What is the Goddess?
What is the Goddess? (This is quite long... but I thought that I would do this anyway as part of a note making exercise. I have been studying and working with the Goddess now for probably the best part of over 30 years. Her goes nothing.) . There are many, many expressions of the goddess. But perhaps we could try and see where it did begin? If that is possible. In every culture, in every part of the world, as far back as the Paleolithic, for as long as human beings have been able to draw and record the cycles of the moon, there has been the Goddess. Because of its 28-day cycle, menstruation as always been linked to a cosmological rhythm, the phases of the moon. In many - but not all - cultures, the moon is imagined as female. Maria Gimbutas speculated that the first observation of the moon may have been done by prehistoric women who were also keeping track of their period. And they noticed that, just as the moon filled and emptied, so did they. A cycle, still familiar to women who have...