12/29/2003
Brazilians
launch hopes with sea offerings
Millions pin their hopes for 2004 on mini boats, launched at
the beach at Rio de Janeiro, carrying offerings to the Goddess Iemanja,
Queen of the Sea.
12/28/2003
On
Hawaii's Mauna Kea, the Sky's the Limit
Pele's sacred mountain, on the Big Island, is the best spot
on Earth for stargazing.
12/22/2003
Chinese
"Venus" rock carving discovered
Archaeologists discover the figure of a pregnant woman, carved
into a cliff in prehistoric times, in northwest China.
12/16/2003
Offending 300,000
Pagans in a Day's Work
Jim Towey's White House Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
faux pas, told with humor and insight.
12/5/2003
Viking
Queen's Burial To Be Studied
50 something queen and younger woman, buried in longboat 1200
years ago, to be exhumed for study by Norwegian archaeologists.
11/25/2003
Devotee
Blessed By Goddess Ambaji
70-year old Hindu monk has neither eaten nor drunk water for
decades, yet doctors say he's in "fine mental and physical
fettle."
11/20/2003
Irish
Temple Discovered -- Underground
A 4,500 year-old underground temple has been discovered berneath
the Hill of Tara in County Meath, Ireland.
11/5/2003
Denmark's
Norse Religion
Denmark officially
recognizes its indigenous religion; grants its practitioners legal/financial
benefits of organized religion.
10/23/2003
From Ishtar
to Aphrodite
Art exhibit presents goddess art and artifacts from the island of
Cyprus spanning the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Hellenistic
period.
10/21/2003
Thera
and Minoan Civilization
Did the eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean, more than 3,000
years ago, cause the collapse of Minoan civilization?
9/202003
Warrior
Queen Is Unearthed
In Lincolnshire (UK), a1,500-year-old, 6-foot tall Anglo-Saxon
"warrior queen" has been found buried in a field.
9/5-7/2003
World Congress on Matriarchal
Studies
Scholars in Luxembourg initiate multi-cultural
scientific exchange on matrilineal, matrifocal, matriarchal cultures.
9/4/2003
Hello
Dolly
The origin of the corn dolly in the Highlands of Scotland dates
from the agricultural myth of preserving the Corn Mother.
9/1/2003
Senua,
Britain's unknown goddess
Found in 2002, gold and silver shrine treasures,
buried 1600 years ago, identify a previously unknown goddess, Senua.
September/2003
Shaman
or Sacrifice?
An
unusual burial bundle of a winged shamana, or female healer,
a "feathered sky goddess" of the
Nasca culture of Peru, surprises researchers.
8/13/2003
12th
century pagan/Christian amulet found
Rare silver amulet found by workers of
Russia's Archaeology Institute depicts Jordan River snake-sprouting
Gorgon.
8/2/2002
Restoring
the Temple of Leto
Temple
dedicated to the mother of Apollo and Artemis, built in 4 BCE in
the ancient city of Letoon (Turkey), is to be restored.
August 2003
Questioning
the Delphic Oracle
Scientific American explores the science
behind the religion of the oracular priestesses of Delphi.
7/10/2003
Reconstructing
the Tree of Life
A supercomputer
named "Demeter" (Mother Earth to the ancient Greeks) will
help scientists unlock the mysteries of life.
7/10/2003
Stonehenge
riddle solved: it's a girl!
According to a retired Canadian professor of obstetrics and gynecology,
Stonehenge resembles female genitalia.
7/9/2003
Stonehenge
Depicts Female Genitalia
Canadian researchers spot the original design of Stonehenge (female
genitalia) and declare it a a massive fertility symbol.
6/24/2003
Glastonbury
Goddess Temple
The Glastonbury Goddess Temple becomes the first officially recognized
Goddess "place of worship" in the UK.
6/13/2003
Priceless
vase returned to Iraqi museum
The 4-foot tall Sacred Vase of Warka (Uruk),
depicting worshippers bearing gifts for Inanna, is returned after
war looting.
5/30/2003
Mother
Earth and Spells At Work in Bolivia's Witches Market
Bolivians and tourists visit witches, medicine women, and other
at the Mercado de las Brujas, or Witches' Market.
4/3/2002
Indian
temple revives 'human sacrifice
Followers of a
Hindu cult in India's north-eastern state of Assam have revived
the ancient practice of human sacrifice.
8/16/2001
Exploring
a volcano & lava-ing it
Sleeper
volcano on Hawaii's big island, still developing, is home to the
respected fire goddess, Pele.
+
No
Longer Everest but Qomolangma
+ China
Air Flight
+ Leave
the Goddess Where She Belongs
+ Goddess
of the Sea
+ Interview
with Jamling Tenzing Norgay
+ Durga,
the goddess of righteousness
+ Goddess
is Asked to Bless Wilmington
+ Women
Worship Goddess of Beer
+
India's
'Miracle River' (Sarasvati)
+ Grotto
of Artemis, Temple of Pasht
+
Now
God can be a woman again
+ Bath's
time comes again as spa reopens
+ Tin
hau, mother goddess of the sea
+ Honouring
the Goddess Durga
+ Well
Being
+ Beast
in All of Us
+ Pagan
Temples, Israel
+ Pagan
Astrology and The Bible
+ Mother's
Day Origins in Ancient Egypt
+
Easter
+
Paganism
+
The
Last Word on Paganism
+
Female
Anatomy Inspired Stonehenge?
+
In
Search of Saraswati
+
Ancient
Israel's altars for the Queen of Heaven
+
Skeleton
of cross-dressing Roman eunuch unveiled
+
"Come
Down, Placenta", Childbirth in Ancient Egypt
+
Sekhmet
Temple Discovered
+ Goddess
Temple Discovered Intact
+
3,000
year old temple of "a female god"
+
Temple
found under Hill of Tara
+
Catal
Huyuk, The First City?
+
Clay
idol of Hindu goddess "changes colour"
+ Goddess
Statues in Inner Mongolia
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"All known
goddess religions have been polytheistic; they have admitted not
only the god as well as the goddess, but many versions of both.
Goddess religion is not the opposite of the god religions; it’s
a completely different critter." ~ Pat
Monaghan
"What
are we to make of the fact that spiritual liberation came to the
female founder of Tibetan Buddhism, in the visualized form of
drinking the menstrual blood of a Goddess-woman, and the sacred
sexual rites she freely performed with at least two significant
male consorts?" ~ Vicki
Noble
"I'll be post-feminist in the post-patriarchy" ~
Meg O'Sullivan
"My enemy is my own way of ignoring the authority of my own
experience." ~ China
Galland
"We are
our world knowing itself." ~ Joanna
Macy
"Among
the principles essential to the health of living systems are empowered
participation of all parts and continual negotiation of self-interest
at all levels of organization." ~Elisabet
Sahtouris, Earthdance, Living Systems in Evolution
Interviewer:
How do you respond to criticism that the Goddess religion was
just a fertility rite?
Marija
Gimbutas: People usually are not knowledgeable who say that,
and have never studied the question. Fertility was important
to continuity of life on earth, but the religion was about life,
death and regeneration. Our ancestors were not primitive.
"Physicists
and Mystics have looked at the Universe and observed the same
things, but the Mystics spoke in poetry, images and parable,
and the Scientists spoke in numbers, equations and formulas."
~Abby Willowroot
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12/16/2003
Town
recycles its way to Zero Waste
A Japanese town recycled 79% of its waste in 2002 on its way to
"Zero Waste" by 2020.
12/15/2003
E-Traction's
'Whispering Wheel'
Dutch invention sends fuel savings up and emissions way down for
cars, busses and other vehicles.
12/11/2003
One
Girl Remembers the Forgotten
Young Makenzie Snyder's compassionate activism on behalf of
American foster kids is a sign of hope that humans may be evolving
into a more mature, conscious species.
12/3/2003
Are
There Certifications for Ecotourism?
Rainforest Alliance (and others) investigate the possibility of
establishing an int'l. body for sustainable tourism certification.
12/2/2003
Meeting
Kyoto Protocol Targets
Seven countries planning to join the European Union are set to hit
their targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
11/26/2003
Machu
Picchu: Why Ecotourism Certifications Are Needed
Unbridled
growth is irrevocably damaging the United Nations World Heritage
Site and its surrounding attractions.
11/17/2003
Soybean
Oil/Conventional Oil Blend
Alternative home heating fuel that can work in conventional furnaces,
without changes to existing equipment, is available.
11/14/2003
National
Bio-Fuel Education Program
USDA grants $950,000 to University of Idaho to create/distribute
nationwide public education about biodiesel fuels.
10/18/2003
Anti-Empire
Forces Strike Back
New coalition of prominent foreign policy folks, from right to center-left,
politically, oppose Bush Administration imperialism.
10/23/2003
Consortium
to Study & Preserve Old Growth Forest
The largest tract of old-growth forest in mid-America is to be studied
and its trees and their ecosystems preserved.
10/30/2003
ChevronTexaco
Oil Pollution Trial
Attorneys for 30,000 Ecuadorian rain forest residents conclude testimony
in pollution suit against ChevronTexaco.
10/21/2003
Green
Business is Good Business Conference
1,000 MBAs and business leaders discuss corporate social responsibility,
biz ethics and environment-friendly business practices.
I started this
feature during the waxing moon, September 2003, because I was feeling
overwhelmed by the mounting, disastrous environmental news and needed
to act as if we humans can still change our destiny from destroying
Mother Earth to developing partnerships with Her and all Her life-forms.
May it be so!
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