goddessing

From a close look at her, it's clear our dear garden Quan needs a bath! Those annual spring processionals of deity-statues taken from temple and village center down to bodies of water for purification weren't just symbolic rituals! Those deities accumulated soot from incense, dirt from rain-splashes and high winds, and the inevitable microbial communities that grew on them. It's time for our village's first annual procession of the Goddess to the lake for purification rites. I wonder who I should invite?

I love that you have a garden Quan Yin. I have a statue of her in every room in my house. When the war was going on in Rwanda, she was the only positive image of God/Goddess that comforted me. It was easy to think that nobody heard the cries of the children who had lost their arms over there -- that God had not been there for them when that happened -- and then I found the story where Quan Yin gave her arms to help her father. I can't explain this, but I knew that She was with those children then.

(Oh, sorry I am here as "other" -- my blog is on LiveJournal under "springmeadow." I would love to add you as a friend so you can read my posts. I am inspired by your site and visit it often. Thanks especially for the oracle you created. -- Bijou)
 

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