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My Lecture at Theosophical Society on Esoteric Christianity and the Garden of Eden Story Now Available on YouTube and the Society’s Website
The video of my October 29 lecture at the Theosophical Society in America about Esoteric Christianity and the Garden of Eden Story (including my PowerPoint slides) is now up on YouTube, as well as on the Society’s Website. It is … Continue reading
Independence Day Mythology: Our Goddess Liberty
Not many of us know that a goddess stood behind our founding fathers in America’s struggle for independence. And she has served as a national symbol ever since then, which continues to irritate some religious conservatives. These days when questions … Continue reading
Posted in Goddess, Holidays, Mythology
Tagged Eleutheria, goddess, holidays, independence day, Indian Princess, Indian Queen, July 4th, Libertas, mythology, vindicta, Vindicus, Zeus, Zeus Eleutherios
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The Mythology of May Day I: The Goddess of May Day
May Day does not get much attention in America, but our culture has deep mythological roots in this holiday going back to our European ancestors and even to the ancient Classical world. I’ll be devoting three posts to this mythology … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays
Tagged April Fool's Day, Attis, Botticelli, Brigde, Cailleach, Chloris, Cybele, Elysian Fields, fertility, Flora, Foralia, goddess, Green Man, Hilaria, Karpos, May Day, May King, May Queen, Maypole, Morena, nymph, Ovid, Primavera, Queen of Winter, Roman Mythology, Sabines, St. Walpurga, Vesna, Virgil, Virgin Mary, Walpurgis Night, Zephyros
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The Goddess of Easter
We celebrate the spring equinox season through Easter, which in Christian tradition marks the resurrection of the divine Jesus Christ. According to the Gospels, this event indeed took place in the spring (on the day of the Passover Sabbath in the … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Goddess, Holidays
Tagged Bede, Christ, Earth Goddess, Easter, Easter Bunny, Eastre, Eostre, Eosturmonath, goddess, Grimm, Marzanna, matron Austriahena, Morena, Ostara, Pascha, Passover, Vesna
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Mythic Travel: Malta’s Neolithic Sacred Temples
The Mediterranean island of Malta has always fascinated me because of its long and variegated history: Neolithic ruins; it being the island where (according to tradition) St. Paul shipwrecked on the way to Rome (Acts 27:41-28:10); cultural influences from Phoenician, … Continue reading
Posted in Mythic Travel, Mythology
Tagged goddess, Gozo, Malta, mythic travel, neolithic, temples
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Yahweh’s Divorce from the Goddess Asherah in the Garden of Eden
Hebrew Bible scholars have long recognized that the writer who penned the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and much other narrative in the first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible (called the Pentateuch, or Torah) … Continue reading
The Sacred Trees in the Garden of Eden
Since my book about the Adam and Eve story, The Mythology of Eden, is just coming out, I’ll devote some of my posts over the ensuing weeks and months to intriguing questions arising from that story. I’ll start here with … Continue reading
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