#the great cosmic mother

[spoileddarkfemblog]

#LILITH Archetype #lilith #goddess LILITH #goddess energy #initiation #mother goddess #pluto placements #8th house #the great cosmic mother

[daataa]

To be truly revolutionary, Christianity would have to dissolve itself. It would have to dissolve its male-dominated and celibate hierarchies, and the social class systems from which it derives its worldly power. It would have to renounce and dissolve totally the world-hatred, the flesh-hatred, the ontological misogyny which has so long provided it with fanatic energy. It would have to renounce most of the Old Testament, most of the New Testament, and all of Revelation, which dooms us to a grotesque apocalypse. It would have to throw out Genesis to return us radically to an image of God based on the pre-Biblical universal perception of a Great Mother—a bisexual being, both female and male in spirit and function— who wants us to enjoy ecstasy and to eat of the fruit of immortality. It must totally renounce and dissolve spiritual chauvinism, spiritual hypocrisy, spiritual paranoia, and spiritual tyranny, and all world systems built in the secular image of these spiritual distortions. It would have to wholly renounce and dissolve all perceptions, systems, and functions deriving from the false historical idea that some people have a "divine mandate" to co-opt, convert, genocidally destroy, or otherwise imperialize others. It would have to crucify itself, in its own terms, as expiation for all this guilt. But, as we said, if the Christian church ever changed itself this radically, it would become pagan.

— The Great Cosmic Mother, by Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor

#christianity #the great cosmic mother #feminist literature

[sealwomyn]

"The Great Mother was the projection of the self-experience of groups of highly aware and productive women who were the founders of much of human culture. In this sense, the Great Mother is not simply a mental archetype, but a historical fact. Ancient icons, symbols, and myths cannot be understood if they are disembodied from this fact. They... must be seen in the context of ancient political realities."

"Because the Great Mother was a historical reality, her psychological repression must also be seen in historical terms, as a political suppression of an earlier female-oriented world order by a later male-dominated one."

-- The Great Cosmic Mother, by Barbara Mor and Monica Sjöö, p. 30 and 31

#the great cosmic mother #barbara mor #monica sjöö #goddess #matriarchy #seal womyn reads #herstory blogging #this is such an incisive way to sum up how i look at my goddess research #the book has been a mixed bag so far but interested to finish it #this also relates to why all poisoned male-usurped cultures need rematriation #goddess blogging

[cute-st]

“You can’t beat us, but you can beat your women”

The Great Cosmic Mother | Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor.

#Barbara Mor #Monica Sjoo #the great cosmic mother #patriarchy #indigenous people #gender wars #imperialism #misogynoir #misogony #black manosphere #femicide

[zahut]

“Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belong to a man—a woman who was ‘one-in-herself’. The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virle. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chasity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus—they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramaic, it meant ‘maiden’ or ‘young woman’, with no connotations to sexual chasity. But later Christian translators could not conceive of the ‘Virgin Mary’ as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched. When Joan of Arc, with her witch coven associations, was called La Pucelle—‘the Maiden,’ ‘the Virgin’—the word retained some of its original pagan sense of a strong and independent woman. The Moon Goddess was worshipped in orgiastic rites, being the divinity of matriarchal women free to take as many lovers as they choose. Women could ‘surrender’ themselves to the Goddess by making love to a stranger in her temple.”

— Monica Sjöö, The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth

#monica sjöö #quotes #text #words #writing #language #philosophy #the great cosmic mother #religion #history

[charismaandcashmere]

Colonialist powers really convince themselves that they are doing their victims a favor, lifting them up from Mother Earth, through whips, degradations, imprisonments, hunger, and slaughter—so they can glimpse through tears a far-off shining palace, the abode of the heavenly Father (i.e., the exploiting home country). Imperialist colonialism always sees itself, officially, as an instrument of spiritual enlightenment. What this means in practice is that the Mother—the people’s blood identity—is denounced, in the name of some superior Father God, who always happens to live somewhere else.

--The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth by Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor

#The great cosmic mother #reading #colonialism #religion

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"The mystery of earthly life has its origins in water-in oceans, deep lakes, and shallow pools, cave grottoes and streams, and rivers; in the sea-like pulse and taste of blood."

Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother, 1987

#monica sjöö #barbara mor #the great cosmic mother #poetry #poem #writing #words #quote #dark academia quote #dark academia writing #dark academia poetry #aesthetic #dark academia poem #dark academia #spilled writing #spilled poetry #spilled ink #spilled words #spilled thoughts #spilled poem #monica sjöö poetry #barbara mor poetry #monica sjöö poem #barbara mor poem #monica sjöö writing #barbara mor writing #monica sjöö quote #barbara mor quote

[animystsoul]

The ever fertile ground substance of the primordial Mother is the substance & matter from which your soul was born. Your soul is not from the world of bodies, but arose from the universe, the primordial cosmic Mother.

Through the womb of your Earth Mother your soul entered this world, but is not fundamentally of it, but prior to it.

#the great cosmic mother #cosmic mother #primordial mother #magick #alchemy #hyle #plasma #protoplasma #matter #ecospirituality #witch #rta #spiritual journey #kali #ecospiritualism #manifestation #lunaception

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(The Amulet - Joseph Coomans/Detail)

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“The witch-burnings did not take place during the ‘Dark Ages,’ as we commonly suppose. They occurred between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries– precisely during and following the Renaissance, that glorious period when, as we are taught, ‘men’s’ minds were being freed from bleakness and superstition. While Michelangelo was sculpting and Shakespeare writing, the witches were burning. The whole secular ‘Enlightenment,’ in fact, the male professions of doctor, lawyer, judge, artist, all rose from the ashes of the destroyed women’s culture. Renaissance men were celebrating naked female beauty in their art, while women’s bodies were being tortured and burned by the hundreds of thousands all around them.” - Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth (1987)

(Guillaume Gris)

#women #quotes #Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor #The Great Cosmic Mother #The Amulet #Joseph Coomans #Guillaume Gris

[tides-of-truth]

Moon, Mind & Law quotes from The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Shoo & Barbara Mor

1…women were the first observers of lunar cycles. As first agriculturalists, women related moon phases to planting and reaping times. It is women who live the lunar cycle in our bodies. Becoming and changing are the lunar order of things. The moon exerts an identical influence on the magnetic serpent current of the earth, the tides of the sea and women’s menstrual flow. The lunar body is mirrored in nature, and it synchronises with the flow of menstrual blood. (P142/143)

2.Women originally went into menstrual huts in order to get gather the dark moon power, to focus it and study it, in solitude. In both group and solitary meditation, moon power became mind power.

3.In most languages there is a common root word for “moon” and “menstruation”. Our own word for menstruation comes from menses, the Latin word for”month”, which was measured originally by the moon. And both words are related, through Indo-European roots to the Old English, mona (moon), deriving from me, which meant both”mind” and “measurement”.

4.All are cognates-moon, mind, measurement, month, menstruation- since it is the moon that establishes measurement, including calendars.

5.Menstruation also means “moon-change”, also mind-change. P151

6.Light is a potent trigger of biological rhythms. (Lunaception.)

7.Human life begins with birth. …the female’s experience of surviving pregnancy and bearing children and keeping them alive. From: Monica Shoo & Barbara Mor The great cosmic mother P145

8.There is a resemblance between Moon Mothers everywhere. In this form the Great Goddess is always the law-giver, the orderer of time, the judge of the dead, and the eternal source of wisdom and ecstasy.p155

9.The Hindu Moon Mother Kali sits in her lotus posture, breathing the rise and fall of our earthly tides.155

Birth Death Rebirth

10.The moon is the Goddess who dies and rises again. The fruit that produces itself out of itself, with the power of life over death. The moon dies and then conquers darkness to rise again as the new moon, small at first but with energy within to recreate herself. These are all the original, ancient, and matriarchal ideas of cyclic birth-death-and-resurrection…

11.The cup of soma is also the mind (mens:mind:moon). It is mental perception and knowledge conveying the psychic-cosmic inspiration of the moon when the understanding, of its own motion, forms ideas within itself, it then comes to be called mind. Soma is distilled from the primordial waters, and is the dark fruit of the moon tree. Soma is the mind-fruit of the spine-tree.

12.Women were everywhere the original mantics-the shamans, the ecstatic oracular prophets, the visionary poets. Mantism is the natural art of prophesying, divining, receiving, and channeling psychic-biological energy from the earth and moon. This is woman’s original and organic province.

13.The moon fruit is the highest transformation form of the Earth-seed, the discipline designed to help the group channel and direct the real power of the universe, radiating into and from all of us.

14.Women were the first bearers of this technique, since it emanates from our own bodies and psychic processes.

15.Women are tied directly to the mantic moon by both a mental and blood cord.

16.And what were those children like who were born with the blessings of both the Moon Mother and their human mothers? Were their psyches wide open, communicating easily with the greater Self? Was the psychic/astral/lunar body more vibrant and aware? Were they able to communicate and resonate with the animals and plants, the stones and whole earth, and also tune into cosmic vibrations of the moon, sun and stars? What were moon minds like? (p152-3)

17.Goddess was the judge and giver of law. Crimes, challenges, problems were investigated by the women by moonlight. Bright nights were spent sitting around the fire thinking, contemplating, envisioning. This is why words that have to do with mental activity are, in most languages, cognate with names for the moon, e.g., mens, mental, measure, month, mind.

18.“They call the the moon the mother of the universe”, having both female and male powers and reproducing herself alone. (p152-3)

#moon #moon phases #moon minds #moonmind #moonchild #mantic #mantism #mamas #manas #dark moon #newmoon #fullmoon #consciousness #oracle #shrine #priestess #research #the great cosmic mother #law #cosmic law #naturallaw #time #moontime #awareness #tides #moontides #moonwater #moon water #goddess #menstruation

[swiss-cheese-heart]

“‘magic wounds that heal themselves or give birth to new life’ […] Christ exposing his wound from which blood and water flowed during the Crucifixion, as from a uterus in childbirth.”

#the great cosmic mother #books #quotes #my feminist literature books #jesus my hero

[spoileddarkfemblog]

The Kabbalistic tradition describes the feminine image of the godhead as Mother, Daughter, Sister, and Holy Spirit, giving woman what she has Lacked throughout the last two and a half thousand years in Judeo-Christian culture - an image of the Divine Feminine in the godhead that is reflected at the human level in herself

The Shekinah is Divine Motherhood, Mother of All Living.”

The Divine Feminine:

“The Shekinah is the image of the Divine Feminine or the feminine face of God as it was conceived in the mystical tradition of Judaism, originating perhaps in the rabbinic schools of Babylon and transmitted orally for a thousand years until it flowered in the writings of the Jewish Kabbalists of medieval Spain and southwestern France

In Kabbalah, religion ceases to be a matter of worship and collective belief. It becomes a direct path of communion between the individual and the Divine

In the imagery of the Shekinah, Kabbalah gives us the cosmology of the soul and the relationship between the two aspects of the godhead that has been lost or hidden for millennia

The mythology of the Kabbalah is so gloriously rich, so broad in its imaginative and revelatory reach, and so intensely nourishing to a world that lacks any awareness of the Divine Feminine, that to discover this tradition is immensely exciting.

The Shekinah reveals the missing imagery of God-as-Mother that has been lost or obscured in both Judaism and Christianity

For more : Clink on the Link above

#divine feminine #shekinah #the great cosmic mother #the serpent gates #great goddess #goddess energy #goddess #feminine quotes #initiation #tantra

[daataa]

"This effort to displace the female seems to be the archetypal foundation for civilization, for mankind has been at it ever since; whether he is challenging Mother Nature in flying away from her in rockets, or in changing her on earth through genetic engineering, man has not given up in the attempt to take away the mystery of life from the Great Mother and the conservative feminine religion."

— The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth by Monica Sjöö & Barbara Mor

#the great cosmic mother #a must read book forreal

[freelyenvolving]

#Cassandra Faye Floyd #the great cosmic mother #female energy #female spirituality

[charlotterenaissance]

having an almost comically bad couple days so i'm microdosing on all my fixations by alternating episodes of kids in the hall, night court, h2o just add water, and conan o'brien remotes. just having a normal one

#the fun part of being the child of my alcoholic dad and junkie mother is that my form of vice is old tv shows #as i try to zone out while stone-cold sober #i had a bad day at work which was the capstone to a rough couple weeks #which is why haven't really been on here #and i'm pretty sure i can't trust my own vision or whatever because i look at things and get told i'm wrong #and then i found richard moll died so i'm not doing so great #i am so sad #i'm just so so sad and scared #all the time and i hate this so much and i hate being a burden to the person i love #and i just feel so alone and not good at anything and not good enough for anything or anyone i'm just not worth anything #it's my fault for only being able to conceptualize relationships via the familial bond #so i take my boss who is normally sweet and patient with my stupid worthless self #yelling at me as rough as you can possibly imagine #she didn't even yell at me specifically but every time she came by i flinched and any time i said something she got mad and yelled at me #i don't know i'm sorry #i just want to disappear #i'm also on my period one more cosmic corkscrew of pain

[pryzme-colour]

GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS!

Yes! yes! I could finish it. There u have, the mighty mothers and well- the quiet aunty, i think. At least Zithig can travel wherever she want, u know?

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#lovecraft #shub niggurath #mother hydra #outer gods #lovecraftian #cosmic horror #deep ones #hp lovecraft #art #fanart #digital art #digital drawing #drawings #humanization #great old ones #cthulhu mythos