21 de noviembre de 2016

If Women Rose Rooted: The Medial Woman Archetype

Aphrodite, or "foam-born," was the Greek goddess that Romans called Venus, and her Old Norse (Teutonic) form was Eostre, the Goddess of Dawn; this season (Eostremonath, the old Anglo-Saxon names for April)) being dedicated to that goddess in pagan, Anglo-Saxon days. Why was the Goddess of Dawn called Eastre? Because the dawn of day is in the East—Morgenland—as the musical, mystical Germans call it—morningland.. Eostre is related to the word “East”, the direction in which the sun rises. The Proto-Indo-European goddess mentioned, Hausos, “the Shining One”. Eostre is in turn derived from Ausos, the Proto-Indo-European Goddess of the dawn, reconstructed from various other Goddesses such as Aurora, Eos etc.
Easter is not celebrated the week after Passover. It is celebrated every year on the first Sunday after the FIRST FULL MOON after the VERNAL EQUINOX (first day of Spring).

This ancient goddess, however, predates even her Cypriot and Greek forms. In Sumer she was known as Inanna, in Babylon and Assyria Ishtar, the Egyptians called her Hathor, Quaddesha and Aset, to the Phoenicians she was Astarte, to the Hebrews Ashtoreth and Ashera, and to the Philistines Atergatis. Baldr’s mother Frigg was also identified with Venus, and actually Ostara (the lunar holiday in honor of the spring goddess) was celebrated as the earthy festival of the Norse goddess Freya (Freyja), the Goddess identified with fertility, love and new beginnings, usually identified with the pan-Germanic goddess Frigg, of whose veneration it is believed that the Germanic folkloric figure Frau Holda or Frau Holle represents a survival. And what about the similar story in Persephone's rising? Life, the budding tree, the sprouting seed, the young maiden coming with arms wide open from the green healing womb (imbolc, 'in the belly') of mother earth where she has been wrapped, and to where she will return.

persephone and demeter; d'aulaires book of greek myths




Tengo los pies muy en la tierra. Para mí, desconectarme de la tierra es muy triste. Me encanta estar conectada, y buscar por las estrellas y perderme...
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The Medial Woman…is a representation of the strong-sighted and deep-hearted self who lives simultaneously in the world of light (our conventional, daytime domain) and the world of dark (the hidden realm of potential, the depths of the Soul and its making of things to bear, balance, unleash in goodness in the topside world). The medial woman in mythos since time out of mind remains rooted in both worlds, and listening to her ways and means in stories, we can hear, see, and feel the guidance this vital and soulful sense grants: “to live so strong, so wide, and so very deeply…as we promised to do before we ever came to earth.” (From Walking in Two Worlds: The Archetype of the Medial Woman. A SoundsTrue Audio Program by Clarissa Pinkola Estes)



Destiny, John William Waterhouse

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