Keywords: Crete, Cybele, Attis, Nana, Ephesus, Hierapolis, Astarte, Day of Blood, Kali, mahakali, Khonds, Gonds, Coatlique, Huitzilopochtli, Cihuacoatl, Teotihuacan, Tezcatlipoca, ixiptla
Three Faces of EVE : Sacrifice as Original Sin
Snake Goddess Knossos 1600 BC (Alexiou)
Ways of the Sacred Marriage:
The Hieros Gamos 1: Exorcising Bitter-Sweet Hystery
Yahweh and the Asherah: On Every High Hill and under Every Green Tree
The Song and the Wisdom
Origin of Sin and the Queen of Heaven
The Literary life of Deity
The Nemesis of the White Goddess
The Repression of Eve Trouble in Eden
The Gnostic Sophia
Three Faces of EVE: Sacrifice as Original Sin
Feminine Nature Shamanism
Buddha Mother
The Rebirth of the Church and the Transfoliation of Life
The Jewish Restoration and Shekhinah
The Islamic Woman
Ecofeminist Voices of the Floodtide
The Sacrifice of Eve: Biodiversity Genocide
Sowing the Spores of Immortality: Spiritual Biodiversity Renewal
Fighting for Their Rights: Female Circumcision
Before contemplating bring back the ancient genetic mother, we should all stop to consider what it is we do want to bring back, lest we make the same mistake made in ancient times and confuse the blood of male sacrifice with the essential fertility principal necessary for our own survival.
Lets us bring back the Eve of the eternal germ-line and the synchronistic goddess Leucothea of the sub-conscious mind as a shekhinah of visionary reflection, without the primitive gore of self-mutilation. These passages thus stand as a shrine to the spilled blood of the past and as a warning to those who would seek to bring back the goddess without due caution.
EVE the "Mother of all Living" has many faces spread through diverse cultures. Barbara Walker notes that "She is Adita Eve - the very beginning. Babylonians referred to her as the Divine Lady of Eden or Goddess...