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Welcome To The Great Goddess Page!!!
I am creating this page to honor the inner Goddess in myself and everywoman. As a child, being raised in a fundamentalist religion, in the "Buckle of the Bible Belt", I felt as if I couldn't be made in the image of God, because I was female. I also picked up the message that women were innately bad & weak because of the story told about Eve and the apple. This damaged my self-esteem, my spirituality, and my view of myself as a woman. I no longer believe that these things are true. I think that they are ways to keep women oppressed. The Great Goddess Page will tell the stories of and/or describe Goddess in varying cultures and time periods, so that women may be able to have a female role model, to see the spiritual in themselves, and/or just enjoy the "herstory." Please read with an open mind and enjoy. |
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Changing Woman
Like Mother Earth,
this site is growing and changing,
so please continue to check back
in for more information.
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any information on Goddesses
you would like to see me add.
I would also like to receive
any information on lesser known,
& more culturally diverse Goddesses.
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CREATION
All cultures have stories to explain the creation of the world & of human beings. Many cultures also have stories of a great flood. (Noah & the Ark being one of just many.) This is a West Africa(Yoruba)story that explains all of these. YEMAKA was a Creator Goddess who gave birth to the first man & the first woman on earth. When her uterine waters broke, it caused a great flood which created the oceans of the earth. I think this is a beautiful story because it recognizes the spiritual god(des)-like ability of women to carry & bring forth life, it gives men & women equal status in coming into this life, & it shows both childbirth & the great flood as being natural events, rather than punishments by a judging male deity. I like the connection of the uterine waters to the ocean as today it is recognized that the moon affects not only the tides but a woman's cycle. (!) YEMAYA is a Goddess who rules the household and women's affairs. This includes conception, childbirth, & the rearing of chyildren.
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