#layne redmond

[principleofplenitude]

Even more to the point, Redmond called attention to something few scholars of ancient music have bothered to consider—namely, that the oldest traditions of frame drumming were originally associated with powerful women, and embedded into belief systems centered on femininity, fertility, goddesses, and reverence for the maternal. This rich subject was the focal point for Redmond’s most famous work, the book When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm. Redmond had identified perhaps the most significant point of rupture in music history. During a distant period of cultural upheaval, drums were taken over by men—and not just by male musicians. Drumming was especially favored by military organizations, who realized that this instrument could solve so many organizational problems. Drums instilled discipline into marching soldiers. Drums made opposing troops fearful, their very sound inspiring terror. Drums could be used to send signals and coded messages, identify locations and geographical directions, and provide other informational needs. Yet there was an earlier stage in the history of music and society, Redmond hypothesized, when drumming had been more peaceful—a distant age when women had served as the awe-inspiring custodians of drums and their powers. The role of music was much different back then. When women set the beat, drumming was about fertility, abundance, prosperity, spirituality, and service to higher powers, many of them goddesses. And the drums that did this were almost always frame drums. This small, seemingly insignificant instrument, as Redmond discovered, “is mentioned in the earliest surviving written texts from Sumer in the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley. From Egypt to the Indus River Valley, from Cyprus and Crete to Greece and Rome, priestesses and other worshipping women used the frame drum to celebrate their goddesses as the endlessly rhythmic energy of life."

“When the Drummers Were Women” from Ted Gioia

[ampazourvskomodino]

[swampflix]

Don't Worry Darling (2022)

Don’t Worry Darling (2022)

We’re all familiar with Dr. Manhattan and how he exists everywhere at once now, right? Like, it’s not just comic book nerds; the meme(s) mean(s) that everyone knows the whole deal, right? So if I were to describe to you those three panels, but in each one, I’m saying:  It’s 1998 and my mom has rented The Stepford Wives for us to watch while my dad is out of town. It’s 2004 and I’m sitting in a…

[thrashkink-coven]

🎵 Invoking Aphrodite - Harri Kakoulli & Layne Redmond

[diosa-loba]

books

1. Woman's Evolution by Evelyn Reed

2. When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone

3. The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo & Barbara Mor

4. When the Drummers were Women, by Layne Redmond

[ancestorsalive]

“All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother.

This means our cellular life as an egg begins

in the womb of our grandmother.

Each of us spent five months in our grandmother’s womb, and she in turn formed in the womb of her grandmother.

We vibrate to the rhythm of our mother’s blood before she herself is born, and this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.”

- Layne Redmond, When the Drummers Were Women

[tizianacerralovetrainer]

Tutti gli ovuli che una donna porterà con sé nelle ovaie, le porta da quando è un feto di quattro mesi nel grembo di sua madre. Ciò significa che la nostra vita cellulare come un uovo inizia nel grembo di nostra nonna. Ognuno di noi ha trascorso cinque mesi nel grembo di nostra nonna, e lei a sua volta si è formata nel grembo di sua nonna. Vibriamo al ritmo del sangue di nostra madre prima che lei stessa nasca, e questo impulso è il filo di sangue che scorre dalle nonne alla prima madre.(Layne Redmond)

[diggingupbonespastandpresent]

All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother.

This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother.

Each of us spent five months in our grandmother’s womb, and she in turn formed in the womb of her grandmother.

We vibrate to the rhythm of our mother’s blood before she herself is born, and this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.

~Layne Redmond, When the Drummers Were Women

Artist: Amy Haderer, The Mandala Journey Birth

[dimyturner]

Dicen que lo primero que oímos en el útero son los latidos del corazón materno. En realidad, lo primero que suena y hace que vibre el aparato auditivo recién formado es el pulso de la madre en la sangre que corre por sus venas y arterias. Vibramos al son de ese ritmo primordial antes incluso de tener oídos para oírlo. Antes de ser concebidas, existíamos de manera parcial en forma de óvulo en el ovario materno.

Todos los óvulos que la mujer llevará dentro se forman cuando es un feto de cuatro meses en el útero de su madre, lo que significa que nuestra vida celular en forma de óvulo empieza en el útero de nuestra abuela. Todas pasamos cinco meses en el útero de nuestra abuela, quien a su vez se formó en el útero de su abuela. Vibramos con los ritmos de la sangre materna antes de que nuestra madre haya nacido…

LAYNE REDMOND, When the Drummers Were Women

El instinto

Ashley Audrain

[ubu507]

It seems to me that the purposelessness, nihilism, and self-indulgence that plague much contemporary art stem in part from the loss of its original links to the sacred. By calling the rhythm back and projecting it forward, I was learning to create sacred art.

Layne Redmond

[siamkram]

“The moon is the primordial symbol of rhythm, for as it waxes and wanes, it exerts real physical influence on the earth and on all who live on the earth, controlling the rhythms of the tides and the blood cycles of women. It is the ultimate symbol of rhythm and the oldest way of marking time.”

-Layne Redmond, When Women Were Drummers

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Art by Eva-Živa Blažková

Živa Žena

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“It is often said that the first sound we hear in the womb is our mother's heartbeat. Actually, the first sound to vibrate our newly developed hearing apparatus is the pulse of our mother's blood through her veins and arteries. We vibrate to that primordial rhythm even before we have ears to hear.

Before we were conceived, we existed in part as an egg in our mother's ovary. All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother. This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother. Each of us spent five months in our grandmother's womb and she in turn formed within the womb of her grandmother.

We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother's blood before she herself is born. And this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.

We all share the blood of the first mother - we are truly children of one blood."

~ Layne Redmond

(SHE on the tip of her tongue)

[athanatiaphroditi]

Akidalia, Akraia, Alilat, Amathousia, Ambologera, Anadyomene, Antheia, Apatouria, Aphakitis, Apotrophia, Arakunthia, Areia, Argynnis, Kallipugos, Knidia, Kolias, Kyprogeneia, Kuthereia, Despoina, Dionysia, Erukiane, Gamelia, Genetullia, Hekaerge, Idalia, Limeniatis, Mekhanitis, Melainis, Melinaea, Migonitis, Morpho, Nikephoros, Pandemos, Paphia, Peitho, Syria Dea, Ourania, Zephuritis, Zerynthia

[lioninsunheart]

Ancient Bee Goddess- 

Demeter, Rhea, Cybele- were called ‘melissae’, the ancient Latin word for bees. The Bible mentions a ruler and prophetess of ancient Israel called Deborah, the “Queen Bee”. Erich Neumann, in ‘The Great Mother’, says the priestesses of the moon goddess were called bees because “it was believed that all honey came from the moon, the hive whose bees were the stars.”” - Layne Redmond- Art: ‘The Bee Goddess’ by Emily Balivet