~ Goddesses ~
and the ~Illuminations~ they inspire

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ATHENA = Mother Goddess of Athens ~ Holy Virgin ~ Although known for her Greecian origin, she actually originated in Northern Africa. In Egypt she was called Isis Athene, meaning, "I come from myself."

PERSEPHONE = Queen of the Underworld ~ Destroyer ~ Death Goddess ~ "And now I come a suppliant to the Holy Persephone, that of her grace she received me to the seats of the Hallowed." pray the orphic mystics. Persephone replys, "Happy and blessed one, thou shalt be god instead of mortal."

ARTEMIS = Amazon Moon Goddess ~ Mother of Creatures ~ Huntress ~ Her statue at Ephesus depicts her torso covered with breasts to show how she nurtured all living things. Her priestesses wore the masks of hunting dogs, known as the Alani.

PAPA = Mother of all Humans ~ South Pacific Earth Goddess ~ Creatix of the Hawaiian Islands ~ Through her mating with Wakea, her male counterpart and consort, the first humans were born. Kalo, or taro, was her deformed child transformed into a plant to provide sacred sustinance to all her successors.

HAUMEA = Hawaiian Earth Mother ~ Divine Midwife ~ Mother of Pele ~ Believed to be a shape-shifter, capable of transforming herself to assume many forms, both young and old, while using a magickal "fish-drawing branch". In human form she lived on the island of Oahu.

PELE = Hawaiian Goddess of Fire ~ Volcanic Creatrix ~ She led the Tahitian people to the Hawaiian Islands in order to escape her sister's wrath, digging volcanic craters on each island. Her home is the Island of Hawaii at Kilauea.