Frau, Verlag Frauenoffensive, 1977
James Mellaart (1925-2012) britischer Archäologe, Catal Hüyük. Stadt aus der Steinzeit, Luebbe Verlagsgruppe, November 1982
Elga Sorge (*1940) deutsche feministische Theologin, Religion und Frau. Weibliche Spiritualität im Christentum, Kohlhammer, 1985, 5. Auflage 1988
Gerda Weiler gerda-weiler-stiftung.de (1921-1994) deutsche Psychologin, Pädagogin, Matriarchatsforscherin, Autorin,
Das Matriarchat im Alten Israel, Kohlhammer, 1989, 9. Februar 2006
Hans Bemmann (1922-2003) deutscher Schriftsteller, Die beschädigte Göttin, 1990, Goldmann, 1. Auflage 8. November 1995
Barbara G. Walker (*1930) US-amerikanische kulturanthropologische Forscherin, Journalistin, feministische Autorin, Das geheime Wissen der Frauen, Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main, 1993, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), 1995,
Arun-Verlag, 3. Auflage 17. Dezember 2007
Ruth Ahl, katholische Publizistin Eure Töchter werden Prophetinnen sein... Kleine Einführung in die Feministische Theologie, Herder Verlag, 1. Auflage Februar 1993
Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) litauische-amerikanische Prähistorikerin, Anthropologin, Autorin, Die Sprache der Göttin. Das verschüttete Symbolsystem der westlichen Zivilisation, Verlag Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt am Main, Affoltern a.A., 1995, 2000
Christa Zettel, österreichische Malerin, Mythen- und Zahlenforscherin, Journalistin, Schriftstellerin, Die Macht der Mondin.
Eine Reise zu den Wurzeln des Matriarchats, Heyne, 1996
Luisa Francia (*1949) deutsche Filmemacherin, Malerin, feministische Autorin, Eine Göttin für jeden Tag, S. 22, Verlag Frauenoffensive, München, 1996
Gerda Weiler gerda-weiler-stiftung.de (1921-1994) deutsche Psychologin, Pädagogin, Matriarchatsforscherin, Autorin,
Ich brauche die Göttin. Zur Kulturgeschichte eines Symbols, Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 1997
Starhawk (*1951) US-amerikanische Psychologin, Feministin, ökopolitische Aktivistin, Autorin von göttinnenreligionzentrierter Literatur, Der Hexenkult als Ur-Religion der Großen Göttin. Magische Übungen, Rituale und Anrufungen, Goldmann, 1999
Patricia Monaghan (1946-2012) US-amerikanische spirituelle Aktivistin in der zeitgenössischen Bewegung der weiblichen Spiritualität, Dichterin, Autorin, Lexikon der Göttinnen. Ein Standardwerk der Mythologie, O. W. Barth, München, 1. Auflage
Januar 2000
Sri Kaleshwar, Holy Womb. Die Geheimnisse über die Schöpfung der Göttlichen Mutter'', PDF, Kaleshwara Europe, Einhausen, [2015], erstveröffentlicht November 2022

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Literature (engl.)

"Seven Classics". Background Reading for Metahistory (since 1900)'', presented by metahistory.org, John Lash (*1945)
US American self-educated scholar of comparative mythology, metahistoric researcher, mystic, author

1. James George Frazer (1854-1941) Scottish social anthropologist, mythologist, scholar in comparative religion,
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion, 1890
2. Joseph Campbell, Ph.D. (1904-1987) US American mythologist, expert in comparative mythology and comparative religion,
Myths to Live By, collection of essays (1958-1971), 1966, Arkana, 1993
3. Gorgio de Santillanna, Herta von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill, 1969
4. Merlin Stone (1931-2011) US American professor of art and art history, sculptor, author,
When God Was a Woman, Mariner Books,
1st edition 1976, 4. May 1978

Riane Eisler, Ph.D., J.D., Sacred Pleasure, 1996
Diane Wolkstein, Samuel Noah Kramer, Inanna. Queen of Heaven and Earth, 1984
Luscious restoration of Sumerian erotic myth

5. Martin Bernal (1937-2013) British scholar of modern Chinese political history, professor emeritus of government and Near Eastern studies,
Cornell University, Black Athena. The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985,
Volume 1, 1986, Rutgers University Press, 1. February 1991
6. Stan Gooch (1932-2010) British psychologist, author,
Cities of Dreams. When Women Ruled the Earth, 1989, Aulis Publishers, 2nd edition 1. December 1995
7. Theodore Roszak, Ph.D. (1933-2011) US American professor emeritus of history, author,
Where the Wasteland Ends (written 1971-1972) April 1973, 1989, Celestial Arts, 1. November 1995

Robert von Ranke-Graves [Robert Graves] (1895-1985) English scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, poet, novelist, The White Goddess, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1948, reprint, January 1997
Robert von Ranke-Graves [Robert Graves] (1895-1985) English scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, poet, novelist, The Greek Myths. The Complete and Definitive Edition, Penguin Books, United Kingdom, 1955, 5. Mai 2011
Antonia Anna "Toni" Wolff (1888-1953) Swiss Jungian analyst, close associate CGJ, Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche, 1956

Essay on four "types" or aspects of the feminine psyche: the Amazon, the Mother, the Hetaira (or Courtesan), and the Medial (or mediumistic) Woman

Robert von Ranke-Graves [Robert Graves] (1895-1985) English scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, poet, novelist, Adam's Rib and other anomalous elements in the Hebrew Creation Myth, Thomas Yoseloff,
1st edition 1958
E. O. James (1888-1972) British professor emeritus of the history and philosophy of religion, University of London, anthropologist in the field of comparative religion, The Ancient Gods, 1960, Booksales, June 2004
Raphael Patai [Ervin György Patai] (1910-1996) Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist, anthropologist, author, The Hebrew Goddess, Wayne State University Press, 1967, 3rd enlarged edition 1. September 1990
Erich Neumann (1905-1960) German psychologist, psychoanalyst, writer, The Origins and History of Consciousness, Bollingen Series, Princeton University Press, 1970
Elisabeth Gould Davis (1910-1974) US American librarian, second wave feminist, author, The First Sex, 1971
Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) Lithuanian US American archeologist, researcher of the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe", figure head of the socalled Goddess movement, The Goddesses and Gods in Ancient Europe, University of California Press and Thames and Hudson, 1974

Gimbutas' theories challenge conventional archaeology, spirituality, theology, and religious studies, while inspiring artists, feminists, environmentalists and activists.

Starhawk (*1951) US American psychologist, feminist, ecopolitical activist, author, The Spiral Dance. A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, Harper & Row, 1979
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. jeanbolen.com (*1936) US American Jungian analyst, proactive women researcher and supporter, crone, spiritual teacher, author, Goddesses in Everywoman. A New Psychology of Women, Harper Collins, August 1985
John A. Phillips, US American Bible expert, author, Eve. The History of an Idea, Harper Collins, September 1985
Monica Sjöö (1938-2005) Swedish painter, writer and a radical anarcho/eco-feminist influential in the Goddess movement, Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother. Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth, 1987
Riane Eisler, Ph.D., J.D. (*1931) Austrian-born US American scholar, cultural historian, systems scientist, partnership researcher, activist, attorney, educator, writer, The Chalice and the Blade. Our History, Our Future, HarperOne, 1st edition 21. September 1988
Shirley Nicholson, US American compiler, The Goddess Re-Awakening. The Feminine Principle Today, The Theosophical Publishing House, 1st edition 1. May 1989

Contribution/Chapter by June Singer, Ph.D. (1920-2004) US American Jungian analyst, member of the Jung Institute, San Francisco, "The Sadness of the Successful Woman"
Singer describes how self-confident job-achieving women seeking her therapy were afraid that their partners would be emasculated by their
power and energy plus disliking them for their weakness.

Jennifer Barker Woolger, Roger Woolger, Ph.D. (1944-2011) British-American psychotherapist, Jungian analyst, lecturer, author specializing in past life regression, spirit release and shamanic healing, The Goddess Within. A Guide to the Eternal Myths that Shape Women's Lives, Ballantine Books, 7. October 1989
Robert Masters (*1927) US American sexologist, author, The Goddess Sekhmet. Psychospiritual Exercises of the Fifth Way, Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1990, White Cloud Press, 1. January 2002
Caitlin Matthews (*1952) English author on alternative history on ceremonial magic, Celtic mythology, neoshamanism, Sophia. Goddess of Wisdom, Bride of God, Quest Books, 10. January 1991, revised edition 1. May 2001
Anne Baring (*1931) British historian, Jungian psychoanalyst, feminist author, Jules Cashford, British professor of philosophy, psychologist, mythologist, Jungian psychoanalyst, author, The Myth of The Goddess. Evolution of an Image, Viking 1991, Penguin Arkana, 1992, Penguin, reprint edition 1. June 1993

See also: Goddess Spirituality, presented by the library of Myss Free Media

Gloria Steinem gloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, visionary and political activist, journalist, writer, Moving Beyond Words. Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles. Breaking the Boundries of Gender, Touchstone, 1. February 1995
Rollo May may-rollo (1909-1994) US American existential psychologist, author, Psychology and the Human Dilemma,
W. W. Norton & Company, 17. April 1996
Edward C. Whitmont, M.D. (1912-1998) US American Jungian psychoanalyst, homeopathic physician, author, Return of the Goddess, 1983, Continuum International Publishing Group, revised edition 1. March 1997
James DeMeo, Ph.D., US American geologist, director of the Orgone Biophysical Research Lab, Saharasia. The 4000 BCE Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence, In the Deserts of the Old World, Natural Energy Works,
1st edition 28. January 1998, revised paperback edition 1. January 2006, 20. May 2011

About 6000 years ago a huge area that Demeo calls Saharasia, originally a fertile region stretching from the west coast of Africa to China, started to dry up. After a major climate-shift from wet grassland-forest conditions towards harsh desert conditions began around 5000 BCE, there was a slow but great change, so great that nothing we know of human cultural evolution is comparable. There had been pockets of patriarchal-authoritarian and violent social conditions showing up about 1,000 years before, but it was only around 4000 BCE that it started to be common, with constant warfare, large-scale social oppression/inequality and male domination.
Before around 4000 BCE, humans were democratic, egalitarian, sex-positive, pleasure-oriented, non-violent Goddess-worshiping "matrists."
Over the next 10-20 generations certain matrist groups morphed into "patrists": violent, sexually-repressive, misogynistic, sadistic, male-dominated high-god worshipers with painful and traumatic child rearing techniques.
Conclusion: The more sexually violent and misogynistic a society is, the more dysfunctional it is.

Patricia Monaghan (1946-2012) US American spiritual activist, influential figure in the women's spirituality movement, poet, writer, The Goddess Path. Myths, Invocations and Rituals, Llewellyn Publications, 30. June 1999
Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess. The Conflict Between Word and Image, Alphabetvsgoddess.com, Penguin, 1. September 1999
Andrew Harvey (*1952) Indian-British religious scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, teacher of mystic traditions, architect of Sacred Activism, poet, novelist, author, The Return of the Mother, Frog Books, 1995, Tarcher, 22. December 2000, Northatlantic Books, 20. August 2013
Mary Esther Harding (1888-1971) US American Jungian analyst, author, Woman's Mysteries. Ancient & Modern, Shambhala Publications, Boston, 1. May 2001
Timothy Freke (*1959) British self-named "standup philosopher", author of books on religion and mysticism, Peter Gandy, M.A., British scholar in classical civilization, author on mysticism, Jesus and the Lost Goddess. The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians, Three Rivers Press, 22. October 2002

The Goddess is Sophia representing life. The teachings of the early Christians were brutally suppressed by the Roman Church because they
portray Jesus and Mary Magdalene as mythic figures based on the Pagan Godman and Goddess the gospel story is a spiritual allegory encapsu-
lating a profound philosophy that leads to mythical enlightenment they carry the power to turn the world inside out and transform life
into an exploration of consciousness.
Three factions of Christianity parting ways in the 2nd century AD:
1. Totalitarian literalists: Pistis, Roman Christianity
2. Joint Literalists-Gnostics: supported by early Churchfathers Clement of Alexandria and his student Origen
3. Gnostics: Alexandrian Christianity, Freke and Gandy

Sharron Rose, MA.Ed, US American renaissance woman, filmmaker, choreographer, composer, performer, teacher, author, The Path of the Priestess. A Guidebook for Awakening the Divine Feminine, Table of Contents, Inner Traditions, original edition
8. January 2003
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. jeanbolen.com (*1936) US American Jungian analyst, proactive women researcher and supporter, crone, spiritual teacher, author, Crones Don't Whine. Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women, Conari Press, 1st edition
1. September 2003
Jean-Yves Leloup (*1950) French philosopher, theologian, orthodox priest, writer, The Gospel of Philip. Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the Gnosis of Sacred Union, Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont, 16. August 2004
Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, chairman of laparoscopic surgery, researcher, writer, Sex, Time, and Power. How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution, Penguin, July 2004
John Lash (*1945) US American self-educated scholar of comparative mythology, metahistoric researcher, mystic, author,
Not in His Image. Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief, Chelsea Green Publishing, 1. November 2006

Presenting the gnostic approach to Sophia-Gaia, the feminine wisdom principle embodied by the earth
The salvationist Christian faith is a toxic psychotic outbreak of the human mind. The Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition is "the religious schizophrenia of the ancient Hebrews".

Marguerite Rigoglioso, Ph.D., US American teacher of courses on women and religion, Dominican University of California, California, Institute of Integral Studies, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, author, The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece, Palgrave Macmillan, 27. April 2009, 15. February 2011
Andrew Harvey (*1952) Indian-British religious scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, teacher of mystic traditions, architect of Sacred Activism, poet, novelist, author, Radical Passion. Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action, North Atlantic Books, 23. Octo-
ber 2012
Anne Baring (*1931) British historian, Jungian psychoanalyst, feminist author, The Dream of the Cosmos, Archive Publishing, 16. May 2013
Joseph Campbell, Ph.D. (1904-1987) US American mythologist, expert in comparative mythology and comparative religion, Safron Elsabeth Rossi, editor, Goddesses. Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, New World Library, Series Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, 10. December 2013
Robert Sepehr, US American producer, anthropologist specializing in linguistics, archeology, paleobiology (archeogenetics), author, Species with Amnesia. Our Forgotten History, Atlantean Gardens, 18. June 2015

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Literature (engl.) – Alan Butler

Alan Butler, British engineer, historical researcher and writer, Stephen Dafoe, The Warriors and the Bankers. A History of the Knights Templar from 1307 to the present, Templar Books, 1st edition 13. October 1998
Alan Butler, British engineer, historical researcher and writer, Stephen Dafoe, The Templar Continuum, Templar Books,
1st edition 24. June 2000
Alan Butler, British engineer, historical researcher and writer, John Ritchie, The Goddess, the Grail and the Lodge, O Books,
John Hunt Publishing, 4. May 2004
Alan Butler, British engineer, historical researcher and writer, The Virgin and the Pentacle. The Freemasonic Plot to Destroy the Church, Axis Mundi Books, 5. October 2005
Alan Butler, British engineer, historical researcher and writer, John Ritchie, Rosslyn Revealed. A Library in Stone, John Hunt Publishing, 10. October 2006
Alan Butler, British engineer, historical researcher and writer, Christopher Knight, Who Built the Moon?, Watkins,
1. February 2007
Alan Butler, British engineer, historical researcher and writer, City of the Goddess. Freemasons, the Sacred Feminine, and the Secret Beneath the Seat of Power in Washington, DC, Watkins, 6. September 2011
Alan Butler, British engineer, historical researcher and writer, How to Read Prehistoric Monuments. Understanding Our Ancient Heritage, Watkins, 1. March 2011
Alan Butler, British engineer, historical researcher and writer, Intervention. How Humanity from the Future Has Changed Its Own Past, Watkins, 2. October 2012

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Externe Weblinks

Wikipedia-Einträge Göttin, Tempel von Dendera

Übersetzter Beitrag von Athena Walker Wodurch zeichnet sich die Göttin Athene/Minerva aus?, präsentiert von der kalifornischen Frage-und-Antwort Webseite Quora, Elfriede Ammann, 97 Aufrufe · 1 Like, 25. Juni 2019

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External web links (engl.)

Wikipedia entries Goddess, Goddess movement
Personalities Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) Lithuanian US American archeologist, researcher of the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe", figure head of the socalled Goddess movement, author, Joan Marler, US American founder and president of the Institute of Archaeomythology, personal editor of Marija Gimbutas (1987-1994)

Blog article by Laura Magdalena Eisenhower, US American intuitive astrologer, alchemist, mythologist, educator, Sophia, presented by the blogspot United Vibrations, undated

Article featuring Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) Lithuanian US American archeologist, researcher of the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe", figure head of the socalled Goddess movement, THE GODDESS THEORY: Controversial UCLA Archeologist Marija Gimbutas Argues That the World Was at Peace When God Was a Woman, presented by the US American daily newspaper Los Angeles Times, Jaques Leslie, 11. June 1989
Q&A contribution What are some personality traits of Athena?, presented on the Californian question-and-answer website Quora, Elfriede Ammann, 1.6k views · 1 upvote, 26. June 2019
Blog article We Need the Great Mother Back. Virgin Mary has no power to heal our culture, presented by the stories outlet Medium, Danna Z, 8. July 2021

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Audio- und Videolinks

Videowebinar mit Wolf-Dieter Storl (*1942) deutschamerikanischer Kulturanthropologe, Ethnobotaniker, Buchautor, Webinar mit Wolf-Dieter Storl: Die alte Göttin und ihre Pflanzen im goldenen Herbst, präsentiert von dem deutschen Web-Fernsehkanal Mystica TV, Gründer und Moderator Thomas Schmelzer, YouTube Film, 1:31:59 Dauer, aufgenommen 2. November 2014, eingestellt 5. November 2014

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Audio and video links (engl.)

Video lecture by Dale Allen, US American one-woman performer, In Our Right Minds – Excerpted preview 2010, first produced 2006, presented by InOurRightMinds.com, YouTube film, 7:00 minutes duration (95 minutes duration), posted 14. January 2010

Dynamic multi media performance exploring the roots of the left-brain dominant culture, emergence of alphabetic literacy across the world and the correlating subjugation of women and all things "female", "the goddess archetype as a metaphor for the right-brain wisdom"

Audio summary by Dale Allen, US American one-woman performer, Dale Allen Slide Show youtube.mov, YouTube film,
6:16 minutes duration, posted 20. January 2010

Exploring the roots of the left-brain dominant culture, the emergence of alphabetic literacy across the world and the correlating subjugation of women and all things "female", "the goddess archetype as a metaphor for the right-brain wisdom"

Audio summary by Dale Allen, US American one-woman performer, Dale Allen Slide Show youtube.mov, YouTube film,
6:16 minutes duration, posted 20. January 2010

Video animation (images and text) The Goddess and the Serpent, presented by the YouTube channel Lady of the Labyrinth, YouTube film,
10:44 minutes duration, posted 2. August 2010
Video interview with Bernard Lietaer, Ph.D. (1942-2019) Belgian economist, co-designer of the European € currency, Central Bank of Belgium, professor of International Finance, University, Louvain, Belgium, research fellow Center for Sustainable Resources, UCB, co-founder of the ACCESS Foundation, author, presented by newmoneyforanewworld.com, New Money for a New World, part 4 of 19, YouTube film, 4:52 minutes duration, posted 15. February 2012

The Great Mother represents the supply, nourishment. The 5000 year old patriarchal money system kept her outside and was stricken with her shadowsides: greed and fear (panic).

Video presentation by Vicki Noble (*1947) US American feminist historian, wisdom teacher, shamanic healer, author, Scientific Underpinnings of Matriarchal Social Organization and Gift Economy Behaviors, YouTube film, 11:10 minutes duration, posted
10. May 2012
Video presentations by Dr. Catherine Mann, Psy.D., US American professor of psychology, California Graduate Institute of
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles, YouTube film
See Playlist, posted 2. November 2015
- Goddess Spirituality – Part 1 – Intro, 8:45 minutes duration, posted 4. July 2012
- Goddess Spirituality – Part 2 – Archetypes, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 5. July 2012
- Goddess Spirituality – Part 3 – Summary, 9:30 minutes duration, posted 5. July 2012

Goddess spirituality and ancient matriarchies that worshipped Goddesses since 23,000 B.C.E. The Greco-Roman archetypes of Artemis
and Hera are addressed, as is Mother Mary in Catholicism, and the holy trinity of father, son & holy ghost.

Video presentation by Starhawk (*1951) US American psychologist, feminist, ecopolitical activist, author, Permaculture and the Sacred: A Conversation with Starhawk, sponsored by Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, YouTube film, 1:24:01 duration, posted 7. March 2013

Free download of Mp3 files produced by Sounds True, Boulder Colorado

The Sophia Teachings, presented by sophiafoundation.org, narrator Robert A. Powell, US American lecturer, therapist, posted 2013
Video interviev and conversation between Anne Baring (*1931) British historian, Jungian psychoanalyst, feminist author and host Andrew Harvey (*1952) Indian-British religious scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, teacher of mystic traditions, architect of Sacred Activism, poet, novelist, author, "A New Vision of Reality", performed by the University of Denver Lamont Chorale, YouTube film, 1:09:31 duration, posted 18. December 2013

On the book The Dream of the Cosmos, Archive Publishing, 16. May 2013

Video interview with Andrew Harvey (*1952) Indian-British religious scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, teacher of mystic traditions, architect of Sacred Activism, poet, novelist, author, Birthing Through the Dark Mother with Andrew Harvey, episode 14, presented by the US American Truth Frequency Radio, program "Shadowland Voyages", host Sienna Harvey, YouTube film, 1:40:37 duration, posted 12. February 2013

Reemergence of the archetype of the Black Madonna – the transmutation of our individual and collective shadows and the birth a new humanity triggered by the Divine Feminine

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Audio and video links (engl.) – John Lash

Audio interview with John Lash (*1945) US American self-educated scholar of comparative mythology, metahistoric researcher, mystic, author, Sophia's Correction, The Archontics Control Matrix & 9/11, aired 21. July 2011, presented by West Swedish web radio station Red Ice Radio, host Henrik Palmgren, YouTube film, posted 7. August 2011
- Sophia's Correction, part 1 of 10, 14:27 minutes duration
- Sophia's Correction, part 2 of 10, 13:56 minutes duration
- Sophia's Correction, part 3 of 10, 14:35 minutes duration
- Sophia's Correction, part 4 of 10, 13:48 minutes duration
- Sophia's Correction, part 5 of 10, 13:55 minutes duration
- Sophia's Correction, part 6 of 10, 13:56 minutes duration
- Sophia's Correction, part 7 of 10, 13:56 minutes duration
- Sophia's Correction, part 8 of 10, 14:27 minutes duration
- Sophia's Correction, part 9 of 10, 7:40 minutes duration
- Sophia's Correction, part 10 of 10, 9:12 minutes duration

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Audio and video links (engl.) – Robert Sepehr

Audios and videos by Robert Sepehr, US American anthropologist specializing in linguistics, archeology, paleobiology (archeogenetics), producer, author, presented by tolerancethroughknow

Type	Offering	Title ♦ Sponsor ♦ Location	Duration	Release date
YouTube video	Removed documentary short	*Moon Blood and the Lunar Goddess*	9:29	6. August 2016
Plutarch said man was made of earth, but the power that made a human body grow was the moon, source of menstrual blood. Yoni (sanskrit for vagina) worship is a very ancient tradition in India.
YouTube video	Documentary short	*Sacred Temple Prostitution and Ancient Goddess Cult Worship*	8:09	9. August 2016
Prostitution existed in the temples of antiquity. According to the Greek geographer Strabo, "virgin daughters," hardly 12 years old, were dedicated to goddess cult prostitution. There were allegedly one thousand "sacred prostitutes" at the temple of Aphrodite at Corinth.

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Audio and video links (engl.) – Leonard Shlain

Video presentation by Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, The Alphabet vs. The Goddess, sponsored by
the Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, The Distinguished Lecture Series, November 2006, YouTube film, 1:15:14 duration, posted 1. November 2012

Buddha, Socrates, and Jesus delivered feminine right-brained oral teachings. Minutes 37-43
Masculine creeds evolved with the written word in an alphabet. The first two Commandments of the Ten Commandments in the Old Testament [first book issued 900 BC] reject the influence of the Goddess (right brain, Yin) and ban any form of representative art. Women were forbidden
to be priestesses in the 3rd millennium when the New Testament was transcribed.
Since the introduction of photography and TV [emitting/inducing alpha and theta brain waves] we witness the rise of the feminine and
the decline of the male (left brain, Yang) dominance after 5,000 years of patriarchy.

Audio interview with Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, chairman of laparoscopic surgery, researcher, writer, Parallel Visions of Art and Physics [Über Wissenschaft und Kunst], episode #137, presented by the US American web radio station The Omni Art Salon. Conversations in Consciousness, host Jeffrey Milburn (*1955) US American artist, Podcast, 52:16 minutes duration, aired 17. March 2008
Video interview with Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, author of Art and Physics, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Sex, Time and Power, Conversations With History (Series), Show ID: 15887, presented by the web series Conversations with History via the satellite television channel University of California Television (UCTV), UC Santa Barbara, host Harry Kreisler, US Ame-
rican historian, Institute of International Studies, YouTube film, 59:13 minutes duration, recorded
18. December 2008, posted 12. March 2009

On the roots of creativity, differences between male and female perspectives, conclusions on the future

Video TV interview with Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, Imagery and the Alphabet, excerpted from a 1 hour DVD, presented by the US American independent public television series Thinking Allowed (PBS) (1988-2002), host Jeffrey Mishlove, Ph.D. (*1946) US American clinical psychologist, director of the Intuition Network, radio and television interviewer, author, YouTube film, 7:00 minutes duration, posted 31. August 2010
Video presentation by Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, chairman of laparoscopic surgery, researcher, author of Art and Physics, The Alphabet vs. the Goddess, Sex, Time, and Power, Sex, Time and Power, YouTube film, 49:48 minutes duration, posted 1. November 2012

Due to profound alterations in female sexuality the big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerged 150,000 years ago.

Video presentation by Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, "The Big O", delivered on the island of Hawaii, YouTube film, 53:56 minutes duration, posted 1. November 2012

Women want iron to cover their menstrual blood loss – Humans spent 99% of their experience as hunters/gatherers (tribes consisted of 150-225 persons; hunting parties consisted of 9-12 men in their prime) – Female Orgasm – G-Spot as the antedote to birth pain – Humans exhibit the most expressive homosexuality for an extra supply of aunts and uncles to help raising children in a village – Youth, health and beauty [subcutaneous fat, pheromenes] most attracts men to women.

Video presentation by Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer, Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time & Light, presented by the Tiffany Shlain & Let It Ripple Film Studio, YouTube film, 54:04 minutes duration, posted 1. November 2012

The recurring pattern of the classical era, medieval era, Renaissance and modern times is:
First the visionary artist sees the world in a new way followed by a new paradigmal discovery of a revolutionary physicist.

Linkless media offerings

Audio interview with Leonard Shlain, M.D. sextimeandpower.com (1937-2009) US American chairman of laparoscopic surgery, associate professor of surgery, UC San Francisco, researcher, writer of Art and Physics, The Alphabet vs. the Goddess, Sex, Time, and Power, Leonard Shlain Interview, location University of Toronto’s CIUT, presented by the US American web radio station "Mas-
sive Change", host Jennifer Leonard, 54:24 minutes duration, aired 7. October 2003

Evolution of female sexuality and its relationship to both the human brain and size of our pelvis, the difference between Western and Eastern notions of time, and the difference between our current visual culture and previous text-based cultures

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DVD documentary on archeologist Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) Lithuanian US American archeologist, researcher of the Neolithic and Bronze Age Goddess cultures of "Old Europe's" origins in a cooperative, peaceful, Neolithic culture, Signs out of time. The story of archeologist Marija Gimbutas, Belili, 2003, YouTube film, 1:01:02 duration, posted 30. March 2016

Gimbutas' theories challenge conventional archaeology, spirituality, theology, and religious studies, while inspiring artists, feminists, environmentalists and activists.

Video documentary series (in three episodes) researched and narrated by Bettany Hughes bettanyhughes (*1968) British historian, academic, broadcaster, author, presented by second British flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC Two, program Divine Women (Women and Religion), Dailymotion film, originally posted 20. December 2012

Neolithic hilltop sanctuary Göbekli Tepe, erected in Southeastern Anatolia, at the Turkey Syrian-Turkish border 11,500 years ago

BH: "Religion is what makes civilisation. I think it’s within our DNA as a social species."

Large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement Çatalhöyük [Çatal Hüyük] in southern Anatolia, existing since 9,500-7,700 years

BBC TWO Episode 2 of 3 Divine Women: Handmaids of the Gods, 58:53 minutes duration, posted 23. May 2018

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¹ Theodor Reik (1888-1969) österreichischer Freudscher Psychoanalytiker, Pagan Rites in Judaism, S. 76, Farrar, Straus, 1964 ⇑

² Robert Aron (1898-1975) französischer Autor zu politischen und historischen Themen, The God of the Beginnings, S. 10-11, William Morrow and Company, ex-library edition 1966 ⇑

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