Becoming Quote by Merlin Stone

“ISIS Like Osiris, Isis was privy to the mysteries of perpetual birth. We know her image: a mother goddess breastfeeding her son Horus, as…

— Eduardo Galeano

“In the world’s oldest creation myths, the female god creates the world out of her own body. The Great Mother everywhere was the active…

— Monica Sjöö

Isis, the Egyptian goddess of renewal is symbolized for the Hindus by Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the sustainer, and…

— Frederick Lenz

“but most scholars today believe that ancient Greek worship of her is most closely tied to the ancient Phoenician goddess of love Ishtar-Astarte. Again…

— Charles River Editors

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a…

— Carol P. Christ

Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon,…

— Diodorus Siculus

“the first Goddess, Gaia, who was the earth, wide hipped, big bellied, the womb of the human race, the nurturing breast of all humans,…

— Kerry Greenwood

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

— Ludwig van Beethoven

In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman.…

— Merlin Stone

The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept.

— Merlin Stone

“Anubis the god of funerals and death Apophis the god of chaos Babi the baboon god Bast the cat goddess Bes the dwarf god…

— Rick Riordan

“Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belong to a man - a woman who was ‘one-in-herself’. The very word…

— Monica Sjoo