Encyclopedia of the Divine Feminine: Goddess of 10,000 Names

By Tamara Von Forslun

No matter what land, culture, country or faith, the Goddess is alive and well and attracting not only women to Her many paths and Her Mysteries but also men who have realised and awakened the feminine within and without as needed in this time of great uncertainty. It is time not to suppress the feminine, but Empower Her, so the world can see the true beauty in everything that She stands for and represents. She is not separate from the world, She is the world, and everything has a little light of the Goddess within them if they only take off their blinkers and let Her shine forth.
Let us all now honour the Great Mother and in this great hour of need for a Mother, let us honour all Mothers throughout women’s forgotten past and listen to Her-story not his-story. It is the Patriarchal religions of the world that have created a world of uncertainty, imbalance, and fear. Let us NOW through the Divine Feminine remove the imbalance of the patriarchal warring world and assist our own community in EMPOWERING women and men to awaken to a world of harmony, peace and equilibrium, The Golden Age of Harmony and Equilibrium is NOW!.
Let us as a sisterhood, daughters, nieces, sisters, mothers, grandmothers and all women and men under the Light of the Goddess in all Her cultures, names, and differences awaken Her to our world, and through us let Her shine. In honouring the Great Mother we shall spread Her love and honour all Mothers, all women of every faith, culture, and path.
“May The Goddess hold you gently in the palms of Her hands,
And always close to Her heart!”
Lady Tamara Von Forslun
Elder High Priestess of the Clan of Boskednan – Tribe of the Crow

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: May 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664105690

Tamara Von Forslun

Tamara Von Forslun has dedicated over five decades to studying and teaching Wicca and witchcraft, lecturing at universities worldwide, teaching hundreds of Wiccans, and appearing on dozens of documentaries, TV shows, and radio broadcasts. Tamara was the first person to confront the establishment by changing the laws for Wiccans in Australia and having Wicca accepted as a religion, and she founded the first legal neo-pagan church, the Church of Wicca, in 1989. Since retiring from her committed involvement in witchcraft and coven life, she has decided to share her knowledge in a series of books; Tarot Mysteries of Thoth is the third part of this series, which begins with the two-part volume Complete Teachings of Wicca and continues with The Witches’ Coven.

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Perfect Love and

Perfect Trust!

Some Goddess followers are aware that the Age of Aquarius began in 1829 and will last 2000 years. Many Seers have predicted great changes and upheavals that will take place in the history of mankind. In fact, if we are to believe recent translations, Nostradamus predicted almost total destruction. The ancient Egyptians of almost 6,000 years ago predicted that during the Age of Aquarius, when the Planets have lined up, there would be a great explosion of psychic power - some good and some evil.

As R. Lewis said in his book, The Thirteenth Stone, The planets follow the Sun in a great cycle which as I have said takes 25,920 years to complete. During this time, the Sun appears to be in a particular part of the zodiac for a period of 2,160 years. Roughly speaking, from 4,000 to 2,000 B.C.E. The Earth was in Taurus, when the Shamanic and Horned God’s were around. It then moved on to Aries for Another 2,160 years, when the major wars started, and at the time of the Spreading of the Christian Gospel, it had moved into Pisces, the fishes which is the true symbol for Christianity.

According to our Astronomer Priests, Pisces was going to be an Age of Iron, and a time when the Sun (masculine) would dominate the Moon (feminine). It would be an Age of masculine material science rather than a balanced era; the coming world would turn its back on the pagan Priest and all this hard-won wisdom. The tree would be cut down. All this was to happen within a Great Month, a twelfth part of the 25,920 years in which day and night, light, and dark, good, and evil alternate. Pisces is to be followed by Aquarius, which is governed by Saturn. This according to our Astronomer Priests would be the beginning of yet another Golden Age. In this Age man would be awakened to the plight of the planet, of a great climate change where the world would dry and rivers would cease to be, after which the tree would again bear fruit, and mankind would come to live in peace, harmony, and justice.

The main concern of the ancient Priests was that their Spiritual heirs should not have to start from scratch, as they once did. With them in mind, a vehicle was prepared which would carry all that they had learned through the stormy seas of the Piscean Age. The Christian Bible was built as a Trojan horse, which would meet the religious needs of the people of Pisces. Wicches and Shamans were and are prepared to take people through the Age of Aquarius and to suit the religious needs of the people of Aquarius. And so, it was that the SCRIPTURES WERE WRITTEN, giving the materialistic, male-dominated people of Pisces a Material God to worship. At the end of that dark time, the Goddess would send an Interpreter of the Law, who would reveal to the Children of Aquarius all that hard-won wisdom. In John 4-22; Jesus in the role of teacher is heard to say; Ye worship, ye know not what!

This could cause destruction and then a new beginning. This prediction is in the sacred care of the Inner Temple of Isis in London. It is my personal opinion that there was a slight miscalculation, as a hundred years here or there are infinitesimal, when you are dealing in thousands of years. I felt it was a little premature and more likely to commence at the turn of the last century, also one must bear in mind that our calendar dates from the birth of Jesus and may or may not be worth consideration.

The prediction which is written on a clay tablet in the script of the ancient Temple, states that there will be a Universal use of Arcane Sciences, the discovery of resources available but not yet identified and finally Chaos, followed by rebirth.

We of the New Age religion known as Wicca all have one thing in common - love and concern for the Mother Earth, and ALL life upon and within Her. Our aim is to free our people from the fear and promote Love and Trust. In Wicca we have what we call the Wicches Rune, and a couple of the lines are Queen of Heaven, Queen of Hell. For me, these words mark the knell of fear, separation, and illusion. Wicca is not puritanical sweetness or a hellish diabolism. It is the essence of life, encompassing all Nature; by the wisdom of our Goddess, we are made into the creation by a design, and not a chance.

The design, our very being must have a purpose, what is it? From day one we become magnets that surround us with situations that bring us experiences placed into good and bad. Surely the purpose of our very existence is to ensure that we gain as many life experiences as possible by finding both good/bad; pleasure/pain; success/failure. Surely, we should strive always to live our Highest Ideals and live by the words; An it harm none. We are aware that we will have our failings; most of us know upon awakening, that we will meet failure and success to varying degrees.

Our Goddess and God rule a Holistic Nature through all aspects. When we stumble through lack of Inner Strength, immaturity, ignorance, or stupidity, we are not condemned or judged by our Gods, we merely learn from our mistakes, and must learn to be all the stronger and wiser for that experience. Good/Pleasure and Bad/Pain are hidden teachers; but they are not the real lesson. The true lesson is in how we react, adhere, and grow. Our Goddess abides in every extreme of our consciousness, always ready to give the gifts of the Cauldron of Cerridwen to Her needy Children. So, when we fail, we are not cut off from Her, as She allows us to make our mistakes so that we can hopefully learn from them.

We all need to go through light and dark cycles, as everything in nature does, even in Christian mythology Jesus descended into the Underworld to learn. The great strength of our Goddess is in that we are inspired and loved and always uplifted that we may grow and understand our total individuality. In this awareness we learn to harmonise with Nature in all Her deepest Mysteries. So, once we have learned this, we become a true child of the Goddess and know that we have arrived home. With each Rank or Degree in the Wicca, we have many in-depth Mysteries that can only be taught and passed on from Traditional Covens to an Initiate, but with each solid and devout step we get a lot closer to the Oneness we seek with Deity.

The Goddess is the Soul of the Living Earth, and a Divine link with all things primordial, dark, still, and warm as if in the Tomb or Womb of Eternal Time. The Goddess has many thousands of names; She is the Inner Reality, manifested in all Life. The Goddess is not separate from the world; She is the world, and all things in and on it. She is the very essence of everything, the very breath we take is of her, and every heartbeat is by her loving grace. She illumines our souls and awakens us to the Mysteries of Nature and of ourselves.

After a millennium of Herstory, the Goddess is reawakening, not to conquer or master the masculine forces, but to affirm, the two great life principles, the electrical-male and the feminine-magnetic polarities, which are active in the Universe and to affirm that together they form a Unity, a Unity that affords us a vision of harmony and balance of the Human Spirit. By reconnecting the opposing yet connected forces of the Universe, the forces of Light and Dark, Night and Day, Masculine and Feminine, Yin and Yang, Consciousness and Unconsciousness, Birth and Death, Form and Energy. The continual Spiral Dance of life eternal, always giving and in return always receiving.

To utterly understand the Goddess and to gain a deep insight into an Initiation of the Mysteries, you need to go back, back to the time thousands of years ago, when all of mankind’s survival depended upon an intimate knowledge of aligning their intuitiveness with the forces and cycles of Nature. A transformation of personality was implied in every Initiation, from the Mundane Plane to the Fool Stool of the Gods. Women needed a female Initiation and men needed a male Initiation. For each gender, what was a sacred Mystery was largely determined by their attempt to understand their own primordial sexual essence.

Ancient female Initiatory Rites were supposed to imitate the maternal birth process, as well as the process of eternal Rebirth. The Initiation was a way of contacting deep levels of awareness; theirs is a realisation that this makes up the obvious physicality of the world is not true and real. There is a realisation of the real and the eternal, which are a different kind of reality. Plutarch, the early Greek Historian describes an inscription about Athena, one of the archetypes of the Goddess. The inscription says: I AM THAT WHICH HAS BEEN, AND IS, AND EVER WILL BE. AND NO MORTAL HAS REVEALED MY HOLY ROBES. This inscription speaks of the eternal never-changing, ever-changing reality of the Goddess who was and is and shall ever be the same but different. Initiation also represents FREEDOM from the world as it frees the spirit. But the price of that freedom is the willingness to face one’s own true dark and light self. To perceive the unconscious rather than the conscious, to touch the Inner Abyss of our own Being, and those parts of us that are a part of our totality. We need to become TRUTH and know our TRUTH. As long as those areas are distorted, we will not be free!

Initiation is also a process of confronting the Guardian of the Threshold, the Dread Lord of Shadows. The Initiate must be willing to be completely trusting and uncomfortable and face the Shadows. Death and Rebirth are the themes of Initiation, and death is the root of our deepest fears, and the true face of the Shadow, it is the terror behind VULNERABILITY, and during Initiation you are in your most vulnerable state of your entire life, blindfolded, bound, naked and at one with the elements and a lot of strangers.

The Creation of

the Goddess

Religion should be a changing and living reality where you will either get it, or you will not! The meaning of the word ‘Religion’ at root value, means ‘to bind’ to ones God or Goddess, it is about an oath of commitment of faith to your selected deity or deities.

"In the beginning there was only the Great Mother, She from

whom all life comes forth, for She is the womb of all worlds. She

is without Time and She is without Space; Hers is the infinite

and She is all that was, that is and that shall be. Within Her was

the stirrings of the first spark of being and the Sacred Source

of all Creativity. In the deepest eternal tides of Her being, did

She gather Herself up and begin the first Sacred Song. Into the

void flowed a holy syllable, a sound, the music of the spheres

that became the rhythm of the Universe and started a gentle

vibration. As gentle as the wings of a butterfly, as powerful as

the tallest of trees; as soft as the life with a seed, and as knowing

as death did, She sung her sacred song unto the Universe.

The sacred spark within Her was carried outward and

into being and thus it is said that She sang the stars into

being. Because She saw that this was the first being, other

than Herself, She saw fit to rejoice, and chose to wear a

necklace of them, and bound together 13 stars and called

them The Circlet of Rebirth. These were strung on the

chain of the heavens, celestial diamonds that form what

came later to be called the Zodiac. First was called Aries,

for it was the first, and the last was called Pisces. The

sacred clasp that held all these together was called Chiron.

For it was then Her attention was turned elsewhere. And

in between were all the possibilities of existence.

Now, when this was done, She saw fit to celebrate, and She sang

out into the star-filled darkness, singing a song in which the

heavens heard a song of calling, which, like a ribbon of love,

wound through all the lights. In time one star was called, not

the brightest, nor the largest, but only that star singing a song

which blended with Her voice in love and in trust. This star was

brought forth and the Mother took it for Her sacred altar. It was

the first candle, and She honoured it by placing it within the gift

of Light. This star came later to be called Soleil (The Sun) and

is known as the candle of our Mothers rituals and the sacred

light of life and the first light that we take into our Magick Circle.

Then, it was time for Her to think into thought, and in doing so

She created Luna (The Moon) and sat back to rest and bathe

Herself in the light. And the Light of the Luna was filled with

the creative thought of the Mother, a reflection of the gift of

light. And in harmony did these two, Soleil and Luna, carry the

rhythms of Her greatest ritual, that of creation and of being.

And it came to pass that the Mother wished to create a song

of Her creativity, of the days before She gave birth to the

Universe. As the words passed Her lips, She took them up, and

shaped them into a sphere. Into this sphere She placed the gift

of communion between thoughts, and called the sphere by the

name of Mercury. Then She set it free to dance to Her song,

to circle round the sacred candle and carry the thoughts to

wherever She chose, and chose me to receive this Oracle:

"In the beginning; the God/dess, and within the infinite stillness

of the Unformed and Unmanifest, a note was sounded. The tone

issued forth an endless vibration besetting countless other tunes

in support, of the mind of the Goddess, and through Love the

Image was given Life. And the Spirit of the Goddess was given

dominion as the Creative Principle of all that is and was to

come for all eternity. Creation continued, and this Omnipresent

image of the Goddess, the Mother/Father of Creation began to

contemplate itself as Individual Being, and sparks of Celestial

Fire were thrown throughout the boundless Universe, forming

centres of Light, of Spirit Consciousness. I was one of those

Firelights, point of Individual Awareness in my Omnipresence.

I knew myself to be the Goddess. I knew myself to be me!

Creation continued, and I sought to express the fullness of

my Being… Conceived in Love the precious idea of my Self in

expression comes forth into Manifestation as a living soul…

I am… I am… I am… In time, a part of my Self-expression

descends into the dense lower world for the experience of it…

I let myself play with Creations and I identify with them… I am

descending, deeper and deeper into materiality… Mother, help

me! My consciousness of you is fading… Father the Light is

gone… There is darkness… Where am I? Who am I? What is

the purpose of my life? I am a far country… I have spent all in

search of meaning and I am in want… I have come under the

bondage of others and I feel the swine in the fields… And the

Angel of the presence says, "You are so much more than you

think you are… stand up and seek the Mothers Kingdom… much

more than you think you are… stand up and seek the Mothers

Kingdom… your true estate… begin the journey home now!"

I turn within and seek myself… through the tunnel of mind I travel

moving across the emotional sea of my subjective world… Be

still! I speak… let the troubled waters be as glass… reflecting

only the memories of gladness, ecstasy, jubilation, and joy… Let

all others be dissolved… and my fading nature responds and

joins me on the journey to the Light… There is a door before

me… and I sense with mind and heart that it is the way to the

Chamber of Truth… Slowly I reach out and open the door, and

suddenly I am engulfed in a blazing golden Light… Above me,

below me, behind me, beside me, through me is the Light of

Spirit… Oh beautiful me, abundant me, the harmonious me, the

glass me, the forgiving me, the creative me, the whole me, the

perfect me… Slowly this Higher Self fills my consciousness with

itself and my awareness of two separate entities is fading away…

Now there is only the single I, and from the I a voice speaks:

"I am with you always… all that I am you are… all that I have

is yours… Speak now with authority, the Truth of your Being!"

And I respond, "I am Love, I am Wisdom, I am Power, I am Joy, I

am Strength, I am Beauty, I am Abundance, I am Harmony, I am

Gladness, I am Forgiveness, I am Creativity, I am Wholeness, I

am Perfection, I am the Spirit of the Goddess, and beginning this

day I will think and speak as the Goddess thinks and speaks, I will

act as the Goddess acts, and from this moment on I shall remain

in the Secret Place of Oneness with Spirit, and I will see only

with the High Vision of Spirit. The dynamic Will of the Goddess

is now made manifest on Earth as it is in Heaven. I am now in

the glory that I was in the Beginning and shall be at my end!"

I find that when I am really down emotionally or extremely negative, saying this aloud in the mirror and looking at myself saying it several times, helps Empower me and lifts my spirits and remember exactly how wonderful this world really is, and how we truly are.

Judaism has a Goddess

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If you go back far enough you will see that all new religions have their roots in the ancient systems of Pagan cultures, they start with a cosmogony, which explains to their followers how the Universe and our world was created. In the Hebrew teachings, they also conform to this pattern. The belief system of both Jews and Christians have their views of the ultimate feminine as the Divine Mother of Jesus, but conform their own ideas about Genesis. In the beginning, Mary the Mother of Jesus was elevated and considered the Goddess of their faith, before being displaced by the Roman Catholic Church and the misogynistic priests who could never follow a feminine aspect of deity, and so removed her to the lesser ranks as just a vessel for the Christ.

*In Genesis 1:1-2 it is written "In the beginning, God

created the heavens and the earth. The latter was a

formless void; there was darkness ‘on the face of the

deep’ and God’s spirit moved on the waters".

There is another scholastically acceptable way where it reads:

"In the beginning a number of Gods (Elohim) began to

give birth to the heavens and the earth. The earth still

belonged to Tohu and Bohu (Goddesses of formlessness

and ultimate space), and darkness was on the face of

the mother creator, the Goddess Tiamat, and a huge

wind flapped its wings over the face of the water".

This is the correct translation from the original Hebrew writings of the Bible before losing translation from Hebrew into Latin then into Greek, and then being lost and changed again into English. The Hebrew word Elohim, (E-lo-kheem) is explained further as The Gods, and can be understood as many or at least more than one, but there is an ancient truth of the word God that encompasses both male and female aspects of deity, not just masculine as presumed by many. In all of Nature we see the resemblance of everything that is birthed being of a creation of a male and female principle that comes together to create new life, and, in all circumstances, we need the masculine and feminine to create new life. So why is it so hard to presume that deity is also a Goddess and a God, and together they formed and created the Universe and all within it as a mother and father?

It is far easier to picture a Mother Goddess giving birth to all life than a Father God giving birth. The idea that human beings were created from the rib of Adam is ludicrous. We all know for a fact that woman creates life assisted by man, not the other way around. This will need a lot of enormous changes within our consciousness of the relationship of all women and men to the divine, as the human race has been brainwashed to a set of religious views over the past 2000 years. You have got to remember that the winner always writes history, and the winners have been patriarchal in every aspect due to their warring nature, there is no way that they would allow the feminine to be accepted above that of their own male status and ego.

Since the birthing of the New Religions, Judaism/Christianity/Islam, which is only 2-3,000 years old, where they have gently removed the importance of the feminine and created a very Patrifocal uneven religion that only answers to the needs of the males within their path and Androcentric (male dominated) inimical nativist attitudes. When a man writes, he writes through the eyes of a male, and when a female writes she writes through the eyes of a female. Much of what has been written has been by men, since women were not allowed to enter the schools of learning, they were forbidden and banned from word knowledge in all its forms, so it cannot be truly trusted. Feminist Judith Plaskow affirms that the:

"Deep resistance called forth by naming the Goddess in Judaism

indicates the needs she answered are still with us for a God

who does not include Her is an idol made in man’s image

acknowledging the many aspects of the Goddess among the

names of God becomes a measure of our ability to incorporate

the feminine into a monotheistic religious framework".

We need to bring forward and acknowledge an historical perspective in Judaism and educate the world of the Divine Feminine, not just those following the Judaic system of belief but for the Goddesses own Truth and existence in all cultures and traditions. That the sadness associated with this is that many humans of today because of brainwashing cannot nor want to conceive in any way that we as gullible humans have over the past two thousand years, that there is only ONE God, the Christian God. The difference here being that when we talk of the Great Goddess, we are also talking of the masculine side of Her as God, as we see both sides dancing eternally within the One divine Being. It is hard to prove the original Truths, as they have been buried, hidden, destroyed, and changed hundreds of times to suit the many egotistical and misogynistic visions and dreams that the priest along with the messiahs and prophets had, as they all when receiving and then writing their divine messages from the divine, wrote them down as the Words of God. The old saying is that If god is male, then male is god, has little comfort to women the world over who have been forced into a lesser importance than man.

The Goddess (God with an ess) is the Supreme Ultimate Creattress of the Universe as Sustainer and the provider for all life. Unlike the male God of the New Religion She is not a Goddess of War; She is a mother aspect of the divine, all-encompassing love and maternal instincts of the Mother for all her Creations – Her children. She is not separate from the world, She is the world, and with Her Consort, Her counterpart the God of Nature, for they are not separate but dance eternally as one entity and are prima-inter pares. Inscribed on the Temple walls at Sais and Khnum at Her Temple of Aset in the inner chamber it says: I am all that is, was or ever will be.

Because the Judaic faith saw sexuality as dirty, (many still do believe that the vagina is an evil and dirty creation of error) especially within women unless married, they also became nativist misogynists and believed that all women were dirty and evil and because of Eve who supposedly carried the original sin, that they were creatures of filth and pleasure, and lured men into sin. Whereas they saw men as the redeemer and conqueror of sin. They had to create a divine virgin to conceive the Son of God, instead of allowing the loving act of God and woman (or Goddess) to conceive a gift to the world. But still they did not give Mary a place of pride as Goddess of the Earth-born God Jesus, but instead as just a carrier, or receptacle of the divine spirits gift to man. Women need to develop the insight and acceptance of an ultimate Divine Feminine as the Goddess as it will assist women to become stronger and more empowering instead of one with guilt and being inferior to men.

The original writers and editors were Deuteronomists who struggled against the concept of the Goddess figure being a part of the Hebrew Bible. So slowly throughout the Judaic history they have tried to banish her and remove her importance from history by brandishing her as an evil creation of the devil. But the true original concepts of the Goddess run much deeper and through every part of the original writings of the Hebrews which have been bastardised to formulate what we now are aware of and what has been taught for millennia as the Truth is in fact all lies. Beginning with the original wife and consort of God (Yahweh) who was (Hochma, Sophia or Asherah) a true Goddess in Her own right. Then they changed Her names and Her titles slowly, and many times throughout the Judaic history of the Catholic Church into the Holy Spirit within the Divine Trinity. Originally it was The Father, The Mother, and the Divine Child, but was later changed to suit the more patriarchal way of foreword thinking as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Gradually instead of being given the right place alongside Her consort God as Goddess and an equal, She was changed to a lessor symbol to become the Virgin Mary and the Mother of Jesus, instead of correctly The Great Mother Goddess Mary, Mother of Jesus. A myriad of ancient stories come out of the Euphrates Valley where the ever-flowing rivers of the Tigris and the Euphrates made these lands very fertile and attracted people from afar to settle in these magical lands. These small settlements became some of the first and largest civilisations that had ever been built. It was here that the greatest Goddess of the time, Tiamat (The Great Dragon Mother) was both loved and feared, two of Her poems are the ‘Epic of Creation’ and the ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’:

"When on high were not raised the heavens,

And also, below on earth a plant had not grown up.

The abyss had not broken its boundaries

The chaos of Tiamat was the producing Mother of all of them."

The Goddess Tiamat was the living principle of the great primordial sea and of Chaos. She is often seen either as a great dragon or riding one. Tiamat is the Primordial Dragon who lives under the deep oceans until needed and then spreads Her magical wings and flies to the Earth with the power of Her legs firmly on the Earth. Tiamat is a culmination of all the Elemental powers, Dragon of the Sea (Water), Wings to fly (Air), Walks with power on land (Earth), and breaths fire (Fire). Tiamat is the essence of all creation and through the Elements that dance within Her being, She is ready to bring forth all Creation just by Her sacred breath. Her name is spoken in Genesis 1:2 where the Hebrew ‘Tehom’ is traditionally translated as ‘the deep’ and recalled that the Sea Goddess Tiamat lives in the deep abysmal reaches of the oceans, as the Great Mother She is assisting in the birth of life from the womb of Her bitter sea.

Returning back to Genesis 1:2 ‘who is it that flaps its wings like a bird’ over the face of Tiamat? ‘Merachepet’ is the Hebrew word for ‘hover’, which gives the impression of vast wings being able to float or hover. As we continue throughout Judaic history, who else had wings? In the Garden of Eden was the first creation by Yahweh and Asherah; this was Lilith, she who had the beauty of woman and with great wings of flight. Lilith has always been depicted as a beautiful naked woman with outspread wings. She had the feet and claws of an owl, and always had several owls attending her every need (this was a symbol of divine wisdom). Sadly, in time too, she like all the others was degraded from a celestial Goddess of beauty to the defamed Night Hag, where it was written in *Isaiah 34: 8-14.

"The land shall become burning pitch,

Thorns shall grow over its strongholds.

It shall be the haunt of jackals,

Yea the night hag shall there alight

And find herself a resting place". *

The beautiful Goddess Tiamat was later debased into a ‘night-jar’ or ‘night monster’, termed Lamia The Dirty Goddess. For those of the Goddess pantheons of the 21st century who have reclaimed the Goddess know the truth, and revel in Her original concept as an empowering Mother Goddess, who became "The Queen of the Wicches". Mother of all knowledge, and from whom all creation comes forth from Her very primordial womb of eternal life and death.

She was the first of Creation by the Judaic God Yahweh and Asherah as the original Earth Mother, who made love with Adam, but he saw Her as less than he, and so She invoked the first magic of the land and freed herself from Adam and the Garden of Eden, where she flew away into the far unknown, to the land that lies to the East. Yahweh, it is believed by many scholars had a consort; the belief is that the ancient Goddess Asherah was his consort and wife. Many of the houses of the time had inscribed above the entrance to their homes a sign saying:

"May all who enter be blessed by

Yahweh and Asherato".

In truth, both Yahweh and Asherah were both adored and worshipped together equally as a complimentary deific couple to their people. They would still be loved and honoured today if it were not through the pride and egos of the misogynistic male priesthood of the Judaic faith. Way before the time to the Judaic belief system, were many stories all the same as the new, just with different names. As Yahweh was the King of Heaven, although he was originally named Baal, and Asherah was the Queen of Heaven, who was originally named Ishtar (Astarte). One of the oldest Hymns to Ishtar (Isis) is of a ritual baking of the ceremonial cakes for the Queen of Heaven included these lines:

"I am Isis, I am she who is called Goddess by women

I gave and ordained laws for humans,

which no one is able to change

I divided the earth from the heavens

I ordered the course of the sun and the moon

I appointed to women to bring their infants,

to birth in the tenth month

I made the beautiful and the shameful to be distinguished by nature

I established punishment for those who practise injustice.

I am Queen of rivers and winds and sea

I am in the rays of the sun

Fate hearkens to me

Hail Egypt that nourishes me."

This shows a Goddess who is divine and creative, a Mother of Nature who is ethical in teaching humans how to live in harmony and how to love unconditionally. In the Hymn above, we see the name Isis (originally Aset), as She was the most widespread of all the Goddesses throughout the then known world, and seen as a different face of the same Goddess that was revered.

Alongside Her was the Goddess Maat; both have been identified as similar deities of the old Judaic faith. In 1945 in the deserts of Egypt hundreds of ancient scrolls were found covering a period of over 4000 years and they all speak of the powers of the Goddess and the connection to the Earth and the people. One of the scrolls states this:

"I am Protanopia, the Thought that dwells in the Light.

I am the movement that dwells in the All, she in whom the All

takes its stand, the first born as among those who came to exist.

I am invisible within the thought of the Invisible

One. I am revealed in the immeasurable, ineffable.

I am the head of all since I exist in everyone.

I am perception and knowledge, uttering a voice by means

of thought I am the real Voice. I cry out in everyone".

These words call out to my soul and make me listen; do they do the same for you. But one of the more profound and