Aine Celtic Goddess Of Faeries And Fertility  

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The goddess Aine is an emotional maelstrom, presenting a fierce and strong feminine voice wrapped in delicate gossamer dresses. She is a sun diety and a moon goddess, bringer of abundant fertility and harbinger of death. She is a lover of many, yet a survivor of sexual abuse. She is a healer who is not afraid to take life or wound the uncaring individual. She is a magickal temptress, as comfortable with the powers of everyday objects as with fantastic feats. Aine's power is undeniable, for it is the power of feeling, of acknowledging and owning true emotions.

Aine, goddess of the sun and daughter of a faerie king, is intimately linked to the brightest day of the year, the summer solstice. Until the early nineteenth century, farmers and peasants created bonfires on Cnoc Aine (the "hill of Aine") in the province of Munster on Midsummer Eve, seeking to honor the sun goddess. Lighting torches from the bonfire, they would parade through the crop fields and around their houses in order to ensure a good harvest. One year, the procession was not held, due to the death of one of the townsfolk. Yet, late that night, flickering torches from the Otherworld were seen floating around the hill with Aine in the lead of the Faerie celebratory march. Another time, several teenage girls lingered at the bonfire until they were all alone, Aine was said to go to them and ask the girls to leave the hill so "they could have the hill to themselves." With a wave of her arm, she allowed them a glimpse into her Land of Faerie, indicating exactly who wanted to romp on the hillside.

All of the anient goddesses and gods of Ireland are linked, in one way or another, to the faeries, the fair folk, the Good Neighbors. One theory of the origin of the faeries states that the Tuatha de Danann(the "people of the Goddess Danu," otherwise known as the gods and goddesses of Celtic Ireland) left the surface of the land of Ireland when the Milesians came to live on the island. After losing a particularly bloody battle, the Tuatha de Danann merely melt into the mists, entering into the earth, where they continue to live. As Christianity spread across the land, these older gods and goddesses were demonized and transformed into the diminutive faeries of Renaissance and Victorian literature. While all of the Tuatha de Danann are linked to the fair folk, Aine is one of the goddesses most closely connected to the faeries. Her festival at Midsummer, her highly fae-friendly family lineage, and the activites at her mound at Cnoc Aine all combine to create a faerie goddess.

Invocation to Aine

Aine speaks:

I am in love with beauty.
I am in love with youth.
And the hunger for it fills me.

The rays of the sun warm me
The grass tickles my feet.
Faerie laughter chimes in the distance,
Greeting my soul.

And the time has come to move...
To shift...to change...to take action.
The time has come to be bold and strong
and fight with insistent paint.

For I have felt your pain
And I have known the heat of unwanted love.
I have pushed through the hard soil
To stand on top of my hill.

For I am Aine,
Sweet and fickle and proud.
I am the land and the sun that warms her.
I am love...desire...fear...anger.

I am emotion.
Feel me now.

by Michelle Skye



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Hindu Goddess Durga  

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DURGA IS A WARRIOR HINDU GODDESS WHO IS DEPICTED AS HAVING TEN TO EIGHTEEN ARMS; SHE RIDES OUT OF THE SKY ON BACK OF AN ENORMOUS, FIERCE-LOOKING TIGER AND CARRIES VARIOUS SACRED WEAPONS IN HER HANDS. SHE PROMISED TO PROTECT THE WORLD. THIS WARRIOR GODDESS IS CALLED UPON FOR PROTECTION AND HELP IN SETTING BOUNDARIES. SHE WAGES WAR AND DESTROYS THE FORCES OF EVIL THAT ATTACK HUMANITY. THE DEMONS ARE NOT OTHERWORLDLY CREATURES, BUT OUR THE FEARS AND ILLUSIONS OF HUMANKIND...THE EVILS OF JEALOUSY, PREJUDICE, AND THE EGO AS WELL AS THE SINFUL NATURE OF OF PEOPLE. SHE POSSESSES UNLIMITED POWER AND SIGNIFIES THE INEVITABLE TRIUMPH OF VIRTUE OF THE FORCES OF DARKNESS. DURGA IS A COMBINATION OF THE ENERGIES OF THE GREAT MALE DEITIES.

YET, DESPITE THE FACT THAT SHE COMES ACROSS AS THE FIERCE AND DANGEROUS WARRIOR, DURGA IS ALWAYS SHOWN WITH A SERENE SMILE ON HER FACE. SHE LETS NOTHING DESTROY HER SELF-CONFIDENCE. DURGA IS A VIRGIN GODDESS, BUT NOT IN THE SENSE THAT SHE HAS NO SEXUAL RELATIONS, BUT THAT SHE BELONGS TO NO ONE FULLY. SHE IS ALSO ONE OF THE CONSORTS OF SHIVA, THE DESTROYER, AND SHE SHARES A JOB WITH HIM--SLAYER OF THE DEMONS. HOWEVER, UNLIKE THE RELATIONSHIP OF SHIVA AND PARVATI, THEIR RELATIONSHIP IS A NON-SEXUAL ONE; INSTEAD, WE FIND THEM AS BATTLEFIELD BUDDIES. DURGA POSSESSES UNLIMITED POWER AND SIGNIFIES THE INEVITABLE TRIUMPH OF VIRTUE OVER DARKNESS.

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La Loba The Woman Wolf  

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An old woman still lives among the broken slopes of the mountains in the land of the Tarahumara Indians. No one knows exactly where, though. She is sometimes seen standing along the highway near El Pasa, hauling wood, or hitching a ride. She is called "the bone woman,, La Loba. "She is the Earth Mother who wanders the earth collecting bones", "especially the bones of wolves. Legend has it that when She has collected enough bones to make a whole wolf, She begins to sing over the skeleton...and as She sings, the wolf begins to grow flesh and fur. And, the longer She sings, the stronger the wolf becomes; then it begins to breathe. Lo Loba keeps on singing, and the wolf leaps up and races off. And when a ray of light from the sun, or from the moon, strikes the wolf at just the right time and place, it becomes a woman, a laughing woman...and if you look closely, you may even be able to see Her running towards the horizon.

This is a powerful story which connects us to our true essence of being women...healers... a tale of shapeshifting and the power of breath. It serves as a reminder that we, as women, can step into our own inner strength to create and dream our dreams into being at any given moment. It speaks to us of "presence", of allowing us to choose life. Lo Loba is the guardian of the female instinct, of female traditions. She is urging us to change for our own good as well as for those of our descendants.

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Goddess Amana  

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IN THE KALINA OF SOUTH AMERICA MYTHOLOGY, AMAN"A "(SHE WITHOUT A NAVAL) APPEARS AS THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSE. SHE IS THE GODDESS OF THE WATERS WHO WAS SIMULTANEOUSLY A MOTHER AND A VIRGIN WHO BROUGHT FORTH TWINS--"TAMUSI," THE GRANDFATHER OF THE MOON, AND "TAMULA," THE GOD OF HEAT PROTECTION. THEY SAY THAT SHE WAS NEVER BORN, THAT SHE EXISTS ETERNALLY. SHE IS THE PERSONIFICATION OF BOTH TIME AND ETERNITY.

ALL LIFE COMES FROM HER FOR IT IS SHE WHO BEGETS AND CONTAINS EVERYTHING THAT COMES TO BE." AMANA "HAS BORNE ALL BEINGS AND CAN TAKE ANY SHAPE. SHE LIVES IN THE WATERY "PLEIADES" IN THE FORM OF A DAZZLINGLY PRETTY WOMAN WHOSE BODY TAPERS INTO A SERPENT'S TAIL. SHE IS DEPICTED WITH PALE WHITE SKIN, LONG BLACK HAIR, AND DARK, BRILLIANT EYES. SHE RENEWS HERSELF CONTINUALLY BY SLOUGHING OFF HER SKIN. SHE ESPECIALLY RULES ALL WATER SPIRITS. SHAMANS COMMUNE WITH WITH HER FOR VISIONS AND HEALING. IT IS "AMANA" WHO PLEADS FOR MERCY WITH THE ANGRY SPIRIT THAT CAUSED THE PATIENT'S ILLNESS.

IN THE BEGINNING "AMANA", SEATED ATOP A TURTLE, RODE UPON THE WAVE WHICH WAS TO BECOME THE "MILKY WAY". SHE CREATED THE SUN FOR WARMTH, BUT HAD NOT ANTICIPATED HOW HOT IT WOULD BE, AND, ALAS, IT BURNED THE MOON. "AMANA "HAS TO KEEP IMMERSING THE SUN IN THE OCEAN TO PROTECT THE EARTH FROM ITS SCORCHING RAYS. HER TWO SONS HELP HER FIGHT ITS HEAT. DURING THE DAY, "TAMUSI "CUTS AWAY SUN RAY SERPENTS AND CASTS THEM INTO SPACE. AT NIGHT "TAMULA "COVERS THE SUN WITH LAYERS OF DARKNESS.

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