The Feminine Principle in Mythology

Thousands of names have been given to Mother Earth. She was worshipped all over the globe because the ancients intuited that “from dust you came and from dust you will return.” They envisioned their tombs as cozy yonic resting places. The Triple Goddesses represented birth, life and death, the cycle humans took from their Mother Earth through life’s trials and then back to Mother Earth at the end of life. Some Native Americans would not engage in agriculture because it cut and scratched the surface of the Earth. What would they think of strip mining today, or the burning of the Amazon forest just so rich people could eat one more cow? This burning is about as cruel and shortsighted as it gets because 1/5 of our oxygen comes from the Amazon jungle. The leaders of those countries allowing this burning ought to be arrested and put on trial for allowing this to happen. They are the lowest of the low. But the billionaires run this world and that’s what they want. Even the Catholics never gave up Mother Earth. Up into the 20th Centrury, the Goddess was recognized in rural parts of the globe. Earth’s names like ‘Erda’ and ‘Hretha’ come from the Sanskrit. ‘Artha’ and “mater/ial comes from mater, mother and means wealth and good luck. Until patriarchy brought duality: “Mind is the subjective and matter is the objective aspect of one polarized Consciousness” (Walker).

Easter was named after the Goddess Eostre in the Middle Ages (700s). She is a northern form of Astarte, also known as the Anunnaki princess Inanna. The Anunnaki gods and goddesses were the actual people who played the roles of such mythological gods as Zeus and Apollo. They live very long lives, and they’ve been seen in the Pentagon and on military bases. Eostre was also the same as India’s Great Mother Kali. The Easter Bunny predates Christianity. The Moon hare was sacred to the Goddess in both East and West. There was a myth that Hathor-Astarte laid the Golden Egg of the Sun, so the hare would lay eggs for good children on Easter Eve. Easter shows its pagan origin by its dating by the lunar calendar. This calendar was based on female (Goddess) menstruation on every 28 days. The Church on the lunar calendar has Easter on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. So the date varies wildly from early March to late April. Another remnant of the sacred drama was the image of the god buried in his tomb, then withdrawn and said to live again. A whole gang of dying and rising gods came before Jesus. HARD TO BELIEVE THAT JESUS ISN’T JUST ANOTHER ONE OF THEM! But Jesus was different. He was a real person with a history of being God of his own universe before he came to Earth. And he went back to his universe after his work was accomplished here. Earth is in that universe and that’s where we are going when we pass from this life. But back to the Egg. The Egg was the symbol of the Goddess as Creatrix, whose World Egg contained the universe in embryo. The Egg was first identified with the moon. Heaven and Earth were two halves of an egg shell, and Eros was the first deity to emerge. Walker mentions that in the West the versions “went back to cosmologies of the Tiamat-type.” Tiamat was a planet destroyed when one of Nibiru’s moons slammed into it; one half became the asteroid belt and, according to Sitchen, the other part became the Earth and the moon (I don’t think that is the source of the moon, but what do I know?).

Elohim is a Hebrew plural word meaning gods and goddesses, but in the Bible it is always translated as God with a capital G. Yahweh was God of the ancient Israelites. They were disobedient and Yahweh was punishing. Yahweh sat in council with other gods and scolded them for being lazy. Who were these gods? It’s a fascinating question. But there is more to this. The biblical title of Eve was “Mother of all Living: She was the Creatress of All Manifested Forms. Her titles came from Kali-Ma, whose title was Jaganmata. In Assyrian Scriptures Eve was Mother-Womb, Creatress of Destiny, who made humans from clay. “The first of the Bible’s two creation myths (Genesis) gives this Assyrian version, significantly changing the ‘she’ to ‘he’. The secret of God’s “Name of Power” the Tetragrammaton, was that 3/4 of it invoked not God, but EVE. YHWH came from the Hebrew root HWH, meaning both ‘life’ and ‘woman’, in Latin letters, EVE, with the addition of a ‘l’ (yod) it amounts to the Goddess’s invocation of her own name as the Word of creation, a common idea in ancient times.