Goddess

Pele

In Hawaiian legends Pele is a fiery mountain woman. Her volcanic energy creates new land masses and blows old ones away. She blows warmth and energy into your body to stimulate your every cell, burning away all unwanted psychic debris filling you with renewed energy.

Summer
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In summer nature is blossoming and blooming. Summer is also the season of the longest day.

In ancient Egypt the Goddess Isis was known as the source of all lfe. She is the mother of the Sun God Horus. Isis brought much wisdom, knowledge and culture to her people. She renews you with enthusiasm and vitality. She helps you see and make your life the way you want it to be.

Yemaya

When the people of Africa were enslaved and brought to the Caribbean Islands and South America, they held on to their love of Yemeya, Goddess of the Sea, Womb of Creation. She kept their spirits alive in the horrible conditions of slavery. In music, celebration, ritual and song, Yemeya lives in the hearts of the people.

From: The Book of Goddesses by Nancy Blair


Yemaya gives healing and hope in despair. Allow yourself to be touched by the healing energy of the beloved Goddess Yemaya. She will comfort you and make you feel good about yourself.

Autumn
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The length of the days begins to decline and so does the sun's energy. It is time to interpret and clarify what we have gathered in summer.

Kuan Yin is the Chinese Goddess of Compassion.
Kuan means Earth and Yin is the female life force.
Kuan Yin has strength which is embraced by softness. Call on Kuan Yin to practice compassion, this will send healing energy throughout your body.

Medicine Woman

Me- means the magical power of fate, healing magic and medicine.

Women were the first midwives and shamans, welcoming the newly arrived and preparing sacred rituals for the departed. The Medicine Woman holds the Moon in her hands. She trusts Divine Timing. She knows that all things that once were will be again.
From: The Book of Goddesses by Nancy Blair

Connect with your dreams, fantasies and forgotten feelings, they will provide you with healing insight and allow you to emerge refreshed and rested. Listen to messages and signals from your soul.

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Winter
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In the quiet of the winter landscape the sun's rays gain strength day by day and the days become longer awakening the seeds that sprout in Spring.

Brigit is the Celtic Goddess of poetry, medicine and inspiration. She has divine powers of creation and transformation.
Light a candle to Brigit. She will fill your body with a warm, tingling sensation. Share your concerns and worries with her. Allow her to guide you and fill your life with joyous surprises.

Freya

The Goddess Freya brought light to the people of northern Europe. She gave them the heat of the forge and the fire of sexual love. She also taught divination to the holy Volva ,female prophets who did extatic dances and offered glimpses into the future. Her essence was about sexual love.
From: The Book of Goddesses by Nancy Blair


Ask Freya to guide you about love and relationship. She will guide your loving way.

Dear Inda

Inspiring and also wonderful images
Thank you!

Love,

Lilie, where it is raining

I love your post and the images are gorgeous.

Thank you very much.
Gisele

Thanks Inda.
I have always been fascinated by Goddesses, witches etc. Nice post.

Sue

Thank you Inda.

I like this post very much and the images are really beautiful.

Vicky

Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli

Dear Inda, thank you for this inspiring thread about Goddesses .... so very fascinating. And I just could not resist thinking of the Goddess of Love Venus, the Roman name for the Greek Goddess Aphrodite.

"Venus The Roman Goddess Of Love,
also known as Aphrodite in Greek Mythology.
Venus was born of the Sea and the Sky. She was honored as the Mother of the Roman people.
Julius Caesar was said to have linked his lineage to Venus.
Her mortal born son was Aeneas. Aeneas was the founder of the
great city of Rome. There are still shrines to Venus
existing in the Mediterranean Region to this day.
Each year the city of Venice, named for Venus, celebrates the
marriage of their city to Venus.
Venus serves as inspiration to many great works of art,
including the statue of Venus De Milo in the Louvre and the
great painting The Birth of Venus, by Botticelli.
It is the Goddess Venus who inspires people to love one another
and to celebrate the rites of Marriage.
She is also associated with the rites of Spring and Fertility.
Though there are many other great Goddesses associated with
Love, Venus reigns as the supreme Goddess Of Love.
With her exquisite features and pleasant smile she attracted many suitors, gods and mortals alike.
However, she was married to the graceless and lame Vulcan, the god of fire. Her true love was Mars , the god of war. Their child was the beautiful goddess Harmonia.
One day while Venus and Mars were together they were caught in an invisible but strong net forged by Vulcan, and exposed to the ridicule and laughter of the other gods at Mt. Olympus."

Love to all. Margherita

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I’m open to love
my heart invites you to dance
come share my delight


senryu by Margherita

Thank you everyone for your kind replies.

Dear Margherita, I really enjoy reading the story about Venus; how could we possibly leave out the Goddess of Love?
The painting by Botticelli is one of my favourites. Thank you for posting this beautiful reply.

May the Goddess of Bliss embrace you all

Thank you Margherita for this text on Venus, I am myself very unlearned

Love,
Lilie

These are all so beautiful!

Such interesting information. I suppose the Greeks weren't incestuous like the Egyptians!

You are ALL Goddesses. This is great. May the blessings be. Lovebeams, Teo

"Truth is fragile, as glass, but it can shine for all time!" - Use Art To Say Something

Mind your wants, because somebody wants your mind! - George Clinton.

Forgive my thinking I have something valuable to say to you, I just love you so much...

Thank you Teo.
May the Goddess embrace you with a hug and a kiss

Thank you.
This is a fabulous post.
All the images are beautiful.

Gisele

Thank you Gisele.

Here is "Butterfly Maiden".
This Goddess lives in plants and animals.
She is the symbol of regeneration. She will help you to attract the right situation for you to move on.

Dear Lilie,
This is incredible.

You are a being who is also Goddess.
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Changing the dream involves coming to the light,
releasing the light, seeing the light from many directions.
~Don Miguel Ruiz
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These images are spectacular.
Thank you everyone, for the beautiful thread.

Gisele

Sensa, godess of emotions

Thank you Lilie,
She is so beautiful.

Here is the detail from a Balinese sculpture in wood. Displayed at the Koninklijk Institut voor de Troopen in Amsterdam.

The small figure of a goddess in the pose of a dancing girl and the monster. Her beauty shines to the stars, making them glitter and sparkle. She puts a magic touch into the universe.

How beautiful, Inda...
here is Kuan Yin




with Love
Lilie

Thank you Lilie.
Kuan Yin is also very beautiful.
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Beloves Sarasvasti is the Hindu Goddess of learning. Her four arms representing her all-pervasiveness, hold the Vina, symbolizing the cultivation of fine arts, the Book symbolizing knowledge,and the Rosary symbolizing the science of yoga, meditation,japa, and mantra.

Thank you everyone for your beautiful stories and images of Goddesses. I have heard about the dancing Goddess of Bali and Venus Goddess of Love, but I did not know about the others.

Vicky

The Divine Mother is a goddess and abides in the heart of every being.

Seiobo is also called the "Queen Mother of the West". She cultivates a garden of peach trees that blossom only every 1000 years. However one of these peaches eaten, gives eternal life.

This thread is somehow comforting to me right now ... as it is a beautiful reminder of where we come from and who we really are!

Thank you for unburying it, dear Inda, with such a beautiful picture and accompanying words of the Divine Mother.

Love all the pictures and texts.

Love,
Margherita

Thank you dear Margherita, and yoko.

I like this thread as well.
Everyone has added a touch of grace and beauty.

Love, Inda



"Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee,
Blessed are Thou, Amongst Women,
And Blessed in the Fruit of thy Womb, Jesus;...

From - The Hail Mary Prayer, Roman Catholic Church

I am glad to see this beautiful thread again.

"Obsience to Her
Who is Pure Being, Consciousness, Bliss.
As Power,
Who Exists in the Forms of Time and Space,
And All That is Therein,
Who is the Divine Illuminatrix in All Beings."

- A Tantric Prayer


Artist: Susan Seddon Boulet

“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”

Ludwig van Beethoven

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Gloria Steinem

“The earth that holds treasures manifold in secret places, wealth, jewels, and gold shall she give to me; she that bestows wealth liberally, the kindly goddess, wealth shall she bestow upon us!”

Atharva Veda quotes