This is a visual presentation to accompany a creative writing piece I wrote about the history of the Divine Feminine from prehistory to the Middle Ages. The piece has been performed as a ritual invocation and meditation.

1. A Brief History of the Divine Feminine
Written and Produced by Susan Joy Schleef
Photo Credit: Gideon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/malias/89323826/

2. Photo Credit: NASA http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth-Moon_System.jpg

4. Tellus Mater
Roman Earth Mother
Pachamama
American Great Mother
Isis
Great Goddess
Ishtar of Babylon
Ashtoreth of the Philistines
Astarte in Phoenicia
Inanna of Sumeria

5. Annapurna
Demeter
Goddess of Grain
Kybele
Ceres
Artemis Isis
of Ephesus and
Horus

6. Durga Hecate
Pele Ereshkigal
Athena Coatlicue
Kali
Maha Mata Great Mother
Maha Devi Great Goddess

7. Photo Credit: Teemu Kiiski http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tara_statue_Great_Stupa_Dehra_Dun.jpg
Tara
Buddhas
Mother of all the

8. Kwan Yin
Guan Yin
Tara
Kannon Saviouress
of the World

9. Vajrayogini
Consort to
the Buddhas
Machig
Labdron
Ishtar
Shakti
Photo Credit: ShahJahan http://www.thebuddhahunter.com

10. Aphrodite
Goddess of
Love, Beauty,
Fertility, and
Sexual Rapture

11. Aphrodite
Photo Credit: Susan Joy Schleef
Parvati
Venus
Kamala
Photo Credit: laura-s
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/344796/

12. Photo Credit: Seamus Murray http://www.flickr.com/photos/22886476@N00/282555627/
Stella Maris
Star of the Ocean

13. Queen
of
Heaven
Regina
coeli

14. Mother
of God
Theotokos

16. Photo Credit: antmoose http://www.flickr.com/photos/93226994@N00/23014519/

17. Photo Credit: william.ward
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23501684@N00/110328265/

18. Photo Credit: FaceMePLS http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth-Moon_System.jpg
Photo Credit: antmoose
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fbz/51618010/

19. Photo Credit: ..jolli..(aka<>Geoletta)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19464018@N00/247993453/
Photo Credit: Imageafter
http://www.imageafter.com/image.php?image=b15art_sculptures020.jpg&size=full&download=no

20. Photo Credit: celesteh http://www.flickr.com/photos/celesteh/2282564826/

21. Photo Credit: Dimitry B http://www.flickr.com/photos/ru_boff/520066529/

27. Ave Maria
Stella Maris
Theotokos
Regina coeli
Sacre Coeur
Photo Credit: Leithcote
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leithcote/243212828/

28. Photo Credit: Gaspa http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaspa/216670942/
Ave Maria
Theotokos
Stella Maris
Sacre Coeur
Regina coeli

29. A Brief History of the Divine Feminine
Written and Produced by Susan Joy Schleef
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