This week’s goddess is Cybele (pronounced kye-bell), whose sacred tree is the pine. Cybele is the earth mother goddess of what is now western Turkey, who had a popular and longstanding cult that eventually spread to Rome. She had a … Continue reading →
I have egg on my face. I thought I had scheduled this essay to post yesterday, but for some reason it did not.As a followup to last week’s quiz, I’ve decided to begin writing about how the goddesses in the … Continue reading →
Back when I posted the quiz on Bird Companions of the Goddess I had requests for a tree version. So here it is. This will be a bit harder, because I’ve only mentioned one of these trees on this blog. … Continue reading →
I’ve been reading a long excerpt from the Malleus Maleficarum this past month. If the name sounds familiar to you, but you can’t quite place it, this was the prime resource manual used during the European witch persecutions. Written by … Continue reading →
Sorry to be late in posting. Something came up that I had to attend to.Many years ago the god Shiva appeared to me in a startling vision. This was not a fleeting glimpse of the deity, which I have frequently, … Continue reading →