"MA-TSU" IS AN ANCIENT CHINESE TAOIST GODDESS OF THE SEA. HER NAME MEANS "MOTHER ANCESTOR," AND SHE IS REVERED AS A PATRON SAINT. SHE PROTECTS THE FISHERMEN, SAILORS, AND ALL WHO TRAVEL ON THE OCEAN.
ACCORDING TO CHINESE ACCOUNTS WAS BORN IN 742 A. D., DURING THE TANG DYNASTY, AND LEGEND HOLDS THAT MIRACLES ACCOMPANIED HER BIRTH AND LIFE AND DEATH. IT IS SAID THAT BY THE AGE OF FIVE YEARS OLD, SHE WAS ALREADY ABLE TO RECITE THE SACRED BOOKS IN HONOR OF "KWAN "YIN". HER FOUR BROTHERS WERE MERCHANTS WHO NAVIGATED THE OCEAN. ONE NIGHT SHE WENT INTO A TRANCE AND AFTERWARD TOLD HER PARENTS THAT SHE HAD ASSISTED HER BROTHERS WHO WERE IN DANGER. SOME DAYS AFTERWARD WHEN THEY RETURNED HOME, THEY TOLD THAT THREE DAYS BEFORE THEY HAD EXPERIENCED A TERRIBLE STORM, AND WHEN THEIR BOATS WERE SEPARATED AND ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED, A YOUNG WOMAN HAD APPEARED, WHO SEIZED THE ROPES AND RESCUED THEM.
SHE IS UNIVERSALLY WORSHIPED BY SAILORS, AND HER IMAGE IS TO BE FOUND IN A LITTLE SHRINE ON EVERY CHINESE VESSEL. IN FACT, MORE THAN 1500 TEMPLES AE DEDICATED TO HER, AND SHE IS WORSHIPPED BY OVER ONE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE IN THE COASTAL AREAS OF CHINA. SHE IS ALSO INVOKED BY WOMEN DURING CONFINEMENT, AND BY WOMEN WHO DESIRE OFFSPRING.
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"CALYPSO "WAS AN OCEANID (OCEAN NYMPH). SHE IS INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL AND LIVES IN A BEAUTIFUL PLACE. SHE IS SAID TO THE THE DAUGHTER OF ATLAS WHO DIVIDES HEAVEN FROM EARTH. OTHERS SAY SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF TETHYS AND A SISTER OF STYX. SHE IS A DEATH GODDESS FOR DESPITE THE CONNOTATIONS OF FERTILITY AND LIFE, FOR A MAN TO BE AMONG NYMPHS WAS SYMBOLIC OF DEATH...AN ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM THE MORTAL WORLD. SHE GUARDS THE FOUNTAIN OF IMMORTALITY ON HER ISLAND OF OGYGEA. IT IS HERE WHERE SHE INDUCED THE SHIPWRECKED ODYSSEUS TO STAY WITH HER FOR SEVEN YEARS.
CALYPSO ACTUALLY PROVED TO BE A RATHER POSITIVE FIGURE WHO PROVIDED ODYSSEUS WITH FOOD, DRINK, AND LOVE; HE EVEN HAD CHILDREN BY HER AND WAS HAPPY FOR AWHILE. AFTER THE FALL OF THE CITY OF TROY, HIS SHIP HAD BEEN SMASHED AND HIS SHIPMATES DROWNED, BUT ODYSSEUS HAD ESCAPED WITH HIS LIFE, AND THE BEAUTIFUL CALYPSO PROMISED HIM BOTH IMMORTALITY AND ETERNAL YOUTH. BUT ALL THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH TO KEEP ODYSSEUS HAPPY, AND HE BEGAN TO FEELS AS IF HIS LIFE ON CALYPSO'S ISLE WAS SOME SORT OF IMPRISONMENT. CALYPSO DID NOT WANT HIM TO GO, AND SHE TRIED TO CHARM HIM, BUT AS THE YEAR PASSED, HE STILL HAD THAT YEARNING TO RETURN TO HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.
AFTER SEVEN YEARS, HIS PRAYERS WERE ANSWERED WHEN ZEUS SENT HERMES TO ORDER CALYPSO TO FREE ODYSSEUS AND SEND HIM ON HIS WAY HOME. CALYPSO GREETED AND HONORED HERMES WITH AMBROSIA, AND HE TOLD HER OF ZEUS'S DEMANDS AS THEY DINED. CALYPSO WAS UPSET THAT ZEUS WOULD ASK HER TO GIVE UP HER LOVER, AND SAYS THAT ALL OF THE OTHERS ARE JEALOUS OF HER AND HATE IT WHEN SHE SLEEPS WITH MORTAL MEN, BUT, AFTER MUCH ARGUING, SHE SAID SHE WOULD NOT REFUSE. SHE IS DOMINATED BY THE PATRIARCHAL GOD, ZEUS. SO, SHE ACCEPTED HER FATE, BUT IT WAS NOT IN HER POWER TO PROVIDE HIM WITH A RAFT OR A SHIP FOR HIS JOURNEY. INSTEAD SHE GAVE HIM THE TOOLS TO BUILD ONE HIMSELF.
AND WHEN IT CAME TIME FOR ODYSSEUS TO LEAVE, CALYPSO, IN A LOVING GESTURE, GAVE HIM PROVISIONS AND SENT HIM ON HIS WAY WITH A FAVORABLE WIND TO SPEED HIM ON HIS JOURNEY.
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XI HOU (pronounced SHE hoe) is the Chinese Goddess of the sun. She is the mother of ten suns--each morning she bathes them all in a lake at the eastern edge of the sky. The suns then climb into the trees on the shore, and the sun whose turn it is to shine that day climbs to the top of the tree. From there, Xi Hou places it in a chariot which is pulled by dragons across the sky. Xi Hou's name, which means "Mother of Ten Suns," is also seen as HSI HO.
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COATLICUE (pronounced koh-ah-TLEE-kway) is the Aztec Goddess of earth and fire, mother to all the Gods, the sun, the moon, and the stars. Her name means "the one with the skirt of serpents", and she is usually represented wearing her skirt made of snakes and a necklace of human skulls, hearts, and hands. Coatlicue is often referred to as a devouring mother, but this representation is not as negative as it sounds. She is the mother who gives us life and then accepts our bodies at death, "devouring" them in order to purify the soul. Coatlicue's unexpected pregnancy from a magical ball of feathers led to the uprising of her other children, led by her daughter Coyolxauhqui. Her son, Huitzilopochtli, sprang from her womb fully grown and armored, and killed his brothers and sister. Coatlicue was struck by grief, both for her children's treachery and the death of her beautiful daughter. She had Huitzilopochtli put Coyolxauhqui's head into the sky as the moon, so that she could see her daughter's face, even in death. Coatlicue is also known as TOCI ("grandmother"), TETEOINAN ("Mother of the Gods"), and by the epithets MOTHER GODDESS OF THE EARTH WHO GIVES BIRTH TO ALL CELESTIAL THINGS, GODDESS OF FIRE AND FERTILITY, GODDESS OF LIFE, DEATH AND REBIRTH, and MOTHER OF THE SOUTHERN STARS.
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