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Lamia, Snake Woman (North Africa): Introduction

How the People of Today Have Two Stories

Yemaya and lamanja, She Who Continues (Yoruba People and Brazil):
Introduction

The Journey to the New Land Book List Acknowledgments

I am overflowing with gratitude at the idea that I am actually getting
to write this page. I feel like thanking everyone I've ever met for
affecting me, holding me, supporting me. Somehow I've made it to
today: I'm alive and I'm well and I'm telling stories.

This book would never have happened without the incomparable work of
Merlin Stone who wrote Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood, on which I have
relied tremendously. I also owe a great deal of insight to Jean
Shinoda Bolen's Goddesses in Everywoman and Barbara Walker's The
Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. Many other authors
responsible for inspiration for this work are listed in the Book List.
Maureen Larkin lent me Ancient Mirrors, and Ellen Toomey told me about
Ariadne Weaver's "Equal Rites for Women" class that was the occasion of
my homecoming to Sacred Woman. Thanks to Donna Andrews; Danielle
Berner; Jackie Braun; Z. Budapest; Susan Burke; Jean Calderaro; Frances
Dean; Lenel D'Emma; Erin Donahue; Debbie Downer; Joanne Edel; Alan,
Helen, Kathleen, Madeleine, and Norval Edwards; Meredith Ellen; Cynthia
Evers; Sharon Frame; Rose Garfmkle; Johanna Gladieux; Leslie Grant;
Carla Heins; Jean Jacote; Claire Jeanette; Sue Kubek; Gary Lebow; Genny
LeM organ Maria Weber-Oliviera; Scott Parker; Renee Neville; Patrice
Scott; Sandra Siegel; and Barbara Weigle. Thanks to my editor, Barbara
Moulton, and her assistant, Barbara Archer. Thank you to Thomas Mills
for his help with my writing over the five years I worked with him.
Thanks to all the people with whom I have shared Twelve-Step meetings,
and to the people who began those meetings in the 1930s. Thank you to
all the people who have made circles and rituals with me.

Before I learned about the Goddess, I discovered the Moon. At
twenty-eight, in another country, I suddenly, for the first time in my
life, really looked at the moon. I have seen in Her ever since the
face of a woman who alternately cries in pain and throws her head back
in song. It is from my relationship to this stunning globe that I draw
inspiration and strength. She is my mirror and my scope. She is now
the Goddess for me, and in Her ever-changing simplicity I rest.

Introduction

STORIES are humankind's oldest way of talking about and taking in
truths. In every society may be found stories that portray religious
or cultural values to its people. From the Bhagavad Gita to the Bible,
stories are the means by which people identify their deities and values