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<B>She wished to solve all the great mysteries,</B></div> <div> <B>Even the mystery of death.</B></div> <div> <B>Though she knew the earth and the skies, </B></div> <div> <B>She was still young and had yet to taste either joy or sorrow.</B></div> <div> <B>She knew that she would have to go to Acropolis,</B></div> <div> <B>If she was going to find these things,</B></div> <div> <B>For nature is beyond them.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>There she met the horned God,</B></div> <div> <B>The Lord of Death, he who knows the other side.</B></div> <div> <B>“Show me heaven, show me hell,” she asked,</B></div> <div> <B>“Show me what lies beyond!”</B></div> <div> <B>“All things for a price,” he replied.</B></div> <div> <B>“Stay with me.”</B></div> <div> <B>“But I don't love you.” She confessed.</B></div> <div> <B>“Then I must touch you.” He told her.</B></div> <div> <B>“Alright,” she said, the slightest hint of fear in her voice,</B></div> <div> <B>“But first tell me your name?”</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>“My name is Cernnunos, and I will love you like none other,</B></div> <div> <B>For I have died a thousand deaths, and every time I've died,</B></div> <div> <B>I thought of you….”</B></div> <div> <B>“I will show you what you are and what you could be.”</B></div> <div> <B>“I will take you beyond heaven and hell, my love,</B></div> <div> <B>For a price…All things for a price.” </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="5ceb23e0.jpg" border=0 width="178" height="318" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="04b62fa0.gif" border=0 width="98" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="04ec8ef0.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="239" ALT="Gaia" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="04d62fa0.gif" border=0 width="98" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Goddess Worship</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> The Goddess has had many names throughout time: Isis, Ceridwen, Astarte, Miriam, Oshun, White Buffalo Woman, Kuan Yin, Diana, Amaterasu, Ishtar, Dana, Yemaya, Mary, Kali, Sune, Mielikki, Gaia: and she has many aspects: Maiden, Mother, Crone, Earth, Tree, Star, Flame, Goddess of the Cauldron, Goddess of the hearth, Healer, Mother Nature, Lady of the Forest.</div> <bR> <div> The imagery of the Goddess points to the power of the mother in our lives. She serves as a path out of the Patriarchal ways of our society and leads to the true path of the Matriarchal within us all. Symbols of the Goddess and the God can help us to be able to integrate that power, to make it conscious and available instead of denying it and fleeing from it out of fear and misunderstanding.</div> <div> As infants, we share an energy-field with our mothers. At first we know no sense of dirrerence, only a shifting ground of as yet undifferentiated feelings/sensations: warmth, coldness, pleasure, satiation, the smell and taste of sweet milk, pain, knowing hunger, aching frustration, rage, and love. Slowly we come to consciousness, helpless and dependent: slowly as we master our limbs, our voices, our senses, we develop the awareness of an I-ness that separates-out from the engulfing field.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="05364890.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="137" ALT="Eleven or One?" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Yes that field, Mother, remains for a long, long time the ground against which we see ourselves. We become separate, congeal into our own being, but she remains amorphous, omnipresent. Her presence evokes ancient feelings within us, the deep longing for infant bliss…to be held, to be rocked, sang to, taken care of, as we lay passive. At the same time it evokes that ancient terror, the ground under our feet may disappear for good as it does in those moments when we cry and are not soothed, when we are hungry and not fed. And it evokes rage against our own helplessness, against our own powerlessness, against her overwhelming power to give or to withhold comfort.</div> <bR> <div> This feeling of closeness that we all feel to the mother, in our lives, stems from the Nurturing aspect of the Goddess. She gives life, sustains it, holds it close, raises it up, and breathes life when it's needed. She gives form to thought, she allows us to become unique while instilling us with a deep sense of the I-ness, which is life.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="054648e0.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="142" ALT="Her Face" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Mother Nature is in all things living: the Earth, the trees, the animals, people, insects, the streams, rivers, and oceans, she is the air we breathe, the food we eat, she is the blood flowing through our veins, she is all. With the Goddess and the God, the life circle is complete, the God gives his seed so the mother can give birth, which leads to life, followed by death, and the cycle gives over to re-birth. A complete circle that is the Mother Goddess, and the dying God. </div> <bR> <div> The circle of life is to be cherished in all places, in all things, at all times, in all realities and dimensions. Those who worship the great Goddess celebrate the cycle that is life. To give the Goddess power is a simple day-by-day task of simply living for life itself. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Mother Nature and the Wood</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="058fabb0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="187" ALT="On the edge of Eternity" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> "The Goddesss in all her manifestations was a symbol of the unity of all life in Nature. Her power was in water & stone, in tomb & cave, in animals & birds, snakes & fish, hills, trees, & flowers. Hence the holistic & mythopoeic perception of the sacredness& mystery of all there is on Earth. </div> <div> The Goddess gradually retreated into the depths of forests or onto mountaintops, where she remains to this day in beliefs and faery stories. Human alienation from the vital roots of earthly life ensued, the results of which are clear in our contemporary society. But the cycles never stop turning, and now we find the Goddess reemerging from forests and mountains, bringing us hope for the future, returning us to our most ancient human roots."</div> <div> In our Fae-Mer-Sha faith, we believe in who or what, most call or name "Creator or "Divine Light" etc. as (being similar to what some Druids & some other Faiths also name as, or:) call "The Source". Yet, which we of Fae-Merfolk Shamanic Faith also call "The Loving Life Source". We do not exclusively prescribe a particular gender to this Supreme aspect of the Divine, Life Source. The Source can be everything & anything & thus can not be limited by us this way. </div> <div> This is the source of all creative energy from which everything else emanates. Also: Emanating From this Divine Loving Life Source comes what some would call, "Mother Nature". We can all understand how all encompassing this life force is, through myriads of forms. (Perhaps that is the easiest concept for most of us to understand.) Both the knowing & the mystery of nature....multi-faceted.. </div> <div> Next come (what some would call "Goddess" & "God" energies or) "Divine Mother & Father" Energies who also emanate directly from This Loving Source (The Loving Life Source). The Goddess & God energies are able to travel all levels of existince as needed or desired & they may appear to us on the earthly plane in forms that we can more easily understand & identify with. Yet, for us, all life energies emanate from this divine source, in more or less consciousness,remembrance or awareness of this however. </div> <div> From Divine Beings & Energies, on down past the tiniest molecules. & smaller. Therefore, We also love animals, that exist on the physical plane with earthly humans, very dearly. Many of us work to protect endangered species on earth & for the healing & protection of the environment.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="05a64890.jpg" border=0 width="100" height="137" ALT="Three Tears" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>