Showing posts with label matriarchy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label matriarchy. Show all posts

8.28.2009

Gbe rere ko ni olu-gbe-rere!

"Give me Good Things from the Great One who gives Good Things!"

enjoy this beautiful video of women celebrating the yoruba mother/ocean goddess, yemonja.


11.15.2008

seek the goddess

the mother of us all. the first manifestation of the divine.

if you want bliss...





















she's got magic, too...










she'll transform your rage...



 





 








































and heal with her compassion...


























oh, yes, darlings. she lives.



in order of appearance:
uzume - japanese (laughter, humor)
oshun - yoruba (fertility, sweet waters, abundance, bliss, magic)
yemonja - yoruba (salt water/ocean, universal mother, dreams, moon)
ma'at - kemet (reciprocity, justice, highest self)
het heru - kemet (love, bliss, fertility)
drapeau for erzulie freda - haitian vodoun (romantic love, magic, material wealth)
bast - kemet (sun goddess, secrets, women, mirth/joy)
oya - yoruba (wind/breath, warrior goddess, lightning/thunder and storms)
auset - kemet (universal mother, magic)
hecate - greco/roman (crossroads, magic)
pele - hawaiian (volcano goddess)
sekhmet - kemet (warrior goddess, destruction)
quan yin - china (bodhisattva of compassion)
gaia - greece (earth goddess archetype)