Goddess Worship


The Witches' Goddess
The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth
Hekate: Goddess of Witches
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess
Keeping Her Keys: An Introduction to Hekate's Modern Witchcraft - Second Edition
The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries: Feminist Witchcraft, Goddess Rituals, Spellcasting and Other Womanly Arts
Hekate: Her Sacred Fires
Goddesses in Everywoman
When God Was a Woman
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece
The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
Welcoming Lilith: Awakening and Welcoming Pure Female Power
Pagan Portals - Aphrodite: Encountering the Goddess of Love & Beauty & Initiation
Aphrodite's Priestess
Merlin Stone
According to Egyptian texts, to eat of this fruit was to eat of the flesh and the fluid of the Goddess, the patroness of sexual pleasure and reproduction. According to the Bible story, the forbidden fruit caused the couple's conscious comprehension of sexuality. Upon eating the fruit, Adam and Eve became aware of the sexual nature of their own bodies, "And they knew that they were naked." So it was that when the male deity found them, they had modestly covered their genitals with aprons of fig l ...more
Merlin Stone, When God Was a Woman

Merlin Stone
Considering the hatred the Hebrews felt towards the asherim, a major symbol of the female religion, it would not be too surprising if the symbolism of the tree of forbidden fruit, said to offer the knowledge of good and evil, yet clearly represented in the myth as the provider of sexual consciousness, was included in the creation story to warn that eating the fruit of this tree has caused the downfall of all humanity. Eating of the tree of the Goddess, which stood by each alter, was as dangerous ...more
Merlin Stone, When God Was a Woman

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