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Antlered Doe

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Hanna Varis "Ode to Joy"

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Per diem sol non uret te neque luna per noctem.

The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night. (Psalm 120:6)

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Happy New Year!

Our Lady has gone down into that darkest place, has suffered and been broken, and She has triumphed! No soul shall be lost forever, no soul shall suffer in any eternal hell.

The world is fresh and new, reborn by Her Hand and flush with Divine Light and energy. And so today is the first day of spring, and also of a new year!

The Filianic Eastre is not dissimilar from its Christian (Easter) and neopagan (Ostara) counterparts, or from many springtime festivities around the world. Dancing, music, egg games & dyeing, flowers everywhere, and a big feast with plenty of dessert.

3344 (I.E.), is a year of Sai Thame, Janya of divine law and harmony. The year itself, as well as each month and week of the Filianic calendar will begin on Thamedi / Thursday, until next Eastre.

And the children of the earth cried: Lift up your voices in song and laughter, for the Princess of the World was dead and is alive again, was broken and is whole; and there is no place whereto Her joyous rule does not extend. Give praise to the Mother of All Things and praise to Her Daughter. Rejoice, for the world is renewed.

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Small shrine in Wola Sekowa, Subcarpathian voivodeship, Poland.

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Bust of the Virgin

Bohemian, ca. 1390–95

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Madonna & Child at the Chalice Well Gardens in Glastonbury

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(vía Mary Magdalene with Angels)

Mary Magdalene with Angels. Completed  c. 1490. Medium, limewood.

This piece is located in Munich’s Bavarian National Museum, the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. Tilman Riemenschneider.

Tilman Riemenschneider was a master sculptor and woodcarver from the late medieval.

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Castleton 7a Prehistoric Rock Art Panels, nr. Falkirk, Scotland

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God Giving Birth (1968) by Monica Sjöö

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Winter Solstice/Yule 2023

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i really want both of these as posters i love an ancient depictions of women and goddesses so much

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it just seems very obvious to me that for the ancient goddess cults that had eunuch priests, they were not “challenging gender roles,” but rather, demonstrating an attempt by males at obtaining power and access to a previously female-only organization by attempting to emulate them (castration to become “more female”), or was otherwise a means of societally othering gay men

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Madone (Madonna), (detail).

Herman Jean Joseph Richir

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Once again fuming over the fact that all major religions are patriarchal. I can never be a lapsed catholic-adjacent, making generic reference to a Mother God or Blessed Daughter, even as a casual or nonbeliever. Or use a culturally common feminine epithet as an exclamation of any kind (jesus christ! Oh my god! Who the devil?). These actions are inherently radical and I hate that so much. Even if you're an atheist, religion is baked into our culture, I'm constantly thinking about male-as-default, but especially in our langue and folklore

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You're allowed to worship the Goddess. You don't need to justify doing so with 'historical proof' that She was ever worshipped as the chief of a pantheon or as the Prime Creator. You don't need to worship Her with a male consort/equal if you don't want to. You don't need to ascribe or fully ascribe to a particular tradition. You don't have to have a particular political alignment. You can just worship Her. In a way that makes most sense, and comes most naturally, to YOU. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.