Monday, November 2, 2009

Goddesses of All Four Directions

Look what I found ... it's beautiful, even though this small image doesn't do justice to the detail of the original.
But go to the Goddess Timeline website and see a better version of this image, plus 3 others. Together, these 4 charts provide us with a well done visual timeline that shows many of the important and known Goddesses.
Seriously, I don't know the artist who made this, Constance Tippett, and I've no reason to promote her work ... but for the beauty of the idea and its execution.

Naturally, no one could prepare a chart with all the female deities that have been worshipped at one time or another by this or that culture ...
Even male Gods the world over number in the thousands, yet the number of Goddesses is even larger.
After all, the Goddess (and matriarchy) was there in the beginning, the Gods (and patriarchy) are a much later invention.

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