Prehistoric goddesses have either been romanticized as sirens , mermaids or angels or demonized as witches and monsters. Either way they are Mad. Let’s get real they say.
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Why are the Goddesses Mad?
1. Why have the Goddesses
been misrepresented?
• Mythology tells us:
• They were birds.
• They were half human
half serpent.
• They were Cows.
• They were mermaids.
• They were dragon
wolves.
• Hybrid mythical beasts
represent signs of the
zodiac and prehistoric
genetic experiments.
Prehistoric goddesses have either been romanticized
as sirens or demonized as witches and monsters.
Either way they are Mad. Let’s get real they say.
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3. Isis and Maat are interchangeable
with the Sumerian goddess
Tiamat, the ancient mother of the
gods. The evil Egyptian god Set or
Typhon, supposedly the brother
of Osiris, was his sister-wife Isis.
Maat
4. Stone carving of the goddess Shakti with
the serpent form of Shiva
Ishtar, Inanna, and Aphrodite, parallel
the Egyptian goddess Isis.
5. The Dacian wolf goddess Bendis corresponds to
Artemis, in Greek mythology, or Diana, in
Roman mythology. Herodotus wrote that
Artemis is adored by Thracian and Dacian
women.
6. Morrighan often appears in the form
of a crow or raven. Compare her with
the Irish Murigen, Morgan le Fey, the
Greek Hera, and the Roman Juno.
Hera's mother is Rhea and her father
Cronus. Capricorn Mythology in
ancient Sumeria was associated with
the Cronus or Saturn and the goat
fish god Enki. So why was she
portrayed as a crow?
birth.
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Athena, unlike Medusa, was not
metamorphosed into a monster,
as she was famous for battling
‘destructive’ serpents.
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Was Medusa as
negative as depicted
by some Classical
authors? Her sister
Athena held the Spear
of Knowledge over the
Serpent of Ignorance
writhing under her
foot. When the
morning rays of the sun
made her spear appear
to shake She became
known as "the Spear
Shaker" or Shakespeare
revered by Francis
Bacon.Medusa and Athena are aspects of the same goddess
9. Zeus’ wife Hera was also
associated with the serpent, in
her iconography, for in her
sanctuaries have been found
votive offerings which include
terracotta serpents.
10. Leto, the mother of Apollo and
Artemis, took the form of a wolf or
was said to be escorted from the
Hyperboreans by wolves. Artemis
was known as the "Wolf Goddess"
and had a wolf on her shield. Both
she and her Roman counterpart
Diana were accompanied by a pack
of wolves. Who is the real
Artemis?
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The Dragon-Wolf is a heraldic creature with
head and ears of a Dragon but with the
whiskers, tail and forelegs of a wolf. Its main
body is that of a Dragon.
11. Zeus’ consort-goddess Hera, like
Athena, possessed bird and
serpent iconography, and she too
was a recipient of Homer’s avian
similes: Then Athena and Hera
went forth with steps resembling
[those] of shy doves.
12. The goddess holding two serpents in her
outstretched arms has a bird on her head.
Astarte, the bird goddess of fertility.
13. Melusina is a goddess of rivers and sacred
springs and rivers. She is usually depicted as a
woman who is a serpent or fish from the waist
down much like a mermaid). Is this Starbucks’
way of telling us that their coffee is made with
fresh water then?.
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Hathor, along with the goddess Nut, was
associated with the Milky Way.
Kamadhenu emerged from the churning of
the cosmic ocean.
15. ( N o t e : Yo u c a n r e p l a c e t h e b a c k g r o u n d
p h o t o w i t h a p h o t o o f y o u r o w n .)
Lakhsmi is shown with the five headed
Shesha and she is generally depicted with
Vishnu on Shesha the serpent that floats on
the ocean of milk.
16. Guanyin is a bodhisattva
venerated by Mahayana
Buddhists. Guanshiyin means
"Perceiving the Sounds (or
Cries) of the World
17. In Chinese cosmogony, P'an Ku, is the
creator of the dragon, the phoenix,
the unicorn and the tortoise, who in
turn symbolize the Chinese four fixed
signs of the zodiac. The Prajapati
Daksha gave his thirteen daughters to
Kashyapa the Vedic Tortoise god
who seeded Agni with the goddess
Aditi, the Naga serpents with Kadru,
the Danavas with Danu , the Garudas
with Vinata the Asparas with Muni
and with Diti, they seed the Daityas
852,000 divine years ago. No wonder
the tortoise is prolific as it is sacred
to both Aphrodite and Hermes,
deities associated with sexuality,
longevity and wisdom.
18. Bastet is depicted as a fierce lioness.
Originally she was seen as defender of
Ra, gaining her the titles Lady of Flame
and Eye of Ra. Bast is associated with
the goddess Wadjet, and eventually
became Wadjet-Bast, who fought the
evil serpent, Apep.
19. Saraswati is a river goddess with the
healing, purifying powers of flowing
water which suggests a she’s a mermaid.
Sarasvati is credited with killing the three-
headed Vritra also strongly associated
with rivers. The Japanese goddess
Benzaiten, the third daughter of the
dragon-king of Munetsuchi, is seen with a
Veena like Sarasvati and both are
associated with serpents and dragons.
20. The Hippopotamus goddess
Taweret or Tarut is an earlier
form of later goddesses such
as Apt, Wedjat, Nekhbet, Isis,
Hathor, Ashteroth and Nuith.
She is the original Virgin
Mary.
21. Mut was pictured as a vulture,
holding an ankh, wearing the united
crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
The Ennead compounded the triad
of Mut, Hathor, and Isis to Isis alone.
As a result Mut is sometimes
depicted as a cobra, a cat, a cow, or
as a lioness as well as the vulture.
22. The Greek moon goddess of
the hunt, Artemis (Diana), was
also a bear goddess and had
attendants called arktoi, or
“bear girls. It was Artemis who
transformed one of her
nymphs, Callisto, into a bear,
who then became the
constellation, Ursa Major.
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