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A story of gods and
goddesses

Presented by:
Prof. Mr. Maqsood Hasni
MA Urdu, Pol. Sc., Eco., Hist.

Mphil, PhD, Post Doc.

Lilith

Lilith was a mortal woman that Cam was to
marry in the past. She was in love with him,
and ignored all the bad things that her family
and everyone else said about him until the day
of their wedding when Cam declared that he
could not marry in a church.This was actually
due to his status as a fallen angel, but Lilith

was not aware of that, so she left him. Before
she did, she angrily said that she wished that
she would have hundreds of granddaughters,
so that there would always be a woman on this
world to loathe him. Her wish later came true,
apparently; Luce met a Nephilim girl named
Lilith in Shoreline that was later revealed to be
the "descendant" of the original Lilith, whom
she resembled. It's also hinted that Cam knows
the new Lilith, as it's shown on Lauren Kate's
official website that he pressed charges against

her.

http://fallen.wikia.com/wiki/Lilith

Thirteen goddesses

1
Pele

is the Hawaiian Goddess of fire and
volcanoes. She stands for the fiercely

passionate aspect of life that is unable to do
anything halfway. Like the volcano, which

creates new land even as it is destroying
whatever is in it's path, she reminds us that
even in the midst of fiery eruption there is
creation and new life. She represents passion
and vitality, and the destruction of the old to

make way for the new.

2
Hathor

is the Egyptian Goddess of love and mirth,
protector of children and pregnant women.

She represents emotion, creativity and
sexuality. She embodies both earth and
sky and is often depicted as a star-speckled
"Celestial Cow." Hathor is the patron of
dancers, the mother of the gypsies, and the
generator of light and radiant power. Hathor
calls to your creative core to dance connect
with the Earth through your feet as they
touch the ground, and reach for the stars

with upraised arms in the joyous dance of
life.

3
Artemis

is the Greek Goddess of the hunt. Her
Roman counterpart is Diana. Artemis is the
virgin Goddess of all nature, wildlife, lakes,

rivers, woods, childbirth and healing.
Protector of women, she keeps herself apart
from men. Independent and completely in

touch with her wild, instinctual nature,
Artemis represents female independence. She

brings the gift of strength to say NO
to whatever does not serve to empower you.

4
Sophia

is the Hellenistic, Jewish and Christian
Goddess of Wisdom, who represents God's
female soul and is, said to be the source of his

power. She is called the All, the Maternal
Being, and Lady Wisdom.

Sophia is divine feminine wisdom, pure,
timeless consciousness. She is the holy spirit

of wisdom, pregnant with knowledge
who leads the willing soul out of ignorance
and blesses those who seek to study and share
in her knowledge. Sophia reminds us to seek

our own divine wisdom within.

5
Changing Woman

is a female deity of the Native American
culture. She represents the various stages of
life and changes at will from a young child, a
fertile woman to an ancient sage. The same
aspects of this feminine trinity are found in
various cultures relating to the Earth Mother
and the Goddess, and she is also known as
the Triple Goddess of Virgin, Mother and
Crone. Changing Woman dances gracefully

through all the stages of life in beauty,
balance and harmony. She is associated with

the changing phases of the moon. She
reminds us of our true divine nature no
matter what our age or function in life. Ever
changing, the goddess is always the same.

6
Isis

is the Egyptian feminine archetype for
creation, whose mighty wings bring
breath. The Goddess of fertility and the
mother nurturer who embodies love and
compassion. She is Goddess of agriculture,
law and healing. She is the High Priestess
who is the essence of feminine energy
and represents our feminine aspects:
creation, rebirth, ascension, intuition and
psychic knowing. Isis's relationship with the
third eye, the inner eye, brings us power
to trust in our own psychic vision.

7
Freya

is the Norse Goddess of fertility, love,
beauty, the moon, the seas, the earth, the
underworld, death and birth, virgin, mother,

ancestress, Mistress of Cats, leader of
Valkyries, and the "sayer" who inspires all
sacred. She loves music, spring, and flowers,
and is especially fond of the fairy kingdom.
She is considered very sympathetic to lovers
and matters of the heart. Married to the god
Od, she cried golden tears when he left. In
spite of her love for Od, Freya is also well
known for her sensuality and promiscuity.
She is therefore more a goddess of lust, being
identified with sexual freedom. Freya was

also known as the goddess of magic and
divination.

She owns a feather coat which she uses to fly
between the worlds. She has a great fondness

for jewels always wear her necklace of

amber, her crystallized golden tears. The
name Freya translates from the Old Norse
simply as "Lady". In that language the word
was the feminine counterpart to 'Lord' in its
fullest sense of power, implying the Divine
Feminine. Goddess Freya calls upon women
to stand tall and love them. She urges us to
put on our spiritual wings of Spirit and fly
into heightened areas of consciousness. Freya
is the Goddess of Sacred Sound. It is said that
all creation began with a Soul Note which she

created for the story of this Universe.

8
Spider Woman

is the feminine creator deity of the Native
American culture, said to have created
everything by thinking, dreaming and
weaving. She empowers us to keep the dream
of life alive and encourages us to continue
weaving our dreams, even in times of turmoil
and unknowing. In her aspect as Mother,

Spider Woman affirms that women are
central and essential to life. She reminds us
that all races of human beings were created
from the same source, with equal rights and
responsibilities. It is said that Spider Woman
spun two silver strands, one connecting east

to west, the other north to south, thus
connecting the four directions of the Earth.

She represents manifestation through
creative vision and intention, and sacred
sound by the use of the voice to "name it and

claim it."

9
Eve

is the mother and nurturer of all life. Her
name means life. She is the creatrix of the

world and of all living beings. It is
appropriate that she is usually portrayed
with a snake, for the snake is a symbol of the
vital life-force found in every living being, a
potent symbol of rebirth and regeneration.

Eve embodies primal female creative
energy, the powerful urge to create and
sustain life. She is the original Mother of

Invention. Eve is life itself.

10
Morgan le Fay

is the Celtic Queen of Faeries or Queen of
Specters. In Italy she is known as Fata
Morgana - Goddess of Destiny. She is a
Priestess of the Old Ways, a healer with

knowledge of herbal medicine. Sometimes
connected to the Lady of the Lake because on
meaning of her name is "water faerie". She is

a shape-shifter and sorceress as well as a
priestess presiding over a sisterhood of nine
healers and miracle workers inhabiting the
enchanted isle of Avalon, a sanctuary where

spirits have special powers. Morgan Le
Fay represents healing magic.

11

Mary

is the enduring Christian symbol of the
Divine Feminine. The Blessed Mother Mary
is known as the dispenser of mercy, the ever

patient mother, and protectress of
humanity. She is the eternal source of

comfort, tenderness, peace, and
unconditional love. Mary symbolizes the
willingness of the soul to take on its full

destiny. She represents selfless
service. Known in the Orient as Kuan Yin,
she is the Mother of Mercy and Compassion,

guiding us through to a place of peace.

12

Inanna

is the Sumerian mother Goddess of love and
fertility, known to the Semitic peoples as

Ishtar. She is called "Queen of the Sky" and
her symbol is an eight-pointed star. Inanna is

also queen of all beasts, protector of grain
and source of all wells, springs and rivers.
She is honored at the dark moon, and it is she
who fixes destinies at the new moon. Ancient
rebirth stories tell that Inanna descended into
the underworld, died and returned alive in
three days to walk upon the Earth. Inanna's
rising from the dead is an ancient parallel to
the story of Jesus' resurrection. She is a guide
into the dark places of psychological and
spiritual death and disintegration. Inanna's
journey into the underworld and subsequent
revitalization represents the soul's evolution

through bitter experience into glorious
renewal.

13
Venus

is the Roman Goddess of sensuality,
sexuality, art and creativity, pleasure,
personal adornment, affection and loving
relationships. She is the Feminine, the lover

or sister. Venus represents the urge to be
desired, to attract and empower relationships
and all forms of abundance. She is amorous,
artistic, beautiful, cheerful, emotional, erotic,

fertile, free-living, graceful, harmonious,
mirthful, relaxing, soothing, and warm. She
reminds us to let our love and creativity flow
in all areas of our lives, and to enjoy -- being

IN-JOY

The GODDESS

From: Rushing to Eva

[John Philip] Cohane has a lot to say ... about
Bride, Ana and Danu, in his book mentioned
before, The Key, as names of early Goddesses.

We shall return to these names below. His
book, as mentioned above, is an exploration
for his thesis that, behind these names, lies an

earlier Great Goddess whose name -

variously - he posits as Awa, Hawwah, Ava -
or EVE.

Recent studies of the mitochondria in our
cells lend credibility to such a single ancestry

thesis for mankind. In a recent program
(summer, 1987) on the televised series

"Nova" entitled "Daughters of Eve," such an
hypothesis was explored more fully.

Genetically, we are very various when one
studies the DNA, but unitary in terms of the

mitochondria! I find this fact both
fascinating and provocative.

There is no evidence of an early Goddess
named Ave or Awa in either Irish or British
mythology, but, as Cohane says, "If Ava or

Haue/Hawa were the names of an earlier
goddess of fertility who was superseded by a

younger god, Oc/Og, then the evidence is
about what one would expect to find." He
mentions a "thirteenth century writer" who
refers to Haue and Oc as "Godys," or pagan

deities. He also cites numerous place-names
in both countries which contain the prefix
Awa or Ava, such as Kill Avala, the Avon
river and Avalon (the Arthurian blessed
island off the west coast of Britain whose
name may be related to the Welsh word for
apples, but which also might refer to Ava,
whose name means water, as in the river

Avon) - and Oc/Och/Og, as in the many
Ogbourne villages near Marlborough, the 0g
river, tributary to the Kennet and the Ock
river a few miles to the north. Cohane ends
one of his chapters by saying "the name of

the oldest fertility goddess in the world,
known to the Semites as the 'mother of all
living,' the name out of which evolved Eve,

our name for the first woman, was
Hawwah."

The history of Og/Oc is also a fascinating
one, and one very often associated with Awa

or Hawa. Tradition lists the only other
human survivor of the flood beside Noah and

his family as 0g. In Greek legend, the first
king of both Attica and Boeotia, founder of
Thrace and of the Achaean League, builder

of Thebes, is Ogygios! He is said to be
responsible for a series of floods in Boeotia

and elsewhere, and is confused by later
sources with Noah. Another Greek tradition
deals with Aigeus, also said to be a founder of

Greece, specifically of Athens, who comes
from Asia Minor via Cyprus and Crete, and
whose son Medus is said to be the father of

the Medes. He is known as the Goat King
(from the Greek word for goat, aig), and is
said to have brought to Greece both the goat
and the cult of Aphrodite, from the older
fertility cult of Astarte or Ashtaroth. Cohane
believes that these two figures, Ogygios and

Aigeus, can be traced back to a single
original source known in the Old Testament
and Rabbinical tradition as 0g, who as king
of Bashan, was a giant who was saved from
the flood by climbing on the roof of the ark.
As founder of the fertility cult at the city of

Ashteroth, he was worshipped throughout
the Mediterranean region. More than this,
however, Cohane believes his memory is
preserved in place-names throughout the

world!

In order to understand this better, let us turn
to Robert Graves, whose book The White
Goddess sheds light on many of the
interconnections involved in the history of

worship of the Goddess and her consort/rival.
For this purpose it is necessary to trace the
history of a group called, in Ireland, the
Tuatha De Danaan, the children of Dana or
Danu, the Goddess whose name is mentioned
by Ross and Cohane.

Robert Graves calls the Tuatha De Danaan a
"confederacy of tribes in which the kingship

went by matrilinear succession, some of
whom invaded Ireland from Britain in the

Middle Bronze Age" (which the
Encyclopedia Britannica cites as between

2000 and 1800 B.C.). He says these tribes
may originally have come from somewhere
near the Black Sea. In the Greek tradition,
the ancient mother goddess Dana (whose

name in Sanskrit, danu, means rain or
moisture, becomes a king, Danaus, who

shares the throne of Egypt with his
half-brother Aegyptus, is driven out by him,

ascends the throne of Argos where he is
associated with another of his brothers
Pelasgus, and is subsequently driven from

Argos by his father Agenor, king of
Phoenicia.

In the Irish tradition concerning the Tuatha
De Danaan, Oc, son and half-brother of the
"All-father" Eochaid Ollathair known as
"the Dagda," also has a half-sister Brigid and
a half-brother known as Ogma, who is the

great champion of the tribe. Ogma, half
brother of 0g in Ireland, is the one who

conveys on the Tuatha "Ogham," a
pre-historic inscribed language found in

various places in Great Britain. Off the west
coast of Ireland, on several of the Arran
Islands, are a number of "Oghil" place

names , as well as the name "Achill," which
Cohane calls "mixed," meaning it contains
elements of both "0g" and "Ach," which
seems to come from an allied but separate
"Oc" tradition. There is also a statement in
Irish mythology that the world will not end
until "Ogham and Achu mix together and the

sun and the moon mix together."

Other Irish place names he cites are Avoca
(Ava/Oca) and Aughaval (Og/Ava). St.

Michael's Mount in Cornwall was known by
the Romans as Ocrinum. Place names

identified with the oak (Oakford, formerly
Ocford), the egg (Egg Buckland, formerly
Achintone), the ox (Oxted, formerly Ocstead)
and the hog (Ogle, formerly Ogghill, earlier
Hoggel) probably all get their names from
Oc/Og, according to Cohane, since all three
have had forms which interchange with one

another.The name of Ceridwen, the triple
Mother Goddess whose cauldron was called
The Cauldron of Regeneration, comes from
two words, "cerdd," which means both art or
inspiration and pig, and "wen," which means
white. She is the feared White Sow Goddess,
known also as the Barley Goddess and the

White Lady of Inspiration and Death,
according to Graves. Clearly, her name

comes into this story.

So, thus far, we have the names Dana or
Danu, Bride, Ceridwen, and Ana. Cohane

believes Ana to be primarily the
personification of an abstract quality -
"blessed," from the Semitic tongue - and sees
the distribution of place-names with the
"Ana" element in them primarily as
designations for "Blessed Awa." Robert
Graves says the name means "queen."
According to Barbara Walker,TheWoman's
Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, the name
appears in a great many cultures, some

widely separated by time and/or space. Thus,
there is Anna-Nin, Nana or Inanna, Queen of

Heaven in Sumeria (An means Heaven in
Sumerian, according to Graves); Anatha,
(Syria); Anat (Canaan); Ana or Anah (Old
Testament); Di-Ana (Semitic) or Dinah (from
the Syriac version of the Old Testament,
referring to the goddess of the Dinaite tribes
in Sumeria), both uses of "Di" referring to
divinity or godhead; Anna (Pelasgian Greek);

Nanna (the incarnation of the Danish
Goddess Freya as the mother-bride of
Baldur); Anu (early Danaan Goddess in
Ireland); Ana or Anan, which Robert Graves
says are names for the Goddess Danu, who
had two aspects, one nurturant, the other
maleficent, as which she was sometimes
known as Morg-ana to the Irish ("Death
Ana," one third of the triple Goddess known
as The Morrigan, ("Great Queen"); Anna
Perenna (Roman); Black Annis of Leicester
to medieval Christians, who lived on "Dane
Hill" (Danaan?) and used to devour children;

ending with St. Anne, mother of the virgin
Mary, grandmother of God.

This long history seems to me too ubiquitous
to be reduced to an abstraction! It goes even
further: Graves cites the view of a Mr. E. M.
Parr that Athene was another Anna: namely,
Ath-enna, which occurs in inverted form in

Libya as Anatha. Graves' verdict on the
subject is "if one needs a single, simple,
inclusive name for the Great Goddess, Anna

is the best choice."

Perhaps the issue may be thought about in
more than one way, depending on the
historical period being referred to. The

Goddess whose name I seek is the Goddess of
the Avebury Complex, as Dames calls the
three sites. The carbon-dating of all three

units of this complex - the henge, the hill and
the barrow - places them essentially in the
middle of the third millennium B.C. -
between 2600 and 2100. What Cohane is

struggling for is a hypothesis concerning a
Goddess who goes back to a period which
totally pre-dates even the written traditions
of the myths. The closest I have come to an

answer that satisfies me, aside from his
provocative tracking down of the

place-names, appears in Merlin Stone's When
God Was a Woman.

Stone says, quoting Professor Walter
Emery's Archaic Egypt, that the name of the

Egyptian Goddess Isis is actually a Greek
translation of the Egyptian name Au Set. The

word "set" means "queen," and Au Set
means"exceeding queen," according to Stone.

Set, of course, is also a separate god who is
closely identified with the serpent of darkness

Zet, and is the sinister figure (in Plutarch's
account of Egyptian mythology) who kills
Osiris, the consort of Isis. Much earlier,
according to the Encyclopedia Britannica,
Set, Osiris, Horus, Isis and Nephthys are all
identified as children of the earth god Keb

and the sky goddess Nut, and represented
five days added onto the yearly calendar.

Stone suggests that Au Set, the female
predecessor to the later male god Set, was
originally, in pre-dynastic times, the cobra
Goddess Ua Zit, whose name hers so closely
resembles. She makes a further connection
between Ua Zit and uzait, the Engyptian
word for "eye." The dynastic-age Goddess

Ma'at, or Maet, whose name stands for
order, truth or righteousness, was also
known, variously, as "the eye of Horus, Ra or
Ptah," and was the embodiment of the uraeus
cobra, according to Stone. She comments,
"She (Ua Zit, especially as Ma'at) seems to
have been allowed to retain her qualities and
nature so long as She was assigned to one of

the male deities as his possession."

Interestingly, the investigations of Peter
Tompkins and Livio Stecchini, Secrets of the

Great Pyramid, suggest strongly that this

concept of "ma'at or maet" as embodied in
Egyptian culture played a crucial role in the

role of measurement in ancient Egypt in
every sphere which we term scientific, and
that this concept was the central religious

belief around which their life revolved.
Stecchini describes the graphic

representation (during the dynastic period)
of ma'at as follows:

On the two sides of the throne of the Pharoah
there was a design which Egyptologists call
"Unity of Egypt." We know it well because it
appears in all statues of Pharoahs sitting on
the throne; the series of such statues starts
with the Fourth Dynasty, but occasional
drawings indicate that the design "Unity of
Egypt" is older....The design called "Unity of
Egypt" is the standard decoration of the
royal throne, because it symbolizes all that
the Egyptians held fundamental in their
political, ethical, religious and cosmological
conceptions, a cluster of ideas which they

summarized by the word maet. ...the cosmic
order of which the dimensions of Egypt were

an embodiment...

Stecchini speaks of the significance of the
Great Pyramid as a repository of the highest
and most inclusive dimensions of ma'at in the

following terms, which reflect his own
investigations in the field of relative

measurements:

The basic idea of the Great Pyramid was
that it should be a representation of the

northern hemisphere, a hemisphere
projected on flat surfaces, as is done in

mapmaking. This was the principle
according to which was built the ziggurat
of Babylon, the biblical tower of Babel,

and according to which were built the
earlier pyramids. The Great Pyramid was
a projection on four triangular surfaces.

The apex represented the pole and the
perimeter represented the equator. This is

the reason why the perimeter is in
relation 2f with the height. The Great

Pyramid represents the northern
hemisphere in a scale 1:43,200; this scale

was chosen because there are 26,400
seconds in 24 hours. But then the builders

became concerned with the problem of
indicating the ratio of polar flattening of

the earth and the length of degrees of
latitude which depends on the ratio of this

flattening. Next, they incorporated into
the Pyramid the factor f as the key to the

structure of the cosmos...

[As to the building process itself,] it
appears that there was drawn a plan of
the Great Pyramid which included the
calculation of the stars to be observed in
order to obtain the direction of the north.
[Then] the ground...had to be cleared in
order to proceed with the ceremony called
the "stretching of the cord,"...[which] had
the purpose of establishing the direction

of true north and, as the Egyptians saw it,
suspending the building from the sky by

tying the building with an imaginary
string to the axis of rotation of the vault

of heaven..

The question to be asked is whether the
incorporation of the rate of the precession

of the equinoxes into the dimensions of
the Great Pyramid and the Second

Pyramid was accidental or intended. I am
inclined in favor of the second alternative,
since in the case of the Great Pyramid the
angle corresponds exactly to three years

in the precession of the equinoxes [the
time it may well have taken from the
drawing of the plan to the actual clearing

of the ground.]

In their book Hamlet's Mill de Santillana
[a distinguished professor of science at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology for
many years] and Dechend have used

mythological and iconographic evidence
in order to prove that all ancient cultures

of the world were deeply preoccupied
wlth the phenomenon of the procession of

the equinoxes. They intended to prove
that the movement by which the celestial
pole in about 25,920 years (Platonic year)
makes a full clrcle around a point called
the pole of the ecliptic was conceived as

the basic movement in the life of the
universe. This cycle determined all other

movements, including biological
developments, and determined the length
of human life (taken as 72 years, or the
time that it takes for the celestial pole to

move a degree) as well as historical
events.

Tompkins, speaking of the building of the
pyramids, says that the estimations by the

Egyptologists of the times of their
construction were made "only on the basis of

shrewd guessing" in the absence of later

reports from the Egyptians themselves,
characterizing the evidence as "sketchy."
The most ancient Arab tradition concerning
the Great Pyramid, he says, holds that: "...it
was erected to memorialize a tremendous
cataclysm in the planetary system which
affected the globe with fire and flooding."

Arab authors recount that the pyramids
were built before the deluge by a king

who had a vision that the world would be
turned upside down and that the stars
would fall from the sky. According to

these Arab sources, the king placed in the
pyramids accounts of all he had learned

from the wisest men of the times,
including the secrets of astronomy,
complete with tables of the stars,
geometry and physics, treatises on
precious stones, and certain machines,
including celestial spheres and terrestrial

globes...

Abu Zeyd el Balkhy quotes an ancient
inscription to the effect that the Great
Pyramid was built at a time when the
Lyre was in the Constellation of Cancer,
which has been interpreted as meaning
"twice six thousand solar years before the
Hegira," or about 73,000 years ago...

Recent Soviet authors postulate that the
Egyptians may have come from Indonesia

when their civilization was devastated
some ten to twelve thousand years ago as
a result of some cosmic catastrophe such

as the falling of an asteroid...[and that
they] have recently brought to light some

fascinating secrets of Egyptian
archaeology.

The Russians are said to have found
astronomical maps of surprising

correctness, with the position of the stars
as they were may thousands of years
ago...[and] to have dug up several

objects...including crystal lenses, perfectly
spherical, of great precision, possibly used

as telescopes...[and] similar lenses have
been found in Iraq and central

Australia... [which] can only be ground
today with a special abrasive made of

oxide of cerium which can only be
produced electrically.

Tompkins' final words concerning the Great
Pyramid are as follows:

Manly P. Hall, a lifelong researcher into
the mysteries of ancient initiation, says
the Great Pyramid was dedicated to the

god Hermes, the personification of
Universal Wisdom; it was not only a
temple of initiation but a repository for
the secret truths which he calls the
foundation of all the arts and sciences.
The time will come, says Hall, when the

secret wisdom shall again be the
dominating religious and philosophical

urge of the world: "Out of the cold ashes
of lifeless creeds, shall rise phoenix-like
the ancient Mysteries...The unfolding of
man's spiritual nature is as much an exact

science as astronomy, medicine and
jurisprudence."...

Whoever built the Great Pyramid knew
the dimensions of this planet as they were
not to be known again till the seventeenth
century of our era. They could measure
the day, the year and the Great Year of

the Precession [of the equinoxes]. They
knew how to compute latitude and

longitude very accurately by means of
obelisks and the transit of stars. They
knew the varying lengths of a degree of

latitude and longitude at different
locations on the planet and could make
excellent maps, projecting them with a
minimum of distortion. They worked out
a sophisticated system of measures based
on the earth's rotation on its axis which

produced the admirably
earth-commensurate foot and cubit which

they incorporated in the Pyramid.

In mathematics they were advanced
enough to have discovered the Fibonacci
series, and the function of p and f. What
more they knew remains to be seen. But

as more is discovered it may open the
door to a whole new civilization of the
past, and a much longer history of man

than has heretofore been credited.

If Stone's research is correct, all of this
magnificent exactitude and cosmic

understanding was being carried out to
manifest and perhaps propitiate Ma'at, the
divine "eye" of Ua Zit - who becomes Au Set
- who becomes Isis - who we know becomes
Ishtar, Astarte, Ashteroth, and Aphrodite,

the same Goddess who is the Queen of
Heaven in Sumeria known as An or Ana.

Stone says,

Upon closer scrutiny, however, it becomes
clear that so many of the names used in

diverse areas were simply various titles of
the Great Goddess, epithets such as

Queen of Heaven, Lady of the High Place,
Celestial Ruler, Lady of the Universe,

Sovereign of the Heavens, Lioness of the
Sacred Assembly, or simply Her
holiness....We are not, however,

confronting a confusing myriad of deities,
but a variety of titles resulting from

diverse languages and dialects, yet each
referring to a most similar female
divinity.

Stone quotes Robert Graves, writing in his
translation of Apuleius'The Golden Ass:

I am Nature, the Universal Mother,
mistress of all elements, primordial child
of time, sovereign of all things spiritual,

queen of the dead, queen also of the

immortals, the single manifestation of all
gods and goddesses that are... The

primeval Phrygians call me Pessinunctica,
Mother of the gods; the Athenians sprung

from their own soil, call me Cecropian
Artemis; for the islanders of Cyprus I am

Paphian Aphrodite... for the tri-lingual
Silicians, Stygian Proserpine; and for the
Eleusinians their ancient Mother of Corn
.... and the Egyptians who excel in ancient
learning and worship me with ceremonies
proper to my godhead, call me by my true

name, namely, Queen Isis.

We are right back to Au Set, and behind her,
to Ua Zit. My own conclusion is that the

name Ua, with Zit added as the title "queen,"
is our Awa in only slightly changed form! So
in the end, I tend to believe Cohane is on the

right track with his place names, which
suggests to me that his evaluation of Danu
and its variants is probably correct, and that
this name is more regional than universal,

coming at a later period than the one we are
addressing.

But the research of Tompkins and Stecchini
which I have quoted from so extensively

suggests to me that there is a lot more here
than meets the eye! Superimposed on Stone's
and Cohane's images of a Mother Goddess
whose worship seems atavistic in nature, rife

with tales of the devouring of consorts and
offspring, of the worshipping of serpents and
magical fertility symbols in dark caves, quite

probably human sacrifice - certainly an
indifference to human life in the individual,

although not in the species - comes an
entirely different picture of early society.

The authors of The Great Pyramid paint a
picture of a highly organized society

stretching so far back as to be lost in the
dawn of history, a society in which the
concept of order and justice as measured

according to exacting standards in

conformity with the will of the cosmos, rules
the entire life both of the individual and of

society. They have presented a very
well-reasoned case for believing that this
society had a highly sophisticated knowledge
of the basic laws governing the cosmos. That
this organized knowledge also seems to have
been intimately bound up with the female
principle, at least until the advent of a purely
paternalistic godhead, feels undeniable. The
association of so many of the artifacts we
have from this period with female qualities

and preoccupations of the kind we see
graphically depicted at Avebury as well as
the geographical evidence of Cohane have

convinced me that this is the case.
Particularly, I find convincing the association

of these ancient societies with the "vault of
heaven" - with the precession of the
equinoxes.

Ultimately, what makes the most sense to me
- indeed, the only thing that does make sense

to me - is the concept of a society governed by
the unitary laws of the cosmos from birth to
death, but even further, from life to life to

life, each person coming into each life
according to the configuration of the heavens

at the moment of his birth, each person
having his particular task to perform
successfully in each lifetime, with the planet
as the great schoolroom and the Lady, the

Queen of Heaven, as the great
Mother-Teacher, the overall human task
being to learn to live on the earth in such a
way as to approximate more and more
closely the laws of heaven upon the earth, a
task which has been called "the squaring of
the circle" - heaven represented by the circle,

earth by the square.

Lilith As Goddess

By: Eliza Yetter
(written 2003 / revised 2007)

Lilith dates back to the bird-serpent goddess
of antiquity. In Sumeria, she was portrayed
as having both the wings and claws of a bird.
Some reliefs show her lower half as being the
body of a serpent or she is shown as a serpent

with the head and breasts of a woman.

There are many possibilities as to her early
goddess names: Belil-ili, Belili, Lillake [7], or

Ninlil [12].

She was a goddess of agriculture as well as
the "hand of Inanna". She was said to dwell

in the trunk of the Huluppu-tree:

"Then a serpent who could not be charmed
Made its nest in the roots of the
huluppu-tree.

The Anzu-bird set his young in the branches
of the tree.

And the dark maid Lilith built her home in

the trunk." [11]

Lilith also helped women in childbirth and
nursed infants.

Recent translations of her name are varied
and range from "screech owl"[13], lilah
which is darkness or night in Hebrew, to
Lilitu which is said to be the Babylonian
word for "evil night-spirit."

Her symbols are the crossroad, owl, serpent,
tree, and dark moon.

The Hebrew Lilith

When Jewish patriarchy overtook the land,
they made Lilith evil in order to stop the
people from worshipping her.

In Kabbalistic tradition, Lilith was made the
first wife of Adam. Some sources say that

Lilith was Adam's spirit wife. Other sources
claim that Lilith was fashioned from the
earth at either the same time as Adam or

before Adam. This made Lilith Adam's
equal.

As Adam's equal, Lilith refused to lie on her
back while Adam took the dominant position
in sex (missionary style). Lilith believed that

they should make love as equals (the beast
with two backs). Adam was adamantly
against this, wanting his wife to be
submissive, and Lilith left the Garden of
Eden.

God then supposedly gave Adam Eve, a
docile woman of the flesh.

Eventually, Lilith was portrayed as the foe of
Eve. It was Lilith in serpent form who

seduced Eve to eat the fruit of knowledge. No
doubt the first wife wanted the second wife to

see what a jerk Adam was and that Lilith
also wanted Eve to open her eyes and come
into the fulness of herself, her womanhood.

When both Adam and Eve were expelled
from the Garden of Eden, Adam endured a
period of celibacy as penance. During this

time, Lilith was said to have caused
nocturnal emissions from Adam (night hag).

She collected his semen and impreganted
herself with it, giving birth to demons.

These children of Lilith were called Lilin or
Lilim, "night-demons."

The goddess who once protected mothers and
infants was now portrayed as a demoness

who caused abortions and murdered infants
in their sleep. The Jewish people believed
that when a baby laughed or smiled in its

sleep, it was being entertained by Lilith, and
the parents would quickly bop the infant on

the nose to distract the infant from the
goddess. It was also believed that she came to

children in the form of an owl and drank
their blood.

Despite the Jewish attempts to erradicate this
ancient goddess, she can still be found in her

truer, albeit symbolic, form in their
literature:

"During a protracted and dangerous
confinement take earth from the crossroads,

write upon it the five first verses of this
Psalm, and lay it upon the abdomen of the
parturient; allow it to remain until the birth

is accomplished, but no longer. . ."[5]

Lilith and Sexuality

Lilith, as "hand of Inanna," would gather
men from the streets and lead them to the
temples of the sacred prostitutes. Later, as
the first wife of Adam, she refused to lie
beneath Adam and be his submissive. Instead
she chose to have sex with "evil" spirits and
beget more demons. (Who could blame her?)

Lilith was comfortable with her sexuality,
something that frightened the Jewish

patriarch who believed that merely having
sex for pleasure was a form of abortion. In
recent times, Lilith has morphed into the

succubus and incubus or the night hag who
sits on the chests of men and causes them to

have perverse dreams so that they will
ejaculate. She could take the form of either a

man or a woman:

". . .who appear to mankind, to men in the
likeness of women, and to women in the
likeness of men, and with men they lie by
night and by day."[10]

Men fear Lilith because she knows the power
of her sexuality and she knows that her

sexuality has power over men. Like Circe,
she turns men into beasts or pigs by opening
the doorways to their deep and primal sexual

desires. Such desires are forbidden by the
Jewish and Christian cults.

Women, who are like the submissive Eve,
also fear Lilith because of the power she
holds. But, as has been shown in the myth of
the garden of Eden, Lilith is not an enemy of
womankind. She holds the ancient fruit of
knowledge, the secrets of our deepest sexual

nature, and she is willing to offer this fruit to
us.

Lilith as Vampire

As the mother of all demons, Lilith has
recently been linked to either giving birth to
the first vampires or being the first vampire.

This fallacy is linked to past Jewish
superstitions in that Lilith drank the blood of

children while in the form of an owl.
In a Rabbinical frenzy to drive Lilith's
worshippers away from the goddess, they
made up lies such as this which contradicted
her earlier functions as a protectress and
helper of birthing mothers and infants.

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The Goddess Mother Mary

Eve as Creatrix, Mary as the New Eve

The Question represented by the concept of
the Goddess mother Mary is closely related

to the question of Eve.
How are the two related?

Miss Theodora writes:

I was fascinated by your essay on Creation
Myths and the Virgin Mary, and I have been
wondering how all this relates to Eve. It is as

the "seed" of Eve that Mary treads the
Serpent (in the "mistranslation" of the
Septuagint) and in mediaeval times it was

common to speak of the "parabola"
(up-down-up) pattern beginning with Eve in

Paradise, descending with the Fall and
returning to paradise with the redemption of

the world by Mary.