Hymn to Kunapipi

Great Kunapipi,
I do not forget you
as I climb back into your holy womb
to make contact with my spirit soul,
crawling into the crescent vessel
of your protection
dug deep into the soil of your body,
carved into the precious earth beneath me.

I beckon to my spirit soul
which lives within you
until my time of finishing this life
and though I leave your womb
at this initiation time,
though I choose to climb out
from your nurturing warmth,
to live my years of life,
I ask you to care for my spirit soul
until my return
so that after my passing from this life
my two spirits may be reunited in you,
before you send me forth again
to once more live on earth.

Dear Kunapipi,
no matter how far I wander,
how many lives I live,
to you I shall always return.

(Traditional Australian Aboriginal)

 

From the Devotions of the Goddess in the Honor Section

Temple of Learning - Enrollment Period

 We are currently accepting applications for Jan 1st enrollment to our correspondence school.  Due to the holiday, the closing date for this enrollment period is a little earlier - on Dec. 15th.  Full and partial scholarships available.  Goddess Blessings!

Temple of Learning Enrollment Information

"Gratitude is the music of the heart,

when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness."

~Author Unknown

The Valley Spirit

"The Valley Spirit never dies,
It is named the Mysterious Female.
And the doorway of the Mysterious Female
Is the base from which Heaven and Earth sprang.
It is there within us all the while;
Draw upon it as you will, it never runs dry."

Lao-Tzu
(translation: A. Waley)

Massive Goddess-Art-Nouveau-Inspired Mural Created in Montreal

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Kwan Yin

Kwan Yin (She Who Hears the Cries of the World)

reminds us to have compassion for all beings,

not only those we love,

and also - compassion for yourself. 

(photo by Jpatokal at Daien-in Temple, Japan)

Reminder: Temple of Learning

There is one week before this month's enrollment deadline:

For those interested in our home-study courses, please know that we are currently accepting applications for our Dec. 1st enrollment date, and will be doing so until November 21st. Scholarships (full and partial) are also still available:

Temple of Learning

Life of Flowers

The Goddess is often associated with flowers.  Watch them unfold in this beautiful video:

Life of Flowers

Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne: Mother of the Muses and Goddess of Memory

(painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Take a moment today to see the touch of the Earth Mother.

Research to analyze the images of women in Roman mosaics

"The most significant aspect of these images is the different roles they reflect and their contribution to the construction of certain stereotypes, not just in the Roman world, but also throughout history and up to the present"

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Research other articles in our "Sharing" section:  In Her Name

(Photo Credit: UC3M)

Hymn to Cihuacoatl

 

Traditional Aztec Hymn to Cihua-coatl:

Serpent Woman, plumed with eagle feathers,
with the crest of eagles, comes,
beating her drum, from the Place of the Old.
She alone, who is our flesh,
goddess of the fields and shrubs, is strong to support us.
Our mother is as twelve eagles,
goddess of drums calling the gods, filling the fields.
She is our mother - a goddess of war,
our mother, a companion from the Home of Ancestors.
She comes forth, she appears when war is waged,
she protects us in war that we be not destroyed,
an example and companion from the Home of the Ancestors.
She comes adorned in the ancient manner with the eagle's crest,
in the ancient manner with the eagle's crest!


Devotion from the Honor the Goddess section

Temple of Learning - Enrollment Period

For those interested in our home-study courses, please know that we are currently accepting applications for our Dec. 1st enrollment date, and will be doing so until November 21st. Scholarships (full and partial) are also still available:

Temple of Learning

Aphrodite Exhibit

The Goddess of Love is highlighted at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: “This exhibit is the first ever to consider how visual representations of Aphrodite evolved across antiquity.”

Article: Goddess of Love Gracefully Treated 

Photo:  "Aphrodite of Capua"

Honoring the Ancestors

Remembering the ancestors,

and the path that they have walked before us.