One modern myth ( the word in the popular sense as untruth) is that so-called sacred prostitution was common in both the ancient Middle East and the Greco Roman world. This myth of course is found within the Bible in which the charge is commonly made that fornication, adultery, and other forms of illicit sex were involved in the [...]
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I have yet to master the art of matching my texts with images. Here is one of the great classic images of the great goddess Hathor. Glenn
I have often wondered about what the musics of ancient Egypt, Greece and other nations were like. Well a few years ago a friend of mine as a gift bought me an CD called “Music in the Time of the Pyramids” which was “composed” by Spanish musicologist Rafael Perez Arroya. I have been listoning to [...]
I am reopening this blog. Given my past record I seriously doubt that I will compose more than a few posts a month but we will see. To start this off, I will note the obvious. The blog again has a new name “Isis, Mary, and the Goddesses” which I hope reflects more accurately where [...]
I am a member of probably one of the largest and most active of Yahoo e-groups called “goddesschristians.” Its link is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goddesschristians/ a member of this group who is also a member of an Eastern Orthodox Church recently posted a small article writen by Carol Christ a founding member of the goddess spirituality movement. The [...]
One of the ideas of modern liberal theologies is that the names of God are really not that important. Names, in fact, are commonly used to exclude people socially and theologically. Thus references to Christianity, God, Jesus can be used to exclude those people such as Hindus, Jews, and Moslems to whom these religious labels, [...]
