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Vesta: Devoted Guardian of the Sacred Flame
I.“The chaos of the ancients; the Zoroastrian sacred fire, …; the Hermes-fire; …the lightning of Cybele; the burning torch of Apollo; the flame on the altar of Pan; the inextinguishable fire in the temple on the Acropolis, and in that … Continue reading
Posted in Hestia, Vesta
Tagged Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, archetypes, earth, flame, goddess, Greek mythology, hearth, Hestia, priestess, Roman mythology, sacred fire, symbolism, symbols, Vesta, Vestal virgin
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The Woman Who Embodied the Goddess
Aphrodite of Corinth Beyond light and shade, Beyond thing and thought, There is love forever lurking. B.Z. Goldberg, The Sacred Fire Among the many totems of the great Babylonian goddess Ishtar was the fish. Her initiates would eat it as … Continue reading
Posted in Sacred Prostitution
Tagged Aphrodite, archetypes, Atargatis, Corinth, fish symbolism, Hora, Horae, Ishtar, Pisces, priestess, sacred prostitution, Shulamite, stranger, symbolism, symbols
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