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Paghat's Garden: Aquilegia coerulea var ochroleuca
... talons. In continuance of the religious symbolism, the nurturing Dove & the huntress Falcon represented a Goddess of Life & of Death. And as mystically inclined Christians thought of the Dove as the ... the ancient Mother Goddess remade in Jewish imagination as the Shekhinah who said, "I bore you on eagles' wings & brought you to myself" [Exodus 19:4], the same Eagle-mother/Dove-mother whom John ...
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Paghat's Garden: Centaurea cyanus
... tales recall an ancient time when the Mother Goddess had a youth as companion, either a son or a lover, instead of a husband, because the Mother Goddess was supreme in herself. Such companions were fertility daemons who assisted in the fertility of the Goddess, of humanity, & of the whole natural world ...
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Paghat's Garden: Aquilegia vulgaris var plena 'Ruby Port'
... was by mystical Christians regarded as the Mother-figure of the trinity, Father, Son, & Mother. In Hebrew Ruach, Spirit, is a feminine word realistically read "Mother-spirit," & in Greek Pneuma has the same ... Rome, Columba, the Dove, was sacred to Venus & Magna Mater, & could herself take on the goddess form of Columbia. That the fiery red Columbine in particularly was emblematic of Cybele long ...
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Paghat's Garden: Arisaema nepenthoides
... the divine awakening (or getting of wisdom). Ananta as ultimate energy is the sakta (energy-goddess) who holds the heavenly bodies in their places. When modern worshippers observe the heavens through ... a manifestation of Kali the Destroyer, though one must understand that Kali is a loving mother, a banisher of darkness & not merely the monstrous blood-drinker She may superficially appear to ...
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Paghat's Garden: Galium odoratum
... imbibe such wine at Beltaine (May Day) to honor the Mother & Father of the woods. In Germany the plant is called Waldermeister ... , consort or fertility daemon of the Great Mother. This Great Mother is sometimes acknowledged as Maia, Goddess of Spring, for whom May is named, ... to Mary who was likewise the mother of the Daystar! Odder still, perhaps, is that Myrrha was the mother of Adonis, whose name ...
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Paghat's Garden: Maianthemum dilatatum
... sacred to Apollo, & the European species is quite rightly named majalis after the Pleiades goddess Maia, mother of Hermes (Mercury). The False Lily-of-the-Valleys have a genus name that translates ...
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Paghat's Garden: Jacob's Ladder
... Bethel Temple was centuries later abandoned because it had always remained simultaneously sacred to the Goddess Anath (whose shrine archeologists have shown was indeed within Yahweh's temple compound), & the ... latter avoids hindrance by instinct [Philo: Preliminary Studies 6]. So too the semitic goddess Asherah was a Great Mother & lover of humanity, but Anath was a Huntress & slayer in addition to ...
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