Aphrodite, Greek Goddess of Love – Venus to the Romans – is one of the most ancient manifestations of the divine feminine. She was associated with the much older Mesopotamian Goddess Ishtar, Inanna to the Sumerians, and like her considered to appear in the sky as the planet Venus, and the Phoenician Goddess Astarte. SheContinue reading “The Three Sons of Aphrodite”
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IN-BETWEEN PEOPLE
“The words gay and lesbian do not exist in the village, but there is the word gatekeeper. Gatekeepers are people who live a life at the edge between the worlds – the world of the village and the world of spirit.” In-Between People are born to live at the threshold between the polarities of gender,Continue reading “IN-BETWEEN PEOPLE”
Carpenter on God as Male & Female
Quoted from Intermediate Types Among Primitive Peoples (published 1914), Edward Carpenter points out that ancient traditions around the world viewed the creator God, and the first humans created, as uniting both male and femaleness in one being: “…the reason or reasons for this tendency must be accounted quite deep-rooted and anything but fanciful. One reason,Continue reading “Carpenter on God as Male & Female”
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