The Earth Mother was people’s first deity. The Chinese called
Her Kwan Yin; the Egyptians knew Her as Isis; the Navajo call
Her Changing Woman. To the Greeks She was Gaia, and to many
black peoples She is Yemanja. She is Aphrodite, the Goddess of
Love, and She says: “All acts of love and pleasure are my
rituals.” She is also the ancient Crone Hecate, who gives us
both wisdom and death. Maka Wakan, the sacred Earth, as the
American Sioux thought of her. She had many names throughout the
ages. Her stone effigies ushered in the Neolithic in Europe. The
concept of the Earth Mother is a natural thing all humans and
animals are nurtured by a Mother who succor them and protect
them. So to extend this idea to the Earth itself is a natural
thing. It gives people an infinity with the earth as if she is
the Mother of all things then we are brothers and sisters to
each other and the all things. Ancient man believed when they
took an animals life that the animal sacrificed himself or
herself to feed man. It’s soul then returned to the Mother to be
reborn. Earth religions believe everything came from the
Mother’s flesh so all is sacred. Having sacredness for all
things made our bodies sacred, the plants and animals sacred,
with this belief there is a real connection with nature and
respect for oneself and all things.
The Goddess teaches us to love ourselves and to be authentic,
nothing is more important in life than to love one and to be
just what you are. That does not mean we cannot change but that
we always express our highest self. What the Goddess teaches us
is that all is sacred even us. She teaches us that we need to
respect our bodies. We need to respect what we put into our
bodies. We need to respect one another as we are all related.
She also teaches us that we are unique creations the only one
she made the way she created us so we need to express that self
authentically to honor the Goddess. When one respects everything
then it is easy to choose to be kind to one another. It is easy
to be kind to the environment and know that we are co-creators
with the Great Goddess of our environment. We respect the
animals for they are our brothers and sisters. We respect the
plants for they too are related to us. We honor the entire world
and in being authentic, honoring the world, respecting giving
nothing but love, our world and ourselves is created into all we
could ever desire.
We are ONE with the Great Goddess, the sacred Earth, and we are
one with the furthest star in the furthest galaxy. We sense, we
feel, that somehow in some way, we are all together singing into
being the song of the soul.