Respecting the elder women as keepers of knowledge

My Grandmother’s House

Archaic little female figures unearthed all over the world;

Reveal the complex spiritual nature of the early matrilineal societies.

These ladies are significantly beautiful.

The striking similarity of small clay fertility females

Of early civilizations: The Indus valley,

Mesopotamia, Palestine, Southeast Asia or Ancestral Pueblo.

Mark the path back to the source, the beginning…

To our DNA ancestress,

The mitochondrial Mother who gave our hereditary patterns, genetic seeds

That are contained in the roots of a world culture, indicating

The imprint of our human species is,

As are all metaphors for the planet, female.

-Toni Truesdale

copyright 2009