Goddess, Triple

Lemer, Isha and Tara McKinney. The triple goddess tarot the power of the major arcana, chakra healing, and the divine feminine / Isha Lemer, with Tara McKinney illustrated by Mara Friedman. Rochester (VT) Bear Co, 2002. xiv, 231 p. ISBN 1-87918-194-0... 

The Achaeans, who were the first to invade Greece, ultimately joined with the Pelasgians and lonians. In doing so, they succumbed to the religion of the Triple Goddess, which was the ancient religion of the other main crucible, the Afro-Asiatics. 

Triple Goddess Q re s holocaust and in later times sacrificed a child to the god Cronos. ... 

The bee has continued through the millennia as a symbol of the soul s survival after death and limitless existence in the harmony of Golden Age of the world. However, the bee also had a very dark side. It remained a primary s5mibol of the Afro-Asiatic Triple Goddesses such as Demeter, Hecate, Persephone, Aphrodite and the pre-Indo-European aspect of Artemis. Arcadians worshipped both Artemis and Persephone under the name Despoina, which means mistress. 

Butes is the most famous beekeeper of antiquity. He was a priest to Athene on Mount Eryx who represented the love-god Phanes, son of the Triple Goddess. The Greeks often depicted Phanes as a loudly buzzing bee called Ericepaius. ... 

Triple Goddess in decisive action. The paradigm of male rights later gained more strength with Ishtar who demanded the release of her consort Tammuz from the underworld. 

The metamorphosis of the festival of Lenaea, the Festival of the Wild Women, in Athens demonstrates the attack of the Indo-Hittites on the Triple Goddess. At first, Hera tore apart an adult male. After the Indo-Hittite revision, a male child substituted for the mature male victim. A kid then replaced the male child. Finally, orgiastic moon-priestesses cut into nine pieces and sacrificed a bull representing Dionysus. ... 

In an ancient method of sacrificial killing, the priests placed the sacrificial king in a Birchwood box and suspended it between two tall poles (Asherah poles).Allowed three loaves, one for each aspect of the deity or the Triple Goddess, he remained suspended at God s mercy, between heaven and earth, until he decayed and his remains blew away. 

The Nabatean storm god was Duchares who was later identified with Dionysus. Like Yahweh, the Nabateans worshipped Duchares on high rocky places. However, both Duchares and his consort, the fertility goddess, were subservient to the Moon God. We continue to see the triple character of God represented by three deities. 

Rabbinical Judaism subsequently developed from the Pharisees. The Rabbis continued to demonstrate three of the characteristics we have come to expect from the Indo-Hittite compression. They supported oral tradition, believed in the immortality of the soul, and sought to eliminate the matriarchal religion of the Great Triple Mother Goddess and frowned on so-called messianic bloodlines. 

Hercules blade, reddened with the blood of the ferocious hundred-headed Ladon, who coiled around the apple tree, is the necessary key to enter the garden.There the Hesperides, the Three Daughters of the West who really symbolize the great Triple or Mother Goddess, grant him wisdom. 

King Lear s desperate attempt to avoid the sacrificial fate of kings has its origins in the ancient Triple Goddess ritual. To avoid death, or at least defer it for nineteen years, the king divided his kingdom into three parts and awarding one part to each of his successors. " ... 

King Lear s three daughters represent the Triple Goddess. To succeed with his plan he needed to experience the carnal love of the Goddess, which is the professed love of each of his daughters. In this way, he could satisfy the requirement of carnal involvement with the Goddess, without actually being involved. 

King Lear s madness is really the essence of clear vision, as we would expect from such an illustrious King. Even this tirade against his daughters cleverly characterizes each as a traditional embodiment of the Triple Goddess such as Hecate. 

Phoenix builds a nest in the palm. This nest is both the tomb of its father and its own cradle. He also describes it as the plant of Myrrah, the beautiful daughter of Cinyras that lay with him as an instrument of the three Sisters (the Furies), who are of course the Triple or Mother Goddess. 

The Hebrew Tamar derives from the ancient practice of forcibly fertilizing date palms. The palm is dioecious and requires artificial pollination. Grove keepers bind the male flowers to the female flowers, once more representing the sacred marriage of the Triple Goddess. 

Only the eagle, feathered king is included in the ceremony. The poem ends with the Threnos in three-three time, the meter of the Triple Goddess ... 

The Virgin Mary is the goddess of birth and Mary Magdalene is the goddess of carnal love. Salome completes the triad of the Triple or Mother Goddess. Esoteric writers also placed her at Jesus crucifixion and empty tomb to contribute the Hecate or Demeter aspect of the Triple Goddess. 

The Dog Star Sirius symbolizes the great Triple Goddess in more than her aspect of love. The constellation of Canis Major has 64 stars and... 

Six hundred years later Jesus was to continue the ferocity of the Calebite attack on the Canaanite religion of the Great Triple Goddess... 

Because of his abilities, Pegasus spring was sacred to the Triple Goddess and her Muses as a source of poetic inspiration. The dialogue between Moth and Adriano de Armado (initials AA) in Shakespeare s Love s Labours Lost refers to it ... 

Before we turn to the Sheela-na-gig in particular, we need to review the practices of the Triple Goddess. At Marmaria, near Delphi, archeologists have discovered that the ancient female rites involved vulva imagery. They found gold statues of women with their faces and genitals combined. The priestesses hid these statues in the floor of the Tholos, a stone circle rotunda dedicated to the Barley Mother at Temple of Demeter. We investigated the architecture of the site earlier in this chapter. 

Medea s expulsion, from Corinth and then from Athens, refers to the Hellenic suppression of her Triple Goddess cult. ... 

Yet, the practices of Triple Goddess worship were entrenched elsewhere in Europe and horrifying myths continued to circulate. While the Indo-Hittite invasions of Greece stopped the practice of male sacrifice, the Goddess Demeter s ensuing hostility to children demanded constant, covert appeasement. 

The Triple Goddess has constantly been with us, even if not immediately recognizable. Ludwig van Beethoven praised her in his triumphal S miphony No 9, Opus 125 Choral, dedicated to King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Pmssia. 

Chapter 15 mentioned that the singer Madonna emulated the Triple Goddess in Ariadne s castle of Light at the Corona Borealis. 

There are many other examples of the warm reception of the triple Goddess on the pop hit parade. In memory of Princess Diana, Sony Entertainment released an official compact disk of her favorite songs entitled Diana, Princess of Wales - Tribute. It included a hugely popular song of praise to the Mother Goddess, Hymn to Her, by lead singer Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders ... 

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