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and to spin for you, Grandma style, stories and reflections about the
Great Mother of us all. I hope that some of Her stories will become
beloved to you that all, snuggled in the context of seven principles
that crystallize something of Her essence in my life, will crackle a
certainty of Her inside you. Together we are reviving an ancient
Earth-centered religion. We are sharing truths of Her that flow from
each of us in order to make a whole as ever changing and powerful as
the ocean.

The Goddess takes hundreds of forms; Her names and stories lie for us
to piece together like fragments of pottery in red earth. The stories
in this book are the ones that came to me largely from the inspiration
of Merlin Stone's Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood between 1984 and 1990. I
have grouped them, according to seven Goddess principles, as follows:

I. All in All: Healing the Split.

The Goddess is both dark and light.

II. Constant Change: The Everlasting Cycle.

The Goddess is the endless circle of life and death. III. Spirit
Incarnate: Goddess As Earth and Body.

The Goddess is the stuff of the Planet and our fleshly selves.

IV. The Force of Life: Sexuality and Creativity.

The Goddess is everlasting, burgeoning desire.

V. Surrender.

The Goddess loosens cities from foundations and flesh from bones.

VI. Goddess As Archetype.

The Goddess is the Great Feminine of our individual and collective
unconscious, emerging again for full and life-changing honor by our
conscious selves. VII. Recovery of Herstory.

The Goddess has been worshiped by civilizations of people whose
reverence for Female and Earth has been smeared from history. In
reclaiming that her story the story of ourselves as human becomes
whole.

Once, when I was a little girl, I played for an afternoon with a set of
Russian nesting dolls. I feel wistful even now thinking of them. They
were sturdy and round, kindly, with rosy cheeks and painted smiles and
shawls. They all looked exactly alike, except that none of them were
the same size. Each got progressively smaller and came apart at her