Goddess
of A Thousand Names:
The
First Female Divinity, Our Common Mother, Earth
Toni
Truesdale
(Migration: Creation story)
Our
ancestors, all, tread through pristine wilderness, crossed deserts, glaciers,
oceans and at each stop seeded future generations. Across Earth there is a
clear connection from our genesis to the present manifestation of the divine
female; The Great Mother,
((Tara with the Sun and the Moon)
whom
produced all life on this Blue Planet. The passages continue today; but now it
is time to reconnect the bonds that tie people to this World; to each other, to
all life. May we begin to celebrate again the source, (art: The Source) her
sacredness: Goddess of a Thousand Names
Humans
have always been in motion:
“Primordial people
Set forth on the longest journey;
To here, now as each individual breath descends;
We all exhale in the moment of still moving
humanity”
We
walked through centuries, created cultures, religions, shrines, art; developed
languages that spoke a thousand feminine names for our sacred earth
( In her Footsteps).
“Ancestors, all came
through historical patterns of migrations
Moving through hunger,
fear, curiosity
Diaspora,
trans-Atlantic passages, immigration
Displacement,
clearances, long walks and removals…”
Some of her names we remember: Magna Dea, Tara, Callileach, Danu, Terra Mater, Tiamat, An, Demeter, PachaMama, Mawu, Nana Bakulu, Tiamat, Nut, Gaia, Tonantzin, Hon Tu, Bhumi Dea, Joro… For every step in the movement of humanity there was a name for beloved Mother Earth, the original Creatrix.
We need to rediscover these names, remember and create anew sacredness to our greatest commonality this world we share with all living things.
Tracing
back through our common female primordial past through the mitochondrial DNA human
origins begin at the southern of Africa
We are a
people evolving, moving as are all species, with genetic knowledge inherited
each generation to the next back to the beginning, where all things are
connected.
“The circle of life is the
Center of the Earth,
Cycle of seasons,
Rhythm of the winds,
Timelessness of the elements
Spiral of the generations
Crossroads of visions,
Spirits of the Four Directions,
Medicine of healing,
Red, black, white and yellow of the races of humanity,
Roots of the Great Tree of LIfe,
All linking humanity, animals,
Plants, birds, insects
To the oneness of all things…”
The
prophesies of many indigenous people speak to this time. We face a choice, to
live in a more sacred way, of balance with all
our relations…
“Mothers of the Continents”
Grand(mothers) of
the continents
Crossing into now
deep waters...
Weren’t we all
once one?
Ancestors evolve
into descendants
To mix culturally
Contradicting
with irony
The centuries of
violence caused by the mode of current biases...
If we could
perceive through generations
Past into what
will be
It would
transform pointless superiority
and embrace all
the children yet to be
As our common
family.
( Fates of the
Earth)
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