GODDESS & TERROR

The Goddess understood through the Orishas, as practiced in many traditional African societies, is profoundly different from modern Western cultures. It comes, their understanding, from the Earth and Sky relationship feared by traditional Euro-american sense of place and being. ~ Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2.1.13

"... yes, within her is the possibility of the Goddess growing, becoming; but Western culture shuns the notion, first intellectually, and through the subtle languages of commerce, and religion the concept, and later the embodiment of the Goddess demands too much of a person to change from within."

Mens Lounge

''White men from Europe have deeply invested terror into the notion of empowerment, power and the Goddess in religion and business and social life. In the United States the mantle was passed and according to tradition the terror has found ways to change form up to the present.

Men and women flip the title, Goddess, around so casually. Probably it is a safe way to toy with the idea, and play with the word, but to embody the whole meaning, and tradition is still dangerous for a woman. If it wasn't dangerous why is it so difficult for women to transition from the second realm of Being, from the Mother's energies to the Old Crone, Old Wise Woman?

The imbalance and the absurdity of the dance is plain, evident and in the open. Young women watch older women gyrating pathetically, at some point, trying to be younger distorting, or freezing their faces into one moment, doing any number of things to appease immaturity and the other wonderful things about being young, as if to age is the bane of existence, and wisdoms and powers are unimportant achievements.

The fears from our collective histories are strong ancestral links to the demons who fed those fires, and braid those cords of existence. They feed our women, and they encourage men to continue condensing the complexities of a higher state of being with the trivial pursuits, and the cliches that don't feed the soul, but satisfy the lust, and the need to never feel less than the force of Nature from which we come from and in the end need to return."  - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 2.1.13

Goddess form of an African-American woman 2