PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess ReligioniUniverse, 2005 - 364 trang PaGaian Cosmology brings together a religious practice of seasonal ritual based in a contemporary scientific sense of the cosmos and female imagery for the Sacred. The author situates this original synthesis in her context of being female and white European transplanted to the Southern Hemisphere. Her sense of alienation from her place, which is personal, cultural and cosmic, fires a cosmology that re-stories Goddess metaphor of Virgin-Mother-Crone as a pattern of Creativity, which unfolds the cosmos, manifests in Earth's life, and may be known intimately. PaGaian Cosmology is an ecospirituality grounded in indigenous Western religious celebration of the Earth-Sun annual cycle. By linking to story of the unfolding universe this practice can be deepened, and a sense of the Triple Goddess-central to the cycle and known in ancient cultures-developed as a dynamic innate to all being. The ritual scripts and the process of ritual events presented here, may be a journey into self-knowledge through personal, communal and ecological story: the self to be known is one that is integral with place. PaGaian Cosmology may be used as a resource for individuals or groups seeking new forms of devotional expression and an Earth-based pathway to wisdom within. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Gaia Goddess Cosmogenesis and the Wheel of the Year | 29 |
Embodiment Gendered Language and Personal CulturalCosmic Stories | 53 |
ReStorying GoddessVirgin Mother Crone | 80 |
Cosmogenesis and the Female Metaphor | 109 |
The Seasonal Momentsa PaGaian Wheel of the Year | 128 |
Ritual Celebration of the Creative Dynamic | 155 |
The Ritual Events and the Scripts | 178 |
The Wheel of the YearSouthern Hemisphere | 269 |
The Wheel of the Year as the Star of Aphrodite | 271 |
Another Southern View of the Wheel of the Year | 273 |
Teachings for the Sabbat Rituals | 275 |
PaGaian Joy to the World | 307 |
Shine | 309 |
Dance Instructions for the Cosmogenesis Dance | 311 |
Acknowledgements | 313 |
Being in Place | 248 |
Appendices | 263 |
Thomas Berrys Twelve Principles of a Functional Cosmology | 265 |
Song of Hecate | 267 |
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