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Quotations Links Bibliography Notes
Speaking to the Goddess:
Prayers, Invocations, Songs, Mantras, Chants, Rituals
"Mighty, majestic, and radiant, You shine brilliantly in the evening, You brighten the day at dawn, You stand in the heavens like the sun and the moon, Your wonders are known both above and below, To the greatness of the Holy Priestess of Heaven, To you, Inanna, I sing!" - Diane Wolkstein, Inanna
"Obsience to Her
Who is Pure Being, Consciousness, Bliss.
As Power,
Who Exists in the Forms of Time and Space,
And All That is Therein,
Who is the Divine Illuminatrix in All Beings."
- A Tantric Prayer
"Yah Devi sarva bhuteshu,
vishnumayeti shabditaa
Namastasyai, namastasyai,
namastasyai namoh namaha"
This goddess, who in all things, exists as
the very form of God.
I bow to you, I bow to you, I bow to you,
again and again."
- Yah Devi (This Goddess)
Krishna Das,
Pilgrim Heart
"Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee,
Blessed are Thou, Amongst Women,
And Blessed in the Fruit of thy Womb, Jesus;
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
Now, and at the hour of our death,
Amen."
- The Hail Mary Prayer, Roman Catholic Church
"Oh Goddess, Source of Gods and Mortals,
All-Fertile, All-Destroying Gaia,
Mother of All, Who brings forth the bounteous fruits and flowers,
All variety, Maiden who anchors the eternal world in our own,
Immortal, Blessed, crowned with every grace,
Deep bosomed Earth, sweet plains and fields fragrant grasses in the nurturing
rains,
Around you fly the beauteous stars, eternal and divine,
Come, Blessed Goddess, and hear the prayers of Your children,
And make the increase of the fruits and grains your constant care,
With the fertile seasons Your handmaidens,
Draw near, and bless your supplicants."
- Orphic Hym to Gaia,
Translated by Virginia Stewart.
"Hail Diana
Hail Artemis Diana
Blessed Lady of the Beasts
I dedicate myself to You
May my path honor Thee
May my spirit celebrate Thee
May my life force magnify Thee
These things I pray
Be fulfilled this day
Goddess Mother help me
To know what is right."
- Goddess Prayers
and Invocations
"Fair as a jasmine flower, the moon or a flake of snow,
Dressed in white, her hands adorned by the graceful veena staff,
Adorned by Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and the other deities,
Protect me, Oh Goddess Saraswati, remover of ignorance."
- Hindu
Goddess
"I, Isis, am all that hath been that is or shall be,
I, who made light from my feathers, The wind from my wings,
No mortal man ever hath me unveiled! - Until now."
- Invocation
of Isis
"I went there of my own free will.
I went there in my finest gown,
With my rarest Jewels
With my Queen of Heaven crown.
In the Underworld
At each of the Seven Gates
I was stripped Seven times
Of all I thought I was
Till I stood bare in who I really am."
- Inanna,
Goddess for Embracing the Shadows
"Devi prachanda dora danda daitya
darpa winashine
Roopam dehi jayam dehi
Yasho dehi dwisho jahi."
Oh Goddess, with your great staff you have
destroyed the demons of egoism and thought.
Grant me freedom, victory, fame and destroy
all hositility."
- Devi Puja (Worship of the Goddess)
Krishna Das,
Pilgrim Heart
Bibliography and Links
Speaking to the Goddess:
Prayers, Invocations, Songs, Mantras, Chants, Rituals
Aphrodite, Greek Goddess, Goddess of Love and Beauty
Aphrodite,
Greek Goddess, Fast Facts
Artemis, Greek
Goddess, Goddess of the Hunt
Athena, Greek Goddess - Shrine of the Goddess Athena
Athena, Greek
Goddess - Goddess of Wisdom
Athena,
Greek Goddess - Goddess of Wisdom and Craftsmanship Symbols
Athena, Greek
Goddess, Fast Facts
Athena, Greek Goddess,
Creatrix of the Olive Tree
Demeter, Greek
Goddess, Goddess of the Fields and Harvest
Devi:
Goddesses of India. Comparative Studies in Religion and Society, #7.
Edited by John Stratton Hawley and Donna M. Wulff. University of
California Press,
1996. 373 pages. ISBN: 0520200586.
Egyptian
Goddesses SEE ALSO Isis
Egyptian Goddesses
and Gods - 96 Dieties
Egyptian
Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
Goddess
Bless! - Divine Affirmations, Prayers and Blessings: By Sirona
Knight.
Red Wheel/Weiser, 2003. 192 pages. ISBN: 1590030028.
Neo-pagan.
The
Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit. By
Patricia
Monaghan. Llewellyn Publications, 2000. 398 pages. ISBN:
1567184634. Neo-pagan.
The Goddess in World Mythology.
Paintings by Sandra M. Stanton.
The
Goddess Oracle. By Amy Sophia Marashinsky. Illustrated by Hrana
Janto.
Element, Harper Collins, UK. ISBN: 000714587X.
The Goddess Path: Myths, Invocations and Rituals. By Patricia
Monaghan.
Llewellyn Publications, 1999. 288 pages. ISBN: 1567184677.
Neo-pagan.
Goddess Prayers and Invocations European Wiccan Pagan
tradition. An extensive collection
of information and ideas by Abby Willowroot for the Pagan community.
The
Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth. By
Monica Sjoo.
Haper San Francisco, 2nd Edition, 1987. 528 pages. ISBN: 0062507915.
The
Great Goddess: Reverence of the Divine Feminine from the Paleolithic to the
Present.
By Jean Markale. Inner Traditions Intl. Ltd., 2000. 256 pages.
ISBN: 0892817151.
Greek
Goddesses and Gods - Google Directory
Greek Goddesses SEE ALSO Athena, Aphrodite, Dementer, Gaia, Hera,
Persephone,
The Green Wizard:
Bibliography, Links, Resources, Quotes, Notes.
Complied by Michael P. Garofalo.
Hera, Greek Goddess,
Queen of the Gods
Hera,
Greek Goddess: The First Greek Goddess. By Sylvia
Sosa.
Hindu
Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition.
By David R. Kinsley. University of California Press, 1988. Reprint
Edition.
281 pages. ISBN: 0520063392.
Hindu Goddesses SEE ALSO Devi, Shakti, Tara
Inanna.
By Diane Wolkstein. Perennial, 1983. 256 pages. ISBN:
0060908548.
Inanna - Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Sumer, Iraq, Persia, Babylon
Inanna, Istar, Ashtart:
"She was addressed as"Mother
of the Fruitful Breast", Queen of Heaven, Light of the World,
Creator of People, Mother of Deities, River of Life, etc. The breast-offering
pose suggested her function as the Goddess
of all nourishment and fertility. Ishtar, also known as Innana in Sumeria is,
above all, a lunar Goddess who gives life
as the waxing moon and then withdraws it as the waning moon. The light and dark
dimensions to her power, her
dying and resurrected son-lover Tammuz, who annually descends to the underworld
and rises again from it-all
suggest a lunar mythology which revolves around the connection made between the
light and dark lunar phases
and rhythmic alteration of the Earth's fertility."
- Angels and
Earthly Beings
Inanna, Sumeria: The Goddess
Inanna
Inanna, Sumeria: Goddess
of Love and War
Inanna, Sumeria: Inninsagurra - A Hymn to the Goddess Inanna by the en-Priestess
Enheduanna.
Inanna,
Sumeria - Google Search
Invoke the Goddess: Visualizations of Hindu, Greek and Egyptian
Deities.
By Kala Trobe. St. Paul, Minnesota, Llewellyn Pubs., 2000. Index,
bibliography, 207 pages. MGC. ISBN: 1567184316.
Isis, Egypt: Aset, Isis, The
Goddess on Philae
Isis,
Egypt: Goddess of Magic and Giver of Life
Isis, Egypt: The Black
Virgin Useful quotations. A comparision with the
Virgin Mary.
Isis, Egypt:
The Mother Goddess
Isis, Egypt: The Temple
of Aset
Isis, Egypt: The
Temple of Isis
Isis, Egypt: The
White Goddess
Labyrinths:
Bibliography, Links, Resources, Quotes, Notes
The
Language of the Goddess. By Maria Alseikaite Gimbutas. Harper
Collins, 1995.
ISBN: 0062504185.
The
Living Goddesses. By Marija Gimbutas. Edited by Miriam
Robbins Dexter.
University of California Press, 2001. 306 pages. ISBN: 0520229150.
Meditation: Links, Bibliography, Quotations, Resources, Notes
The
Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image. By Anne Baring and
Jules Cashford.
Arkana Reprint Edition, 1993. 800 pages. ISBN: 0140192921.
The
Path of the Priestess: A Guidebook for Awakening the Divine Feminine.
By Sharron Rose. Inner Traditions Intl. Ltd., 2003. 304 pages.
ISBN: 0892819642.
Persephone, Greek Goddess, Queen of the Dead
Sacred Circles and
Spheres: Bibliography, Links, Quotes, Resources, Notes. By
Michael Garofalo. 40Kb.
Sakti
Sadhana: Steps to Samadhi: A Translation of the Tripura Rahasya.
By Pandit Rajmani Tigunait. Himalayan Institute Press, 1996. 196
pages.
ISBN: 0893891401.
Sakti SEE Shakti
Shakti, Hindu Goddess:
Muslims and Shakti (The Goddess)
Shakti, Hindu Goddess: Goddess Worhsip - Tantric
Shakti,
Hindu Goddess: Sakti - The Mother Goddess. By Dr. Manoshi
Bhattacharya.
The
Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess.
Rituals, invocations, exercises, and magic. By Starhawk. 10th
Anniversary
Edition, Revised and updated. Bibliography, index, 288 pages. MGC.
ISBN: 0062508148.
Tantric
Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas.
By David R. Kinsley. University of California Press, 1997. 289
pages.
ISBN: 0520204999.
Tara,
Hindu-Tibetan-Buddhist Goddess Symbols
White
Goddess of Peace
Tara, Hindu-Tibetan-Buddhist Goddess, White
Tara, Goddess of Compassion
Tara, Hindu-Tibetan-Buddhist
Goddess
Tara, Hindu-Tibetan-Buddhist Goddess, Goddess of Centering
When
God Was a Woman. By Merlin Stone. Horcourt, 1978. 320
pages.
ISBN: 015696158X.
The
White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth. By Robert Graves.
Noonday Press, 1966. 512 pages. ISBN: 0374504938.
The
Witches' Goddess: The Feminine Principle of Divinity. By Janet and
Stewart Farrar.
With line illustrations by Stewart Farrar. Custer, Washington, Phoenix
Publishing,
1987. Index, 319 pages. MGC. ISBN: 0919345913.
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