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Pagan Portals - The Triple Goddess

by Rachel Patterson (Author)

Format:

Paperback / softback

128 pages

Publisher:John Hunt Publishing

Imprint:Moon Books

ISBN:9781782790549

Published:26 Nov 2021

Classifications:

Dimensions:140 x 216 x 12 (mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

Country of Origin:GB

Description

An updated approach for working with the Triple Goddess in modern times The Triple Goddess has three facets: the maiden, the mother, and the crone. The Triple Goddess represents many things such as birth, life, death and the phases of the moon, waxing, full and waning. Whilst in the form we recognise it may well be a modern idea, it still gives a wonderful way of working with the goddess and her phases, to help us evolve and understand our own pathway through life and this journey can help you to embrace your own personal power.

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Pagan Portals - Blodeuwedd : Welsh Goddess of Seasonal Sovereignty

by Jhenah Telyndru (Author)

Format:

Paperback / softback

136 pages

Publisher:John Hunt Publishing

Imprint:John Hunt Publishing

ISBN:9781785352126

Published:30 Jul 2021

Dimensions:140 x 216 x 13 (mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

Country of Origin:GB

Description

Like a gathering of flowers from hedge and field, or a cloak made of owl feathers, Blodeuwedd is a figure of great complexity. She is both Flower Maiden and Owl of Wisdom... unfaithful wife and representative of Sovereignty...fallen woman and feminist heroine... medieval cautionary tale and reclaimed divinity. Yet, for all of these seeming inconstancies, the key to understanding Blodeuwedd is being able to see her as a whole.

Bringing together strands of Celtic lore, Welsh literature, British folk practice, and modern devotion, Celticist Jhenah Telyndru weaves a solid foundation from which scholars and seekers alike can come into deeper relationship with this oft-misunderstood figure. Ultimately, this journey to reclaim Blodeuwedd's identity - a Sovereignty Goddess who ensured the cycle of the seasons by choosing, in turn, to partner with the Solar Hero of Summer and the Otherworldly Champion of Winter - reveals a transformational mythic pathway that can also guide us in the reclamation of our own sovereignty.

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Pagan Portals - Brigid - Meeting the Celtic Goddess of Poetry, Forge, and Healing Well

by Morgan Daimler (Author)

Format:

Paperback / softback

112 pages

Publisher:John Hunt Publishing

Imprint:Moon Books

ISBN:9781785353208

Published:25 Mar 2016

Weight:144g

Dimensions:217 x 144 x 7 (mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

Country of Origin:GB

Description

Pagan Portals - Brigid is a basic introduction to the Goddess Brigid focusing on her history and myth as well as her modern devotion and worship. Primarily looking at the Irish Goddess but including a discussion of her Pan-Celtic appearances, particularly in Scotland. Her different appearances in mythology are discussed along with the conflation of the pagan Goddess with Catholic saint.

Modern methods for neopagans to connect to and honor this popular Goddess include offerings and meditation, and personal anecdotes from the author's experiences are included as well. Who was Brigid to the pre-Christian pagans? Who is she today to neopagans? How do we re-weave the threads of the old pagan Goddess and the new? Learn about Brigid's myths among the pagan Irish, the stories of Bride in Scotland, and the way that people today are finding and honoring this powerful and important deity to find the answer.

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When God Had a Wife : The Fall and Rise of the Sacred Feminine in the Judeo-Christian Tradition

by Lynn Picknett (Author) , Clive Prince (Author)

Format:

Paperback / softback

336 pages

Publisher:Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Imprint:Bear & Company

ISBN:9781591433705

Published:9 Jan 2020

Dimensions:153 x 228 x 25 (mm)

Pub. Country:United States

Country of Origin:US

Description

* Reveals the tradition of goddess worship in early Judaism and how Jesus attempted to restore the feminine side of the faith.

* Provides historical and archaeological evidence for an earlier form of Hebrew worship with both male and female gods, including a 20th-century discovery of a Hebrew temple dedicated to both Yahweh and the warrior goddess Anat.

* Explores the Hebrew pantheon of goddesses, including Yahweh's wife, Asherah, goddess of fertility and childbirth.

* Shows how both Jesus and his great rival Simon Magus were attempting to restore the ancient, goddess-worshipping religion of the Israelites despite what Jews and Christians--and indeed most people--believe, the ancient Israelites venerated several deities besides the Old Testament god Yahweh, including the goddess Asherah, Yahweh's wife, who was worshipped openly in the Jerusalem Temple. After the reforms of King Josiah and Prophet Jeremiah, the religion recognized Yahweh alone, and history was rewritten to make it appear that it had always been that way. The worship of Asherah and other goddesses was now heresy, and so the status of women was downgraded and they were blamed for God's wrath.

However, as Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince reveal, the spiritual legacy of the Jewish goddesses and the Sacred Feminine lives on. Drawing on historical research, they examine how goddess worship thrived in early Judaism and included a pantheon of goddesses. They share new evidence for an earlier form of Hebrew worship that prayed to both male and female gods, including a 20th-century archaeological discovery of a Hebrew temple dedicated to both Yahweh and the goddess Anat.

Uncovering the Sacred Feminine in early Christianity, the authors show how, in the first century AD, both Jesus and his great rival, Simon Magus, were attempting to restore the goddess-worshipping religion of the Israelites. The authors reveal how both men accorded great honour to the women they adored and who travelled with them as priestesses, Jesus's Mary Magdalene and Simon's Helen. But, as had happened centuries before, the Church rewrote history to erase the feminine side of the faith, deliberately ignoring Jesus's real message and again condemning women to marginalization and worse.

Providing all the necessary evidence to restore the goddess to both Judaism and Christianity, Picknett and Prince expose the disastrous consequences of the suppression of the feminine from these two great religions and reveal how we have been collectively and instinctively craving the return of the Sacred Feminine for millennia.

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Mary Magdalene : Christianity's Hidden Goddess

by Lynn Picknett (Author)

Format:

Paperback / softback

288 pages

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Imprint:Robinson Publishing

ISBN:9781841198446

Published:20 Nov 2003

Dimensions:171 x 203 x 21 (mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

Country of Origin:GB

Description

M/D - Manufactured on Demand (Delivery could take 2-4 weeks)

Are the roots of Christianity partly based on spin and propaganda? Acting as a historical detective, the author strips away the layers of deception and propaganda that surround the Christian story in a quest to find the real Mary Magdalene, asking these questions: was she a reformed prostitute who spent the rest of her life in penitence, as the Church has claimed? Was she merely one of the women who followed Jesus, at a respectful distance, and of no real account compared to the male disciples? Was she even a Jewish woman from the shore of lake Galilee? Using both scholastic and heretical sources - and a very heavy dose of common sense - the author discovers that virtually everything that the Church has ever led us to believe about Magdalene is not only wrong, but part of a deliberate conspiracy to cover up some uncomfortable facts. From the scriptures - both biblical and non-canonical, besides other historical traditions such as the secret inner circle of the Knights Templar - a very different Magdalene emerges: not only was she Jesus' sexual companion, but also the "Apostle of the Apostles", and his true successor. And far from being Galilean, she was probably a black woman from Ethiopia, who bore Jesus' mixed race child.

Yet the story does not stop there: was Jesus really a Son of God or even the epitome of goodness - or, as the evidence strongly suggests - did he have a dark side that proved fatal to John the Baptist?

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Goddess Wisdom Made Easy : Connect to the Power of the Sacred Feminine through Ancient Teachings and Practices

by Tanishka (Author)

Format:

Paperback / softback

256 pages

Publisher:Hay House UK Ltd

Imprint:Hay House UK Ltd

ISBN:9781788172615

Published:8 Jan 2019

Dimensions:131 x 196 x 22 (mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

Country of Origin:GB

Description

Learn about long-lost ancient goddess traditions and reconnect with your feminine power, natural cycles and intuition. Ancient civilizations once worshipped female deities and women were the leaders, counsellors and healers of their communities. Through the ages, the wisdom of the Goddess was then forgotten, and people around the world lost their connection to ancient feminine wisdom.

In this practical guide, Tanishka, a leading teacher and author of women's wisdom traditions, introduces the main Goddess cultures and explains how their teachings and practices can empower and transform your life today. You will learn: the history, philosophy and practices of ancient Goddess traditions the seven Goddess archetypes and their corresponding chakras the life stages of the feminine journey and how to transition through each one rituals to reconnect with your inner goddess insight and tools to understand and align with the cycles of nature. This book was previously published under the title Goddess Wisdom (Hay House Basics series).